Search results
Two playful tales from Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories. In the first, a Parsee man seeks revenge on the nasty piggish rhino. In the second, pride and arrogance prove to be the downfall of a lazy camel. Jack Nicholson's reading is pitch perfect.
- (26)
- Animation
- Mark Sottnick
- 1987-09-18
Mar 7, 2023 · How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin and How the Camel Got His Humps narrated by Jack Nicholson 1988A rare video with narration done by Jack Nicholson. I remember...
- 22 min
- 9.4K
- VHS Retro Rewind
Apr 26, 2022 · How the rhinoceros got his skin: Tells the story of how the rhinoceros, who once had smooth, tight-fitting skin, got his baggy skin because of his greed and bad manners. How the camel got his hump: In the desert lives a very bad-tempered, lazy camel who spent all day admiring himself, especially his smooth, flat back.
- 23 min
Synopsis. Two playful tales from Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories. In the first, a Parsee man seeks revenge on the nasty piggish rhino. In the second, pride and arrogance prove to be the downfall of a lazy camel. Jack Nicholson's reading is pitch perfect. Ages 5 and up.
- How The Whale Got His Throat
- How The Camel Got His Hump
- How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin
- How The Leopard Got His Spots
- The Elephant’s Child
- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
- The Beginning of The Armadillos
- How The First Letter Was Written
- How The Alphabet Was Made
- The Crab That Played with The Sea
IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—...
NOW this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump.
In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself. So he ate sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most ‘scruciating idle; and when anybody spoke to him he said ‘Humph!’ Just ‘Humph!’ and no more. Presently the Horse came to him on Monday morning, with a saddle on his back a...
ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch. And one day he took flour ...
IN the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt. ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ‘sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass. The Giraffe and the Zebra and ...
IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant—a new Elephant—an Elephant’s Child—who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so man...
NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Little God Nqa. He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this a...
THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times. In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating shelly snails and things. And he had a friend, a Slow-Solid Tortoise, who lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating green lettuces and things. And so tha...
ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best Beloved, but never mind why. He was a Primitive, and he lived cavily in a Cave, and he wore very few clothes, and he couldn’t read and he couldn’t write and he didn’t want to, and except when he was hungry he was ...
THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again with her Daddy. Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but...
BEFORE the High and Far-Off Times, O my Best Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings; and that was in the days when the Eldest Magician was getting Things ready. First he got the Earth ready; then he got the Sea ready; and then he told all the Animals that they could come out and play. And the Animals said, ‘O Eldest Magician, what shall we p...
How the Camel Got His Hump – how the idle camel was punished and given a hump. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin – why rhinos have folds in their skin and bad tempers. How the Leopard Got His Spots – why leopards have spots.
LP, Album, Stereo. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin & How The Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling, Jack Nicholson, Bobby McFerrin. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
