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1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Based on the story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
"Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that their need to organization a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't know one note from another
Director of photography, James Chressanthis ; art director, Edward Bonutto ; editors, Bryan M. Horne, Geoffrey Rowland ; original music, Michael Kosarin ; production designer, Stephen Hendrickson ; visual effects supervisor, Bob Munroe
Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Victor Gaber, Debra Monk, Molly Shannon, David Aaron Baker, Cameron Monaghan, Clyde Alves, Cameron Adams
MPAA rating: TV-G
DVD, Region 1 encoding, stereo
Closed-captioned