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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Through the story of one woman's year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have loved and lost. Through a study of Liz's obsession and loneliness, the film mixes the particular with the universal to cover the whole gamut of feelings and theories about lost love. Ranging from the popular to the more erudite, snatches of songs, quotes and diary jottings are all stitched together with stories...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 26 min. 27 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
From the time they are born, human beings are predisposed to learn and enjoy music. Children especially are open to it, and research increasingly has shown that exposure to music and especially participation in making it - by singing and playing simple percussion instruments - is invaluable in helping childrens brains develop the - neural bridges - that make them stronger.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Vietnamese
Description
A documentary of the Vietnamese band Dai Lam Linh, which has created "a unique form of popular music, which is both international in outlook and rooted in Vietnamese traditions and aesthetics." The group has faced numerous challenges owing to the disfavor of state-run organizations and Vietnamese censors to their experimental style.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 32 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana. The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who composes music on a hunting bow.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 40 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
For generations, Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal, India have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The Patuas tell the stories of Muslim saints (pirs and fakirs) as well as Hindu Gods and Goddesses, and offer devotion to saints at Muslim shrines.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Pastaay, which means "the festival of the legendary little people," is a significant ritual held every other year in the Saisiat aborigine group in Taiwan.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 70 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Bulgarian
Description
In her search for the true origins of a haunting melody, the filmmaker travels to Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria. The trip is filled with humor, suspense, tragedy and surprise as each country's citizens passionately claim the song to be their own and can even furnish elaborate histories for its orgins.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Language You Cry In tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage,...
Series
Publisher
Marketed and distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (65 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disenchanted with their fixed places on the map, the states decide to swap spots in hopes that each can get to see a different part of the country and do something different for a change. Full of facts and fun, children will have a geography lesson like never before.
10) Aeroplane Dance
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On 1 December 1942, a US bomber called Little Eva was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. The plane hit a tropical storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in the southeast corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Australia's far north. The events that followed were recorded both in the journal of an American survivor and in a spectacular corroboree created by the Yanyuwa people who searched for Little Eva and her crew. Aeroplane Dance...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Your kids wil be up and moving, singing and dancing to this delightful collection of classic children's songs. They'll learn such timeless rhymes and will love being part of the singing and dancing activities.
Series
Publisher
Pacific Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 30 min. or 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Creative songs and videos introduce numbers to children from 0 to 36 months. These storytelling songs make it easy for children to learn their numbers. Includes a bonus CD with twelve songs.
14) Animal alphabet
Publisher
WEA
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (44 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lively footage of twenty-six exotic animals from around the world helps illustrate the letters of the alphabet. Each animal has its own fabulous, rhythmic song that children will love to sing along with and learn from.
Publisher
Inception Media Group
Pub. Date
2012, ©2012
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Thirteen music videos featuring songs and footage from 'Twinkle Toes: The Movie' DVD also includes four previously unavailable videos including performances by Laura Baruch, the voice of Grace aka 'Twinkle Toes.'
16) Animal numbers
Publisher
Time-Life Kids
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Combines animals with original songs to teach preschoolers the numbers zero through ten.
17) Be a hula girl
Publisher
Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Children will enjoy learning simple but lovely hula movements to two of Hawaii's all time favorite songs "Pearly shells" and the "Hukilau song."
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Special guest Steve Irwin has invited The Wiggles to his very own Australia Zoo for one wiggly safari. The crocs are smiling, the kangaroos are hoppin' and the kookaburras are laughin' along to the beat. Go on a musical wiggly safari with the Crocodile Hunter and The Wiggles.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Get your child moving as they sing and dance along with their favorite Sesame Street characters and assorted guest star performers. They also learn about rhyming, shapes, and counting.
20) Vivo
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vivo, a one-of-a-kind kinkajou, spends his days playing music with his beloved owner Andreš. But when tragedy strikes, it's up to Vivo to deliver a message that Andreš never could: a love letter to his old partner, the famous Marta Sandoval, in the form of a song. Yet in order to get to Marta, who lives a world apart, Vivo will need the help of Gabi, an energetic tween who bounces to the beat of her own offbeat drum, to fulfill his owner's wishes....
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