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

no better way to understand what this means than by seeing a dramatic documentary film. Such a film is Action In Asia. Photographed competently by Bob Frers, this 28'/9-minute color film shows us the YMCA Boys' Town in Korea, refugee work in Hong Kong, and a new approach to rural improvement in the Philippines. This film spells out what we have called "missions." It can educate youth and adults, in and out of church, in world-mindedness. It is highly recommended to adult groups in the church and community. They will find it interesting and instructive right down to the last frame. (1) Does Christ Live In Your Home? has 13 basic sequences; all dramatic, all interesting, all convincing. In it we have a pair of grandparents, who know that religion belongs in the center of life; a family with two teenagers, who wonder if religion belongs at all; a business executive scouting for a top representative for his firm; and a boy who plays some fine football. After three or four suspenseful situations, we realize that we, the viewer, have been asked pretty pointedly whether our homes are Christian, and we don't resent it one bit. We are glad for it. It takes a good film to do that, and this IS the best on this subject to date and a very superior film for young people, for adults, for family nights, for jjublic worship services especially. (2) If a good camera crew tagged along after a little teenager (boy) in Morocco as he set off uncertainly from his village to go to school in the city some distance away, and then followed him as he adjusted to his new home, to new friends, to a strange school; and, if the crew pointed the camera once in a while at what the boy was seeing (so we could see, too); and, if the narrator told us something of the thoughts of the boy in the midst of these things, and commented intelligently upon the problems of the people, then we would have an interesting and instructive film. Now this is just what the 16-minute b&w Country of Islam does — brings Morocco alive: for adults, for young people; for study groups; for those who want background on people and customs; and, for those who just want to see an interesting film nicely put together. (3) An old and engaging legend is used as the basis for the 14-minute sound and color film. The Christmas Deer. As it stands in the film, this legend has a timeless and universal quality which makes you feel that such a thing could happen anywhere. It tells of an old man, a woodcarver, living in the deep woods and seeing the Christmas Deer; of a little boy who meets him; of their strange friendship; of the old man's beautiful carvings and how he decided to give them away to make others happy, in the act finding happiness himself. Nicely constructed, and with some very beautiful photography, this film will be new and very useful in school and church. The narration is nicely paced, and the music of an old French carol, played on a lute and recorder, enfolds much of the action in lovely sound. (4) The Albert Schweitzer film is now available in 16mm, good news, indeed, to every church which owns or can beg or borrow a projector! Here is an artistically made document of Schweitzer's life and work, put together with insight and deep appreciation for human and spiritual values. Within and without the church, this film will be appreciated for the superb job that it does in presenting one of the greatest men of our time. Running 83 minutes, it seems in the seeing half as long, and the first half documents his life up to the time of his "call" to Africa. The second half documents his work at Lambarene. The material being more flexible, the first part achieves an artistic excellence which is only here and there reached in the second part. Taken as a whole, this is a great film, and those who struggled over a period of years to make it place all of us heavily in their debt. (5) The 20-minute b&w film. Emotional Maturity, dramatizes in quite believable sequences the immature behavior of a high school boy, giving us a film that parents and teachers, in church and school, ought to see and ponder. Objectified in this film, here is behavior which rankles us and sours our judgment quite often when we meet it head-on around the church or school, or in the community. We don't resent the film, thus we can think, and move toward understanding, and perhaps even toward being better parents and teachers of adolescents. Recommended for use in leadership courses and clinics. (6) Sources and Producers (1) From YMCA World Service, 291 Broadway, N. Y. 7. (2) Produced by Family Films, Inc.; available from local rental libraries. (3) Produced by Churchill-Wexler Film Productions, 801 N. Seward St., Los .Angeles 38, Calif. 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