A Touch of Greatness
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Actor: Albert Cullum, Laurie Heineman, Leslie SullivanBrand: First RUN Features
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 54 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
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DVD Review: Albert Cullum Definitely Had A Touch Of Teaching Greatness 4 Stars
This is a very well made documentary. Albert Cullum was certainly gifted with intelligence, charisma, intuition, boundless energy and no small amount of acting ability which combined to make an incredible teacher. Mr. Cullum was also gifted with teaching in Rye, New York, an affluent NYC suburb in Westchester County filled with bright, privileged children of educated parents, who did not face many of the problems the majority of children today face or for that matter what many of their less fortunate contemporaries in the 1950's and 1960's encountered. Having talented filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. available to come up from Manhattan to film his class's dramatic productions was another gift Cullum possessed and watching the amazingly photographed acting of these young children as they perform Shakespeare, Shaw and Sophocles is fascinating. The testimony of former students, middle aged when this documentary film was made, as to the positive impact "Al" had on their successful lives must have presented yet another gift to Mr. Cullum.After ten years teaching upper elementary school in Rye Mr. Cullum left to teach at the university level and write about teaching. Granted he continued his work with bringing theater to public schools, even those schools filled with students less privileged than those from Rye. My concern with the message of this film is Mr. Cullum's teaching methods worked for him because he was an extraordinary person with way above today's average public school teaching conditions. New teachers who try to emulate his work in their classrooms without his talents and advantages are likely to meet disaster. Sure almost all kids would enjoy squirming around on the floor while pretending to be swimming up the Mississippi on a giant map but it takes an extraordinary teacher to control this situation and to either refocus the students back to the more mundane learning that has to take place in school or to constantly create other lessons that are just as meaningful and exciting. In the film Mr. Cullum says everyone has a touch of greatness in them. I agree but that touch of greatness is not likely to be found in copying Mr. Cullum's very unique teaching talents.
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