LIFE IN A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY
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This featurette portrays the life in a monastery in Normandy, showing the monks' rigid, frugal way of living as they work in the soil; spin their own cloth; prepare their manuscripts in a way unchanged since Medieval times, and perform their daily prayers. Actual recording of Gregorian chants and Latin hymns. An international commentary highlights those scenes unfamiliar to the layman.
Complete catalog record
Dewey number: 271
Review source: "This film will be of great aid to teachers of the social studies and home economics. Its appealing presentation of domestic economy problems arouses a definite desire to find an answer." Dr John T. Garman
Format/cost: 16-sd-apply
Distributors / rental: Ball State Teachers College $3; Cine; Cosmopolitan Film Libraries, Inc; DenFe $7.50; Film Classic $9; Institutional Cinema Service, Inc $9.50; Ideal Pictures Corporation; Iowa Theatrical & Television Corporation; Monts loan; Photoart House $5; Sunray Films Company; Teaching Film Custodians, Inc
Review source: "This film will be of great aid to teachers of the social studies and home economics. Its appealing presentation of domestic economy problems arouses a definite desire to find an answer." Dr John T. Garman
Format/cost: 16-sd-apply
Distributors / rental: Ball State Teachers College $3; Cine; Cosmopolitan Film Libraries, Inc; DenFe $7.50; Film Classic $9; Institutional Cinema Service, Inc $9.50; Ideal Pictures Corporation; Iowa Theatrical & Television Corporation; Monts loan; Photoart House $5; Sunray Films Company; Teaching Film Custodians, Inc
Sources
- Educational Film Guide 1946 — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, description, catalog record
- Ideal Pictures Corporation Motion Picture Catalog, 1940-1941 — title, length, format, sound, genre, description
Record added 2026-07-02 14:19:57