Filmstrip: "...And With This Ring"

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NOTES

The phrase "mixed marriage" didn't always mean an ignorant racist was trying to stop a caucasian and an African-American from saying "I do." While that was certainly going on at the time this filmstrip was produced, there were much more explicitly-defined — not to mention socially-acceptable — power struggles between religious denominations that made it difficult for people of different faiths to just get married.

Since this particular filmstrip was produced by the Lutherans, it'll certainly be the fault of the Catholics for making it difficult for religiously-mixed couples to marry. The problem seems to stem from a pre-nuptial agreement the Catholic Church forces Protestants to sign before marrying a Catholic, waiving any right of exercising their religion with their spouse or raising any children as anything but Catholic.

Information is almost nonexistent, but ELC Films appears to be a company started in Minneapolis by World War II photographer Paul Rusten after World War II. The content of the filmstrip itself appears to be put together by several local chapters of a nationwide Lutheran youth organization. While the dramatization in the filmstrip itself deals only with a Protestant trying to marry a Catholic, the included Leader's Guide says the problem of "mixed marriage" is "broad" and "includes any marriage situation where husband and wife are of different faiths, denominations, races, and may be said to include also marriages where one partner has a religion and the other has none." Ironically, by the time Rusten died in 2013, he was a member of a progressive Congregational Church in Minneapolis, who would have thought this doctrine obscene.

The "ELC" in "ELC Films" probably stands for "Evangelical Lutheran Church," but does not carry the same meaning as it does now in the name of one of the largest Lutheran denominations in the United States. The ELCA, or Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, went through a sort of period of progressive reform in the 1960s, and would eventually reject anything even remotely associated with this doctrine, along with anything anti-LGBTQIA+, and eschewing church traditions like exclusively-male pastors.

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Internet Archive, in Ephemeral films

Licence or status

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Credit

ELC Films

Language

English

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