The Napping House

Duration: 5

Year Published: 1985

Creator: Weston Woods

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Cool blue colors and wistful woodwinds set the mood as sleepy bodies accumulate on a sagging bed one by one, each to its particular musical theme and narrative tone. The repetitive text invites young viewers to join in describing the wakeful flea on a slumbering mouse on a snoozing cat on a dozing dog on a dreaming child on a snoring grandma. All is calm until a fateful itch throws the pyramid into an eruptive reverie., Presents a simple tale of family members and the snuggling heap they make on a rainy day, until a wakeful flea causes the drowsing pyramid to erupt into wakefulness as the sun suddenly appears. Based on the book by Audrey Wood.

Complete Record: Cool blue colors and wistful woodwinds set the mood as sleepy bodies accumulate on a sagging bed one by one, each to its particular musical theme and narrative tone. The repetitive text invites young viewers to join in describing the wakeful flea on a slumbering mouse on a snoozing cat on a dozing dog on a dreaming child on a snoring grandma. All is calm until a fateful itch throws the pyramid into an eruptive reverie., An iconographic film about family members and the snuggling heap they make on a drowsy day. Sleepy bodies accumulate on a sagging bed one by one each to its particular musical theme and narrative tone. The repetitive text invites young viewers to join in. All is calm until a fateful itch by a mischievous flea throws the pyramid into an eruptive reverie. , Presents a simple tale of family members and the snuggling heap they make on a rainy day, until a wakeful flea causes the drowsing pyramid to erupt into wakefulness as the sun suddenly appears. Based on the book by Audrey Wood. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, New York Public Library


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