LIFE IN A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY

Duration: 30 min

Year Published: 1939

Creator: Pictorial Film Library, Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: 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 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

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946