Post by landofpuz on Feb 2, 2025 6:22:18 GMT
I finally got my login to work!
I have been searching for this for over a decade and have been doing a lot of research on my own (worldcat, internet archive, youtube) but have yet to find or identify it definitively.
What I remember:
I was shown this VHS in an upstate South Carolina elementary school somewhere between the years of 2002-2006.
It was about how to fold your hands into animal shapes. There are many tutorials on how to do these exact shapes online, but I am interested in finding this VHS because of the narrative segments and songs.
It was structured as follows:
The main character was a hand-dragon who traveled across the land looking for other hand-animals. I am fairly confident it was mentioned somewhere that he is in "the land of puz" or something that sounds similar to that, which is why I nicknamed my search the way I did. Below is a photo of what the main character looked like.
The hand-dragon would meet with the other hand-animals, talk about something or other, maybe sing a song, then it would cut to a tutorial segment where it would show you step by step how to fold your hands into the shapes of the animals just met.
With certainty, each tutorial segment started with the exact phrase of "hold your hands from side to side, fourth fingers touch and the rest spread wide". I remember the voice narrator being likely male, but could have been androgynous.
I don't remember all of the animals that were met during the tape, but for sure there was the dragon who was the main character, a dog, a snail, a horse, a snake (which looked almost identical to the dragon) and for sure a few others. I am going completely off memory for this, but I want to guess that the run time of the tape would be around 30-40 minutes. Total shot in the dark though.
I remember a particular song that was sung in a swamp or humid area that had fireflies in it that I can try to reconstruct later once I have access to a keyboard. The only lyrics were just the characters repeating "buzz buzz buzz, (pause), buzz" with bongos or some kind of drums in the background.
What I have tried so far on my own:
Cross posted to the lost media discord, r/TOMT a few times, r/helpmefind, 2 print books of VHS catalogs, and reached out to the librarian who worked at my school AND the current librarian who still works there.
Former librarian advised it was a "workshop program provided by a talented young man from out of state", but could not recall his name or the name of the program.
Current librarian advised the VHS tapes at the school were gotten rid of a while ago and was not able to recall the information of the name of the program or who created it, but did advise it was used for several years after I had seen it.
(As you can guess, after making contact with then I was able to confirm the media it was shown on was definitely a VHS.)
If anyone has any information or recalls even something slightly similar, please let me know. My gut tells me that this might have been something noncommercial or something ordered out of some kind of teachers' catalog or something. I don't know if anyone will read this, but my goal is to try to find this by the end of the year.
I have been logging my active hours and what kinds of searching I have been up to usually on a weekly basis in the lost media wiki discord, but I will try to remember to cross post and update here too.
I have been searching for this for over a decade and have been doing a lot of research on my own (worldcat, internet archive, youtube) but have yet to find or identify it definitively.
What I remember:
I was shown this VHS in an upstate South Carolina elementary school somewhere between the years of 2002-2006.
It was about how to fold your hands into animal shapes. There are many tutorials on how to do these exact shapes online, but I am interested in finding this VHS because of the narrative segments and songs.
It was structured as follows:
The main character was a hand-dragon who traveled across the land looking for other hand-animals. I am fairly confident it was mentioned somewhere that he is in "the land of puz" or something that sounds similar to that, which is why I nicknamed my search the way I did. Below is a photo of what the main character looked like.
The hand-dragon would meet with the other hand-animals, talk about something or other, maybe sing a song, then it would cut to a tutorial segment where it would show you step by step how to fold your hands into the shapes of the animals just met.
With certainty, each tutorial segment started with the exact phrase of "hold your hands from side to side, fourth fingers touch and the rest spread wide". I remember the voice narrator being likely male, but could have been androgynous.
I don't remember all of the animals that were met during the tape, but for sure there was the dragon who was the main character, a dog, a snail, a horse, a snake (which looked almost identical to the dragon) and for sure a few others. I am going completely off memory for this, but I want to guess that the run time of the tape would be around 30-40 minutes. Total shot in the dark though.
I remember a particular song that was sung in a swamp or humid area that had fireflies in it that I can try to reconstruct later once I have access to a keyboard. The only lyrics were just the characters repeating "buzz buzz buzz, (pause), buzz" with bongos or some kind of drums in the background.
What I have tried so far on my own:
Cross posted to the lost media discord, r/TOMT a few times, r/helpmefind, 2 print books of VHS catalogs, and reached out to the librarian who worked at my school AND the current librarian who still works there.
Former librarian advised it was a "workshop program provided by a talented young man from out of state", but could not recall his name or the name of the program.
Current librarian advised the VHS tapes at the school were gotten rid of a while ago and was not able to recall the information of the name of the program or who created it, but did advise it was used for several years after I had seen it.
(As you can guess, after making contact with then I was able to confirm the media it was shown on was definitely a VHS.)
If anyone has any information or recalls even something slightly similar, please let me know. My gut tells me that this might have been something noncommercial or something ordered out of some kind of teachers' catalog or something. I don't know if anyone will read this, but my goal is to try to find this by the end of the year.
I have been logging my active hours and what kinds of searching I have been up to usually on a weekly basis in the lost media wiki discord, but I will try to remember to cross post and update here too.
