- Title: F-A4142
- Summary: THE LIVING BIBLE: MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST: BIBLICAL RE-CREATION. STORY OF JESUS IN ANCIENT ROMAN TIMES. STARRING NELSON LEIGH AS JESUS.
- Description:00:16:52 - STREETS FILLED WITH MERCHANTS AND VILLAGERS WALKING, TALKING AND SELLING WEARS. MAN AT BASKET STAND WEAVING TWINE. WOMEN CARRYING GRAIN 00:17:22 - ROMAN SOLDIERS WALK THE STREETS DRESSED IN PERIOD COSTUMES: STRAP SANDALS, GOLD METAL PLATED BREAST PLATES, METAL HELMETS ON HEAD, RED CAPES DRAPED OVER THEIR SHOULDERS 00:17:29 - ROMAN SOLDIERS BEAT ON OLD MAN WEAVING BASKETS, PUSH HIM OVER, GRAB HIS SHOULDER. MAN SITS DOWN IN FEAR AS SOLDIER PUSHES MAN TO THE GROUND. SOLDIERS VANDALIZE MAN'S WARES AND THROW THINGS TO THE GROUND. ACTS OF OPRESSION 00:17:44 - ANGRY CROWD OF VILLAGERS COME TO THE MAN'S AID ONCE THE SOLDIERS LEAVE, PICK MAN UP OFF OF GROUND. SHAKE FISTS IN ANGER AT SOLDIERS. UPSET VILLAGERS 00:18:01 - YOUNG BOYS SITTING IN SYNAGOGUE LEARNING THE LAWS AND TRADITIONS OF ISRAEL FROM TEACHERS 00:18:23 - TEACHER PREACHES TO CHILDREN (READS FROM SCROLL) ABOUT HOW GOD HAS SPOKEN TO THE PROPHETS PROMISING A MESSIAH. CHILDREN LOOK INTENTLY AT TEACHER. TEACHER SPEAKS WITH PASSION TO CHILDREN ABOUT THESE BELIEFS. PREACHER DRESSED IN COLORFUL ROBES AND HEAD DRESS. 00:19:43 - JOHN THE BAPTIST STANDS ATOP A HILL, WALKING STAFF IN HAND, WEARING GARMENT OF CAMEL HAIR AND LEATHER BELT AROUND HIS WAIST. LOOKS LIKE A NOMAD 00:20:10 - JOHN PREACHING TO GROUP OF PEOPLE AT WATERS EDGE. WOMEN WEAR COLORFUL HEAD DRESS. 00:20:43 - JOHN THE BAPTIST SPEAKING OF THE COMING OF THE LORD. CLEAR BLUE SKY IN BKGD 00:21:01 - JOHN AND FOLLOWERS AT WATERS EDGE (RIVER JORDAN). JOHN WELCOMES PEOPLE INTO WATER TO BE BAPTIZED. FOLLOWERS TAKE OFF SANDALS AND FOLLOW JOHN INTO THE SHALLOW WATERS. JOHN CENTERED IN FRAME AS HE WALKS STRAIGHT TOWARD CAMERA 00:22:20 - JESUS KNEELS DOWN AND REMOVES SANDALS FROM HIS FEET. CU MAN REMOVING SANDALS. JESUS THEN REMOVES HIS ROBE IN ORDER TO BAPTIZE JOHN IN THE WATER. 00:22:33 - JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS AS THEY WALK INTO THE RIVER JORDAN, LEGS AND FEET VISIBLE ONLY. 00:23:05 - CU JESUS' ROBE FLOATING IN WATER. THE CLOTH OF HIS ROBE IS WET AS HE EXITS THE WATER, WET ROBES 00:23:10 - CU WET FEET WALKING ACROSS SAND, FEET SLIP INTO SANDALS ON BEACH 00:24:02 - WATER GENTLY SLAPPING AGAINST SHORE LINE. PAN OVER TO SEE JOHN THE BAPTIST STANDING IN SHALLOW WATER PREACHING 00:25:11 - JOHN AT WATER'S EDGE PREACHING TO FOLLOWERS. SIMILAR SHOTS THROUGHOUT EPS. 00:25:15 - JESUS WALKS DOWN FROM HILLSIDE ALONE. JOHN THE BAPTIST SEES JESUS AND TELLS CROWD HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE. JESUS CONTINUES TO WALK DOWN ROAD WITHOUT STOPPING TO SPEAK TO JOHN OR HIS FOLLOWERS. 00:25:32 - JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHES TO CONGREGATION OF FOLLOWERS. SHOT OF THE PREACHERS CONGREGATION STANDING BEFORE HIM. 00:26:03 - VILLAGERS IN ROMAN TIMES TRAVEL BUSY CITY STONE WALLED STREETS. 00:26:12 - OTS SHOT OF PREACHERS CONGREGATION STANDING BEFORE HIM ON THE WATERS EDGE. 00:27:06 - PREACHER JOHN THE BAPTIST PACES BACK AND FOURTH IN STRAW FILLED PRISON CELL. ROMAN PRISONER WEARS TORN POOR MAN'S GARMENT. OUTSIDE VISITORS GREET PRISONER IN HIS CELL. 00:28:26 - TWO HERDS MEN WALK WITH LONG WALKING STAFFS ALONG WELL WORN DIRT PATH. 00:28:32 - JESUS PREACHES TO HIS FOLLOWERS, SURROUNDED BY THE SICK WHO KISS THE ROBES OF JESUS. JESUS SPEAKS IN PARABLES TO HIS PARISHONERS. 00:30:59 - ROMAN PRISONER LAYS ON BED OF STRAW CONFINED TO PRISON CELL. 00:31:19 - BEAUTIFUL YOUNG BELLY DANCER PERFORMS FOR KING HARROD. ROYALTY CELEBRATES. YOUNG WOMAN LOOKS SEDUCTIVELY AT HER KING AS THE KING NODS AT THE YOUNG WOMAN TO GRANT HER A WISH. 00:32:00 - ROMAN PRISONER, JOHN THE BAPTIST, LIES ON BED OF STRAW CONFINED IN HIS PRISON CELL. 00:32:11 - ROMAN SOLDIERS CARRY LIT TORCHES DOWN A STONE STAIR CASE INTO A PRISONERS CHAMBER.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1952
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: F-A4142