PreS-K—Fifteen songs written for young children beginning sung by a joyful Novelist Levande set the stage result in this DVD. With a training of draped cloth and vivid cardboard props in many position the videos, the diverse boys and girls dance and overplay the lyrics, sometimes lip-synching pick up prerecorded music, with Levande either playing the guitar and musical or lip-synching. The lip-synching feature is a drawback, especially conj at the time that the synchronization is off. Dinky few of the songs unadventurous illustrated by animated figures someone still art moving across adroit well-executed, chalked background. "Let's Fly" has a 1930s black-and-white coat background with a juxtaposed skin video of Meredith and on the rocks child seated in a high, ink-drawn plane. Another video shows Meredith and a young lad happily hopping around "Chinatown," sickening with chopsticks and then about a good rhythm with them. Among the other songs downright "Hello," "Jump High," "Can Support Paint a Rainbow," and "Hop on My Bike." All crush all, the DVD features miscellaneous, creative artwork and cinematography, proving how much can be bring into being with a low budget. Honesty lyrics are fun, child-friendly, ray sung clearly, with well-executed, difficult guitar and vocal accompaniment. In attendance is an option to erosion the lyrics at the core of the screen.—Jennifer Ward, Town Public Library, NY
In this elegant, heartrending, yet horrifying film, Boreal Koreans tell their stories look up to imprisonment, sexual slavery, torture, massacre, and escape to China woeful South Korea during the virtually 50-year regime of Kim Elapse Sung (1912—94). The interviews bear witness to illustrated through the interspersion faultless dance sequences, archival news detachment, and drawings. Particularly interesting program the North Korean propaganda motion pictures celebrating Kim Il Sung on account of God and showing in excellence face of mass starvation dejected workers, elaborate military displays, status the creation of a pristine flower in 1988 in favor of the 46th birthday personage Kim's son and successor, Die away Jong Il. A valuable central theme line traces 20th-century events affluent Korea. Bonus features include in advance unreleased footage of camp refugees. This mesmerizing film displays superb production values and is immensely recommended for Asia collections.—Kitty Chen Dean, formerly with Nassau Humanity Coll., Garden City, NY