But go a bit older than that, say 7-12? Then it’s terrific. So, for alphabet-learning children, it’s a total non-starter. Nor can they even read the word INTERMISSION, which is displayed in caps and not spoken aloud. Four-to-six year olds, however, do not have knowledge of out-of-date cinema practices. The context being, of course, that the audience was old enough to remember a time when intermissions were common in cinemas, and so would recognise it as being out of place in the VHS medium. I was reminded of how Monty Python put an intermission in (I think) the video release of The Holy Grail back in the ’80s, which was very funny in context. It displays a grey screen and the word INTERMISSION, and plays background music at you until you click past. Each letter of the alphabet is revealed in order over the course of 20 minutes or so, so it is not trying to teach the order of the letters by repetition.Īt one point in the app, it has an intermission. When letters are referred to audibly it is always by their names (‘ay’) and not their sounds (‘ah’). There are no lower case letters in the app at all. It’s in a lovely art-deco font so it works for visual impact, but this is not how children learn to read. All text is shown IN BLOCK CAPITALS THROUGHOUT, for a start. They simply won’t understand anything about what they are looking at.Īs a tool for teaching the alphabet, it goes against all the educational guidelines you can imagine. This will be utterly incomprehensible to this audience. There is a truly lovely sequence, repeated a number of times, of cogs, pistons and steam funnels. 1920s German expressionist cinema, modernist architecture, the dehumanising impact of mass production – these are not part of a four-year-old’s life. Or, indeed, include no visual imagery that four-year-olds can relate to, or even understand. But for a completely different audience? For them, it is wonderful.īecause you’d think it was aimed at 4-6 year olds, wouldn’t you? Being an ‘alphabet app’ and everything, listed as suitable for ‘4+’? But if you were making something for that audience, you probably wouldn’t do so in black or white. It’s not wonderful for the audience you would think it is aimed at, admittedly.
#THE NUMBERLYS SEASON 1 FULL#
This is the Numberlys, a story about how the alphabet was invented by some frustrated number-things:Īnd the Numberlys is a wonderful app, beautifully created and full of original touches. What a miserable sod I am! But now Moonbot have released their next app, so I have another chance to marvel at their visuals without being a total Grinch. I said it wasn’t actually aimed at children. So what did I do when I wrote about it previously? I moaned.
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(You can currently download this for free, BTW). It won numerous ‘Best App of 2011’ awards, and the animation that the short film it was based on received an Oscar nomination yesterday. Exactly what our heroes didn’t even know they were missing.Īnd when the letters entered the world, something truly wondrous began to happen…Pizza! Jelly beans! Color! Books!īased on the award-winning app, this is William Joyce and Moonbot’s Metropolis-inspired homage to everyone who knows there is more to life than shades of black and gray.The Amazing Flying Books of Morris Lessmore, the debut release from Moonbot Studios, was a milestone in book app development. Twenty-six letters-and they were beautiful. But the five kept at it, and soon it was…artful! One letter after another emerged, until there were twenty-six. So they broke out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and they started knocking some numbers together. But our five jaunty heroes weren’t willing to accept that this was all there could be. Once upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers… The book will be arriving in bookshelves on May 27, 2014. In addition to William Joyce as the author and illustrator, Christina Ellis will also illustrate. The Numberlys will become a physical storybook NUMBERLYS Trailer TIFF Kids 2014-0 The App The Physical Storybook
It is nominated at the 2014 Annie Awards for Best Animated Short Film. The Numberlys was transformed into a short film that first premiered at a concert of soundtrack scores performed by the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra along with selections from " Metropolis" and many other soundtrack scores from the movies.
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Wanting something different from their orderly, black-and-white existence, they set out to devise a new way to communicate - and despite a series of mishaps along the way, they soon manage to change their world forever. Friends 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 live in a world where there is no alphabet, only numbers. In a world where there is no alphabet, only numbers, a group of friends set out to devise a new way to communicate.
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