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

duced; S8.00 for the complete package; only $5.00 for fs and scri|.>t. SV'E has done up another old story into a fine new package. ($8.50 complete) This time it's Paddy's Christmas. This will entertain (and instruct, also) children from 5 years to 10, and really hit the jackpot with the Primary age bracket. In 45 frames of good fs art, and an engaging rendering of the story, we learn what it takes to make us feel good on the inside. We are glad the little beiir kept on searching till he foinid out! Incidentalh', SVE's reputation for filling orders promptly means you can still order and get this material before this Christmas. Camera In Hong Kong Our first camera reports Christmas In Hong Kong. It gives us 30 minutes of close-ups of people, poverty, missions and the Gospel in action. You will appreciate and approve of most of what you see, give thanks for the bountiful freedoms you enjoy here, realize that your missionary-giving really reaches people; and find yourself having in general a more thoughtful Christmas— if you see this film. If you use it, all this will be doubled! From Don R. Banter, Box 704, Cleveland 22. Oliio. Si'cn and liked. These informative Filmstrips cover many facets of the academic curriculum including conversational French, history and geography, crafts, natural resources, and science. Send for free catalog. DISTRIBUTED BY ^BODmii^ PRODUCTIONS. .c Box A, Valhalla, N. Y. Our next camera spent 33 minutes gathering pictures of people in Hong Kong as they are. It documents the need millions have for our help and shows what the Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief is doing by way of help to keep people from going down the drain of poverty, disease, hopelessness, despair and drugs. From Cokesbury Book Stores for a rental of $3.00, and you can't beat that for an effective way to show the plight of our neighbors. Not seen; but liked what I heard! Title? Oh, yes— Mah on The Doorstep. Behind Translations The average churchman knows that behind the English N.T. which he reads there are versions in other languages, and that all translations start with the Greek New Testament. Not quite! Back of it are manuscripts. They come from different times and different places, and exist on differing materials. The kind of writing differs and the texts vary in form— some continuous and some arranged in sections for reading in the liturgy. Now all this and much more is explained in an interesting way in a slide lecture by Dr. Howard M. Teeple. The title is Greek Netv Testament Manuscripts: Sources of New Translations, and there are 22 slides and 8 1/2 mimeographed pages of commentary. The slides give us good pictures of the manuscripts, and the lecture sells this interesting story. Here is material for the adult Bible class, for the college Bible course and for the seminary lecture room. Here is scholarship made available to all of us who do not have the talent and time to dig out this information for our groups. Recommended. Price— $10.00 direct from the author, P.O. Box 4459, Chicago 80, III. Audio-Tour Plus If you don't tliink that a carefully planned and well constructed tape can't give you an interesting and informative tour of Boston then you should get Bo-iion, Birthplace of Liberty, a 57-minute IVi ips magnetic dual track tape— and be convinced. Conceived, prepared and produced by Sidney A. Diamond, the expert editing and recording was done by Dennis Oppenheim and James L. Loomis. The many parts are narrated splendidly by Bob Walsh and Donald Bom. They give us more than a tour of historic Boston with its churches and places. What we get is an emotional experience. The tape is $6.95 plus 2.5c postage; the LP record is $3.98 plus 2.5c; and, the 20 colored slides (2x2) come at $8.95. This package can orient you for your visit. More, it can tell your friends all about it when you get back— better than you'll do it! Highly recommended. Religious Vacuum Concordia Films, 3558 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis 3, Mo., in releasing the film The Red Trap, says that it "exposes the subtle methods Communist agents use to capture the minds and hearts of the youth of our country. Both young people and adults who see (this film) will realize that Communism is determined to undermine Christianity and our precious heritage of freedom." It goes on to say that "Paul Brandt, a promising young law student, teeters on the brink of the Communist abyss. Seeing his experience will bring a sharp understanding of the vast difference between communist philosophy and the Christian way of life." Very good! But please note that Paul was a vacuum when it came to religion. Thus, he could get filled with a religion: a bad one. One religion did not supplant another. His head was empty. Why? Some one failed him, of course. Films can't bring all these things out but discussion can. Again, please don't jump to the conclusion that most of our bright young college people are about to get into the Communist trap. The makers did not mean to suggest that, even if the jumpy viewer might tend to infer it. Recommended for community and civic clubs, service groups, fraternal orders, churches, colleges and universities. Geography By Threes What continent has three great mountain systems, three great rivers, and three great agricultural-cattle areas? Give up? South America, of course! How do I know? Good question, indeed. Might have known, after a fashion; but now I know it because I have seen it. Traveler eh? No; just ran off Coronet's 131/2 minute color film Geography of South America: The Continent, Andes on the west Guiana Highlands in the north, Brazilian Highlands on the east! The Orinoco in the northwest, the Amazon in the north, and the Parana in the south! The pampas of the Argentine, the campos of Brazil, and the llanos of the Orinoco plains. Three trinities! Can't make geography more interesting, comprehendable, and retainable than that! Yet, how many adults know this muchonly the backbone of the film above? There is much else, but like ribs, the 664 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — ^December, 1961