Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Vintage Bible Teaching Tools: Canon Bible Programs/Double Sixteen Company



Double-Sixteen or "DOSIX" was an educational A/V company based in Wheaton, IL that was founded as early as 1957 and incorporated in 1960 by brothers James Canon and Thomas W. Canon. They developed Bible story films strips known as the "Canon Bible Programs" around 1966. Available as classroom 35mm filmstrips and for the General Electric Show N’ Tell Phono-Viewers, the Canon Bible kit reportedly sold over 2 million copies from 1966 to 1981. The company was later renamed Canon Publishing LTD. I have been fortunate to acquire 6 of the Canon Instructional Modules that include filmstrips, booklets, with audio-cassettes.

From WorldCat.org here is list of 49 known titles:

Zacchaeus meets Jesus.
The Walls of Jericho fall.
Jesus stills the storm.
Jesus is alive again.
Boy Jesus visits the temple.
The Last Supper.
Joseph has strange dreams.
Jesus raises Lazarus to life.
Naaman's leprosy is healed.
Noah builds an ark.
Elisha helps a poor widow.
Paul is shipwrecked.
Jesus feeds 5,000 people.
Israel crosses the Red Sea.
A Samaritan helps a traveler.
Samuel lives in God's house.
God made the first family.
Timothy learns to serve God.
The Lost lamb.
Jesus blesses the children.
Paul and Silas sing in jail.
The People build a Tabernacle.
Baby Moses is kept safe.
Ezra teaches God's word.
Joseph is kind to his brothers.
God creates living creatures.
Jesus chooses helpers.
Jesus ascends to heaven.
Jesus visits Mary and Martha.
Saul sees a great light.
David spares Saul's life.
Rebekah is a willing helper.
David is chosen to be King.
The Prodigal son returns.
Peter meets Cornelius.
Jesus triumphantly enters Jerusalem.
Joseph is sold by his brothers.
Abraham lets Lot choose first.
Dorcas helps others.
Peter walks on the sea.
Elijah meets Baal's priests.
The Unforgiving servant.
David meets Goliath.
God sends plagues to Egypt.
David is a shepherd boy.
Jesus heals Jairus's daughter.
Friends bring a sick man to Jesus.
God creates land, water and plants.
Jesus goes to Calvary.

For more information on the Double-Sixteen, Canon Bible Programs:

WorldCat listing of Double-Sixteen, Canon Bible Programs (they seem to be unavailable at most libraries) - https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/archivebuilder/lists/3883604

Obituary for Thomas William Canon - Hultgren Funeral Home
https://www.hultgrenfh.com/obituaries/print?o_id=2518619

""Moganga" Wins Award At Missionary Film Festival". Business Screen Magazine Vol. 6, No. 18, 1957 that mentions James Canon of Double-Sixteen as a film judge.
http://www.archive.org/stream/business1957screenmav18rich#page/n572/mode/1up



Sunday, April 21, 2019

Vintage Bible Teaching Tools: Broadman Films "The Easter Story"


An amazing find for my growing Bible audio-visual collection is a number of classroom filmstrips and cassettes from the 1960s and 1970s. One of these sets was found just in time for this Easter or Resurrection Sunday. 


Broadman Films was the A/V division of Broadman Publsihing, today known as Broadman-Holman Publishing. Scores of filmstrips and audio materials were produced for home, church and classroom use by Broadman. 


The complete film strip "The Easter Story" from 1966 has a remarkable amount of its original color illustrations by Ralph McDonald intact. The instructors books overviews story with black & white copies of the images, and gives lines for the narration, anthems, cantatas, hymns, and songs to used to present the story of Easter.

Friday, April 19, 2019

Classic Jack Hamm Cartoon: Grave Torn Asunder


This Jack Hamm illustration was published Sunday, April 18, 1954, 65 years ago. The scripture used is John 11, verses 25-26 (KJV), words Jesus spoke to Martha the sister of Lazarus shortly before raising him from the dead:

"...I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."