Rock Pop Tapestries
Description: Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, videos) that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on U.S. television. The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1984 and it was later revived from 1993 to 1996. Additional episodes were produced in 2009 for direct-to-video release. Schoolhouse Rock! debuted as a series in January 1973 with Multiplication Rock, a collection of animated shorts adapting the multiplication tables to songs. During the early '70s, Schoolhouse Rock was one of several short-form animated educational shorts that aired.
