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...some cities, children are learning to make movies at the same time that they are mastering the ABCs. In Lexington, Mass., for example, Yvonne Andersen, 36, runs an extracurricular workshop where children aged five to twelve are introduced to the rudiments of animated film. Their work shows a freedom, verve and humor that Disney might have admired. Their short subjects (four minutes maximum) range from settings of favorite nursery rhymes to imaginative moralistic fables like The Amazing Colossal Man, written and produced by a dozen workshoppers. In this no-nonsense parable, suspicious earthlings annihilate a peace envoy from outer space...
...ROCK MUSIC WORKSHOP...
...function of the workshop is to write rock lyrics and music. We shall discuss our own work as well as that being played by heads and rock bands in San Francisco, America, and Great Britain...
Cheese Merchant's Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...
...quiet but intense man who married the daughter of the cheese merchant in a neighboring village, Godtfred Christiansen today runs his business in a complex of modern buildings that he has put up around his father's old workshop. With little formal education, he reads so haltingly that he prefers to have aides deliver reports orally-but he makes up for all that with a sharp business mind. To market his product in Europe, for example, Christiansen shunned toy wholesalers to set up his own network of 13 sales branches. He explains: "We would have disappeared in the multitude...