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IV-10-5
Mennonite Board of Missions
Information Services
Audiovisuals, 1961-77 (Filmstrips, Reel-to-Reel Tapes, Cassette
tapes;
16mm Films)
19 Boxes (8 Green, 5 Large,
6 Oversize)
Table of Contents
Inventory (detailed listing)
Pages 1-10
Appendix on Films (16mm) and specific
films Pages 11-20
Inventory
Box 1 (Green)
1/1 Filmstrip. "School
Stuff for Aunt Ruth."
1/2 Filmstrip. "Invitation to Live"
1/3 Filmstrip. "Hugs
from Grandpas and Grandmas"
1/4 Filmstrip. "OUT-SPOKIN, A Way
to Grow"
1/5 Guide and Script. "Brothers After All"
1/6 Guide and Script. "Pedro and I"
1/7 Guide and Script. "A New thing"
1/8 Guide and Script. "Ghana
Farmers"
1/9 Langbensi
Farmers Filmstrip, pamphlet
1/10 Japan
Filmstrip, Production Script
1/11 Documentation on "Minority
Ministries Council" tapes
found as 1/12 - 1./16
1/12 Tape: Minority
Ministries
Council w/Warner Jackson
1/13 Tape: Minority
Ministries
Council w/Lawrence Hart
1/14 Tape: Minority
Ministries
Council - Spanish American Ethnic
Meeting
1/15 Tape: Minority
Ministries
Council - small group
1/16 Tape: Minority
Ministries
Council - Puerto Rican group
1/17 Roll of Film:
"Pedro
and I"
1/18 Roll of Film:
"Brothers After All
Box 2 (Green)
2/1 Tape: Faith at Work
Conference, 1968 (?)
2/2 Tape: Out-Spoken
2/3 Filmstrip: Japan,
photos
2/4 Filmstrip: Langbensi
Farmers, photos
2/5 Filmstrip: Lanbensi
Farmers, photos
Box 2 (Green)
2/6 Tape: "Brothers
After All?
2/7 Tape: Langbensi Farmers
Filmstrip
2/8 Tape: "Pedro and
I"
2/9 Tape: Langbensi Farmers
Filmstrip
2/10 Tape: "
A New
thing"
2/11 Tape: Japan
Filmstrip
2/12 Roll of Film:
Ghana
Farmers
2/13 Roll of Film"
"
A New thing"
Box 3 (Green) (Folders)
3/1 Guide and Script: "Greencroft
Center"
3/2 Script: "What Ever
Happened and Clearwater?"
3/3 Guide and Script: "The Burbank
of Black
Mountain"
3/4 Guide and Script: "Megumi From Japan"
3/5 Script: "Free
Indeed" 1st draft of script
3/6 Script: "Not of
the World"
3/7 Audio-Visuals
Publications
Box 3b (Green) (Tapes and Films))
3b/1 Tape: "Greencroft Center:
3b/2 Tape: "Megumi
From Japan"
3b/3 Tape: "The
Burbanks of Black Mountain"
3b/4 Tape: "What
Ever
Happened and Clearwater?"
3b/5 Tape: The
Burbanks of
Black Mountain (Parts I and II in sequence on Side one of Cassette
3b/6 Tape: Salaam
From Nalini
3b/7 Tape: You
the
Congregation Teach
3b/8 Tape: MBM
Report /
October 1981
3b/9 Tape: The
Jeff-Vander-Lou
Story
3b/10 Tape: God
Gives the
Increase
3b/11 Tape: "The
Feeling's
Mutual" - Mutual Aid film strips
3b/12 Tape: The
Christian Faith
and Toba Life
3b/13 Tape: Destination
Montevideo
3b/14 Tape: Come
With Me To Bihar
3b/15 Tape: Free
Indeed - April
1966
3b/16 Tape: The Argentine Church
3b/17 Tape: Black Hills Bike Hike
Box 3b (Large)
3b/18 Tape: Because
You Care
3b/19 Tape: "Together
-- For
A Purpose"
3b/20 Film (8mm): "Seen
Not
Heard" #2
3b/21 Film: What
Ever Happened At Clearwater"
3b/22 Film: Come
With Me To Bihar
3b/23 Film:God Gives the Increase
3b/24 Film: The Argentine Church
3b/25 Film: The Burbanks
of Black
Mountain
3b/26 Film: Together
-- For A
Purpose
3b/27 Film: The
Christian Faith
and Toba Life
3b/28 Film: Because
You Care …
3b/29 Film: The Burbanks
of Black
Mountain
3b/30 Film: The
Feeling's Mutual
3b/31 Film: Free
Indeed
3b/32 Film: Megumi
From Japan #3
3b/33 Film: The
Feeling's Mutual
3b/34 Film: Black
hills Bike Hike
3b/35 Film: Destination
Montevideo
3b/36 Film: Salaam
From Nalini
3b/37 Film: The
Jeff-Vander-Lou
Story
3b/38 Film: Megumi
From Japan
3b/39 Film: Greencroft Center
3b/40 Film: You
The Congregation
Teach
Box 4 (Large)
Voluntary
Service
4/1 Film (16 mm): VS: In A Nutshell
4/2 Sound Print
(tape): VS: In
A Nutshell
4/3 Film (16 mm): VS: Community
Service
4/4 Sound Print
(tape): VS: Community
Service
4/5 Film (16 mm): VS: Program
Direction
4/6 Sound Print
(tape): VS: Program
Direction
4/7 Film (16 mm): VS: Education
4/8 Sound Print
(tape): VS: Education
4/9 Film (16 mm): VS: Nursing
4/10 Sound Print (tape): VS: Nursing
Box 4b (Large)
4b/1 Film (16 mm):
VS: Church
Support
4b/2 Sound Print (tape): VS: Church
Support
4b/3 Film (16 mm):
VS: Community
Service
4b/4 Film (16
mm): VS: Construction (Philly,
PA)
Box 5 (Green)
Extending
Christ's Kingdom
5/1 Tape: Allegheny
5/2 Tape: Franconia
5/3 Tape: Illinois
5/4 Tape: Ind.
- Mich.
5/5 Tape: Iowa-Nebraska
5/6 Tape: New
York
5/7 Tape: Northwest
5/8 Tape: Ohio-East
5/9 Tape: Ontario
5/10 Tape: Rocky
Mt.
5/11 Tape: Southeast
5/12 Tape: Southwest
5/13 Tape: S.
Central
5/14 Tape: Virginia
5/15 Tape: W. Ontario
5/16 Film: Allegheny
5/17 Film: Franconia
5/18 Film: Illinois
5/19 Film: Ind-Mich.
5/20 Film: Iowa-Nebr.
5/21 Film: New York
5/22 Film: Northwest
5/23 Film: Ohio-East
5/24 Film: Ontario
5/25 Film: Rocky
Mt.
5/26 Film: S.
Central
5/27 Film: Southeast
5/28 Film: Southwest
5/29 Film: Virginia
5/30 Film: W. Ontario
5/31 Worship Leader/Narrator
papers (folder)
Box 6 (Large)
6/1 Videotape from
WSBT: Mennonite Board of Missions, 4-17-77
6/2 TV Spot Study
Package - "Marriage is For Love"
6/3 Film - Dan and
Eunice Miller interview
6/4 TV Spot Study
Package - "It's a Great Day to Be
Alive"
6/5 Tape: Missions '69
Box 6b (Green)
Cross-Cultural
Youth Convention, 1975
6b/1 Tape: Wednesday
Morning -
John Powell
6b/2 Tape: Side
1: Lupe De Leon / Side 2:
John Powell
6b/3 Tape: Side
1: Lawrence
Hart/Side 2: Hubert Brown
6b/4 Tape: Thursday
Evening
Music I
6b/5 Tape: Thursday
Evening
Music II
6b/6 Tape: Thursday
Evening #1
6b/7 Tape: Thursday
Evening #2
6b/8 Tape: Friday
Morning I
6b/9 Tape: Friday
Morning II -
John Powell
6b/10 Tape: Friday
Morning - John
Powell
6b/11 Tape: Mennonite
Offices
Dedication - 4/25/76
6b/12 Filmstrip: Annual
Report,
1961
6b/13 Filmstrip: "The Araguacema Church"
6b/14 Filmstrip: "The
Argentine
Mennonite
Church"
6b/15 Filmstrip: "Bibles
in
Toba"
6b/16 Filmstrip: Black Mountain
Mission"
6b/17 Filmstrip: "Bolivia"
6b/18 Filmstrip: "The
Brazil
Literature Story"
6b/19 Filmstrip: "Brazil, Land of Challenge"
6b/20 Filmstrip: "Bush
Girl"
6b/21 Filmstrip: "The
Church
Grows in Northwest Mexico"
6b/22 Filmstrip: "A
City
Without Walls"
6b/23 Filmstrip: "A
Day At
School"
6b/24 Filmstrip: "Discovery"
6b/25 Filmstrip: "A
Day In
PAX"
6b/26 Filmstrip: "Focus
on
Persons"
6b/27 Filmstrip: "Harvesting
in Italy"
6b/28 Filmstrip: "Honduras,
Land
of the Depths"
6b/29 Filmstrip: "Hugs
for
Grandmas and Grandpas"
6b/30 Filmstrip: "In
His
Mold"
6b/31 Filmstrip: "Invitation
to Live"
6b/32 Filmstrip: "Intro.
To South America"
6b/33 Filmstrip: "In
Quest
of Zion"
6b/34 Filmstrip: "I
Saw the Araguacema
Church"
6b/35 Filmstrip: "Kindergarten
Methods & Teaching
Techniques" (I & II)
6b/36 Filmstrip: "Like
A
Shepherd"
6b/37 Filmstrip: "Many
Members, One
Church"
6b/38 Filmstrip: "Our
Brother in the City"
6b/39 Filmstrip: "Our
Product -- People"
6b/40 Filmstrip: "Out-Spokin'
: A Way
to Grow"
6b/41 Filmstrip: "Reach
For
the People:
6b/42 Filmstrip: "School
Stuff for Aunt Ruth"
6b/43 Filmstrip: "Servant
of
Men"
6b/44 Filmstrip: "Sharing
the Living Christ"
Box 6c (Green)
6c/1 Filmstrip:
"Six For
A Sample"
6c/2 Filmstrip:
"Stewards
and Partners"
6c/3 Filmstrip:
"Teamed
with Purpose"
6c/4 Filmstrip:
"A
Typical Day in Kindergarten"
6c/5 Filmstrip:
"Vietnam the
Struggling Dragon"
6c/6 Filmstrip:
"VS is
Variety"
6c/7 Filmstrip:
"Wake Up,
Youth"
6c/8 Filmstrip:
"Welcome
to Bolivia, Life in
Bolivia,
Church in Bolivia" (2)
6c/9 Filmstrip:
"What is
the Mennonite
Church
in the City?"
6c/10 Filmstrip: "Who
is My
Neighbor?"
6c/11 Filmstrip: "A
Window
to 1-W"
6c/12 Filmstrip: "Your
Mennonite General Conference"
6c/13 Filmstrip: "The
Word
has Wings"
6c/14 Filmstrip: "The
Work
is Thine " #7
6c/15 Filmstrip: "Workers
Together"
6c/16 Filmstrip: "The
MC in Argentina"
6c/17 Filmstrip: "Kgn.
Methods & Techniques" Pt. 1 - Pauline Yoder
6c/18 Filmstrip: "Summoned
to Serve"-- (missing)
Folders of
Booklets for
Filmstrips
6c/19 The Bush Girl
6c/20 The Argentine Mennonite
Church
…After Fifty Years
6c/21 Good News Upon the Soil of Africa
6c/22 In Quest of Zion
6c/23 Many Members, One Church
6c/24 Our Product - People
6c/25 Quest For Life
6c/26 Building the Church in Bolivia
6c/27 1975 Youth Convention
Box 7a (Large)
7a/1 Records (3):
Choice V -
short radio programs
7a/2 Records (3):
Choice IV -
short radio programs
7a/3 Record:
Special Christmas
Week "Newscasts" 1966
7a/4 Record:
"The Mystery
of Christmas" - Six Daily Christmas Broadcasts
7a/5 Record:
"Voices - No
Comment"
SENT
-- Stories of People in Mission
Slide Set, 1979 (1/2 Hour)
7a/6 Contains three slide trays
for the MBM audiovisual, SENT--Stories
of People in Mission
7a/7 Two tapes which go with the
Slide Trays
Includes 420 Slides (140 in each
Tray), Cassette Tape (2
copies)
Narrated by Arthur McPhee and Margret
Foth
Presented September 1979, at Waterloo, Ontario
(?)
Three slide trays, which contain 140
slides each, that
seem to be part of a unit that works in conjunction with a dissolve
unit so
that one views all slides within a half hour. 3L
(Left), 3C (Center) and 3R (Right).
This slide set was deposited into the
Archives by Merlin
Becker-Hoover, MBM, in 1985. [Noted:
August 2, 2000 / Dennis Stoesz]
Box 7b (Oversize): Films
7b/1 Film: Africa
in Three Dimensions, 1967
7b/2 VHR: Africa
in Three Dimensions, 1967
7b/3 DVD: Africa
in Three Dimensions, 1967 (Color)
7b/4 DVD: Africa
in Three Dimensions, 1967 (Black & White)
7b/5 Film: Latin America: Brothers
&
Sisters
7b/6 Film: Info
- India
7b/7 Film: Info
- Indonesia
7b/8 Film: Info
- Japan
7b/9 Latin American Film, (Leader's Guide)
7b/10 Film: Latin America: The
Church Alive
7b/11 Film: Latin America: On
the Move
Box 8 (Oversize):
Films
8/1 Film: Mennonites: The
Peaceful Revolution…Lamp Unto My Feet,
1967
8/2 VHR: Mennonites: The
Peaceful Revolution, 1967, (Archives
Copy, Film #2)
8/3 VHR: Mennonites: The
Peaceful Revolution, 1967, (MHL Copy,
Film #1)
8/4 Film: Hong Kong Report,
1961
8/5 Film: "Africa in
Three Dimensions:
8/6 Film: "Makoto"
8/7 Film: "Overseas
Report" --2
8/8 Film "Overseas
Report" --6
Box 9 (Oversize):
Films
9/1 Film: Family Life TV
Spots: Series I, 1969, Series II, 1970
9/2 Film: Mennonite TV
Spots: Series III, 1971, Series IV,
1972, Series V, 1973,
Series VI, 1974, & Series VII, 1976
9/3 Film: EL
Dorado Mennonite Disaster Service
9/4 Film: If There Be Peace
9/5 Film: "Overseas
Report"
9/6 Film: Three Under Par
9/7 Film: Interview with
Dan and Eunice Miller
9/8 Film: "Africa In 3
Dimensions"
9/9 Film: "Overseas
Report"
Box 10 (Oversize):
Films
10/1 Film: Lean
On Me
10/2 Film: Factors
That
Confront Us
10/3 Film: Info: India
10/4 Film: The
Adriel
School
10/5 Script:
Go As I Send You
10/6 Record:
Araguaceme
10/7 Film: Nepal: On the Potters Wheel
10/8 Film: Info
: Japan
Box 11 (Oversized):
Films
11/1 Film: All
Your Parts
Don't Wear Out At The Same Time
11/2 Film: A
People
Garden
11/3 Film: Partners
in Mission
11/4 Film: Latin America : The
Church
Alive (film 2)
11/5 Film: Latin
America: Latin America: Brothers and Sisters (film
3)
11/6 Film: Latin America : On
the Move (film
1)
11/7 Film: Hokkaido
Challenge
11/8 Film: A
Time To
Break - A
Time To Build
11/9 Film: Info
: Indonesia
Box 12 (Green)
12/1 Script:
Chaco Argentina
12/2 Leader's Guide:
Brothers
and Sisters
12/3 Leader's Guide:
The
Church Alive
12/4 Filmstrip and Guide: Rama
and Kadu
12/5 Filmstrip:
The Araguecema Church
12/6 Filmstrip:
The Burbanks
of Black
Mountain
12/7 Tape: MBM
Kids for
"Sent"
12/8 Tape: "Sent" - Original
12/9 Tape: The
Burbanks of Black Mountain
12/10 Tape: Albert
Buckwalter
slide set 21 min, 1977
12/11 Tape: "Jesus
Loves
Me" sung in Navajo
12/12 Tape: Go
Where I Send
You - Music
& Vocal
Box 13 (Large):
Tapes
Cross-Cultural
Youth Convention, 1972
13/1 Documentation
13/2 Tape: Music - /Sunday
evening - Bill Pannell and music.
13/3 Tape: Monday Evening -
Torres and Music
13/4 Tape: Tuesday &
Wednesday eve. Music - - Lupe De Leon.
13/5 Tape: Wed.
morning - John
Powell: Wednesday evening - Lawrence
Hart
13/6 Tape: Thursday
morning -
Hubert Brown; Thurs. eve. -
Celebration
13/7 Tape: Thursday
evening --
Music I
13/8 Tape: Thursday
evening --
Music II
13/9 Tape: Friday
morning --
Part I
13/10 Tape: Friday
morning --
Part II, John Powell.
13/11 Tape: Ethnic
Group Black
Miscellaneous
Tapes
13/12 Tape: Mission '71 -
Myron Augsburger, and Flashes
in Action
13/13 Tape: Mission '71 -
Ernest Bennett, Commissioning
Service
13/14 Tape: Mission '71 - J.
Lawrence Burkholder, Flashes
in Action
13/15 Tape: Mission
Forum
'70 - Harrisonburg VA
13/16 Tape: Mission
Forum '70 - Hesston
KS
13/17 Tape: Mission
Forum '70 - Bloomington
IL
13/18 Tape: John
Drescher -
recording of AMOS
13/19 Tape: Mission
Forum III/Pt.I -- Smithville OH --"The Healing Christ" by Norman
Kraus -- 1972
13/20 Tape: Mission
Forum III/Pt.II -- Smithville OH -- "The Healing Christ" by Norman
Kraus -- 1972
13/21 Tape: Ruth
and Rhoda
Ressler reminisce at Kamishihoro,
Japan
--
11/1970
Box 14 (Oversize):
Films
14/1 Film: A
Time To Break, A
Time To Build (Print #6)
14/2 Film: The
Search
14/3 Film: Hokkaido
Challenge
December 20,
2007 / Files
listed and numbered by Nelda Nussbaum
Films,
(16mm)
[See Hard Copy
for full
listing of films]
Inventory
Listing
Box 7b (Oversize)
Africa in Three Dimensions, 1967
45 minutes
Publicity Brochure
Color
&
Script, 18 pages
Produced by Ken Anderson Films for
serveral Mennonite
agencies. Photographed in Nigeria, Congo
[Zaire], and Tanzania
[the three dimensions].
Info - India [An MBM Film. But could
not find any documentation on it]
Info - Indonesia
[An MBM Film. But
could not find any documentation on it]
Info - Japan [An MBM Film. But could not find any documentation on it]
Box 7b (Oversize) (Continued)
Latin America:
On the Move
(Film I, Columbia), 1971 See
Leader’s
Guide Mennonite Churches in Latin America, by Peter Stucky,
pages 17-23
Latin America:
The Church
Alive (Film II, Honduras),
1971. See Leader’s Guide Mennonite
Churches in Latin America, by
Peter
Stucky, pages 17-23
Latin America:
Brothers and
Sisters (Film III, Brazil),
1971. See Leader’s Guide Mennonite
Churches in Latin America, by
Peter
Stucky, pages 17-23
Overseas
Report, 1969
35 minutes
Publicity Brochure
“A news style report to the Mennonites
of North America
of their involvements with emerging Mennonite churches overseas.
Narrated by
Carl Kreider, chairman of the Overseas Committee, the film features
overseas
missionaries plus Wilbert Shenk and James Kratz defining some of the
issues the
church faces today overseas. J. D. Graber concludes with a stimulating
look at
the changing concept of mission.” As
taken from Audiovisual Catalog, 1969
Notes August
2, 2000 / Dennis Stoesz
"TV
Spot Study
Package"
16mm
Film Log
Found in Box 6
(Large)
"TV Spot
Study
Package"
The two films
in this Study
Package were cleaned by Goshen Public Library, June 1992.
1. "Marriage is For Love"
Includes 4 60-second TV spots on it. [16mm colour film; length is maybe 5 minutes;
condition of film unknown, looks good; date of spots unknown]
"When the Honeymoon
is Over"
"Marriage is for
Love"
"How to Settle a
Quarrel"
"A Fella'd Have to
be God"
Includes script booklet, "Marriage is
For Love: A discussion guide for Family Life television spots," 16
pages,
by George G. Konrad, faculty of Mennonite Brethren Seminary, Fresno, California. Produced by "Mennonite mass
communications agencies" who "have produced a series of television
spots (60-second religious `commercials') that have received wide
acclaim and
use. Many congregations and groups
have
asked for an opportunity to see the spots, and to use them for
discussion
springboards." No date given.
2. "It's a Great Day to be Alive." Includes 3 60-second TV Spots on it. [16mm colour film; length is maybe 3 minutes;
condition of film unknown, looks good; includes study script by George
G.
Konrad, Mennonite Brethren, California; date of spots unknown]
"It's a Great Day
to Be Alive"
"Accepting
Husband-Wife Roles"
"Seen Not
Heard"
Includes script booklet,
"It's a Great Day to be Alive: A discussion guide for Family Life
television spots," 12 pages, by George G. Konrad, faculty of Mennonite
Brethren Seminary, Fresno,
California. Produced by "Mennonite mass
communications agencies" who
"have produced a series of television spots (60-second religious
`commercials') that have received wide acclaim and use.
Many congregations and groups have
asked for
an opportunity to see the spots, and to use them for discussion
springboards." No date given.
Noted by Dennis Stoesz, June 1992
Mennonites: The Peaceful Revolution
A
Lamp Unto
My Feet
1967, CBS
Television; 16mm
Film, Black and White, 30 Minutes
Transferred to
VHS, 2004
Original Film
#1, Mennonite
Historical Library (MHL)
This film came from Instructional Materials
Center,
Goshen
College
(ITS-Media)
Overall condition of film is better
than the other
original film.
Original Film
#2, Mennonite Church
USA
Archives-Goshen (Archives)
This film came from Mennonite Board of
Missions, Elkhart,
Indiana
(is found in the MBM AudioVisual
Archives Collection (IV-10-5, Box 12 Large)
General condition of film is of poorer
quality than other
original film.
Description
of Film
Summary:
Discusses the
"peaceful turmoil" of Mennonites moving into the world while keeping
their traditional values; confrontation of liberal and conservative
ideas. Film log was made by Ruth
Schrock, Archives
Assistant, on July 1, 1994, when Original Film #2 was viewed on 16mm
projector
at ITS Media, Goshen
College.
Producer: CBS News
Date:
1967
Length: 30 minutes.
Color:
Black and White
Size:
16 mm film; 1000 feet of
film footage, found on a 12 1/4” reel. (found
in a plastic film case -MHL
copy) (found in metal case – Archives
copy)
Conservation:
Film transferred to VHS video,
March 2004, by Gene’s Camera Store, at the request of the Mennonite
Church
Archives-Goshen, so 16mm film itself would no longer need to be
projected.
Log
of Film
1. Introduction
Gives a basic introduction to
Mennonite beliefs by J.C.
Wenger and John Howard
Yoder; views
of the Amish in Shipshewana,
Indiana
and a Mennonite living in
a large city; discussion of the "peaceful turmoil" of moving into the
world while keeping traditional values.
2. Oscar Weaver Family/Yellow Creek Mennonite
Church
Visits the farm of the Oscar Weaver
family and their
church in rural Goshen,
Indiana
to show the traditional farming life
of many Mennonites; asks "Will the family break down as people leave
the
farm?".
3. Doing God's work in the world
Comments by John
Howard Yoder; interviews with professionals (medicine/Dr. G. Weldon
Troyer of
High Park Physicians, Goshen, Indiana and business/Lewis Strite,
Harrisonburg,
Virginia).
4. Goshen
College
Round table discussion with students
led by J. Daniel
Hess; shows transition away from the close knit communities of the past
5. Outreach
Uses Oaklawn, Goshen, Indiana
as an example of outreach
supported by many different groups from the Amish to liberal
Mennonites;
describes services offered by Oaklawn
6. Conclusion: Blend
of old and new
Further description and discussion of
Mennonites reaching
into the world to share beliefs, of a new image/identity/awareness of
self by
Mennonites, and of Mennonites meeting the world in different ways
today; Goshen
Biblical Seminary Chapel shown as a symbol of change.
Condition,
Copyright, Use of
Film, Administration, and Interpretation
Condition:
Varies between original
film #1 and original film #2.
In 1994, Jay
Cardin, ITS
Media, indicated that film #2 was faded. Audio
was good, and no splices noticed
while viewing Archives Film
#2.
In 2002, when
ITS Media, Goshen
College,
made a digital copy of both films by videotaping the projected film
onto a
screen, they noticed that both films had their strong points.
In 2004, when
the films were
transferred to VHS by Lynn Werner, of Gene’s Camera Store, South Bend, Indiana,
it was noted that there were some previously repaired splices with
film. Also
that there was sprocket hole damage which can cause the image and sound
to
jump.
In April 2004,
Steve Nolt
indicated that the Archive copy had a more complete section from the
person
talking from New York
at the beginning of the film – the MHL video copy had the first part of
this
cut off.
Copyright: Two attempts were made to obtain a video copy
of this 16mm film from CBS:
A. On July 13,
1994, the
Mennonite Church USA Archives wrote to Mr. Neil Waldnan, CBS Archives,
New
York, New York (212-975-2875) (FAX: 212-975-5442) asking for a video
copy, and
for ongoing procedures on the use of this film. No
reply was received.
B. On March
14, 2002, the
Mennonite Historical Library, Goshen College,
contacted Ann
Fototiades amf@cbsnews.com
to ask if a replacement copy of this film was available from them. No reply was received.
C. There also
was,
therefore, no further interpretation given on the ongoing “public
perforamnce”
use of this film, nor for the ongoing “research and educational
purposes” of
this film. It is assumed that this film
can be shown, as long as it is for research and educational purposes,
and not
financial profit is made from its showing.
Use of Film:
Requests to
Show Film:
1994, Judy
Weaver King,
Hutchinson, Kansas, showed the 16mm original film #2 at at a family
reunion /
birthday celebration, October 1994, since film contains film footage of
Oscar
Weaver family, Goshen, Indiana.
2002, Professor Theron F. Schlabach, Goshen College,
showed the film
to a history class
2004, April, Professor Steve Nolt, Goshen College,
wanted to show it to his history class.
Administration:
In March 2004, the film was
transferred onto video, and
VHS copies of both original films were given to the Mennonite
Historical
Library (Copy 1), ITS-Media (Copy 2), and the Archives (Copy 3 – User
Copy). Master VHS copies were retained
by the Archives. Total cost of transfer
(.10 cents a foot), plus title pages on VHS, and repairs, and copies
was $310.
Interpretation:
Steve Nolt, History Professor, Goshen College,
said that this
CBS film was made because Network Television required all private
television
stations to do some public religious programming for free.
This programming was called “Lamp Unto
My
Feet”. So television stations would
typically air this program on Sunday morning. In
this case, “Mennonites and the
Peaceful Revolution” was aired Sunday,
September 10, 1967 at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
John
H. Yoder, who appears on the film, makes mention of this in his article
“Anabaptist Vision and Mennonite Reality” (1969), pages 18-22. Maybe this is other documentation on this
film, and how many Mennonites stayed home from church and watched it
that
morning.
Updates April
1 and March 16,
2004 / May 9, 2003 / July 6, 1994 / Dennis
Stoesz
Box 7b (Oversize)
Africa in Three Dimensions, 1967
[Nigeria, Congo
and East Africe - Tanzania]
Log
and Introduction of Film
[Note: This is a first attempt at documenting
persons and places on this film.
Please
submit any editions and corrections and additions]
Film
Itself
16mm Film, 45
minutes,
Publicity Brochure, Color film, Script (18 pages), 1600 linear feet in
length.
Quality of
color on film is
not that great. Overall has red in it -
green color is missing. Is still
useable.
Film viewed by
Stan Friesen (former
missionary to Nigeria)
and Dennis Stoesz
(Archivist, Mennonite Church USA
Archives-Goshen, Indiana,
August 29, 2006. Could not assess sound
since projector did not provide sound.
Log of film as
taken from
Stan's recognition of persons and places, and taken from rough notes of
Dennis Stoesz. May
Publicity
Brochure [introducing the film] [August
1967]
This is what
appeared on the
11" x 17" poster promoting the film.
"Africa in
Three
Dimensions: Feel the Vitality of the Church Alive in Nigeria,
the Congo & East Africa. Produced by Ken Anderson Films for
cooperating Mennonite agenices." [Includes three pictures on front of
poster - drum - boy listening to radio - woman and children praying;
and one
picture on back of poster - "Mark" with a Nigerian]
"This
45-minute color motion picture was produced by Ken Anderson Films for
several
interested Mennonite agencies. It was
photographed in the Congo,
Nigeria
and Tanzania. It is unique in mission documentary films
both in emphasis and in technique.
Mark,
a short-term teacher in Nigeria,
is prepaing to return to his North American home. As
he reflects upon his three years as a
teacher in Nigeria,
Mark
decides to use some of the savings he intended for graduate school to
finance a
trip to visit Mennonite churches in the Congo
and Tanzania
on the way home. He has received an
invitation to teach at his alma mater, and is weighing this against an
invitation to return to continue teaching in Nigeria.
He
has seen the church working in a reconciling ministry in Nigeria. The Christian church has splintered through
the years to the point where church leaders sometimes find it difficult
to
communicate among themselves. The Mennonite Church has become one bridge
among these
churches and leaders, and communication and cooperation have begun on
some
significant levels. You will experience
the church in Nigeria
with Mark.
The Mennonite Church
in the Congo
is the result of God's work through Congo Inland Mission and the
Mennonite Brethren
church over four decades. At Nyanga and
Kandala, Mark comes to know persons whose Christian convictions stood
the test
of suffering. These villages were among
those caught in the tensions of the rebel activities the world
remembers in the
names of Patrice Lumumba and Paul Carlson. Mark
learned other names, and what it
cost to be a Christian during
those weeks and months.
The
East Africa revival movement left its imprint on the Tanganyika Mennonite Church. As Mark visits Bukiroba and Shirati he tries
to evaluate what this renewal experience has meant to the church and to
individual Christians he meets, in whose homes he fellowships. He also asks how he can make use of these
experiences in his own life, and to share back home.
You
will be challenged to learn from the church in Africa
as you see AFRICA IN THREE DIMENSIONS. Schedule
the film for your
congregation, youth or fellowship grups by
writing now to your mission board or Mennonite Central Committee office.
[End
of direct quote from poster]
Log
of Film
[Film opens
with film
character Mark writing on the blackboard in a school, filled with
students,
presumably shot in Nigeria]
[Note that part of this story line comes from the role of TAP -
Teacher's
Abroad Program, which was a program to send teachers from North America to several countries around the
world, as sponsored by
Mennonite Central Committee. There was
also a program called PAX, where persons served in various kind of
service
projects. Sevearal PAX persons served in Nigeria
and Congo,
and the roommate seen on the film could be seen as a fictional PAX
worker]
[Film title
appears, along
with credits, written as they appear at beginning of film]
Produced by
Ken Anderson
Films [Winona Lake, Indiana]
for
cooperating Mennonite
agencies
Production
Committee
Mahlon Hess [EMBC - Eastern Mennonite
Board of Missions
and Charities, Salunga,
Pennsylvania]
Wilbert Shenk [MBM - Mennonite Board
of Missions, Mennonite Church, Elkhart, Indiana]
Vern Preheim [COM - Commission on
Overseas Missions, General Conference Mennonite
Church,
Newton,
Kansas]
Reuben Short [AIMM - Africa
Inter-Mennonite Mission, Elkhart, Indiana]
Consultants,
Tom Gaines,
Boyd Nelson [MBM], Andrew Shelly (COM)
Production
Liason, Harold
Weaver [MBM]
Produced by
Dory Ross
Cinematographer,
Heinz
Fussle [was from Switzerland]
Written and
Directed by Ken
Anderson
Gary Franz
appears as Mark
[a fictional character who is a short-term teacher from USA serving in Nigeria]
and others on the film are African nationals and USA missionaries.
[Nigeria]
Mark is in room
Footage
showing Nigeria
and school
Frank A. Udoh
Shows churches
Road
Students at
Bible school in Uyo,
Nigeria
Ed Weaver [MBM
missionary in Nigeria]
fetishes
I. U. Nsassak
[secretary of
the Nigerian
Mennonite
Church,
later serving as Bishop]
Mark talking
to a fellow
white [presumably at PAX worker, serving in Nigeria]
Ed Weaver
I. U. Nsassak
Calvary
Deliverance Healing
Chapel [sign]
Birth of Christ Faith Church,
Mbarakon, Abak
[sign]
Pastor ____ in
Ikot Ada
village
Shows ceremony
of a man
burning his fetishes, in company with many others including I. U.
Nsassak, at
Banga
beer commercial [on sign]
boy with radio
woman looking
in mirror
school
Ed Weaver
children
dancing at Banga
village
adults dancing
at Banga
village
young girl and
man, at Uyo
Ed Weaver and
Mark talking
[Congo]
Jim Bertsche
[AIMM
missionary] showing devastation of Congo civil war
persons
pounding casava
[spelling]
two men
church leader
[?] shown
drumming
mother and
child
several men
mother and two
children
inside church
drama
talking around
table
hospital or
clinic
teaching
outside
tractor
plowing ground
Mark picks up
dirt and is
reflecting
Jim Bertsche
in city
[Kinchasa?]
[East
Africa - Tanzania]
mountain
hospital
drama
[seemingly of acting
out story of early missionaries presence in Tanzania and response of
people]
Bishop Kisare
Mrs. Jacobs? or Mrs. Hess?
couple
Don Jacobs
[missionary with
EBMC] [probably taking about East Africa
revival]
choir [men and
women]
white woman
talking
two women in
church giving
their testimony, _____ Shank is interpreting for Mark
a church leader
men fishing on
a boat in Lake
Tanganika
man and woman
talking
[seemingly about Scripture verses]
women leaving
church
man at
printing press
The End
August 29,
2006 / Dennis Stoesz
November 21,
2008 / Posted by Alex Lake
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