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

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A very povverfnl film and one of the best of the excellent St. Paul series by Cathedral Films, Inc. To get back to the Index. Ask your rental library for a copy. You will soon discover its usefulness. Pre-Marriage Counselling Films The Department of Family Life (DFL) of the Division of Christian Education (DCE) of the National Council of Churches (NCC) has produced two 28-minute color films in the general field of marriage and family life. The titles are / Do, for young couples considering marriage, and Before They Say I Do, designed for tho.se who coun.sel young couples approaching marriage. The Broadcasting and Film Commi.ssion (BFC) of the NCC was the technical producer with the Rev. William H. Genne acting as content consultant. Both films will be available from the Religious Film Library ( 17 Park Place, N. Y. 7) and its branches across the country, and from many local film rental libraries. In technical qualities these two film are good. The BFC of the NCC saw to this. In the first (Z Do) we have great difficulty understanding what one of the characters is saying on certain occasions. Her role is that of a sophisticated cynic, and what she says is not terribly important, but it is aggravating not to hear. My tape recorder, electrically connected with the film projector, also had diflficulty hearing Jean at certain times! The color is lush, and this reviewer could see no need for color at all. It distracts rather than adds. Being for non-mass audiences and being informational and motivational, (and not for enjoyment) was color rc(iuired? Did the DFL or the BFC or the NCC insist on it? Or did all together cooperate in making thLs mistake? We are told that the film / Do "used the interesting device of a play within a play. The actors play their parts but sometimes comment on the 242 roles tliey play." The format of tf film calls not only for this but pi tends also to be just a rehearsal for film which is to be shot later on. J this in a non-theatrical film which to have a highly motivated and high selected audience! Who decided abandon cinematic directness and 1 cidity for this variety of 'art'? It cou have been Mr. Genne of the DF since he tells us, as he gets this phoi 'rehearsal' under way, that he war the film to have some flir and fanfai This, I say, for a film which sor minister is supposed to show to group of older young people or a f( engaged couples or, indeed, even o or two couples in his study or in t church parlor! To this reviewer it c not make sense. It takes a g(K)d fi to survive such a format handicap! The format of the second, Bef( They Say I Do, is better. The .stn ture and storyline is less complicati The audience knows it is looking a film. It is not asked to gawk at a hearsal for a film in which the act comment, with varying degrees of telligibility and intelligence, upon ■ roles they wiU play in the film whei is shot. The more I reflect on this surd format for serious films the har it is for me to understand how B consented to such cinematic nonsei I invited in a few pastors fr neighboring churches to sit with for the preview. These men, with • exception, have all done a great c of pre-marital coimselling and h read and studied in this field and of them have attended seminars taken special courses in this area their pastoral responsibility. The films were presented with comment and when the viewing over we discussed them at g r i lengths. Summarizing their reactii They were more dissatisfied with content than the\ were with the mat, although the structure of first film did .seem unnecessarily c plicatetl to them. They wondered ■ the storyline of the film seemec point so directly to the prcxluct of a certain corporation. They \ dered if this had anything to do the general neglect of the quest and problems the young man in film might have had as he faced : riage. They were in agreement the films added nothing new by of knowledge or in.spiration, and could not think of any circumsta in their own local churches when' would want to use these films. Th viewer feels the same way on 1 matters after seeing the films and after listening to the taped sc | tracks verv carefullv. Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 19c SCIENCE FILMSTRIPS SINCE 1931 SINCE 1931 MADE BY TEACHERS FOR TEACHERS ■lOlOGY ATOMIC ENERGY PHYSICS GENERAL SCIENCE CHEMISTRY MICROBIOLOGY BIKE SAFETY BUS SAFETY Science filmitripi available under NDEA— Title III. VISUAL Bex 599E SCIENCES Suffern, New Y«rk