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Big Family - A Fantastic Journey into the Past (Video)

"Welcome to a fantastic journey into the past!" The 18-minute video "Big Family" tells the story of evolution as the family history of a child travelling back to its ancestors from the distant past. The Düsseldorf filmmaker Ricarda Hinz impressively adapted the book of the same name by Michael Schmidt-Salomon and Anne-Barbara-Kindler. Film and book are part of the Evokids teaching material for primary schools.

The film on the Evokids YouTube channel: (Should the embedded video not be available here, please follow this link)

Big Family – A Fantastic Journey into the Past": direction, animation und editing: Ricarda Hinz +++ words und music: Michael Schmidt-Salomon +++ illustrations: Anne-Barbara Kindler +++ time traveler: Simon Schmidt +++ time traveler (English voice): Jassi Rouse +++ speaker: Sue Bonney-Cox +++ translation: Robert Spence +++ sound: Wolfgang Seifert +++ camera: Jochen Schreiber +++ make-up: Nadine Eckstein +++ Impy puppet: Barbara Wörle +++ studio: voss TV-Studio +++ green screen technology: vr3 virtual production +++ with thanks to Max Kruse (1921-2015), who provided his famous "Impy" to the Evokids project, as well as Bavaria Media GmbH , who allowed us the non-commercial use of Impy +++ The film was produced on behalf of the Giordano Bruno Foundation and its project: "Evokids - Evolution in primary school" (www.evokids.de) +++ Non-Commercial Educational Video : Distribution and public performance expressly allowed! +++ © gbs 2016