Quality cinema for children (and those who love them) chosen by internationally-acclaimed children’s author Tomie dePaoloa.
(A filmed intro by the author will precede each film.)

Saturdays at 11am on the big Stonyfield Cinema screen!

6/15 NATIONAL VELVET (1944, 123 mins)
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl (11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor in her first starring role) prepare a wild but gifted horse for
England’s Grand National Sweepstakes.

6/29 RED BALLOON (1956 34 mins) 
A red balloon follows a little boy around the streets of Paris. Winner of the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, despite there
being almost no dialogue in the film.
AND
WHITE MANE (1953, 40 mins)
A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the gorgeous landscape of the Camargue, the marsh area in the south of France.
Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes. What will happen as the boy sets out to find the horse again?

7/13 LASSIE COME HOME (1943, 89 mins)
After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long
trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home. Starring ten-year-old Elizabeth Taylor and 14-yr-old Roddy McDowall.

7/27 THE GOLD RUSH -with live music by Jeff Rapsis (1925, 95 min)
Directed, written by, and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic character, the Tramp, who goes to the Klondike
in search of gold, finding it and more.

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SALAAM DUNK

Two years ago, most of the women on the basketball team at the American University of Iraq – Sulaimani (AUIS) had never been running before. Many had never played sports. None had ever been on a team with other women. They came from all corners of Iraq to attend this prestigious school, but many cannot tell family back home they go to an “American” university. 

Through traditional interviews and private confessional video diaries, Salaam Dunk follows the ethnically diverse AUIS women’s basketball team as they discover what it means to be athletes. From the joy of their first win to the pain of losing the coach who started their team, the film gives a glimpse into an Iraq we don’t see on the news.

Discussion following the film with Catherine Reilly, Rubia and Corri Wilson, Sports Management Lecturer at Southern New Hampshire University

Komona (Rachel Mwanza) is only 12 years old when she is kidnapped by rebel soldiers and enslaved to a life of guerrilla warfare in the African jungle. Forced to commit unspeakable acts of brutality, she finds hope for survival in protective, ghost-like visions (inspiring a rebel chief to anoint her “War Witch”), and in a tender relationship with a fellow soldier named Magician (Serge Kanyinda). Together, they manage to escape the rebels’ clutches, and a normal life finally seems within reach. But after their freedom proves short-lived, Komona realizes she must find a way to bury the ghosts of her past.

Discussion following the film with Dina Solomon, 2nd Chance Africa.

JULY 16, 7:00 FREE- ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED

(NR) 2012, 45 MINS

The Woodstock Lumber Mill, of Woodstock, New Hampshire, was built along the Pemigewasset River in 1907 and operated until 1913, when it burnt down on August 14th of that year.  In 2011 Brian Bollinger, of Bollinger Edgerly Scale Trains, was contracted to build an HO scale (1:87) replica of this lumber mill for Robert Liljistrand. Robert’s family used to lease land to the Woodstock Lumber Mill back when it was still in operation. Brian teamed up with Jim Harr, of Stella Scale Models, to build this museum quality structure for Bob.

Find out what it was like to log the timbers of the great White Mountains of New Hampshire during the turn of the century in this documentary style video including interviews with Bill Gove – who has published a number of books on logging in the White Mountains, Stuart Wallace – a professor of History at the University of New Hampshire in Manchester, Bill Mellett, a local long time resident of Woodstock and Mike Levesque, a 5th generation logger. Then join Brian and Jim to see how one of these long lost lumber mills was painstakingly recreated in miniature form.