Amazing Grace
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Lutheran Television sponsored film about the Lutheran Church uses still imagery from photographs, artwork and manuscripts to detail the church’s missionary work around the world. Through narration and audio interviews the film discusses the mission of the church.
Credits
Gordon Weisenborn Productions Inc. (production company); Gordon Weisenborn Productions Inc. (contributor); Ronald Seymour (cinematographer)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Jack Behrend Collection
Sponsor: Lutheran Television Sponsor
Subjects: Religious services; Religions; Christianity
Language: English
Shot log: Most shots ZOOM IN and OUT and PAN across still imagery to create the illusion of movement.; 00:00 - Narrator introduces Amazing Grace, illustrations of stars, world from space, montage of people from many cultural backgrounds, biblical imagery; 00:46 - ZOOM IN from space to exterior church, interior stained glass windows, congregation; 03:16 - stills of wooden cottage with small farm, congregations, people singing in the woods, stories of traveling pastors in history; 05:21 - montage of troubled youth, crime, interview with troubled youth about church, two young men inside a juvenile detention center; 06:28 - people in a soup kitchen, at a clothing drive; 07:00 - girl reading to a woman in a home for the aged; 07:17 - Pastors, missionary workers in a hospital; 07:41 - people talking about Jesus in a group at a mental hospital, images of Jesus on the cross; 08:33 - African American man mentoring a teenage girl; 08:46 - Guatemala Mission school, pastor interacting with a classroom of young students; 09:15 - Pastor riding in a boat outside of a poor village, giving medical help in a New Guinea children’s clinic, imagery of scriptures, discuss translating the meaning of love, village taking communion; 11:07 - young children at a Taiwan outdoor Sunday School, adults singing, playing guitar; 12:05 - Christian Arts and Communications Service, discuss using art forms of music, dance to express praise for Jesus, indigenous classical music plays; 13:19 - Savior Lutheran School in Hong Kong, women performing dance; 14:00 - images of people suffering from disease and hunger; 14:19 - New Guinea Food Drop, Lutheran World Relief, plane landing delivering food to community; 15:05 - community members learning farming, typing; 15:32 - poor living conditions in Hong Kong, montage of schools, Mangkok Lutheran School for the Deaf Evening School, children singing “Jesus Loves Me”, Lutheran Rooftop School; 16:46 - Cartoon “Christmas Is” from Lutheran TV, children from all nations holding hands singing inter-cut with children from across the world; 18:07 - American Lutheran church congregation, montage review of locations of missionary work, ZOOM OUT illustration of earth and space
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 740 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2801
Sponsor: Lutheran Television Sponsor
Subjects: Religious services; Religions; Christianity
Language: English
Shot log: Most shots ZOOM IN and OUT and PAN across still imagery to create the illusion of movement.; 00:00 - Narrator introduces Amazing Grace, illustrations of stars, world from space, montage of people from many cultural backgrounds, biblical imagery; 00:46 - ZOOM IN from space to exterior church, interior stained glass windows, congregation; 03:16 - stills of wooden cottage with small farm, congregations, people singing in the woods, stories of traveling pastors in history; 05:21 - montage of troubled youth, crime, interview with troubled youth about church, two young men inside a juvenile detention center; 06:28 - people in a soup kitchen, at a clothing drive; 07:00 - girl reading to a woman in a home for the aged; 07:17 - Pastors, missionary workers in a hospital; 07:41 - people talking about Jesus in a group at a mental hospital, images of Jesus on the cross; 08:33 - African American man mentoring a teenage girl; 08:46 - Guatemala Mission school, pastor interacting with a classroom of young students; 09:15 - Pastor riding in a boat outside of a poor village, giving medical help in a New Guinea children’s clinic, imagery of scriptures, discuss translating the meaning of love, village taking communion; 11:07 - young children at a Taiwan outdoor Sunday School, adults singing, playing guitar; 12:05 - Christian Arts and Communications Service, discuss using art forms of music, dance to express praise for Jesus, indigenous classical music plays; 13:19 - Savior Lutheran School in Hong Kong, women performing dance; 14:00 - images of people suffering from disease and hunger; 14:19 - New Guinea Food Drop, Lutheran World Relief, plane landing delivering food to community; 15:05 - community members learning farming, typing; 15:32 - poor living conditions in Hong Kong, montage of schools, Mangkok Lutheran School for the Deaf Evening School, children singing “Jesus Loves Me”, Lutheran Rooftop School; 16:46 - Cartoon “Christmas Is” from Lutheran TV, children from all nations holding hands singing inter-cut with children from across the world; 18:07 - American Lutheran church congregation, montage review of locations of missionary work, ZOOM OUT illustration of earth and space
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 740 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2801
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Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:05