Tag: Film
Sherman Brothers
It's the anniversary this week of the premiere of Disney's animated musical Mary Poppins, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about the brothers who composed the score for that film.
Spielberg’s AI
John Cech explores how Steven Spielberg's new film, AI, taps into primal themes of children's literature.
Rudolf Ising
Here's Kevin Shortsleeve to celebrate the birthday of a great, early animator: Rudolf Ising.
Blake Edwards and the Pink Panther
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Blake-Edwards-and-the-Pink-Panther.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/25/2001 Blake Edwards and the Pink Panther Transcript In 1963 Edwards was directing a live-action film about a diamond called The Pink Panther, so named for a distinctive flaw in the center of the stone. This was the first of the film series involving […]
Burl Ives
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/14/2001 Burl Ives Transcript If Burl Ives were alive today, he would be celebrating his ninety-second birthday – but the thing about Burl Ives, is that he possessed an ageless quality – he was a sort of perpetual jolly uncle; timeless, and forever fun-loving. Though his career was widely varied […]
Balloons
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Balloons-and-the-Baron.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/6/2001 Balloons Transcript Yesterday, in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers in France launched the first balloon into the air. It floated up a quarter of a mile, and was carried by the wind for a mile, and before it landed, ten minutes later, it had […]
Wonderland on the Auction Block
Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 6/5/2001 Wonderland on the Auction Block Transcript Tomorrow, Sotheby’s in London will be auctioning off nothing less than …. Wonderland itself — a unique copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (the title of the story before it became Alice in Wonderland), inscribed by its author, Lewis […]
Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/29/2001 Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Transcript Most people recognize the name Ian Fleming as the author of the original fourteen James Bond novels. But Fleming is also remembered for another work, the well-known children s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In 1921, when Fleming was twelve years old, […]
Internet for Young Filmmakers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Internet-for-Filmakers.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/11/2001 Internet for Young Filmmakers Transcript With the arrival of less expensive digital cameras and the editing programs that are becoming part of the software bundles for many computers these days, you may well have a budding Stephen or Stephanie […]
Rebel Without a Cause
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rebel-Without-a-Cause.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/27/2000 Rebel Without a Cause Transcript It begins with a siren wailing, which is joined by another wail, a teenager’s drunken imitation of the siren that soon becomes a cry for help. It’s the anniversary this month of the premier, in 1955, of one […]