Films for Younger Audiences

76 programs

All films in the Roland Collection are given audience age-guides and many, even when not made specifically for younger audiences, will be found eminently suitable for children, whose approach to the unfamiliar and challenging in art is often more receptive and unprejudiced than that of adults.

Many films in this section have little or no narration, offering broad, unintimidating access to their subjects, which parents and teachers can use with children at many levels. Some titles offer irresistible stimulus to practical play and creativity. Calder's Circus, for example, shows how simple media such as wire, cork and tin can be used to create figures and animals, while Pictures in the Sky provides the perfect prelude to kite-making and kite-flying. Other films encourage collage, drawing, modeling and exploration of the environment.

Educational event at Kirby Hall
From the program 'The Past Replayed: Kirby Hall'