Jesus in Movies and TV
NBC-TV’s Sunday night launch of the new series ‘A.D. The Bible Continues’ is “just the latest in a long line of movie and television productions about Jesus Christ going back 118 years,” says Christian media scholar Dr. Ted Baehr, founder and publisher of Movieguide®: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment.
In 1897, two American theatrical producers, Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger, filmed a passion play in Horitz, Bohemia. In 1898, R.G. Hollaman and A.G. Eaves photographed a passion play on the roof of a New York skyscraper. The length of the movie was 2,100 feet or 20 minutes. A narrator took the place of captions. Also in that year, the Oberammergau Passion Play was photographed by a Mr. Hurd, an American representative of the first major French filmmakers, the Lumiere brothers, and a French passion play was filmed for the Musee Eden.
“A.D. is great television, great art and great theology,” Dr. Baehr opined. “It shows the power of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ in the lives of the disciples and the Roman world.”
Dr. Baehr has published an article on “Jesus in the Movies and TV.” To get a digital or print copy of the entire article, contact Movieguide® at 1-888-248-6689 or [email protected]. To read a copy of Movieguide®’s review of the first episode of ‘A.D. The Bible Continues,’ please go to www.movieguide.org.
Author of “The Culture-Wise Family” and “How To Succeed in Hollywood (Without Losing Your Soul),” Dr. Baehr is chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission® (CFTVC) and its family/biblical guide to movies and entertainment, Movieguide® (www.movieguide.org). Now in their 30th year, CFTVC and Movieguide® are the largest, longest-running nonprofit ministry dedicated to “redeeming the values of the entertainment industry by influencing industry executives and by informing and equipping the public about the influence of the entertainment media.”
Each year around Oscar time, Movieguide®’s Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala honors the best, most family-friendly movies and television programs honoring God and inspiring audiences with messages of faith, hope, goodness, justice, redemption, forgiveness, and true divine love. At the Awards, Dr. Baehr presents highlights from Movieguide®’s Annual Report to the Entertainment Industry, a comprehensive financial analysis of the movie business showing what kinds of movies and what kinds of movie content moviegoers favor the most with their hard-earned money.
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(Source: Christian Newswire)
