Remembering the Homefront
with 3 media presentation formats:
Slide/Tape, VHS,  & DVD.

Order all 3 formats,  a combination of 2, or a single format.
Be sure to specify when you order.

 HFKIT
 $300,
$330,
or $350.

1 format $300,
2 formats $330,
or 3  formats$350.

Three generations of Americans now living have been directly affected by World War II the veterans of the war and the home front, their parents, and their baby boom children.

Now is the time to share and compare experiences, insights, and attitudes about that war, and war in general.   Click here to see the report of our model  intergenerational project project using Remembering the Home Front.

Manual. Program suggestions and resources, more discussion topics, and specific information about wartime America.. (104 pages)

  • Manual HF211 $24

Slide/tape, VHS video and DVD. The Stars on the Home Front during World War II did war work, saved fuel and rubber, read newspapers and listened to the radio while they waited for (and worried about) their loved ones overseas. Three formats:  80 slides in a carousel tray with a 15-minute narration or 15-minute video or closed-captioned DVD.

  • 80 slides in box HF100 $80
  • Cassette tape #1 HF421 $12
  • VHS video HF123 $60
  • DVD with guide HF115 $50
  • DVD & 12-page guide plus sing-along CD, guide,
     & booklet HF119 $70
  • DVD only HF135 $45

 

Cassette tape or CD. Sing-along songs: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me, You're in the Army Now, For Me and My Gal, and It's Been A Long, Long Time. On side 2: A 1944 Your Hit Parade radio show that surveyed the top songs based on phonograph and sheet music sales.

  • Tape #2 HF422 $12
  • CD HF522 $15

25 Booklets. The "V-Book" in large-print includes ration stamps and facts, a list of contemporary bestsellers, cartoons, excerpts from a wartime edition of the Sears, Roebuck catalog, and the four sing-along songs.

  • One booklet HF244 $5
  • Ten booklets HF244 $30
  • 25 booklets HF244 $60

Sing-Along Set. One copy of the booklet, with Tape #2 or CD, together with the manual pages for the booklet and the tape or CD. Conveniently packaged. 

  • Booklet, tape, and guide HF299 $22 
  • Booklet, CD, and guide HF295 $25

Skit. Listen in on a wartime conversation between two friends in Don'tcha Know There's A War On? Three scripts in large print.

  • Set of 3, HF319 $5

Things to Touch. Includes scented cards of rationed items: sugary birthday cakes, chocolate, and gasoline; toy soldier, just one of the many war toys popular then; insignia used by military and civilians alike to distinguish those of high rank; a bandage like the ones rolled by the hands of volunteers; knitting like that done for the Red Cross; and a ball of foil, one of the many items saved for the war effort.

  • HF699 $40

Kit bag. Holds everything together in a convenient carrying case of navy blue and yellow vinyl. Includes window pocket and luggage tag labels.

  • Kit bag HF701 $40

Contact information:

  
Bi-Folkal Productions, Inc.
809 Williamson St.
Madison, WI 53703
1-800-568-5357
E-mail: bifolks@bifolkal.org