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Brother Bread, Sister Puppet

JMU Media Resources DVD 2574

New York, NY : Distributed by The Cinema Guild, Inc., [2005]
1 DVD-R (60 min.)
Note: Read more about this puppet theater: NY Times article from August 5, 2007.
Documentary on the Bread and Puppet Theater company, highlighting its production of "Our Domestic Resurrection Circus," an annual festival held at its home in northern Vermont. In addition to excerpts from the day's performances, the program includes glimpses behind the scenes: bread-baking; making puppets, flags, and costumes; rehearsals; and other preparations. The documentary also discusses the origins and early years of the company, which was founded by Peter Schumann in New York City in the early 1960s; its growing political activism and community involvement; and its character as a non-traditional theater company offering a blend of entertainment and political commentary.

Bread and Puppet Theater
Puppeteers -- Vermont -- Interviews
Puppet theater companies -- Vermont
Puppet theater -- Political aspects -- Vermont
Puppet making -- Vermont

Puppetry: Worlds of Imagination

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8778

New York, N.Y. : Cinema Guild, 2004

1 VHS (44 min.)
This documentary surveys the new developments in American puppet theater, profiling many of puppetry's most imaginative contemporary artists and concludes by discussing the new directions and ideas in puppetry and the ways it is transforming opera, music, theater and dance.

Puppet theater -- United States -- History
Puppeteers -- United States

Reading and Young Children

JMU East Campus Library Videotape no.2374

Newark, Del. : The International Reading Association, c1991

1 VHS (10 min.) + 1 guide (14 p.)
This introductory training tape shows practical techniques for reading aloud, choral reading, using big books and storytelling. Also suggests methods of and resources for selecting children's books.

Oral reading
Storytelling
Book selection
Preschool children -- Books and reading

Storytelling, A Pathway to Literacy
JMU Media Resources DVD 3423

Washington, Md. : RIFNet ; Lincoln, Neb., 2003
1 DVD (30 min.)
"Storytelling is a critical tool for encouraging a love of reading. Professional storytellers and other experts demonstrate practical ways that storytelling can support children's language and literacy development. See how folk tales can spark a child's imagination to create his own story" -- container.

Reading -- United States
Children -- Books and reading
Children -- Language
Literacy

Storytelling and Story Acting. Part 1

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8685

Muncie, Indiana: Ball State University, c2002

1 VHS (18 min.)
Demonstrates how Vivian Gussin Paley uses storytelling in her preschool curriculum.

Storytelling
Early childhood education
Preschool teaching

Storytelling Themes. Part 2

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8686

Muncie, Indiana: Ball State University, c2002

1 VHS (28 min.)
Demonstrates how Vivian Gussin Paley uses storytelling in her preschool curriculum.

Storytelling
Early childhood education
Preschool teaching

Vivian Gussin Paley: The Boy Who Could Tell Stories

JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8687

Muncie, Ind.: Ball State University, c2001

1 VHS (30 min.) + 1 companion booklet (37 p.)
Vivian Gussin Paley demonstrates the uses of storytelling in preschool and kindergarten curriculums. Shows the way that storytelling and acting out stories can help teachers and children think about empathy and the things you might say to a stranger.

Storytelling ability in children
Early childhood education
Storytelling
Acting
Preschool teaching