Childhood: Great expectations [videorecording] / Childhood : great expectations [videorecording] / a co-production of Thirteen, WNET, The Childhood Project, Inc. in association with Channel 4/London and Antelope Films. a coproduction of Thirteen, WNET, The Childhood Project, Inc. in association with hannel 4/London and Antelope Films. - New York, NY : Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. c 1991, 2006. - 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. - Childhood ; Program 1 . - Childhood (Television program) ; Program 1. .

Documentary. VHS.

Director/producer/writer, Geoff Haines-Stiles; series producer/Unit Production manager, Erna Akuginow ; edited by Lawrence Silk ; music composed and performed by Michael Whelan ; advisors, Jerome Kagan, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Sandra Scarr, Melvin Konner, Robert A. Hinde, Marian Wright Edelman. Director/producer/writer, Geoff Haines-Stiles; series producer/Unit Production manager, Erna Akuginow ; edited by Lawrence Silk ; music composed and performed by Michael Whelan ; advisors, Jerome Kagan, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Sandra Scarr, Melvin Konner, Robert A. Hinde, Marian Wright Edelman.

Narrators: Alex Chadwick, Lynn Neary.

Introduces the seven-part series which explores the influences of nature and society on 12 families on five continents. Includes three births, in Russia, the United States, and Brazil, to show how different societies approach this universal, yet unique, experience.


Child development--Cross-cultural studies.
Childbirth.
Socialization.
Families.
Documentary films.
Children.