America rock [videorecording] / [presented by] Walt Disney Home Video ; producers, George Newall, Radford Stone ; produced by Scholastic Rock, Inc. in association with American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
Imprint
Burbank, Calif. : ABC Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, c1995.
Originally produced as a series of 3 min. motion picture segments in 1976-1978; broadcast on ABC as segments of: Schoolhouse rock!
"25th anniversary collection"--Container insert.
Audience
For primary and elementary grades.
Summary
Translates important events in American history and important features of the American political and social system into original rock songs illustrated by cartoons.
Contents
No more kings : the founding of America -- Fireworks : the Declaration of Independence -- The shot heard 'round the world : the start of the Revolution -- The Preamble : the Constitution -- Elbow room : the pioneers opening the West -- The great American melting pot : the ethnic diversity of America -- Mother Necessity : great American inventors -- Sufferin' till suffrage : women's right to vote -- I'm just a bill : how a bill becomes a law -- Three-ring government : the judicial, legislative and executive branches.