Show Films Aid Navajos For the past year members of the San Juan School District's Navajo Curriculum Center have been working on a series of animated movies of the Navajo Coyote The first film of the series has just been THE FILMS are being produced in order to preserve both the Navajo legends and language which have been handed down from generation to generation through the Navajo Indian medicine In Jack a medicine was consultant to the The completed film features the pranks of Coyote and the shrewd antics of The story bears resemblance to the type of stories found in Aesop's which have pleased English speaking children for IN THIS the little guy or Toad is taking advantage of by All ends as we learn that the little guy has just as big a claim on as bigger An interesting facet of the project is the method of film According to Kent film the films are being produced using a the characters were first drawn by student and staff mem-ber artists and then run through a computer process which provided the Several people were involved with different stages of the film The computer work was done at the Computer Image Corporation in RIGHT all of the films are being produced in the Navajo Future call for English |