Check out the trailer to Butterfly in the Sky, which tells the story of the beloved PBS Children’s series Reading Rainbow. Levar Burton, Whoopi Goldberg, and more talk about the impact of the series. The documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Butterfly in the Sky is now available digitally.
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:03 >> You want the Reading Rainbow treatment?
00:05 Here we go.
00:06 >> Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.
00:12 >> Reading Rainbow was not about learning to read, it was about loving to read.
00:16 >> I said, we will get kids reading more because they will watch Reading Rainbow
00:20 and they will go get those books.
00:22 Nobody believed us.
00:23 >> I thought, what a great idea.
00:25 >> Reading is a very fresh way to learn.
00:27 [MUSIC]
00:29 >> Reading Rainbow wanted children to know there's all kinds of stories out there.
00:34 And while it may not be stories from your neighborhood,
00:37 it's stories from a neighborhood you should know about.
00:40 >> Roll tape.
00:40 >> Ready?
00:41 >> We would all throw ideas in without worrying about how dumb they were or
00:45 how difficult to achieve they were.
00:48 >> I did everything they asked.
00:50 I mean everything.
00:52 Ow.
00:54 >> I became very adamant that since they had hired me, then what they got was me.
00:59 >> He wasn't talking down to you.
01:01 He was talking as like, let's have this conversation.
01:04 >> It hurts when someone you love dies.
01:06 >> He was on TV as himself.
01:08 That's power.
01:09 [MUSIC]
01:11 >> Hi, everybody.
01:12 This is a book for you.
01:14 >> It was saying, your stories matter.
01:16 Your voice matters.
01:17 Which means that I get to watch the show and say, maybe I have a voice.
01:20 Maybe I have an opinion.
01:22 Maybe I have a story.
01:23 [MUSIC]
01:27 But you don't have to take my word for it.