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Inside Hong Kong was the infamous Walled City. Strangers were not
welcome there. Police hesitated to enter. It was a haven of filth,
crime, and sin. Prostitution, pornography, and drug addiction
flourished. Jackie Pullinger had grown up believing that if she put
her trust in God, He would lead her. When she was twenty years old,
God called her to the Walled City. She obeyed. And as she spoke of
Jesus Christ, brutal hoods were converted, prostitutes retired from
their trade, and heroin junkies found new power that freed them
from the bondage of drug addiction. Hundreds discovered new life in
Christ. Chasing the Dragon tells the whole amazing story exactly as
it happened. Equally amazing has been the reach of this ministry,
now detailed in this updated and revised edition. From Hong Kong to
the Philippines, Thailand, and beyond, the ministry that started
with Jackie and her friends taking people in to live and care for
them has continued and developed to form the present St. Stephen's
Society. Readers will be inspired by this tale of trust and loving
like Jesus.
This book examines the art and craft of motion picture photography
through a veteran professional cinematographer's personal
experiences on five major motion pictures, each selected to
illustrate a particular series of challenges for the
photographer."Every Frame a Rembrandt" is an expression heard on
sound stages and locations the world over. While in most cases the
expression is used lightly and not infrequently with a certain
amount of sarcasm, its true meaning speaks highly of most
cinematographers' commitment to producing the best, most
interesting, unusual and memorable images for the screen. Through
the five films he selected for this book Laszlo is able to show the
broad range of complexity in motion picture photography, from the
relatively simple "point and shoot" in the typcal western to
complex in-camera effects. In recounting his "war stories" Laszlo
is able to show the day to day activities of a cinematographer
before, during and after filming the project, discussing equipment,
film stocks, testing, labs, unions, agents, budget requirements,
and working with the director and producer. The five films
discussed are Southern Comfort, The Warriors, Rambo: First Blood,
Streets of Fire, and Innerspace. The book is illustrated throughout
with production stills from Laszlo's extensive collection (12 in a
color insert).
This book examines the art and craft of motion picture photography
through a veteran professional cinematographer's personal
experiences on five major motion pictures, each selected to
illustrate a particular series of challenges for the photographer.
"Every Frame a Rembrandt" is an expression heard on sound stages
and locations the world over. While in most cases the expression is
used lightly and not infrequently with a certain amount of sarcasm,
its true meaning speaks highly of most cinematographers' commitment
to producing the best, most interesting, unusual and memorable
images for the screen. Through the five films he selected for this
book Laszlo is able to show the broad range of complexity in motion
picture photography, from the relatively simple "point and shoot"
in the typcal western to complex in-camera effects. In recounting
his "war stories" Laszlo is able to show the day to day activities
of a cinematographer before, during and after filming the project,
discussing equipment, film stocks, testing, labs, unions, agents,
budget requirements, and working with the director and producer.
The five films discussed are Southern Comfort, The Warriors, Rambo:
First Blood, Streets of Fire, and Innerspace. The book is
illustrated throughout with production stills from Laszlo's
extensive collection (12 in a color insert).
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most
foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the
Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were
unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did
prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie
Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God
was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus
Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit,
and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism
in the Holy Spirit.
Christian filmmaking, done outside of the corporate Hollywood
industry and produced for Christian churches, affected a
significant audience of church people. Protestant denominations and
individuals believed that they could preach and teach more
effectively through the mass medium of film. Although suspicion
toward the film industry marked many conservatives during the early
1930s, many Christian leaders came to believe in the power of
technology to convert or to morally instruct people. Thus the
growth of a Christian film industry was an extension of the
Protestant tradition of preaching, with the films becoming
celluloid sermons. Celluloid Sermons is the first historical study
of this phenomenon. Terry Lindvall and Andrew Quicke highlight key
characters, studios, and influential films of the movement from
1930 to 1986-such as the Billy Graham Association, with its major
WorldWide Pictures productions of films like The Hiding Place, Ken
Curtis' Gateway Films, the apocalyptic "end-time" films by Mark IV
(e.g. Thief in the Night), and the instructional video-films of
Dobson's Focus on the Family--assessing the extent to which the
church's commitment to filmmaking accelerated its missions and
demonstrating that its filmic endeavors had the unintended
consequence of contributing to the secularization of liberal
denominations.
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