The bears bargain

The bears bargain is a short film from 1957 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Hand puppets enact the story of a man and wife who were too lazy to plant their own pear trees. Their neighbor tells them they may have all the pears that fall from the tree on their side of the fence.

The bears bargain
Produced by	National Educational Television
Production company	National Educational Television
Distributed by	National Educational Television
Release date	1957
Running time	0:29:00
Language	English

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Summary

Hand puppets enact the story of a man and wife who were too lazy to plant their own pear trees. Their neighbor tells them they may have all the pears that fall from the tree on their side of the fence. The husband goes to fetch wood and meets a bear who agrees to carry wood to the wife if he can have some bread pudding. The selfish husband and wife eat all of the pudding before the bear arrives. When he sees he has been tricked, the bear upsets everything in the house and leaves. He comes to the pear tree and decides to take the pears. Just then the wife sneezes, the bear thinks they are shooting at him so he drops the pears and runs away. The neighbor comes by and recovers the pears that were dropped, leaving the lazy man and wife with nothing.

Physical Format

1 Film (0:29:00)

16mm

IUL Genres

Educational

Children's

IUL Subject

Puppets

Children's films.

Full Original Title

The bears bargain

internal id

71053