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Effective August 2, 1997, TWG Productions, Ltd. was granted not-for-profit status. This means that TWG Productions will be able to apply for grants and seek donations from corporate and private sources to underwrite the current project: produce a pilot video focused on teaching the Comanche language to the smallest members of their tribe.
Work has already begun on this project. Debbie Rennie and Randi Nott (founders of TWG Productions) spent the first week of August in the area of Oklahoma called the Comancheria, or Comanche Country, collecting video segments that will be edited into a twenty-eight minute television program. Items that were taped were: the Comanche version of Old McDonald, the Comanche alphabet and number song, several church songs, vocabulary lessons and a translation of the book Lost Mitten. All of this will be woven into a television show designed to appeal to Comanche pre-schoolers and their family. A tentative television crew has been formed to tape the segments that will be done in the television studio at NCTV-Channel 17, Naperville, Illinois. Professionals in the area of computer animation have also been contacted for their help in creating animated segments to accompany the live-action video.
TWG Productions is working on creating and publishing children's books. In the television show, there is a "Story Time" segment, and TWG Productions would like to feature stories from the Comanche culture. Unfortunately, few, if any are written and none have been published for children. Carmelita Thomas, a Comanche elder, is collecting Comanche stories and writing them in a format that is pleasing to small children. Mrs. Thomas has a Master's degree in Education and is volunteering all of her efforts toward this project. Leonard Riddles, a world renown Comanche artist has agreed to illustrate the stories created by Mrs. Thomas. Discussion is taking place between the two on how many stories will be produced and the length of the stories. Once this is determined, Mr. Riddles will submit an estimate on what it will cost him to illustrate these stories. TWG Productions will either include the short (2-3 minute) stories in the story time segment, or create a single show/video for the longer stories.
Our mailing address is TWG Productions Ltd. Our e-mail address is [email protected]
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