| Hearts and Hands | ||
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| Catalog #: | 459443 | |
| Clip Number: | 459443-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 1558 | |
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| Location: | Various Locations | |
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| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Foreign Aid, Volunteer Missions | |
| Description: | ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #201266 Looks like late 1960s, maybe circa 1970. ..... opening montage of a well dressed couple and their teen daughter driving into a parking lot (wide LS) on a bright and sunny day; they park, get out, walk towards and into a traditional white chapel with bell tower; flat, rather bleak landscape; United Methodist Church. ..... tight LS of a preacher in a pulpit talking to a congregation about good taste versus vulgarity in modern society, then how the Bible presents love, compassion and so on.... CU's of the congregation (white folks). ..... B&W footage of starving African people (Biafra), tight LS's and MS's, while a Western doctor inspects kids for disease ..... MS of parishoners standing in a food line filling their plates; tight LS of several parishoners sitting at a lunch table eating (church potluck); the pastor comes along and talks to them about what they can do to help (outreach programs) ..... montage of a Bhutan village building a dam ..... tight LS of a Korean woman leaving her daughter (abadoning her) on a bench in a very crowded public area ..... tight LS of an African mother bathing her child, their hut in near BG (includes a CU of the child in a cooking pot) ..... travelling CU of Hindu women and their kids standing in line ..... missionary montage from various sections of the world ..... B&W footage of an African child eating ..... CU of a young Korean girl eating soup ..... montage of " inner city segregation" : kids learning in a classroom (looks more like a tutoring session, just a few kids with one adult, all African-American), two street preachers arguing, cops arriving, etc. ..... American servicemen abroad receive mass from chaplin (outdoors on a partly sunny day, gray, washed out field) ..... return to the parishoners and the pastor eating but a few weeks later | |
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