Filmstrip: "Peter and the Hermit"

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NOTES

After previously releasing The Christmas Gift, the other filmstrip in Ecumenical Productions' New Stories for Christmas series, this preservationist (and some viewers) continues to dig into the publisher's forgotten history. As with the previous title, Peter and the Hermit is co-written by Rev. Peter Kalellis, which one biography says has written "many books on psychology and Eastern Orthodox spirituality," and Navy Chaplain Howell Forgy, whom history remembers only for his motivating words "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A viewer uncovered an article on Forgy in the December 7, 1961 edition of The Boston Globe that confirms it is the same man: "Forgy," it says, "now busies himself writing church film strips [sic] and 'puttering' around the garage." Ten years prior, Forgy enrolled in drama classes at UCLA and had become "playwright in residence," writing an award-winning play called The Sun Looks Down that was produced on Broadway. However, according to Forgy, it had been so re-written by others by the time it got there it was no longer his work.

However the specific region or denomination (other than "Eastern Orthodox") served by Ecumenical Productions is still unclear. By 1961, Forgy lived in Glendora, CA, 25 miles north of Los Angeles. No biography of Kalellis, however, is detailed enough to include the church over which he presided at the time; he appears to reside in New Jersey now. Another viewer points out that series illustrator K. K. Kusnezov was a Russian illustrator who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s and produced illustrations for Cathedral Films, a huge publisher of religious filmstrips and films based out of Hollywood. Cathedral was good about putting dates, copyrights, catalog numbers, and other identifying marks on their films, so it's not likely they were creatively involved, but might they have been the distributor?

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Archive

Internet Archive, in Ephemeral films

Licence or status

The Internet Archive states none for this item.

Credit

Ecumenical Productions

Language

English

Who can watch

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