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The Village of round and square houses
- Title
- The Village of round and square houses [videorecording] / produced by Paul R. Gagne.
- Publication
- Weston, CT : Weston Woods, 1989.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | J VTH 1840 V | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (12 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- This African folktale, adapted in iconographic form, is set in a remote village in the hills of Cameroon, central Africa. Here, the men live in square houses, the women in round ones. A girl eloquently retells the story told by her grandmother concerning the origin of her village's unusual configurations. Long ago, the people lived in dwellings of any sort. One day, the nearby volcano Naka exploded in wrath covering everything and everyone with ash. No one could recognize the other, and the only homes which remained were a square one and a round one. Gathering his subjects around him, the village chief decreed that the tall thin things should reside in the square structures and the round beings in the circular ones.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Films for preschoolers, Fiction.
- Note
- Based on the book by Ann Grifalconi.
- Credits (note)
- Director, David R. Paight; writer, Ann Grifalconi; music, Arthur Custer.
- Title
- The Village of round and square houses [videorecording] / produced by Paul R. Gagne.
- Imprint
- Weston, CT : Weston Woods, 1989.
- Credits
- Director, David R. Paight; writer, Ann Grifalconi; music, Arthur Custer.
- Performer
- Cheryl Lynn Bruce.
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- Added Author
- Grifalconi, Ann. Village of round and square houses.Paight, David R.
- Branch Call Number
- J VTH 1840 V