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Air Conditioned Comfort
Air Conditioned Comfort
In this animated tale, a coarse, insensitive family drives through the National Parks in a sixty-five foot camper loaded with all the conveniences....
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Bringing the Legend to Life: The Making of The Legend of Firefly Marsh
Bringing the Legend to Life: The Making of The Legend of Firefly Marsh
Revisit an exciting family adventure and go behind the scenes with a filmmaker in "Bringing the Legend to Life: The Making of The Legend of Firefly...
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Death of a Gandy Dancer
Death of a Gandy Dancer
A young boy is confronted by the painful reality of his beloved grandfather's imminent death. We share not only in their feelings, but in the...
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Don't: The Metamorphosis of the Monarch Butterfly
Don't: The Metamorphosis of the Monarch Butterfly
An extraordinary film that won a 1974 Oscar as the year's best short documentary, "Don't" is also extraordinarily hard to classify. This Robin...
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The Face of Wisdom: Glenora Sayers
The Face of Wisdom: Glenora Sayers
Glenora Young-Sayers' commitment to keep a diary has rewarded her over the years with an increased capacity for wisdom and compassion. The emotional...
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The Fly
The Fly
Viewers are asked to think of themselves as a fly.  They are beckoned to enter a house through an open window; they flit from room to room as...
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Based on the 1968 Newbery Medal-winning book by E.L. Konigsburg, this story follows Claudia Kincaid (Sally Prager), a young girl who runs away with...
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The Girl with the Incredible Feeling - Elizabeth Swados
The Girl with the Incredible Feeling - Elizabeth Swados
A joyous 1977 program celebrating a remarkable talent, Elizabeth Swados, author, composer and performer. Elizabeth is young and bursting with...
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Hannah and the Dog Ghost
Hannah and the Dog Ghost
In this adaptation of an old folktale, Hannah is a widow who lives with her young son in the East Texas wilderness more than a century ago. After an...
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The History of the Cinema
The History of the Cinema
"The History of the Cinema" is an amusingly animated version of the film industry’s history, beginning with man’s emergence as an artist and...
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The House of Usher
The House of Usher
As Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher" is read by a narrator, scenes that create impressions of the story appear on the screen in both...
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