Campfire Classics
Captains Courageous — Chapter 1
Rudyard Kipling’s classic begins aboard a North Atlantic liner, where Harvey Cheyne’s life of privilege is about to change forever.
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Campfire Learning Series brings history, classic literature, and true human stories to life. Around a fire beside a cabin and lake, an unusual portal opens a path into the past — and hosts Mac and Diane step through it, meeting the people who lived it and walking beside them through the moments that mattered.
Full Episodes
Five published episodes, ready to watch around the fire.
Campfire Legacies
Cowboy Underground: A Montana Miner’s Story
The true story of a seventeen-year-old immigrant who crossed an ocean, became a Montana cowboy, and later worked underground in the coal mines near Klein.
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The Raven
The Legacy of the Great Lakes Tug Raven
The story of the Great Lakes tug Raven and the generations of people who built, steered, captained, and carried her forward.
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The Raven
Ghost Ships of Lake Superior — The Marquette Belle
A Great Lakes mystery surrounding the Marquette Belle and the stories that linger across Lake Superior.
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Red and Blue
Red and Blue: What Those Lights Really Mean
A reflection on what emergency lights mean to responders, motorists, victims, and the people waiting for help.
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Four ways to gather around the fire.
Campfire Legacies
Real people and family histories brought back to life through photographs, memories, research, and animation.
Campfire Classics
Public-domain literature retold around the campfire with narration and animated scenes.
Red and Blue
Stories honoring firefighters, fire police, emergency responders, and the people they serve.
Meet Red and Blue Fire →The Raven
Original fiction and mysteries inspired by the Great Lakes and the communities surrounding them.
A Campfire Learning Series Production
Red and Blue Fire
Red and Blue Fire brings community safety, public service, and small-town firehouse stories to life through original animated characters. These short productions can support public education, special events, recruitment, and social-media outreach.
Red and Blue Fire is part of the Campfire Learning Series family, with its own characters, look, and storytelling identity built specifically for fire departments and community safety organizations.
RedAndBlueFire.com — Coming SoonLaurel Creek Firefighters Parade
This fictional small-town parade video demonstrates how a fire department can use customized animation to promote a parade, open house, anniversary, recruitment campaign, or community event. Department names, logos, apparatus, dates, and event information can be customized after authorization.
Red and Blue, Mackenzie, Diane, Captain Joe Black, Laurel Creek, and associated artwork are original fictional properties of Campfire Learning Series. Real department branding is used only with permission.
Meet Mac and Diane
Mac and Diane are the hosts and guides of the Campfire Learning Series. At the campfire beside the cabin and lake, an unusual portal opens a path into history and story. They meet people from the past, ask questions, and accompany them through important events.
Mac
Co-host and guide, Campfire Learning Series
Diane
Co-host and guide, Campfire Learning Series
The Campfire Portal
Beside the cabin and the lake, the campfire burns into something more than firelight. An unusual portal opens within the flames — a path into history and story. Mac and Diane step through it together, meeting people from the past, asking the questions we’d all want answered, and walking beside them through the moments that shaped their lives.
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Interested in classroom resources, educational animations, licensing, or a custom project for your school, fire department, museum, or community organization? Contact Campfire Learning Series to discuss your project.