Personalised Books
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Personalised Books (Good Evening Ulster)
Looking at the world of tomorrow - as envisioned by the past.
An Ulster Television report on what was a highly novel idea back in 1984 - the ability to create personalised children's books. The reporter asks the company representative about the venture from within his display in a shopping mall. He explains how famous local children's author Sam McAughtry (author of Guess How Much I Love You) has written the story but you can choose to have the names of people you know inserted into it. The book is then printed out and bound in time for shoppers who ordered the book earlier to pick it up on the way home.
McAughtry is interviewed about the inspiration for the story before we are given a demonstration of the book being printed on a rather primitive-looking dot matrix printer. The world of personalised publishing and printing is common now with printing and binding indistinguishable from professional efforts, but this report on what would be considered primitive results today show the first faltering steps into an arena we now take for granted.
Good Evening Ulster was the weekday tea-time local news round-up for Ulster Television throughout much of the 1980s and helped to launch the careers of household names such as Gloria Hunniford and Eamonn Holmes.
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Bookworms Welcome!: Literature for Kids
Once upon a time... How television celebrates the joy of reading
The magic of reading is all in the mind, with words and pictures lighting up our imaginations and taking us on extraordinary journeys without us ever having to leave our armchairs. And yet, the relationship between books and television has existed since the very beginning, with countless stories making the leap from page to screen and back again.
Picking up the baton from radio, television was the great entertainer and educator of the latter half of the 20th century. Dramatisations of literary classics and contemporary page-turners are a familiar fixture in TV schedules, but beyond the art of adaptation lie programmes that capture the joy of reading, that bring books to life and that take us behind the curtain to meet the beloved wizards and dreamweavers whose work delights us all.
This is no more the case than in the world of children’s books and, more broadly, learning to read. Within this collection, you will find documentaries and discussion programmes, government campaign films and local news reports, magazine shows and more. And at the heart of it all is the power of the story and the written word, and the simple, magical pleasure of reading and being read to.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin.
24 videos in this collection
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Reading + Literacy: Little Miss Muffet
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Burglar Bill (Gammon and Spinach)
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Peter Ustinov Tells Stories from Hans Andersen
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Tintin (Opening Shot)
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An Interview with Raymond Briggs
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Children's Books
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COI: National Year of Reading - CORP/DCSF2496/031
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Pig-in-the-Middle
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It's Fun to Read [29/12/70]
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Parent's Day [07/02/76]
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Our Post War Reading Disaster
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Our Show [10/12/77]
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Zig Zag (Prog 11)
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Reading + Literacy: Owl & Pussycat
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Library Offers Alternative Tales
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Bill Has Trouble with the Magic Box
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Headspace at Bolton Library
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Personalised Books
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The Book Tower [02/01/85]
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The Book Tower [05/01/81]
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The Book Tower [29/12/80]
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The Book Tower [22/12/80]
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