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Early SVE filmstrip projector.
Hand-cranked 35mm motion picture projector (Victor).
pastorate in the Westfield, Illinois Congregational Church, on the groinid that his showing films taught the boys ot the church to "enuilate cowboys."
In 19;{7 the International Council on Religious Education set up a committee on audiovisual education and ran a workshop at the 19;i8 Quadrennial Convention. Three years later an AV department was iormally constituted, the expenses for the first three years being paid by the Harmon Foundation. Rev. William L. Rogers— originally on the Harmon staff— headed the dcpai iment until 1912, when he moved to New York to manage the newly lormed Religious Film Association. His place was taken by Dr. Mary Leigh Palmer, under whose direction the first International Workshop in Religious Audio-Visual Education was held — at North Park College — with 25 states and Canada represented by members ol 25 denominations.
It was subsequently held at Lake Geneva and then at Green Lake, Wisconsin. Miss Pearl Rosser headed the department, now Dept. of Audio-Visual and Broadcast Education, Nati<mal Council of Churches, until headcjuarters were moved from Chicago to New York, whereupon she became the first director of radio and TV for The Church Federation of Greater Chicago.
In no way can the growth ot service of audiovisuals in the work ol the church be measured as effectively as by the phenomenal expansion of film and other resources available to the religious worker. In 1909 George Kleine's "Catalog of 1000 Educational Films" listed only 27 "religious" titles; in 1942 (he first Religious Films Association catalog listed 250; in 1958 the National Council's "Audio-Visual Resources Guide" classifies, describes and evaluates more than 2,500 AV items previously evaluated by local committees.
This is not merely a numerical growth. In the early days a lone cameraman could go forth and make his own idea of a religious film single-handed; today professional studios, skilled writers, theological consultants and exjjerienced (inricidum utilization staffs combine their skills. The hand-made glass slide ol old has been augmented by conmumication tools too luunerous to count — films, slides, iccords, tapes, transparencies, radio, TV and many more. The seed ol the AV pioneers has truly lirought forth boimteous fruits.
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EdScreen & AV Guide — February, 1959