Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is an animated educational wildlife children's television series. The live action footage comes from the BBC Natural History Unit archives, as well as the National Geographic Society. The series ran on CBeebies in the United Kingdom. The series was created by Douglas Wood, who is also the author of the companion children's picture book "When Mama Mirabelle Comes Home", published by National Geographic Books. A total of 52 episodes were produced; in the United States, they were packaged as 26 half-hours. In the American version, all of  the animals except Karla and Bo have American voices. Vanessa Williams is the voice of Mama Mirabelle in the US, and Floella Benjamin is the voice for Mama Mirabelle in the UK. The series is produced by UK animation studio King Rollo Films, whose other shows include Disney's "The Adventures of Spot", Discovery Kids' "Paz", Noggin's "Maisy", Sprout's "Poppy Cat" and "Mr. Benn". Music for this show is written by Lester Barnes, the composer for "Horrid Henry", "Me Too!", "Paz", and "Urmel".) Plot. Set in the African savanna, it focuses on an enthusiastic elephant named Mama Mirabelle , who travels around the world to film real wildlife footage and project them onto a screen of fireflies in front of almost the entire animal kingdom. The "Home Movies" are used for educational purposes not only for the main young characters but for the preschool audience at home.