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“The Last Bookshop”
This short film is delightful. It is 20 minutes long, but if you view the first five minutes I think you might be hooked into watching the whole thing.
I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about this in the comments below.
On YouTube the creator of the film actually responds to comments and questions made by viewers! So very rare to see that.
“The Last Bookshop”
This short film is delightful. It is 20 minutes long, but if you view the first five minutes I think you might be hooked into watching the whole thing.
I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about this in the comments below.
On YouTube the creator of the film actually responds to comments and questions made by viewers! So very rare to see that.
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Lovely! Interesting to use a non-book medium to tell a story about books, yet enchanting and inspiring for sure, especially for writers. The creative process of putting together words and images, from those who scribbled on cave walls to the present use of ‘high tech’, will continue in some form or another. At the same time, there will always be something special about our stories being shared on paper and pages. Write on! 🙂
Sad and scary, Steve. I would do away with video games entirely and a lot of other technology that just fritters away time and brain cells. It was significant, I think, that the only time the boy smiled in the entire video was in the bookshop. On the upside, though, I agree with Micky about the great use of a non-book medium to inspire people to read actual books. It also raises an interesting question for writers. If our books could not be sold for fear of being found out and had to be hidden away, read in secret, would we still write them? So much to unpack in that little video!
What a powerful illustration. I was never a big book reader growing up, probably because I was too busy exploring the countryside, climbing trees and playing instruments, but I always loved a great story. I loved hearing them and telling them, and after years of learning the craft, have started to write them. Some might be published, other may only get written for the lessons the Lord has for the small audience of one..me. The thought of a world void of well written books, as well as story tellers, should be enough to compel writers to keep dreaming and writing,not only for this generation, but the next.
I want to write a new story for the shop…and I will. I might even use a few crayon illustrations and a shoelace to bind it together
Looking forward to watching this again with my kids when they come home from school.
Thanks Steve for finding and posting such a treasure.
Sad. Almost too real to watch.
Leaves me sad and wanting to hug every book! Makes me think of the movie “The Book of Eli”. Thanks, Steve.
I agree with Patricia and Bonnie that it made me want to hug a book..but how sad it was that when the boy called out to his mom she wasn’t there either. If you are a parent ..take time to unplug and read to your kids- they will be the next generation of storytellers and need to have something to pass down.
I watched this with my kids. It was a great prompt for discussion about how fast things are changing and the value of retaining the art of storytelling as well as the importance of maintaining the appetite for real books and face to face interaction.
I think anything that encourages a critical thinking discussion with teenagers deserves a two thumbs up! Thanks again :~D
I felt hope.
The last line in the preface of the book My Side Of The Mountain, Jean Craighead George writes, “Be you a writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book”.
Let’s to that. Let’s work hard and make it tempting for kids and adults to want to run away into a story.
Oh, and he also responded to his audience answering children’s letters with handwritten letters. Old school style with pen on paper and putting the letter in an envelope and so forth. I understand that 1959 was a different time and probably most authors did that (I could be wrong), but it’s such an encouraging example when artists, who care so much about their work, take time to interact with their audience.
Hope.
Forgive me, Jean Craighead George was a woman. Yikes!
I watched this with my kids. It was a great prompt for discussion about how fast things are changing and the value of retaining the art of storytelling as well as the importance of maintaining the appetite for real books and face to face interaction.
I think anything that encourages a critical thinking discussion with teenagers deserves a two thumbs up! Thanks again :~D