Science Research Associates “Pitter Patterns”

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Sounds close to life.

Sounds tell the rhythm of life, the rhythm of growth.

Daddy bear, daddy bear, turn around.

Daddy bear, daddy bear, touch the ground.

Clap your hands, one, two, three.

Clap them, clap them, jump like me.

Cinderella, Cinderella, dressed in yellow.

Went downtown to meet a fella.

Gee whiz, you should have seen that guy.

Ho! You swept around two opposing sides.

Sounds, human expression.

Sounds endowed by nature, refined by man to become language.

Experiences translated to spoken language.

Language transformed into graphic symbols.

Man created, essential to the gathering of knowledge and to the giving of knowledge.

Communication, bridging the barriers of distance and time that stand between man and man.

The printed word, link between the mind and many worlds, indispensable to civilization.

Language is a many patterned thing.

The language has a unique sound system and rhythm.

The language includes sounds and rhythms.

The language incorporates sound and rhythm.

The German language embodies sounds and rhythms that are unique.

But some patterns are more motivating, more reachable, more teachable.

Rhyming, related to rhythm, pulse, innate, can also be a principle of organization, a way to learn.

Ram, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, man.

Mad, sad, mad, dead, bad, had, dead, had.

Bang, bang, wank, wank, right, bang.

Into a bag ran a cat.

Into the bag the cat sat.

It bit and bit, it hit and hit.

The bag did rip.

The bag did rip.

Into a bag ran a cat.

A bug sat on a fat pig.

Sat on a fat pig.

Sat on a fat pig.

On top of the pig.

The bug did a jig.

The bug did a jig.

The bug did a jig.

A crab can grab.

A trap can drip.

A frog can jump.

But can a pig trip? A pup can yelp.

A lad can drum.

A bug can buzz.

But can a hen hum? Can you tell me what an inch is? Is it thin? Or is it thick? Is it something I can munch on? Can it fly? Or can it kick? Where does the butter in a butter cup go? I asked my sister and my brother.

But the two of them said to me, we don't know.

So I went to ask my grandmother, is there any butter in a butterfly? I said to my grandmother, do tell.

And is there any grass in a grasshopper? That's the quarter E.

And what is that? Like you smell a real good thing.

Can you tell me what it is without using the word smell? Well, like, your mother's cooking something, and you sniffed it.

You sniffed it, okay.

And you liked it so much.

What's that? Span.

What is it? Like, I'm trying to read these words.

See, they spell the words, but I read it.

Identifier

F.2010-01-0182

Date Of Production

1960

Abstract

A sponsored film made for the Science Research Association (SRA), a Chicago-based publisher of educational materials and schoolroom reading comprehension products. Through dazzling graphics and voice over, the film endorses the SRA’s reading kits for elementary school-aged children, while also providing a wide-lens on languages throughout the world. Children’s voices courtesy of the student body of Wayne Thomas Elementary School in Highland Park.

Format

16mm

Extent

375 feet

Color

Color

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Print

Genre

Sponsored
Industrial

Form

Short
Animations
Advertisements

Subject

Education
Children
Industrial design
Design

Related Collections

SERIES I: Goldsholl Design & Film Associates Films

Related Places

North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago

North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Highland Park

Sponsor/client

Science Research Association

Main Credits

Goldsholl Design & Film Associates (is producer)

Goldsholl, Millie (is director)

Additional Credits

Goldsholl, Millie (is writer)

Ken Nordine Group (music)

Janiak, Larry (is animator)

Freese, Thomas (is animator)

Knapp, Merton (is animator)

Langdon, William (is animator)

Rose, Steve (is animator)

Participants And Performers

Nordine, Ken (is narrator)

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