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The Way of Peace (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Way of Peace' is a 1947 puppet animation film, financed by the Lutheran Church in America, giving a Christian view of life in the Atomic Age.[https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/2014-additions-to-national-film-registry/26/ "The Way of Peace" (1947)-National Film Registry: 2014 additions - Pictures - CBS News] It was directed by Frank Tashlin, produced by Wah Ming Chang, and narration read by Lew Ayres. In 2014, the film was named to the National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archive-blog/2017/06/07/the-way-of-peace UCLA Film & Television Archive]
Premise
The film is a Christian parable about the end of the world in the Atomic Age told with puppet animation. Its scope is broad, from the creation of the world to the birth of Christ to the atomic destruction of the Earth.
Production background
*Producer Wah Ming Chang was a well-known designer, and Lew Ayres was a famous actor who was a conscientious objector during World War II.
*The Reverend H. K. Rasbach, a frequent adviser on big-budget films such as 'The Ten Commandments' (1956) and 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (1965), provided technical supervision and story concept.
*The film premiered at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., with more than 2,700 in attendance, including members of Congress, representatives of the Supreme Court, and 750 leaders from various branches of government.[https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2014/14-210.html Library of Congress press release (December 17, 2014)]
Television
This short premiered on WCBS-TV in New York on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1947 at 7:15 p.m.'New York Herald Tribune', Apr. 6, 1947, pg. C9.
See also
*Atomic Age
*List of American films of 1947
*Anti-war film
References
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