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Thanks to Bruce Knowlton of Wheaton College's Academic and Media Technology for his invaluable help in putting together this film festival.
For
the first selection in our year-long archival film festival we are featuring
the 1947 production, Songs of Fanny Crosby.
Frances Jane Crosby (1820-1915) was one of the most influential American
hymn writers. This film, which starred the great Gospel soloist George Beverly
Shea (1909-2013), used a slight fictional framework as a setting for many
of her most beloved hymns and to highlight the impact of her
work on the everyday lives of millions of people. The movie was a production
C. O. Baptista
Films (called in its early days the Scriptures Visualized Institute),
which was one of the first Evangelical Protestant film companies. The company
was based if Wheaton, Illinois and parts of the Fanny Crosby film were shot
in the Morton Arboretum in the nearby town of Lisle. This film is F70 in Collection
225.
Click
here
or on the images above and below to view the film.
Click
here
to see all the films in the Film Festival thus far.
