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Brother Bread, Sister Puppet
JMU Media Resources DVD 2574
Read more about this puppet theater: NY Times article from August 5, 2007.
New York, NY : Distributed by The Cinema Guild, Inc., [2005]
Description 1 videodisc (60 min.) DVD-R
Note Originally produced in 1993
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
Jay O'Callahan, A Master Class in Storytelling
Memorial Hall-ETMC 372.677 Jay
Publisher West Tisbury, MA : Vineyard Video Productions, c19831 videocassette VHS (33 min.) + 1 guide (15 p.)
Robert Potts interviews storyteller Jay O'Callahan, who describes why stories are told, how to tell stories, and the uses of storytelling. Includes demonstrations
Storytelling
Puppetry: Worlds of Imagination
JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8778
Publisher New York, N.Y. : Cinema Guild, 2004
1 videocassette VHS (44 min.)
Performer/Participant Narrator, Joseph Campanella
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 Media Resources Videotape no.2374
Publisher Newark, Del. : The International Reading Association, c19911 videocassette VHS (10 min.) + 1 guide (14 p.)
Title on cassette: Reading to young children, a practical guide for childcare providers
Date on cassette label: c1992
Accompanied by 1 companion guide (14 p. )
Note Marjorie Walker
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 DVD
Series: RIF Exchange
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.
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Story Telling with Caroline Feller Bauer.
Memorial Hall-ETMC 372.64 Sto
Publisher Bronx, NY : H.W. Wilson Co., c1986
1 videocassette (VHS, 30 min.) + 1 guide (8 p.)
How to captivate an audience of young readers, and offers step-by- step explanations and analyses of the techniques illustrated
Storytelling and Story Acting. Part 1
JMU Media Resources Videotape no.8685
Publisher [Muncie, Indiana] : Ball State University, c2002
Description 1 videocassette VHS (18 min.)
Note VHS
Performer/Participant Vivian Gussin Paley
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
Publisher [Muncie, Indiana] : Ball State University, c2002
Description 1 videocassette 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
Publisher [Muncie, Ind.] : Ball State University, c2001Description 1 videocassette 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
