A Dark, Dark Tale

Duration: 4

Genre: Educational

Creator: Weston Woods

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Title from data sheet; Based on the book: A dark, dark tale / by Ruth Brown; Intended audience: Preschool through primary grades; Issued also as filmstrip and as videorecording; Employs iconography to trace a cat's journey up dark stairways and along dark passages, around sharp corners and behind windblown curtains. Tension builds until the surprise ending, "Once upon a time, there was a dark, dark moor. On the moor there was a dark, dark wood. In the wood there was a dark, dark house..." The journey continues up spooky stairways, through perilous passages, around creaky corners, and on to a delightfully farcical finale. Young viewers will be on the edge of their seats as they follow this eerie story with its dark, dark settings and dark, dark music and sounds.

Complete Record: Title from data sheet; Based on the book: A dark, dark tale / by Ruth Brown; Intended audience: Preschool through primary grades; Issued also as filmstrip and as videorecording; Employs iconography to trace a cat's journey up dark stairways and along dark passages, around sharp corners and behind windblown curtains. Tension builds until the surprise ending, This iconographic film tells the eery tale of a dark moor, a dark wood, a dark house and a mysterious cat. A journey is made up spooky stairways, through perilous passages, around creaky corners and on to a surprise finale. , "Once upon a time, there was a dark, dark moor. On the moor there was a dark, dark wood. In the wood there was a dark, dark house..." The journey continues up spooky stairways, through perilous passages, around creaky corners, and on to a delightfully farcical finale. Young viewers will be on the edge of their seats as they follow this eerie story with its dark, dark settings and dark, dark music and sounds.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.