VIDEOS ABOUT FRANCE
Presenting a triumvirate of videos: The Real France, Christmas in France and Noel en France.
These three videos were produced by an American student of French with the help of native French
students and are indispensable to every French teacher’s classroom. Plus now there’s a new video,
Dining in France, which shows and tells all about French dining habits and table manners. And the
newest videos of all are Richard's School Day and its French twin , Un Jour d'Ecole avec Richard.
These two videos follow a real French student through his day at school.
| The Real France (30 min):
The first video, The Real France, was produced by Sarah McConnell, an Honors Graduate in French & English who spent Junior Year abroad in a French University. While there, she shot video of what she saw and what she did as an American Student in a French University. Her video follows the venerable French tradition of Realism and Cinema Verite, both respected literary and cinematic genres invented by the French. This video is not inspired by either Hollywood or the French Tourist Bureau. Rather it is the honest and true record of a real American student's view of France for a year. |
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The finished video is 30 minutes long and includes scenes from Paris, the French countryside, the French Alps, St. Etienne and the Provincial French University where she studied. Hickman High School Teacher Annie Wetzel said, “The kids enjoyed it and our French foreign exchange student put his stamp of approval on it as The Real France.”
$39.95 + $10 S & H $49.95 TOTAL
Christmas in France (30 min):
Christmas in France is a collaboration between Sarah McConnell, and Christophe Andre, a student the University of Jean-Monnet, located in St Etienne, France. Also involved was Albane Nouailhac, a Parisian student and holder of a French Masters degree. The video shows and tells how the French celebrate Christmas and how their traditions differ from the American way of celebrating the holiday. The video includes many original pictures from Christmas in both the big city of Paris and the small village of St. Bonnet le Chateau near Lyon. It includes actual interviews with French students talking about what Christmas means to them. The English version Christmas in France is translated with sub-titles in English. $29.95 + $10 S & H $39.95 TOTAL |
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| Noel En France (18 min):
The French version, Noel en France is left entirely in French. This version is hosted and narrated by a native French speaker
Christophe Andre. $29.95 + $10 S & H $39.95 TOTAL |
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Were giving you the option of either purchasing one or all three of these videos outright with a 30 day money-back guarantee. You can preview one, two or three of the videos for a small shipping and handling charge of $10 for each video payable in advance. If you decide to purchase one, two or all three of these videos, we will give you credit for the preview fee already paid.
The price of these two exciting and new Christmas in France videos is $29.95 + $10 S & H for each
or $49.95 + $10 S & H for both, $39.95 + $10 S & H for The Real France, or get all three for the
Special Sale Price of $89.95 + $10 S & H. $99.95 total.
We accept purchase orders from schools and other institutions, VISA/MC, checks, or we can even
send a bill. You can use our online order form, or fax a printed order form.
The videos also come with FREE video view sheets in English and French by French Teacher LoAnna Chance. These view sheets will help your students pay attention and learn something from the videos. And the video Noel en France comes with a script in French for the Advanced students to follow.
| These videos will appeal to both children and adults. Students will benefit by seeing and hearing real French students talking in their native French, what it's like to be a student there, about what Christmas means to them and how they celebrate it. They will see both the similarities and the differences between Christmas in the US and France. So don't delay. Order one, two or all three of these exciting, new videos made by a young woman especially for the young people of today. Sarah McConnell has been awarded a combined Masters Degree in Romantic Literature, philosophy, history and art history from the University of York, England. |
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Dining in France (35 min):
New Release! Hot off the editing machine!
| Dining is France was produced by Sarah McConnell, the producer of the three successful videos Christmas in France, Noel en France and The Real France. The video was shot on location in the sidewalk cafes of Paris, in a village near St. Etienne in Southern France, and at the actual French homes of some real French people. Some of the information presented in Dining in France is based on an actual reference book about French table manners “Simple Etiquette in France” by Marie Therese By ram. The rest of the video shows documentary style how the French prepare a meal and how they actually eat. Included in the video are a French Barbecue, a French Sunday lunch and a French formal dinner. |  |
There is also a segment about the sidewalk cafes of Paris and their colorful
literary history. Finally, there is a short French cooking show at the end which
demonstrates how to prepare a French meal. The video also comes with a printed
booklet of French recipes that you can prepare for yourself.
This video is shot and edited in cinema verite style, appropriately so because cinema verite was invented
in France.. There are no actors, no sets, no props, nothing artificial. This shows the reality of how Dining
in France is actually done by the real Frenchmen.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE VIDEO:
Special Message to French Teachers:
All of these questions and more will be answered for this video. Once again in the tradition of cinema verite, your students will get to see real French people eating and interacting. They will see locations inside a French home, around Paris, and around the massif centrale region of France. The use of video is a powerful instructional tool. How else will students experience France short of going there? You have the power to bring France to your classroom and give your students front row seats to the French experience. This video is indispensable to your students learning about the French culture. Your students may not be able to have the experience of dining in a French home just yet, but they will be able to see what it's like first hand in this video. By watching this video they will gain important cultural insights and knowledge into cafe culture and dining in France. We provide the real scoop just for you.
DINING IN FRANCE $49.95 + $10 S & H $59.95 total
Richard's School Day (30 min) and Un Jours d'Ecole Avec Richard (30 min):
Sarah's Newest Release!
| We are announcing the release of the first video of
its kind about the way French school children go to school. It is called Richard’s School Day
(English) and Un Jour d’Ecole avec Richard (French). It comes in both English and French
language versions. This video follows a real French citizen named Richard through his school
day. It shows him going to all his classes, it shows his school building, his teachers and some of
his classmates (although these were hard to show because French school administrators required
us not to show the faces of his classmates). However, we did manage to get a few shots of his
classmates anyway.
Richard, who is 17 years old, goes to a private school in St. Bonnet le Chateau, an historic village in France’s Massif Centrale. Your students will follow Richard through his school day. They will go into his classroom, into the lunchroom, and onto the soccer field. They will get to know Richard through his up close and personal interviews where he will speak candidly on many subjects which affect the lives of contemporary French teenagers. This video was produced in 1997. The interviews with Richard are completely in French with English subtitles in the English version as well as an English speaking narrator. The French version uses a native speaker of French as the narrator. This video is available For $54.95 + $10 S & H. |
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