Mel Waskin
Writing
Known For
The Trolls and the Christmas Express is an animated classic about six roguish trolls who are determined to sabotage Christmas by infiltrating Santa's village disguised as elves. After a week of wreaking havoc but still not completely ruining Christmas, they are about to give up when they get a devilishly clever idea. On the day before Christmas Eve they get the reindeer dancing and singing songs all night long. The poor reindeer are so tired the next day that they cannot find the energy to pull Santa's sleigh. Christmas looks like it has finally been ruined - but everyone knows you can't stop Christmas! The elves quickly devise a plan to link the train from Santa's village with tracks that travel all over the world. Santa can deliver the toys using the Christmas Express.
The Trolls and the Christmas Express
An educational film about the life cycles of various types of pond life.
Life and Death in A Pond
A third edition of the motion picture Food That Builds Good Health. Uses animation to discuss nutrients, basic food groups and balanced meals. Explains what calories and empty calories are and stresses the importance of checking labels for sugar and other additives that a body's cells don't need at all.
A Food-Chooser's Guide to the Well-Fed Cell (3rd Edition of Food That Builds Good Health)
Explains that heat is really a form of motion, a form of kinetic energy and that it can be converted to other forms of energy and transferred through conduction, convection and radiation. Shows practical examples in which heat preserves lives and makes daily living more convenient.
The Physical Sciences: Heat and Energy Transfer
This educational film from the 1970s explains how changes in the value of a dollar are related to concepts such as cost of living, recession, depression, supply, demand and inflation.
Money: How Its Value Changes
The subject is anger. This animated film captures the thoughts and actions produced by a young girl's frustration. Coronet Instructional Media.
The Angry Movie
Baby cougars and how they grow up.
The Curious Cougars
A toymaker and the first Christmas tree
The First Christmas Tree
A Coronet Instructional Film highlighting America's diversity.
Who Are the People of America?
A film about how the skeletal and muscular systems work together.
The Human Body - Systems Working Together
A 1972 short about the 26th amendment and how eighteen year-olds can register to vote.
Voting at 18
An Educational Film From 1985 By Centron.