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(MC.259.cuid5124a) Landy interviews Sue Jennings and the two engage in different forms of drama therapy, including singing, playing hand games, and imitating each other's actions. Jennings discusses different forms drama therapy can take, the role of drama in daily life, and patients with which she has worked.

(MC.259.cuid5124b) Video is titled Reflections on Drama Therapy and includes footage of small children playing outside and host Bronwen Warren introducing other drama therapists while four people perform on a stage. 26 minutes into the recording it switches to same recording as MC.259.cuid5124a.

Landy sits with students on the floor and introduces the students to the camera people and photographers. The students discuss their feelings about being videotaped and photographed and interact with the cameras. The students work with masks and dolls, discuss each other in terms of roles they are playing, and Landy directs their work.

Students in masks and costumes perform to pre-recorded music and discuss creating as a group with objects.

Landy lectures on role theory and its effects on his theory of drama therapy. He and the students all state their roles, the students perform in pairs with a third student as a guide, and the class discusses what happened in each encounter.

Landy introduces the lecture on Everett L. Shostrom's 1965 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy and his work to create a modern version of this for drama therapy. Landy demonstrates role method and role theory and answers questions posed by a panel of students.

The guest is Lowell Swortzell.

The guest is Nellie McCaslin.

The guest is Geraldine Brain Siks. Siks leads a group of children through a series of warm-up exercises and then using objects in imaginative play. At the end of the recording, Siks and the children discuss what they worked on and what they each liked best. Then Landy joins Siks and the two discuss the session.

The guest is Geraldine Brain Siks.

The guest is Coleman Jennings. Landy and Jennings view and discuss a recording of Jennings and a group of children at dramatic play. Jennings and the children engage in imaginative play with objects and he asks the children to pretend to be items from Pandora's Box. After the recording, Landy and Jennings discuss the session.

The guest is Carol Korty.

(MC.259.cuid5142b) Carol Korty and four children set a scene on a stage, with one child directing the others and Korty assisting them. The children each talk about how the scene should be played and how each actor should respond to events in the scene. After the session, Landy joins Korty and they discuss the session, her teaching method, and whether drama would be useful to non-drama educators.

Guests include students of Rob Lesser and the 92nd St. Y. Landy discusses drama with four children, two of whom were in the group with Geraldine Brain Siks. He asks the children about what they think drama is, where they learned about drama, and in what form of drama they've participated. He also asks them about imaginative play on their own without an audience and how that differs from performing for an audience.

The guest is John Hodgson.

The guest is John Hodgson.

Landy interviews Gavin Bolton. Bolton discusses how he became interested in teaching with drama and how he uses drama in his work with troubled youth, in particular having teenagers use role play in order to solve problems. Bolton states his belief that play and spontaneity within a structured exercise hold the greatest potential for learning and shares his definition of process drama.

The guest is Nancy Swortzell.

The guest is Nancy Swortzell.

The guest is James Moffett.

Guests include Linda Balsam and Joan Kaufman.

The guest is Shirlee Sloyer.

The guest is Nancy Swortzell.

Guests include Lynda Zimmerman and members of the Creative Arts Team at New York University.

Guests include Lynda Zimmerman and members of the Creative Arts Team at New York University.

Guests include Phil Lopate, Lisa Cowen, and Angus Johnston. Children perform Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya on stage in costume.

Guests include Joan Johnston and Michael Tempel.

The guest is Richard Courtney. Landy interviews Courtney about using drama in his work with the disabled. He discusses his history of working in therapy and education, what he learned from traditional therapists, and the interaction of patients as human performers.

The guest is Tom Cahill.

Guests include Joyce St. George and Francis P. Canavan.

Guests include Edward Welch and three students.

The guest is James Sacks.

The guests are Karen [Luxton?], Jane [Frannila?], and Elliot Schloss.

The guest is Lea Wallace.

The guest is Richard Courtney.

The guest is Gertrud Schattner.

The guest is Rick Curry.

The guest is Rick Curry.

Guests include Bonnie Robbins and Paula Gray.

Guests include Ellen Cleghorne and members of The Family.

Guests include Marvin Felix Camillo and Rose Calavido.

The guest is Aurand Harris.

The guest is John Clark Donahue, founder and director of Minneapolis' Children's Theatre Company. Donahue discusses his background in children's theatre and what he emphasizes at the Children's Theatre Company, in particular working in classics and having formal instructors.

Guests include Judith Martin and Irving Burton.

The guest is Maurice Stewart.

The guest is Tom Miller.

The guest is Brian Way.

Guests include Lowell Swortzell and Vera Mowry.

Guests include Ann Shaw and Nellie McCaslin.

Labeling on original package reads: Sunrise Semester Drama M26 dubbed 6-3-81.

This recording consists of professor Richard W. Hull's introduction to the Sunrise Semester series on Southern Africa: Civilizations in Turmoil.

This recording consists of professor Richard W. Hull's lecture on conquest and Asian influence in Africa as part of the Sunrise Semester series on Southern Africa: Civilizations in Turmoil.

The video recordings consist of lectures given by Landy in Taiwan, performances by students, and a closing event for the seminar. Landy speaks English which is translated into Mandarin by different people throughout the recordings. Landy lectures about drama therapy and psychotherapy history, different drama therapy methods, the state of drama therapy in the United States, the use of masks in rituals throughout the world, and answers questions from class.

Landy lectures on the roles of the drama therapist, psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst. A class discussion follows.

The video recording consists of New York City Schools Chancellor introducing the Reach for Speech program to New York City teachers and students performing as characters and giving speeches.

Label reads: Healing Ceremony / Village Ceremony by Youjin Hong July 9 90 Korea

MC.259.cuid5132 consists of Landy asking children to describe how they see God and asks them to play games, tell stories, and draw pictures about God. MC.259.cuid5133 consists of a performance by Landy and children of God Lives in Glass and Is Shaped by the Wind.

This recording is similar to that on MC.259.cuid5128. Landy introduces the lecture on Everett L. Shostrom's 1965 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy and his work to create a modern version of this for drama therapy. Landy demonstrates role method and role theory, David Reed Johnson demonstrates developmental transformations, and Nina Garcia demonstrates psychodrama. The recording ends with a performance by students acting out dialogue of the patient in the three methods.