Abstract: Personalized video stories are produced. Unfinished stories are first recorded on a video medium with blank segments. Digital sequences are used to complete the segments, for example, by portraying a character with a keyed-out facial area, using the digitized image of a subject to complete the character. An edit list is also prepared to locate the blank segments. The story is sequentially advanced to each segment in accordance with the edit list and, at each segment, the personalized sequence is recorded, thereby completing the story as though the subject is a character in the story. A plurality of different stories may be prerecorded, each substantially completed but including a plurality of unfinished segments. The stories may include animation, for example in the form of cartoons, the personalizes being recorded onto the previously uncompleted tape in such a way that a smooth, visual transition is realized at the start and ending of each segment.

Abstract: A utility tray is described which includes a generally planar base and an upright flange extending upwardly from at least three side edges of the tray. The tray can be attached or mounted to any desired support structure such as a bed frame. Attachment to a support structure is made by a threaded bolt which extends through a bar member on the lower surface of the tray to frictionally engage the support structure.