Two northeastern Arkansans say they were shocked when pornography turned up in the middle of videotaped movies they had bought for children.

The two tapes, Pinocchio and Passport to Paris, were bought at different stores, but the technique is similar in each case: The movie advertised on the box is interrupted with about an hour of pornographic material, and then the children's film resumes.

In both cases, the dubbing is of amateur quality, with the tape speed of the inserted pornographic material not matching the speed of the children's movie.

A lawyer for Erin Smith of Harrisburg, who bought Passport to Paris for her 8-year-old daughter, said he had been dealing with a representative of that movie's distributor, Warner Bros. Studios, in an effort to determine how the material got on the tape.

Lawyer Martin Lilly said the Warner Bros. representative told him that pornographic material had turned up in a third children's movie, Jack Frost, bought in the Jonesboro area. Jack Frost was also distributed by Warner Bros., Lilly said. The video of Walt Disney's Pinocchio was bought by Dianna Hemminger of Jonesboro for her granddaughter.

Julie Jacobson, with whom Lilly has been dealing at Warner Bros., said the company would not comment about either film other than to say the company is "investigating this and will have a comment after the holidays."

Lilly said his client's daughter was exposed to the material.

"We are still talking with Warner Bros. in an attempt to isolate the point of contamination of the video," Lilly said. "Once we locate who did this, then we will make a determination if any further action is warranted at that point."

Lilly said that he was told by Warner Bros. that a preliminary investigation of the Jack Frost video indicated that the film had been tampered with outside of the company's dubbing studio in Ventura County, Calif.

Lilly also noted the shrink-wrap packaging on the Jack Frost video did not appear to be a factory product.

"Warner Bros. said that -- according to their report -- that this was not done during production or reproduction for mass sales," Lilly said. "The best we can tell, from what we have and from talking to them, this is being done on the local level."

"This isn't about money or lawsuits," he added. "But people are concerned that this is getting out to children."

The copy of the movie Smith bought for her daughter contains scenes from what appear to be several videos produced by an adult film company based in Spain. Close to an hour of adult video footage was included on Passport to Paris, followed by film credits and previews for other graphic adult films and a message that reads "Private. XXX."

The children's movie then resumed playing without further interruption.

The Pinocchio video purchased by Hemminger also contained about an hour of pornographic material, followed by the porn film's release date, a listing of actors and a message that read "Thanks for Watching ... Adults Only Please. This Video Rated XXX."

"This has really invaded our privacy," Smith said. "When you go to a retail store, you don't expect this. Maybe if you bought it at a yard sale."