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

years of age, and some parents will want their Juniors to see it. It tells the story from conception onward and places the coming of the New Life amid the rhythms of nature and the love-circle of mother, father and an older child. This film can be shown to the family group, and you can say this of few others. It can be shown to girls, young women, couples both married and unmarried. It makes more than factual impact. It carries the overtones of the human; rises above disgustingly candid. While highly recommending this film to the churches for use with youth fellowship groups, youth clubs, young adults, and adult groups, one word of caution may not be out of place. Please give such a film the right kind of context—serious, quiet, artistic, spiritual; not casual, flippant, or worst of all matter-of-fact. If you can't set it in a suitable context, send it back; don't run it. Meet The Press Secretary Meet not only her but a lot of fine ideas about how to get publicity for your church in the film Making It Work. How you are going to keep that title associated with the contents of this fine film, I don't know! Produced by the Seventh Day Adventists, this film is a polished performance both technically and in content. Ministers should see it to help motivate them to appoint a 'press secretary' for their church. Official boards should see it so they will appropriate a little budget-money for this type of effort. All those who now perform the duties of press secretaries for their churches or any groups within the church should see it to get wised up on how to approach the newspapers, the radio and the TV stations. In 20-some minutes there's a lot of elucidation. (Availability not known at this writing; try Broadcasting and Film Commission, 475 Riverside, N. Y. 27) Siam On The Sampan You will chuckle every time you remember the cat fight, of all places, in the primeval ooze of a riverbank. You will see it in the 31-minute color film Siam. You will see people, rice farming, sampan commerce, religious festivals, royal pageantry, working elephants, and— that cat fight! When they come up out of that mud! I still shake with laughter! This is a Walt Disney package. It has nothing to do with missions. Don't look at it for that. See it for its humanity, God's humanity. See youii neighbors, now just around the comei in this atomic age. After all, every intelligent person wants to know something of his neighbors and via this film, your acquaintance with the folk} of (Siam) Thailand is a pleasant experience. You'll not forget about the charming Thai people, their rivers anc their floods, the rice, and sampans and Buddhist monks begging theii breakfasts, and that fancy and ferocious Thai boxing, and— that cat fight. What a fine film for the famil> night, the couple's club, the men's fellowship group! Ask the I6mm division, Walt Disney Productions, Burbank, if there's a print near you. II N. Y. can serve you, write to 441 Madison Ave., N. Y. 22. Communications to AV in tht Church Field should be sent direct tc the department editor: William S Hockman, 12 June Drive, Glens Falls. N.Y. . the first in a dramatic ne^v series on the -world's religions! THE CRESCENT and the CROSS A Film on the Religion of ISLAM An unusually objective treatment of Islam filmed with the cooperation of Middle East Governments and the authoritative counsel of J. Christy Wilson, Dean of Field Service, Princeton Theological Seminary. Against a backdrop of ancient religions in the land of the Pharaohs two young Americans learn about Islam which burst from its desert birthplace to spread like wildfire thru Africa, Asia and Europe. Actual on-location scenes, filmed in the heart of today's Middle-East, presents with pictorial eloquence history, travel and religion. 16 mm sound 32 minutes fllm»d In the Middle iatf In ExoMc color Full COlor $280.00 ^^^ B&W $140.00 Write today for preview print FILM PRODUCTIONS, INC. (distribution oHIcu) 1821 University Ave. • St. Paul 4, Minn. 236 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 1960