Reel to Reel Films (16mm)

ALL YOU SIGNS PRAISE THE LORD
F5001001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
Words of OUR FATHER represented in a collage of Portland street signs accompanied by the voices of Mount Angel Seminarians. Film produced by Leo Remington for the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, Office of Communication (1973).
Subjects: Symbols/Signs; Prayer
Running Time:6

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THE ANTKEEPER
F5002001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
This film, written and produced by Rolf Forsberg, creator of Parable, takes central actions of the Christian Faith (creation, fall, incarnation, and redemption) and remolds them in a simple myth. In it, a gardner
Subjects: Loneliness; Family; Faith; Aging; Christian Living
Running Time:27

Lutheran Church of America
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BANQUET
F5003001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
What happens when one gives a party and nobody comes? A mysterious happy-go-lucky fellow goes out to the streets of New York to invite new sorts of guests, an elegant lady, a construction worker, a young girl, an executive, a
Subjects: Faith Enrichment; Friendship; Communication, Interpersonal
Running Time:15

Pan Films
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BAPTISM: SACRAMENT OF BELONGING
F5004001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
This is the touching story of an orphan named Alfredo. Scared by fire, he wanders from place to place until he discovers an orphanage full of happy and well-cared-for children. He asks the priest in charge if he can be accepted. Fearing the child wi
Subjects: Sacramental Prep-Baptism; Baptism, General; Parable
Running Time:10

TeleKETICS
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THE BLAME GAME
F5005001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
This film first exposes man's natural reation: That of projecting failure in an inter-relationship upon the other. The persons involved then attempt to rephrase the problem in terms of their own feeling response and a positive desire to further build the
Subjects: Marriage; Marriage Preparation; Communication, Interpersonal
Running Time:20

BFA Educational Media
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BREAD & WINE
F5006001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This is a film about making bread and wine and how they are enjoyed in a family setting. It shows the progress through the bakery and winery to the home. We might not be too far off the point if we look at the Eucharistic mystery in terms of the very natu
Subjects: Eucharist; Sacramental Prep-Eucharist; Celebration
Running Time:5

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BUTTERCUP
F5007001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
Symbolizes man's eternal passion for life and death by tracing the path of a golden buttercup as it slips along the surface of a mountain stream, moves past houses in a calm pasture and in a jarring finish is swallowed in the stench, sludge an
Subjects: Symbols/Signs; Death/Dying; Creation; Life
Running Time:11

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CHOICES
F5008001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
U.S. Catholic Conference shows how to help people help themselves. (1974)
Subjects: Responsibility/Discipline; Discipline/Responsibility
Running Time:11

United States Catholic Conference (USCC)
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CHRISTMAS IS
F5010001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
Benji thinks playing second shepherd in the school play is a drag until he and his pooch Waldo are carried back 2,000 years to the first Christmas. Here they meet the real second shepherd and experience the true meaning of Christmas. ALSO AVAILABL
Subjects: Jesus, Birth & Early Life; Christmas
Running Time:16

Concordia Publishing House
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CIPHER IN THE SNOW
F5011001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJHA
An award-winning story of a boy no one thought was important until his sudden death one snowy morning. The story gives a keen insight into the need to show care for each person, and the need to recognize the value each of us has as an individual. A
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Suffering; Parenting, General; Death/Dying; Confirmation; Compassion; Communication, Interpersonal
Running Time:24

Brigham Young University
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THE CLOWN OF FREEDOM
F5012001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJA
In the capitol of San Ordo, Latin America, mass arrests accompany a military coup. Bobo and his street theater troupe are charged with political subversion. Bobo pokes fun at his arresters, calls the junta a circus and turns the prison i
Subjects: Freedom; Serving God. . . .; Parable; Clowns/Clowning; Resurrection
Running Time:27

Paulist Press
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COMING OF CHRIST
F5013001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
Narrated film on the Life of Christ, from his birth through his ministry.
Subjects: Jesus, Birth & Early Life; Jesus, History of Life
Running Time:25

Films, Incorporated
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CONFERENCE
F5014001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
Six people meet for a conference. A radical, a cowboy, a businessman, a young girl, a clown, a Christ figure. Each places a symbol of him/herself on the table. As the table revolves, the screen goes black. Five shots ri
Subjects: Group Building; Faith Enrichment; Symbols/Signs
Running Time:10

Pyramid Films
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CONSCIENCE IN CONFLICT
F5016001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
This edited version of the film "A Man For All Seasons" probes a recurring theme of literature: To what extent should a man hold fast to his principles? Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England and friend of King Henry VIII, must choose w
Subjects: Conflict; History, Catholic Church; Denominations; Europe; Saint Thomas More; Ethics
Running Time:34

Learning Corp. of America
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CONTACT
F5017001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
A documenary in which both lay people and clergy of a church community in Stockton, California, express their beliefs and concerns about the involvement of the Church in social and political matters.
Subjects: Politics; Serving God. . . .; Social Teaching; Social Concern; Social Justice
Running Time:15

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THE CREATION
F5018001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
This film is based on a black spiritual poem written by James Weldon Johnson in 1919. The Creation is an inspirational piece in the tradition of the old-time black preacher. The poem reflects the awesome power of God, recorded so vividly in the Gene
Subjects: Genesis; Creation; Old Testament
Running Time:9

Billy Budd Films
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THE CURB BETWEEN US
F5019001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
Terry Kelly was a healthy young man until the accident. Then, he became one of the thousands of disabled persons in our society. As Terry struggles to rebuild his life, he shares his thoughts about how it feels to be disabled, the prejud
Subjects: Disabilities; Friendship; Prejudice
Running Time:16

Barr Films
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DANCING PROPHET
F5020001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
A documentary about a black dancer, Doug Crutchfield. Destined by his father to become a minister, he rebelled and found his own ministry in dance. He uses his skill and free time to bring spirit, life and use to the limbs of the aged an
Subjects: Faith Enrichment; Dance/Liturgical Dance; Serving God. . . .; Vocations
Running Time:15

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THE STOPPED CLOCK: DAVEY AND GOLIATH
F5021001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
These delightful animated puppets, Davey and his dog Goliath, family and friends contain valuable character-building lessons for all children in urban and small town situations. Davey decides he doesn't need friends or family. But a nightmare
Subjects: Growth & Development; Family; Parenting, General; Children; Claymation
Running Time:15

Lutheran Church of America
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THE DAY GRANDPA DIED
F5022001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
"Grandpa went to sleep last night, David-and he didn't wake up." In this vignette of a boy's first experience with the death of a loved one, we watch David's struggle with the reality, from outright denial of the fact to gradual acceptan
Subjects: Bereavement; Death/Dying; Aging; Chronically Ill; Children
Running Time:12

BFA Educational Media
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EARTH'S PAIN & HELL
F5024001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
This moving film contrasts America's influence to the world's poor with narration by Bishop Sheen. "Hard sell" approach of film might be acceptable to a more sophisticated viewer.
Subjects: Hunger; Poverty; World Issues; Social Concern; Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Running Time:27

Maryknoll
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THE EFFORT
F5025001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
Friends and neighbors have gathered to watch the balance beam performances of two sisters. The older sister masters the balance beam with ease, but the younger girl fails in both her attempts. She experiences discouragement and failure as her friend
Subjects: Growth & Development; Relationships; Values/Morals; Competition
Running Time:5

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EMPEROR'S NEW ARMOR
F5026001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
An animated fable about consumerism, stupidity and the arms race, could also be used in discussion of how people build walls around themselves. (1970)
Subjects: Growth & Development; Morality; Fable/Folktale; Values/Morals
Running Time:6

Pyramid Films
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EUCHARIST: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
F5028001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
"Let us celebrate the mystery of faith." This film is a beautiful experience which brings all the life-giving elements of our daily lives into the celebration of the Eucharist liturgy. It illustrates that faith is not only a belief in the presence of Chri
Subjects: Eucharist; Symbols/Signs; Mass, The; Eucharist, Liturgy; Sacramental Prep-Eucharist
Running Time:10

Franciscan Communications/Saint Anthony Messenger
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EVERYDAY PEOPLE
F5029001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
Features rehabilitative, and educational programs sponsored by the Catholic Church, although the film's overall viewpoint is non-sectarian. But it's not really about programs; it is about people. Mentally disabled persons are given a ra
Subjects: Mental Disabilities; Disabilities; Individuality
Running Time:30

WHA-TV University of Wisconsin
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EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE
F5030001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
"Do we really know the poor in our own house...in our family, in our own community?" With this question, Mother Teresa challenges us to reconize the poor in all those who are abandoned, unwanted, alone. In this short film, th
Subjects: Hunger; Poverty; Nuns; Social Concern; Convent; Sisterhood; Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Running Time:11

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THE FACE OF HUNGER
F5031001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
A discomforting but important look at the continuing and worsening world hunger problem. In the brief five minutes, we are shown the magnitude of the problem and some of the attempted solutions. This film is especially valuable for alerting the rich
Subjects: Hunger; Poverty; Social Concern
Running Time:5

Maryknoll
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THE FATHERS
F5033001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
A documentary film for an in-depth cultivation of vocations to the priesthood. A film studying the thought, feelings and lives of six men- a seminarian, an ordained, and four priests. One priests was instrumental in integrating his paris
Subjects: Vocations; Priesthood/Priests
Running Time:23

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FEELINGS: DON'T STAY MAD
F5034001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
It's OK to get mad; everybody does sometimes and it's really necessary to express your anger- get it out- so that you can be free to go on having fun and enjoying your friends. There are always ways you can do this safely-without hurting others.
Subjects: Relationship, Interpersonal; Conflict Management/Resolution; Friendship; Communication, Interpersonal
Running Time:15

BFA Educational Media
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FREDRICK
F5035001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PI
An animated fable of five field mice who busy themselves when fall comes in gathering food for winter. Instead of gathering food, Fredrick gathers colors, words and the rays of sun. When winter comes, Fredrick shares what he has gathered
Subjects: Faith Enrichment; Faith; Fable/Folktale; Awareness
Running Time:6

Connecticut Films
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GENESIS II MANUAL
F5036001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
The manual is for the entire series and includes six audio cassetes.
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Intermedia Foundation
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GENESIS II INTRODUCTION
F5036002
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
An overview of the entire series.
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Running Time:18

Intermedia Foundation
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UNIT I- THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
F5036003
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
Purpose is to help the participants discover that human growth and spiritual growth are closely interwoven and that both involve risk.
Subjects:
Running Time:20

Intermedia Foundation
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UNIT II- SPIRITUAL GROWTH & SELF-CONCEPT
F5036004
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
A good self-image is very important for spiritual growth. The practice of affirming others.
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Running Time:20

Intermedia Foundation
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UNIT III- THE RISK OF BEING MYSELF
F5036005
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
General relationships and spiritual growth. The natural growth. The nature of relationships. The origin of relationships. Relationships as the bases of the Christian life. The critical importance of listening. Blocks to listen. Degrees of relationships wi
Subjects: Growth & Development; Individuality
Running Time:20

Intermedia Foundation
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UNIT IV- THE ADVENTURE OF SELF-DISCOVERY
F5036006
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
In-depth relationships and spiritual growth. Jesus needed people. Jesus and women. The need to express care. Responding to the overtures of others.
Subjects: Growth & Development; Individuality
Running Time:20

Intermedia Foundation
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UNIT V- THE MANY PATHS TO PRAYER
F5036007
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
Prayer is listening presence. When am I praying? Practice silence. Practice listening. Practice being present. SIMPLE prayer. How our viewpoint of God directs the way we pray.
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Running Time:20

Intermedia Foundation
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UNIT VI- SPIRITUAL MATURITY & PLAY
F5036008
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
Regaining childhood qualities. The qualities of a child. The person I would like to be.
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Running Time:20

Intermedia Foundation
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THE GIFT
F5037001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PI
Carol must find a beautiful birthday gift for her mother, but soon learns that her 75-cent budget won't buy the gift of her dreams. When her older sister offers to get the gift if Carol promises not to look at it until it's opened, Carol is ec
Subjects: Family; Responsibility/Discipline; Values/Morals
Running Time:10

Barr Films
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THE GIFT OF LIFE
F5038001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
A poetic view of life from birth to death emphasizing Christian perspective with scripture text from "The Living Bible." (1972)
Subjects: Jesus, Death & Resurrection; Creation; Life; Scripture, New Testament
Running Time:20

Pyramid Films
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THE GIVING TREE
F5039001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
This poignant story about the relationship between a boy and a tree illustrates some truths about the meaning of giving, receiving and love. The tree unselfishly offers itself to the boy for climbing, for shade and for pleasure. But as the boy
Subjects: Loneliness; Faith; Parable; Commitment; Relationships; Friendship; Values/Morals
Running Time:10

Bosustow, Stephen
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GLASS HOUSE
F5040001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
An allegory about a wealthy man surrounded by working peasants. When the crop fails, the peasants become hungry and unable to cope. The man builds a glass house in order to protect himself. Imprisoned by his house, he finds himself literally b
Subjects: Conscience; Hunger; Poverty; Conscience Formation; Ecology
Running Time:12

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GOD MOMENTS
F5042001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
Five short stories of how persons find God in their day-to-day human relationships; a child waiting in delightful expectation for his father to come home from work; a young boy helping his Oriental grandmother thread a needle eye that eludes
Subjects: Relationship, Interpersonal; Family; Christian Family; Relationships; Communication, Interpersonal
Running Time:5

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GOD'S GRANDEUR
F5043001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
This visual interpetation of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem is narrated as the camera leads us to contemplate what unfolds before us: "This world is charged with the grandeur of God." This lyrical film sings of the earth...the breath and presence of the Spir
Subjects: Creation; Art; Ecology
Running Time:4

Franciscan Communications/Saint Anthony Messenger
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GOOSEHILL GANG & THE MYSTERY OF HOWLING WOODS
F5045001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PI
One of a series of mystery-adventure films for older elementary boys and girls (about 8 to 12 years old) that teach basic Christian values and proclaim the Gospel message. "The Goosehill Gang" are five attractive, eleven-year-olds, two girls a
Subjects: Growth & Development; Self-Esteem; Faith; Values/Morals
Running Time:20

Family Films
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GREENHOUSE
F5047001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJHA
It is late evening, an old man gently closes his greenhouse for the night. Suddenly, the silence is shattered by breaking glass and a young boy is revealed senselessly throwing at the glasshouse. The man agrees that the boy can work in the gre
Subjects: Reconciliation, Jr. High/H.S./Adult; Penance; Values/Morals; Sacramental Prep-Penance
Running Time:11

Barr Films
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THE HAPPY PRINCE
F5050001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
An Oscar Wilde children's tale about a swallow, late flying south, finds the statue of the town's beloved Happy Prince crying. On his pedestal, the Prince can see what he never did before- poverty and suffering. Directed by the Prince/co
Subjects: Suffering; Death/Dying; Serving God. . . .; Compassion; Values/Morals
Running Time:25

Pyramid Films
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HUNGERS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY
F5051001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJHA
Produced for the 41st Eucharistic Congress. This film looks at the hungers for God in the human family. It helps us be aware of some of the ways we are indifferent by looking into the lives of some people after receiving the Eucharist. In living the Euch
Subjects: Family Oriented Resources; Eucharist; Commitment; Christian Living
Running Time:15

Crosspoint Communications Center
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IT'S ABOUT THIS CARPENTER
F5054001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
A modern-day carpenter fashions a large cross and carries it across town. People react to him and the cross he carries in various ways.
Subjects: Suffering; Death/Dying; Confirmation; Sacramental Prep-Confirmation; Lent
Running Time:15

New York University
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JOHNNY LINGO
F5057001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
One of the all-time best selling films based on the true story of a young Polynesian man who courts his bride at a time when customs dictated that he pay the parents for the right to marry their daughter. He insists on paying "eight cows" when only "one c
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Cultural/Ethnic Awareness; Family
Running Time:24

Brigham Young University 1969
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THE JUGGLER OF NOTRE DAME
F5058001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PIJ
Through a series of misfortunes a juggler is left homeless. Kindly monks give him shelter and lodging at their monastery but he feels very out of place there. He cannot sing, cook, garden or paint like the monks; all he can do is juggle
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Community; Commitment; Claymation; Confirmation; Mary
Running Time:30

Pyramid Films
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LET THE RAIN SETTLE IT
F5060001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJHA
The story of a salesman who, when his car breaks down, must leave his son in the rural, isolated home of a black couple and their grandson. The two boys become acquainted and any tentativeness in their friendship is resolved when a sudde
Subjects: Cultural/Ethnic Awareness; Awareness; Friendship
Running Time:15

TeleKETICS
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THE LITTLE PRINCE
F5061001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
This is a Will Vinton film- creator of Martin the Cobbler. The Little Prince is a wise, enchanting fable. Children of all ages are moved by its exquisite and tender sadness. He lived on a tiny planet watching over his three volcanoes (two active and
Subjects: Will Vinton; Fable/Folktale; Claymation; Love; Caring
Running Time:27

Billy Budd Films
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LIVING FOR HIS BROTHERS
F5062001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
A young man, searching to find his role in life, is guided through various interactions with people by road and billboard signs. After observing various activities of priests as he progresses, he ends up at a rectory asking, "What'
Subjects: Vocations; Priesthood/Priests
Running Time:24

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MAN FROM INNER SPACE
F5066001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
A witty and incisive parable of god-man interaction. Hundreds of people watch a black man emerge from a spaceship which has just landed on earth. He moves among them working wonders and teaching them to love and trust each other. His following grows. He t
Subjects: God; Holy Week; Faith; Parable; Commitment; Last Supper; Lent
Running Time:27

Paulist Press
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MARTIN THE COBBLER
F5067001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
This film done in the beautiful art of Will Vinton's clay animation explores the teachings of seeking and finding Christ in all those around us and to find his God and joy in the simple surroundings of his village and the simple actions he performs each d
Subjects: Loneliness; Faith Enrichment; Self-Esteem; Will Vinton; Claymation; Awareness; Compassion; Values/Morals; Caring
Running Time:35

Billy Budd Films
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THE MARTYR
F5068001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
Traces the life of Padre Pio, a Mexican priest who felt the displeasure of his totalitarian government and was finally executed because he refused to submit. Gilbert Roland and John Gavin star. (black and white)
Subjects: Martyrs; Padre Pio; Central America/South America
Running Time:25

Paulist Press
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EMOTIONAL MATURITY I & II
F5069001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
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Part I and II- Only a truly loving and thinking person can lead a wholesome well-adjusted life. In order to achieve this goal, we should strive to become emotionally mature. Understanding our emotions and what they tell us (part I), and learni
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Running Time:24

Gerresten, Peter Productions
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LOVE & SHOULD WE OR SHOULDN'T WE?
F5069002
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
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"There is nothing loving about sex", says John McGoey. "Sex is something two people do. Love is something one person does. Love is not a sexual thing, but a personal thing". Only a loving person can bring love to his or her sex life, mar
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Running Time:25

Gerresten, Peter Productions
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GOING STEADY & TEENAGE SEX
F5069003
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
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Peer pressure; self-respect; attitudes of the older generation; learning to relate to other people; developing your own identity; growing up emotionally; making intelligent choices- all these aspects of "going ste
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Running Time:23

Gerresten, Peter Productions
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TEENAGE PREGNANCY & TEENAGE MARRIAGE
F5069004
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
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The ramifications of abortion, adoption and sigle parenthood from the Christian perspective are examined in depth. All students immediately agree that a teenage mariage for the sake of pregnancy is out of the question in this day and age. However/co
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Running Time:21

Gerresten, Peter Productions
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MISSION TO LOVE
F5070001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This film is based on the true story of Jay Todd, Peace Corps volunteer, whose adventures in Latin America lead him to a deeper involvement that he could ever have imagined. It traces the growing relationships between Jay and a 6-yr. old orpha
Subjects: Christian Witness; Missionaries; Responsibility/Discipline; Commitment; Relationships; Values/Morals
Running Time:23

TeleKETICS
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NEUMANN
F5072001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This film on America's third saint gives the viewers an opportunity to meet John Neumann in a way they have never met a saint before. The dramatic, sensitive, portrayal of the 19th century immigrant shows a different perspective of this Redemp
Subjects: Missionaries; Saint John Neumann
Running Time:28

Crosspoint Communications Center
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ON THIS ROCK
F5074001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJHA
A historical travel-log on Rome: The Vatican; Papal Tomb and Peter's burial place. (Italian production)
Subjects: Vatican; Popes; History, Catholic Church; Saint Peter
Running Time:12

Journey Communications
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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
F5076001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
Guadalupe is an ancient story of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin to the impoverished Indian, Juan Diego. Throughout history, God has used the poor, the powerless to act as social critics. Juan Diego, in his time, not on
Subjects: Christian Witness; Our Lady of Guadalupe; Saints; Values/Morals; Blessed Juan Diego; Mary
Running Time:30

TeleKETICS
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THE PARABLE
F5077001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
The setting of this film is a traveling circus. The major characters in the film are each confronted by a clown, a Christ figure, who challenges them to make a decision. The purpose is to explore what it really means to be a member of Christ's
Subjects: Christian Witness; Symbols/Signs; Serving God. . . .; Easter; Parable; Values/Morals
Running Time:22

National Council of Churches 1964
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PARADOX
F5078001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This is a dramatization of a true incident of Witness. It explores the efforts of three poverty workers to challenge and to change a situation which is ignoring a basic human need. Such was the witness of Jesus: to question and even confront structured an
Subjects: Christian Witness; Responsibility/Discipline; Poverty; Serving God. . . .; Commitment; Confirmation; Values/Morals
Running Time:10

TeleKETICS
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PENANCE
F5079001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
A business man, after drinking with his friends, accidently hits a little girl with his car who is seriously injured and in danger of being paralyzed. The film traces the attempts of the man to convince himself and others that because he was c
Subjects: Reconciliation, Jr. High/H.S./Adult; Penance; Responsibility/Discipline; Forgiveness; Conscience Formation; Sacramental Prep-Penance
Running Time:11

TeleKETICS
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
F5081001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
Pope John Paul II is giving an address to the National Catholic Educational Association.
Subjects: Religious Education; Education; Pope John Paul II
Running Time:10

National Catholic Education Association
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PRIEST MAN
F5083001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This is a superb portrayal of the ambiguities, the heartaches, the frustrations, but also the joys, the rewards and happiness of priestly life. Plenty of human emotion without sentimentality- holiness mixed with humanity. It is a s
Subjects: Serving God. . . .; Holy Orders; Vocations; Priesthood/Priests
Running Time:20

CCF - Madison, Wisconsin
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PROMISE
F5084001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This sensitive, warm film shows how the promise is used among people. As a young woman looks back in her life and tells how the promises of others to her have given her a fuller life, she realizes that her own promises to others have enriched
Subjects: Pentecost; Faith; Sacramental Prep-Baptism; Commitment; Confirmation; Sacramental Prep-Confirmation; Values/Morals; Sacramental Prep-Penance
Running Time:14

Ikonographics, Inc.
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REACHIN'
F5085001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This short animated film featuring the title song would be an excellent lively opener for a workshop, discussion group or activity involving young people and illustrates how.
Subjects: Youth Ministry; Music; Christian Living
Running Time:4

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REMEMBER EDEN
F5086001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
This film is a visual and verbal poem. Against the moods and colors of the changing seasons, young adults express a variety of viewpoints related to the man/woman relationship. Their stream of consciousness explores values which range from exploitat
Subjects: Engaged Couples; Marriage Encounter; Marriage Preparation; Retreats
Running Time:10

Barr Films
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RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
F5087001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
A run-down tenement is occupied by several persons who live on the fringes of society, and who see themselves as social outcasts. Each is isolated in his own world of rejection and misery. Then Josee arrives. He is a simple janitor whose cheerful lo
Subjects: Alcohol Abuse; Gospel Message; Healing; Community; Death/Dying; Conversion; Relationships; Friendship; Love; Caring
Running Time:15

TeleKETICS
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL- WHERE DOES IT ALL GO?
F5088001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
A young couple after making a donation to St. Vincent de Paul are shown through their workshop and store while an employee describes the purpose and function of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. This film also illustrates the Society's many social service
Subjects: Serving God. . . .; Saint Vincent de Paul Society; Social Concern
Running Time:17

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SEASHORE
F5089001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
A beautifully photographed film of the Pacific Northwest coast- a visual poem used in Ecology Studies, Meditation, Prayer Groups. (1972)
Subjects: Environmental; Meditation; Nature; Prayer; Ecology
Running Time:10

Pyramid Films
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THE SELFISH GIANT
F5090001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
An animated interpetation of the Oscar Wilde allegory about selfishness, sharing and Christian love. A beautiful garden is beset by perpetual winter when a greedy giant forbids children to play there. Then, one day after being compelled to h
Subjects: Beatitudes; Parable
Running Time:27

Pyramid Films
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THE SILENT WITNESS
F5091001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
This is a dramatic documentary which traces the Shroud of Turin's known history and reviews seventy-two years of research by art historians, scientists and theologians. It reveals the fascinating results of modern scientific testing: The image is
Subjects: Shroud of Turin; Art; Resurrection
Running Time:55

Pyramid Films 1986
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A SLIGHT CHANGE IN PLANS
F5093001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
In South Amereica on a business trip, John Hopkins joins a team of priests working in a Lima barrio and experiences God as he never has before. Returning to the United States, John's new values bring him into direct conflict with his businessm
Subjects: Christian Witness; Vocations; Priesthood/Priests; Values/Morals
Running Time:28

Paulist Press
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SOLO
F5094001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJHA
A lone mountain climber sets out in the misty pre-dawn to climb his mountain, up past thundering water-falls, along thin crevasses, across glaciers and snow fields, clinging to a sheer rock face, feeling for a handhold on an
Subjects: Spiritual Growth/Development; Commitment; Confirmation; Values/Morals; Competition
Running Time:15

Pyramid Films 1972
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THE STRAY
F5097001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
A delightful story about twelve first-graders and their visit to a zoo: a happy event until child number 12, the troublesome "Tiger" of the group, runs after an errant balloon and gets lost. The gruff and weary bus driver suddenly finds new en
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Responsibility/Discipline; Parable; Friendship
Running Time:15

TeleKETICS
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TAKE OFF
F5099001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
A tightly edited mosiac of mid-air acrobatics, fast motion shenanigans and slow motion sommersaults which shows the beauty, fun and danger of snow, mountains and skiing. A great film for those certain times that call for celebrating/comm
Subjects: Teens/Teenagers; Celebration
Running Time:10

Pyramid Films
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TALEB & HIS LAMB
F5100001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJ
A good family education film on the topics of right and wrong, discipline and responsibility. A Bedouin folk tale about a shepherd boy who watches over his father's small flock and learns to love one male lamb. When the lamb is taken to the market-
Subjects: Family Oriented Resources; Holy Land; Responsibility/Discipline; Values/Morals
Running Time:16

Barr Films
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TALENT FOR TONY
F5101001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PIJ
An artist-father tries to keep his children "Out of his hair" while he is getting ready to display his work at an art festival by giving them paper and crayons to make their own pictures. Directly parallels the Biblical story of the talents. Contains a de
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Family; Parable
Running Time:15

TeleKETICS
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THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM
F5102001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
Two boys set out to put into practice their ideals by traveling across the border into Mexico with boxes of food and groceries. The resulting publicity coupled with the "Deep dawn" knowledge of how inadequate and condescending the gesture really was/comma
Subjects: Responsibility/Discipline; Poverty; Serving God. . . .; Social Concern; Values/Morals
Running Time:5

TeleKETICS
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THERE'S MORE TO ME THAN WHAT YOU SEE
F5103001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJHA
This film reveals the ways in which the human spirit struggles to confront and overcome the limitations imposed by a disability and the reactions of others to it. Through the film, we begin to reconize that we all face limitations or disabilities/co
Subjects: Growth & Development; Disabilities
Running Time:33

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THIS SIDE OF EDEN
F5105001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
Adam and Eve, guilt-stricken over being thrown out of Eden and appalled at Cain's murder of Abel, are visited one day by God. They complain how unhappy they are and tell Him if He only had a Son, He'd understand their plight. God lets
Subjects: Growth & Development; Guilt; Genesis; Insight Film; Forgiveness
Running Time:30

Paulist Productions 1977
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TO HAVE A VOICE
F5115001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
A film about grass-roots people, ordinary people who, through the process of organizing together, have discovered that they have extraordinary powers.
Subjects: Social Justice
Running Time:14

United States Catholic Conference (USCC)
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UNCLE BEN
F5116001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
Nearly everyone has something in their lives they want to change. But to really alter your life takes a certain determination, a dedication towards a seemingly impossible goal. Uncle Ben is the story of one man's courageous battle to change his life
Subjects: Alcohol Abuse; Growth & Development; Responsibility/Discipline; Values/Morals
Running Time:27

Brigham Young University 1978
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UP IS DOWN
F5117001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
His classic animated tale about a boy who walks on his hands illustrates, with wit and clarity, the conflict between conformity and creative growth. Experts reprogram the boy into an upright position, where he learns that the opposite of
Subjects: Growth & Development; Parable; Values/Morals
Running Time:6

Pyramid Films
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THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
F5118001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
This classic story is about nursery magic. We learn how a boy's love and friendship transforms a toy rabbit into a real bunny. It is through imagination that a child makes his most significant contacts with the world about him, that he learns tole
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Eucharist; Faith; Baptism, General; Commitment; Relationships; Confirmation; Friendship; Love; Values/Morals
Running Time:19

L.S.B. Productions
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A VERY SPECIAL DAY
F5119001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
Having the day be special "Even though your friends may not understand," Tom and Claudia discover life, responsibility and friendship on a summer day at the seashore.
Subjects: Happiness; Responsibility/Discipline; Life; Friendship
Running Time:15

Universal Education & Visual Arts
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WALTER FISH
F5120001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: g
An animated film presentation which calls us to re-evaluate the "Good Samaritan" story. The viewer will feel real empathy for Walter, who, finding himself "beached" is unable to secure from passers-by the necessary help to get him back into t
Subjects: Parable; Social Concern; Values/Morals; Caring
Running Time:5

Alba House Communications 1974
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THE WAY HOME
F5123001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
A contemporary version of the parable of the Prodigal Son. A rebellious son repentantly returns to his family. His father is joyful at the reunion, but the older son- who stayed home and worked hard along with his father in the family business- feel
Subjects: Family; Conversion; Parable; Relationships
Running Time:23

TeleKETICS
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WE ARE ONE
F5124001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
Similar to but more subtle than "Earth's Pain and Hell" this film spreads the message of brotherhood and responsibility in a very visual and modern photographic approach. Although the main topic is contrasting man's affluence with man's poverty many theme
Subjects: Responsibility/Discipline; Poverty; Brotherhood
Running Time:25

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WEEKEND
F5125001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
A married couple spends an isolated weekend sending out feelers on how to rebuild a failing marriage. A husband and wife, on the verge of estrangment, go away for a weekend and find themselves marooned by rain in their motel room. Bored,
Subjects: Marriage; Relationship, Interpersonal; Commitment; Communication, Interpersonal
Running Time:12

TeleKETICS
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WE'RE DOING OKAY
F5126001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
Shows how a bit of creative communicating and a lot of concern make a neighborhood far more caring that it appears. A young woman's anxiety about her aging mother who lives alone in a deteriorating neighborhood, is diminished as she sees the elderly
Subjects: Relationship, Interpersonal; Family; Community; Aging; Caring
Running Time:5

TeleKETICS
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A PRIEST
F5127001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
Excellent film showing the impact made upon many peoples lives by individual men in the priesthood. A marriage is performed by a priest who many years previous had married the parents of the bride and subsequently has been a member of the family ever sin
Subjects: Family; Vocations; Priesthood/Priests
Running Time:15

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WHERE HER GIFTS ARE RESPECTED
F5128001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
An ecumenical film documentary, summerizes and interprets the result of a survey on the presence of women in ministry in Protestant and Catholic churches and seminaries in Portland, Oregon. The survey, as the film shows, reveals a
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Documentary; Church; Ministry; Serving God. . . .; Commitment; Women's Issues; Social Concern
Running Time:28

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WHY MAN CREATES
F5129001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
A series of explorations, episodes and comments on creativity, by a master of conceptual design. Humor, satire and irony are combined with serious questions about the creative process and how it comes into play for different individuals.
Subjects: Growth & Development; Awareness
Running Time:25

Pyramid Films
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WILLIAM
F5131001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
An enchanting and fantasy-like tale of a community picnic as seen through the eyes of a rather out-of-place six-year-old boy. Too young to play with the other boys, and too old to play with the younger children, he wanders off into a world of
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Parable; Friendship; Values/Morals; Competition
Running Time:15

TeleKETICS
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WORKOUT
F5133001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: HA
The immediate incident on which the structure of this film rests is simple: a father's visit to his son at college. But the emotions which motivate the visit are complex emotions which have been dormant and which burst into action when the father discover
Subjects: Politics; Parenting, Adolescence; Family; Teenage Problems
Running Time:15

TeleKETICS
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BUSINESS OF AMERICA
F5136001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
"The Business of America" confronts a critical issue of the 1980's: Can we continue to rely on corporations to reverse our industrial decline and provide economic opportunities for all Americans? The film contrasts two Pittsburgh steelworker's traditional
Subjects: Economics; Social Concern
Running Time:45

California Newsreel, 1984
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THE SAME INSIDE
F5137001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PI
Meet four children with birth defects. Talking about themselves- what they like to do and how they cope with their handicaps- they demonstrate that feelings can transcend external differences. Lucky Simon narrates and sings. An "Educators Guide" accompani
Subjects: Self-Esteem; Disabilities
Running Time:13

March of Dimes
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SKATEBOARD
F5139001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PI
Sandy is an adventurous 8-yr-old with a brand new skateboard. Bored with coasting on easy hills and her driveway she decides to ride in the street (face down) on a very steep hill that she has been told never to ride on. Unable to stop, she losses
Subjects: Reconciliation, Jr. High/H.S./Adult; Responsibility/Discipline; Reconciliation, Primary/Intermediate; Sacramental Prep-Penance
Running Time:12

Franciscan Communications/Saint Anthony Messenger
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THE CHOICE
F5140001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JA
Teenage Kim is asked by her widowed father to finish her Confirmation preparation before deciding for certain that she doesn't want to be confirmed. In the ensuing months Kim is befriended by Christine, a young woman, who she grows to love and
Subjects: Responsibility/Discipline; Confirmation; Sacramental Prep-Confirmation
Running Time:19

Franciscan Communications/Saint Anthony Messenger
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GRANDMA'S BREAD
F5141001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
A story of a friendship between Grandmother and Grandson, about tradition, about family, church, Easter and the Eucharist. It uses the simple image of toasty-brown, freshly baked bread to symbolize how we ourselves die and r
Subjects: Eucharist; Family; Sacramental Prep-Eucharist; Easter; Relationships; First Communion; Lent
Running Time:15
ENGLISH
Franciscan Communications/Saint Anthony Messenger 1985
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BLESSED BE
F5142001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: IJA
A group of exceptional children with learning disabilities are filmed in both lively and pastoral sequences on the beach, in playgrounds and in meadows. They discover the wonder of life in ladybugs, birds and dandelion seeds. They find love in
Subjects: Mental Disabilities; Beatitudes; Disabilities; Values/Morals
Running Time:8

Paulist Productions
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MY FATHER'S HOUSE
F5143001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: G
This film for young children and/or their parents follows a seven-year old girl as she explores her parish church as God's house and sees in her mind's eye all that she has been told about the celebration of the Liturgy. Her father's descriptions trigger
Subjects: Liturgy; Mass, The; Children; Worship
Running Time:10

Franciscan Communications/Saint Anthony Messenger
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ANNA & POPPY
F5145001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: PIJA
A sensitive delicate treatment of a young girl's first experience with the mystery of death. Anna loves her grandfather deeply and his death causes her great sadness. She looks back over her fondest memories of Poppy, trying to find some answers to
Subjects: Bereavement; Death/Dying; Children
Running Time:13

Paulist Productions
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PADRE PIO
F5148001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: JHA
A moving and inspirational film on the life of Padre Pio, the Capuchin monk who had the stigmata for 50 years. It gives an overview of his childhood and family life, with the main focus on his priestly life. Contains lots of live footage of Pa
Subjects: Revelation; Padre Pio; History, Catholic Church; Priesthood/Priests
Running Time:20

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CHRISTIANS & THE CHALLENGE OF CRIME
F5149001
Media Type: 16mm Reel Film
Audience Level: A
Brief film depicting Christian possibilities of jail ministry.
Subjects: Corrections/Jail Ministry; Social Justice
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