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Short, silent stars - Gettysburgtimes.com: News
They started filming Monday and will be finished making “The Emperor’s New Shoes” by Friday.
As busy as it is with cast members speaking and directors directing, the classroom at Conewago Township Elementary School is quiet.
All the kindergarten through third grade cast members are deaf/hard of hearing. Speaking in American Sign Language, the nearly half-hour movie is an original story.
“It’s a mix between ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker,’ said Kathy Bennett, one of two educational interpreters who works with the school’s six deaf/hard of hearing K through 3rd grade students and teacher Aimee Sanford.
Every other year since 2003, Bennett’s brother, Michael Wadel, a principal at Wadel & Associates in Chattanooga, Tenn., has produced a movie using the deaf/hard of hearing students. The current movie effort will be his fifth.
Bennett noted that Wadel will complete the editing and production work in time for the . premier of “The Emperor’s New Shoes.”
That will take place on Friday, April 8, at the New Oxford High School Auditorium.
Prior to the 7 p.m. showing, the six cast members will arrive in a stretch limousine at 6:30 p.m. for a walk down the red carpet.
Names of the six cast members are: third graders Connor McCabe and Sophia Gatts; second graders Sam Kalmback and Martina Foden; first graders Amanda Schwab, and kindergarter Melissa Vasquez.
Former CTE student Samantha Joseph of Hanover is the storyteller.
Area residents who volunteered to help with the staging and make the sets for the movie were Kevin Couts and Alan McBeth respectively.
They started filming Monday and will be finished making “The Emperor’s New Shoes” by Friday.
As busy as it is with cast members speaking and directors directing, the classroom at Conewago Township Elementary School is quiet.
All the kindergarten through third grade cast members are deaf/hard of hearing. Speaking in American Sign Language, the nearly half-hour movie is an original story.
“It’s a mix between ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker,’ said Kathy Bennett, one of two educational interpreters who works with the school’s six deaf/hard of hearing K through 3rd grade students and teacher Aimee Sanford.
Every other year since 2003, Bennett’s brother, Michael Wadel, a principal at Wadel & Associates in Chattanooga, Tenn., has produced a movie using the deaf/hard of hearing students. The current movie effort will be his fifth.
Bennett noted that Wadel will complete the editing and production work in time for the . premier of “The Emperor’s New Shoes.”
That will take place on Friday, April 8, at the New Oxford High School Auditorium.
Prior to the 7 p.m. showing, the six cast members will arrive in a stretch limousine at 6:30 p.m. for a walk down the red carpet.
Names of the six cast members are: third graders Connor McCabe and Sophia Gatts; second graders Sam Kalmback and Martina Foden; first graders Amanda Schwab, and kindergarter Melissa Vasquez.
Former CTE student Samantha Joseph of Hanover is the storyteller.
Area residents who volunteered to help with the staging and make the sets for the movie were Kevin Couts and Alan McBeth respectively.