Timeless stories = The Witch and the owl ...

Episode of Series “Dorothy Butler’s Video Books”.
Dorothy Butler introduces this video designed to encourage children to read and enjoy books. Ten different stories, many from well known books, are told by professional storytellers and have been selected for children aged eight to eleven years old. The stories are: “The Musicians of Bremen”, “The Writing on the wall”, “Did you ever?”, “Chanticleer”, “Mr. and Mrs. Hay the horse”, “Mabel’s story”, “The Witch and the owl”, “Funnybones” and “Jorinda and Joringel”.

Credits

producer/director

Gerben Cath

production company

International Video Books

Duration

01:25:00:00

Production places

New Zealand

Production dates

1980

Appears in

Group of items

Dorothy Butler's Video Books

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

017309

Language

English

Subject categories

Adaptations

Childrens Films

Literature → Children's literature - Film and video adaptations

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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New Zealand, 1980

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