Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

judged against what the Gospel iniiaicly requires of tliose who accept it. A lie-bop cartooning of wliat goes on between a soul and its Maker is both bad taste and bad. Turning to the audio, we are treated to screechings, to bangs, to trumpet blarings, to irrational sound effects as jerky narration talks excitedly about sin, selfishness, and sahation in beatgeneration cliches. W'liat a racket! And look at the e(|uipment this filinstrip needs for its most effective utilization: a filmstrip projector integral w-ith a record player which can iiiili/c subsonic frame-adxance signals. How many churches will have such e(|uipnient? Few. What if they don't? Ihey then are likely to get even more rac ket from the record — as the subsonic becomes quite sonic. This adds up to greenhorn and unrealistic planning. Let's take some comfort from the realization that few youth leaders will ever be so casual about the "meaning of the Gospel," or hard up for program material, as to take this flippant filmstrip failure seriously. Films In Brief Review Seminary Film In Such a Time, a 25-minute full(olor sound film, tells the story of young Dick Stewart and his wife Lisa. Coming from a background of wealth and |)rivilege, he determinedly .seeks the true meaning of life as a seminarian at Protestant Episcopal Tlieological .Seminary in Virginia. The film follows him and Lisa, through ups and downs, for his three years at TSV. We are given some insight into the seminary process. Not only do we become acquainted with TSV, but with something relatively new; the coming to seminary of older men who have made a success of some vocation or profession. For classmates Dick Stewart had a former Wall Street broker, an airlines pilot, and a guided missile ex|)ert. 'The dramatic story of men like tliese — now a common sight on most seminary campuses — is nicely presented in this high-ciuality low-budget film. It will liave wide usefulness in promoting and interpreting the cause ol contemporary seminary education .generally. .Available from the Theological Seminary of Virginia, Alexandria, Va. Sympathy For Alcoholics Ibis is just what the 30-minute BJtW dramatic film. How Long the Nighl, is all about. I quote from promotional literature: "This is a frank utteinpt to build understanding and sympathy for alcoholics. Until churchmen learn to love alcoholics as much as they hate alcohol, they can never 9 You can project for Audio -Visual Techniques with the Keystone You meet every need of group instruction with the versatile Keystone Overhead Projector: STANDARD SLIDES. Hove you seen the latest additions to Keystone's vast library of educational slides? HAND-MADE SLIDES for presenting special subjects, and for enthusiostic group participation. TYPEWRITTEN SLIDES — clean cut, beautifully legible — for lessons, notices, etc. POLAROID TRANSPARENCIES projected less than 3 minutes after you snap them. QUADRUPLE SLIDES — the most convenient and by for the most economical way to project drawings in series. ggg^ .. MICRO-PROJECTION; the s/f^^M j entire class con see a mi ^■^^3 croscopic subject. STRIP FILM shown with the Keystone Overhead Projector's powerful illumination. 2-INCH SLIDES, anC 2 '74 -inch, clear daylight projection by 750 or 1,000 watt lamp. TACHISTOSCOPE — indispensable for efficient teaching of reoding and spelling. Reading rates increase 50 Vo to 75% \n a few wee''.s. No teaching procedure has ever hod such unanimous approval from research and controlled experimentation (reporfs on requesfj. DISCIPLINE DURING PROJECTION — every teacher knows the problems of a darkened room; you use the Keystone Overhead Projector with normal lighting, facing your group. Why have a projector that does less? You are invited to have a Demonstration of the projector that does everything. Write KEYSTONE VIEW CO., Meadville, Pa. Since 1892 — Producers of Superior Visual Aids. KEYSTONE Overhead Proiector fulfill a redemptive mission in this area of human need." Again 1 tiuote: "How Long the Xighl portrays the reasons why so many alcoholics keep on drinking, and the struggle of one wife to try to understand her alcoholic husband." (One main reason is given: it is hypothetical.) One more (piote: (This film) "is primarily a discussion starter. Adult church groups will use it to point out ways of helping alcoholics and their families." It is for adults only. This film ought to kick up discussion. I'd like to ask if the "mean mama" etiology of alcoholism is after all an explanation? Again, if 1 convert my church into a hospital for alcoholic cripples, and center my church's attention on loving the alcoholic, who then will take up the task of trying to bring the social plague of alcohol under control? Shall we deal with victims, or, the cause of victims? Isn't the liquor business, from grape to gutter, getting oft pretty easy when it can say to the church, "Here, you be nice and helpful to (my) alcoholic, it's your job after all. We prefer to stick to production and distribution"? Yes. mis film can start discussion. I dare you to prevent it! .Available for a rental of ,'>8.00 from the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn., and its film libraries across the country. Hawaii and Clhina Seas In the 3()-minute sound and color film, Tongues of Fire, released by Cathedral Films, Inc., we have the dramatic story of a Hawaiian Christian TO PROLONG THE LIFE Of YOUR MOVIE f ILM All give DONT WAIT VACUUMATE! ^ W Coronet National Film Board of Canada S. V. E. 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