Colman Communications (Firm)
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Language
English
Description
Viewers are taken to Punxsutawney, PA, where Groundhog Day originated in 1886. There, they see all the town's festive activities associated with this fun holiday -- children's art activities, races, a gigantic chili dinner, folk concerts, hay rides and much more. The keeper of the town's most famous resident, groundhog "Punxsutawney Phil," shows how he takes care of the animal and briefly explains groundhog behavior. Another segment, rendered in...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Professor Syntax, in Tibet with Nemesis, tells his trusty assistant about the skeleton in the Syntax family closet - the Marquis de Sade de Syntax, a man who takes fiendish delight in confusing grammar students by babbling incessantly about verbal phrases. Syntax takes him back to the hotel, where he unravels the mysteries of infinitives, gerunds, participles, and the phrases they introduce.
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Language
English
Description
Four timeless favorites from the Greek master of fables are included in this program brimming with colorful animation, lively music, and poetry. After each fable, the viewer is given the moral of the story. Fables include: The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and The Horse's Mistake.
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Language
English
Description
Mr. Beanbody, Jeffrey and Lilly travel back to the 17th century, where they find themselves in a meeting of investors of the Virginia Company of London. They learn the company's goals. They then go to the three ships that take the London Company colonists to America. Onboard, Captain John Smith is imprisoned after clashing with two high-ranking gentlemen. Upon their arrival, the colonists are attacked by natives. When exploring the James River, they...
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English
Description
An absorbing and beautiful folktale, Ivan and the Firebird teaches students several significant facets about Russian culture. Useful in both language arts and social studies classes, this intriguing animated program tells the story of a peasant who is recruited to serve in the czar's royal court. When the young man and the czar's fiance (a beautiful princess from a faraway land) fall in love, two animals - a horse and a firebird - make certain that...
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Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Georgina Williams lives in Akropong, a picturesque town in Ghana's southern highland area. It's festival time, and as the program opens, the viewers see Georgina and her Uncle Kwame visiting the local kente weaver to buy her first ceremonial dress. Georgina then attends a festival party at her friend Anita Osuwu's house, where they play traditional Ghanian games such as "Bamba Bambariya" and "Ampe." Viewers visit the Okuapemman School,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Mexico's colorful history comes alive in this captivating presentation - from the Olmecs, Toltec, Mayan and Aztec ruins to the fall of Aztec ruler Montezuma II. Other historical events covered include the Spanish colonial period, Mexican independence from Spain to the Mexican-American War, political instability of the late 19th and 20th centuries, the domination of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the democratization of Mexican society...
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Three case studies in Europe, Africa and Latin America show how descriptions help us understand a place. Students see how descriptive information may be based on landforms of a region, such as mountains, deserts or sea coasts. They also see how they can learn about a place by focusing on living patterns of a region - its political and economic systems, languages and religions. Exquisite videography takes viewers to West African rain forests, Alpine...
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English
Description
Princess Frieda doesn't think the court jester, Geraldo, is very funny. The royal advisor, Syntax Wiseperson, has pinpointed the comic's problem - Geraldo's jokes are boring because he repeats nouns. Syntax decides to rectify the situation by inventing pronouns, words that can take the place of nouns. Wiseperson explains how the pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we, and they are used in the subject part of the sentence (the part that tells what the sentence...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The Wondrous Candle, a Romanian Christmas tale, is the story of little Petru whose bravery and compassion bring about a miracle. The story, drawn in beautiful muted tones and animated by artist Karen Rhine, has been meticulously researched to recreate the world the world of village life in late nineteenth century Romania. A tour of Romania, its lands, and the history of its people follows.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Viewers are transported to pioneer times in mid-America, where they see scenes from Lincoln's childhood in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. Lincoln also is seen as a young adult - as a shopkeeper, lawyer and politician. The program interweaves political and social conditions of nineteenth century America, including slavery, into its narrative content. It also discusses the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Lincoln's election to the Illinois legislature, his...
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English
Description
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece, 2nd Edition, presents three stories — Daedalus and Icarus, Pandora's Box, and Jason and the Golden Fleece. The first story, Daedalus and Icarus, tells of a banished engineer who helps his nephew kill a ruler's stepson, a monstrous Minotaur. As punishment, the ruler imprisons the engineer (Daedalus) and his son (Icarus) in a maze. To escape Daedalus makes wings for himself and his son. But Icarus flies too close...
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Students will be fascinated by the unique and unusual features of this engaging production, shot in many locations around the world. The program first delineates a common structural element of cultures - groups - and then shows how and why they may differ from one culture to another. It then explains that all cultures have different methods of expressing ideas and emotions - through language and various creative and performing arts. Students also...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Shows how to adopt healthful routines to avoid the onset of disease often associated with sedentary lifestyles. This program is based on the National Health Education Standards of the American Association for Health Education and offers an overview of the bones, muscles, and organs that make up our bodies. Stressing the importance of a healthy diet and such physical activity as jogging and yoga, the presentation reviews the food guide pyramid and...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Ann's Wonderful Sail is a basic reading instruction program for youngsters in grades K-2. This colorful, beautifully animated video contains four complete lessons on long a and short a sounds. Each lesson is presented within the framework of a whimsical tale about a little cat who wants to play with her best friend who has moved far away. Each lesson, carefully evaluated and approved by primary-level reading teachers, covers the long a and short a...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Beanbody uses his Go-Back app to take Jeffrey and Lilly to Independence, MO, in the 1840s, where they watch as pioneers prepare for their trip westward. They see wagons being built, a pioneer stocking up with supplies at a general store, a family loading food into their covered wagon and a trail guide giving instructions to the people on his wagon train. They then go forward in time to see the pioneers get ready for another day of travel, waking...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Ozzie and the O!Eaters, the fourth program in the "Stories About Vowels" series, is a basic reading instruction program for youngsters in grades K-2. This beautifully animated program, reviewed and approved by a panel of reading specialists, contains four complete lessons on short o and long o sounds. It also tells the story of two fanciful, little creatures who eat the o's on boxes and signs in Grandpa Ozzie Bear's general store. Program lessons...