Synopsis
Charles O. Baptista, a Venezulean-born, US-educated piano salesman, started Scriptures Visualized Institute to produce educational and evangelism films. The films stood out since they often used very simple concepts and animation to bring their message to public. During World War II, projectors were in short supply, so the company partnered with audiovisual manufacturer Devry to create the Miracle Projector an inexpensive projector that was thus more accessible to churches. By the early 1950s,…
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★★★★ · Someone's chalk talk put to film? · Gman · 2003-11-27
What we have here is a glorified "chalk-talk" or flannel graph many recieved as kids in Sunday school. Certainly interesting as a history piece of how Christians used film as an evangelical tool in talkies' earlier days. I was impressed by the cartooning (however static) and effects. It would be interesting to know who this cartoonist was and if it was a funded or independent work. I am amazed that many of these limited animated films in the Prelinger library remind me through their techniques of the way web animation is being used today.
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