Shirley Temple's Storybook (series)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records / Series 13: Audiovisual Materials / 13.1: Moving Images / 13.1.2: Television Programs
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content: 1 Film reel (16mm black and white composite optical track print, twelve titles 
, (each 1600 feet))
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Shirley Temple's Storybook, a series of 16 hour-long children's specials broadcast on NBC, apparently was sponsored, in part, by Hills Brothers Coffee. The films, which were broadcast throughout 1958, presented tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Mother Goose, to name a few. Featured in these productions were a number of well-known performers including Shirley Temple, Agnes Morehead, John Raitt, E.G. Marshall, June Lockhart, Charlton Heston, and Jack Albertson. In addition, Shirley Temple introduced each "story" and provided comments at the commercial breaks and at the conclusion of each episode. The Archives Center holds thirteen episodes from the series. The commercials were removed from all of these episodes so it is difficult to gauge the extent of Hills Brothers' sponsorship of the series.