Forgot to include this in yesterday's post

I think that a big part of my fascination with "Beauty and the Beast" stories has to do with a segment I saw on Reading Rainbow when I was a child.

Butterfly in the sky... c'mon, you know you want to sing along:

For all the various clips of this show that are out there I can't seem to find one of the segment that I remember.  I've even looked at the episode list for all the seasons and can't find one that matches what I saw.  But I'm pretty sure that I saw it on Reading Rainbow because when I was that child age I almost exclusively watched PBS.  Anyway, the clip that I remember was from the end of a ballet version of "Beauty and the Beast".  It was incredibly affecting and has haunted me for all these years.  The dance was beautifully choreographed, I remember thinking to myself but not in those exact words, but what was the most striking was the Beast costume and how the heroine literally transformed him.  The danseur's costume was made of a stiff chiffon-like material, like very fine netting, and it covered his head and a bit of his chest; also he wore gloves made of the same material, and these gave him claws through which his hands could still be seen.  He lay mostly supine while she slowly removed these pieces to reveal his true visage, the man underneath the beast exterior.  And then they both got up and danced.

There are a lot of random things that I remember from childhood-- really random things, events that I don't deem to be of much or any importance.  But I remember this scene from this ballet which I am positive actually existed; though I was an imaginative little kid I wouldn't have been able to make this up at that age.  This might be the first version of "Beauty and the Beast" I ever saw, and certainly one of the first ballets I ever saw, albeit one that was filmed for a television audience of early readers.  Ah, someday I'll find that episode in which this clip was shown! Someday!