Fun with View Master's/ Vladimir

View Master story telling over 4 disks & audio played on a jam box with "bings" or other noises to signle to the audiance when to change to the next "slide" of the show.

The first story about a cockroach ; "Stanley the cockroach" benevolance & menevolence of the upper worl. The echoed voice of the narrater ,Stanley, Ventures out from the bottom of the refrigerator to the much bigger worl of the house the refrigerator stands. Stanley meets a human for the first time and is chased off back to under the refrigerator. The human who now knows he has a bug problem puts sticky traps under the frige and our adventurer, Stanley, is trapped. Stanley's fellow cockroaches help him by removing his legs so that he can be free from the sticky trap. Long behold, Stanley, is aided by his friends and he is able to grow his legs back and Stanley is able to explore more. This wonderful story was one of 4 that we veiwed on the Viewmasters in class. The next 3 were "The Public Life of Jeremiah Barnes", "Fear & Trembling", & "Morgan tobort". The two storys that i picked as my favorite for the day was The public Life of Jeremiah Barnes. I asked Vladimir was this story based on true events and she said no, but it was a great story; one that i enjoyed very much so. The main thing that i liked the most about Vladimir's stories was that these storys weren't to simple, to abstract, or overly complicated.
I think that Vladimir knows how to get the attention of her audiance and it is a novel approach to get her audiance to interact and actually be part of the action. Through out the whole class i was interested, often catching myself not being able to wait till the next moment of the story. The way that Vladimir presents her showings are very impressive for any artist to undertake, It was very impressive to know that Vladimir was the one who filmed, and cut every piece of film and make every single disk for the showing. This was one of my most favorite showings of the year and i was proude i was able to be apart of it.