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Decent quality (i.e. no budget, Speed-Racer-quality animation)
Age-appropriate content (i.e., for toddlers up through around grade 2)
reasonable pace.
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sesamestreet.org lets you create a short playlist for a nice amount of short episodes
A website for alternative films for kids with many good recommendations, mostly for older kids: http://altfilmskids.blogspot.com/
Older Kids
Add here resources that are not really appropriate for introducing the youngest children to video and television.
Pee-Wee's Playhouse -- I gave the entire two seasons to my girl for her 7th birthday -- does this put me in the Bad Momma category?

Please try to keep the list in some rational order (e.g., alphabetical) using appropriate headings and such, and by adding a very brief description to each entry. Thank you for your ideas!
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Non-violent

Bolek i Lolek, a non-dialogue polish cartoon series from the 1970s that you can rent on Netflix
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sesamestreet.org lets you create a short playlist for a nice amount of short episodes
A website for alternative films for kids with many good recommendations, mostly for older kids: http://altfilmskids.blogspot.com/
Older Kids ForOlderFor Older Kids
Add here resources that are not really appropriate for introducing the youngest children to video and television.
Pee-Wee's Playhouse -- I gave the entire two seasons to my girl for her 7th birthday -- does this put me in the Bad Momma category?

Please add to the list below full-length films and videos, shorter or episodic videos or DVDs, YouTube or other online videos, audio CDs, and TV programs (and websites) that are appropriate to introduce young children (pre-K through about 2nd grade) to the world of media (in the home or at school).
Please try to keep the list in some rational order (e.g., alphabetical) using appropriate headings and such, and by adding a very brief description to each entry. Thank you for your ideas!
Etiquette: Please
Please be respectful
Criteria
Non-violent

Introducing Very Young Children to Media
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Please add hereto the list below full-length films young children (pre-K through about 2nd grade) to the world of media.media (in the home or at school).
Please try to keep the list in some rational order (e.g., alphabetical) using appropriate headings and such, and by adding a very brief description to each entry. Thank you for your ideas!
Etiquette: Please be respectful of all entries. If you feel a program is inappropriate or too old for this age range, please add a polite note rather than deleting the item entirely. Note the last category is for older kids.
Non-hyperactive Quite a lot of stuff these days moves at a breakneck pace through MTV-rate editing and frantic camera movement. This list should stick to fare with a more reasonable pace.
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Especially right after watching for more than a few minutes, try to have activities that get your child up and moving to "shake off" the "TV Haze." (Exerciese beforehand can also help them maintain alertness.)
For older children, have them watch media after schoolwork; studies show that watching TV right after school leads to less retention of what was learned that day.
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Full-length film and video
Shorter-format video
Websites
For Older Kids or unknown age range
you produce yourself,yourself -- video of neighborhood, trip. Stagestage plays or
film and videoFull-Length Film and Video
the Musical (other musicals are also great for kids, Disney or otherwise)
Disney animated movies: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Bambi etc.
The whole princess theme could be seen as negative, but I like them because they are classic fairy tales about good vs evil, and because the pacing of the films is fairly slow. Plus the animation is still state-of-the-art.

Television series and networks
Websites
Older Kids or unknown age range
Note one parent made a nice recommendation: Start with video that you produce yourself, video of your day, neighborhood, trip. Stage plays or familiar stories with your kids on video.
film and videoFull-Length Film and Video
Annie the Musical
Canadian Broadcasting has great animations, our favorites are Ishu Patel; Co Hoedeman
Other animators to look for: John & Faith Hubley and their daughter Emily; Gianini & Luzzati; Lotte Reiniger (cut-outs of fairy tales)
Peanuts stuff: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Snoopy Come Home!
Moomin videos (also the comics)
Videos Videos on tape/DVD of a shorter nature
Sesame Street
David Attenborough's Life on Earth series (Birds, Mammals, etc.)
Really top-quality stuff came from Attenborough over the years, and he has a sense of humor that adults will appreciate
Other animal documentaries and series: Eyewitness; Readers' Digest animal videos; Anima Mundi, gorgeous animal images with music by Philip Glass
Sprout
The Scholastic Storybook videos - good for very young kids
Miffy & Maisy (old, 2-D) - good for very young kids
Hello Kitty -- surprisingly pedadogical; my kids learned the street signs and enjoyed lessons on manners
Raymond Briggs' "The Bear" is really nice
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Older Kids For Older Kids
Add here resources that are not really appropriate for introducing the youngest children to video and television.
Pee-Wee's Playhouse -- I gave the entire two seasons to my girl for her 7th birthday -- does this put me in the Bad Momma category?
Good for mixed audience (e.g., my 5- and 9-year-olds): Fairy Tale, a True Story; The Last Mimsy (some mild peril); Pokemon 4-Ever (kind of a Miyazaki copy with an environmental theme); The Borrowers (some violence, but comic); Paper Bag Players; Pippi Longstocking; The Way Things Go (kind of Rube Goldberg sculptural installation); Sailor Moon (pretty intense anime); anything at the Int'l Children's Film Festival
Max & Ruby

Please add here full-length films and videos, shorter or episodic videos or DVDs, YouTube or other online videos, audio CDs, and TV programs (and websites) that are appropriate to introduce young children to the world of media.
Please try to keep the list in some rational order (e.g., alphabetical) using appropriate headings and such, and by adding a very brief description to each entry. Thank you for your ideas!
Etiquette: Please be respectful of all entries. If you feel a program is inappropriate or too old for this age range, please add a polite note rather than deleting the item entirely. Note the last category is for older kids.
Criteria
Non-violent
Television series and networks
Websites
For Older Kids
film and videoFull-Length Film and Video
Annie the Musical
sesamestreet.org lets you create a short playlist for a nice amount of short episodes
A website for alternative films for kids with many good recommendations, mostly for older kids: http://altfilmskids.blogspot.com/
Older Kids For Older Kids
Add here resources that are not really appropriate for introducing the youngest children to video and television.

Introducing Very Young Children to Media
DVDs, YouTube (oror other source)online videos, audio
Please try to keep the list in some rational order (e.g., alphabetical) using appropriate headings and such, and by adding a very brief description to each entry. Thank you for your ideas!
Criteria
Full-length film and video
Shorter-format video
YouTube etc. online
Audio CD (e.g., stories)
Television series and networks
Really top-quality stuff came from Attenborough over the years, and he has a sense of humor that adults will appreciate
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YouTubeYouTube Etc.and other online content
The Elephant Song by Eric Herman
He has other videos but none come close to this animated video in popular appeal. Kids love to listen to Herman on acoustic guitar as he mis-identifies animal after animal in song and is corrected by a little girl.

Introducing Very Young Children to Media
add here full-length films and videos, shorter or episodic videos or DVDs, YouTube (or
Please try to keep the list in some rational order (e.g., alphabetical) using appropriate headings and such, and by adding a very brief description to each entry. Thank you for your ideas!
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