Spirited Away and Hayao Miyazaki
You’re hearing a little from the tender opening theme of Spirited Away, the new animated film from the Japanese director and writer Hayao Miyazaki.
For Video Gifts, Weston Woods Films
That’s the powerful, famous beginning of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, from the Weston Woods animated film version of this Caldecott Award classic
Walt Disney and Mary Poppins
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walt-Disney-and-Mary-Poppins.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/5/2002 Walt Disney and Mary Poppins Transcript If one wishes to understand Walt Disney-or at least understand how Walt Disney perceived himself, one might take a close look at the lead character in one of Disney’s most popular productions, Mary Poppins. Mary, like Uncle […]
“So You Want to Be President?”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/So-You-Want-to-be-President.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/5/2002 “So You Want to Be President?” Transcript It’s Election Day today, and even though the presidential election is still two years away, there’s already a great deal of thought and talk about it, which at some point leads us back to that dream […]
The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-International-Childrens-Film-Fest.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/22/2002 The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival Transcript Another good reason to be in Chicago over the next two weeks, especially if your children are true film buffs, is the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival that will be running from October 24th to November 3rd. This […]
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Spy Kids, the Phenomenon
That’s a scene from the first “Spy Kids” movie, one of the surprise hits of last summer, when the kids, Carmen and Juni Cortez, discover that their parents are really spies.
William Goldman & The Princess Bride
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/William-Goldman-and-The-Princess-Bride.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/12/2002 William Goldman Transcript The Chicago Tribune once called William Goldman “Just about the biggest, the best, the most successful writer in movies today” and though his name may not be a household word, Goldman’s enormously popular screenplays include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance […]
Henry David Thoreau Hikes
The “Henry” and friend the narrator is referring to are bears. And this contest is the simple premise of the lovely Weston Woods film version of D. B. Johnson’s award-winning picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg.
George Orwell
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Orwell.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/25/2002 George Orwell Transcript Works that overtly critique political theory have rarely been hailed as classics of children’s literature. An exception to that rule is George Orwell’s anti-totalitarian novel Animal Farm. An allegory of the Russian Revolution, the book tells the story of a […]
Donald Duck
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Donald-Ducks-First-Quacks.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/12/2002 Donald Duck Transcript Today we sing the praises of a Hollywood personality who has been acting on screen now for sixty-eight years. He has been nominated for eight academy awards. He was drafted in World War II and won an Oscar for his […]