Abraham Lincoln [videorecording] : sixteenth president / producer, Kurt Johns.
Material type: FilmSeries: Getting to know the U.S. presidents (Videorecording)Publication details: [Chicago, Ill.] : Getting to Know, Inc., c2011.Description: 1 videodisc (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 0982880359
- 9780982880357
- Container spine title: Lincoln
- Getting to know Abraham Lincoln
- Animation, George Berlin ; editor, RJ Porzel ; music, Eric Sproull.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's DVD | Main Library | Children's DVD | Lincoln, A. A159 | Available | 33111007437953 |
Based on the book "Getting to know the U.S. presidents : Abraham Lincoln" written and illustrated by Mike Venezia.
Animation, George Berlin ; editor, RJ Porzel ; music, Eric Sproull.
Voices, Kurt Johns, Tessa Sanders, George Berlin, Joe Griffin, Kiki Stathakis, RJ Porzel.
Uses animation and period prints and photos to guide viewers through a child-friendly look at the life and times of Abraham Lincoln beginning with his hardscrabble beginnings on a frontier farm; following him through various jobs as a flatboat pilot, a soldier, a surveyor, a postmaster, a general-store owner, and a self-taught lawyer; and ending with the story of how he became the sixteenth president of the United States and led the nation through a civil war that threatened to tear the Union in two.
DVD; full screen presentation.
Closed-captioned.