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  Comment by Eddie Eddings — June 14, 2010 @ 2:06 am

  This was a great movie. I sat spellbound for minutes! I think Glenn Ford also starred in the sequel, The Man in the Gray Flannelgraph Suit.

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  Comment by Paul M — June 14, 2010 @ 9:11 am

  I am glad someone finally exposed the truth. Our church went nearly bankrupt for we had to seek black-market flannelgraph. And then when we received it, it looked and smelled like it had been freshly cut from Uncle Buck’s hunting shirt.

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  Comment by Carol — June 14, 2010 @ 9:16 am

  Flannelgraph….that’s about extinct in Sunday Schools with the advent of Powerpoint and other such electronic doodads that starts the sheepling’s life early in the ear tickling mode of being entertained.

  I have to admit this gave me a chuckle…to expose the violent underbelly of suburban Sunday school. Now we need to see the violent underbelly of Emergent Sunday School! Of course, you’d need an “action” star to play that role….

  Great reminder also of the Vacation Bible Study days of old. That was where I was first exposed to flannelgraph….

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  Comment by David Cochrane — June 14, 2010 @ 4:57 pm

  Did the movie show the ventriloquist torture scenes? That is what drove many to violence in my Sunday School daze! Puppets did that in my children’s Sunday School daze!

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  Comment by Carol — June 14, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

  I’ve heard where the “Clown” Ministry drove one group of kiddies beserk…they tore through the lemonade and snacks and by passed the craft time. And the tale of when the Youth Mime Troup depicted Moses parting the Red Sea…it drove another group of children to madness. This is what happens when the children are parted from the flannelgraph.

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  Comment by Don — June 14, 2010 @ 10:40 pm

  I remember the late 60’s (I think) maybe the early 70’s, sitting in Sunday School diggin’ the long-haired, blue-eyed, white dude, holding… like a lamb in his arms, man. He was standing at some wierd 35 degree angle on the flannel board.
  I would let the Elmer’s glue dry on my fingers that were all covered with multi colored glitter.(Dude stay away from the flannel board when your fingers are covered with glue… I’m just sayin’, cause it looked like I had choir of little green bearded and glittered Leprechaun, finger puppets after I pealed my fingers away.) At the end of the story we all got the magic Picture paper where the picture was revealed when you colored over it with a pencil.

  I remember sniffing those big ole wide tipped markers, remember how they squeeked as you drew and colored with them? And they bled through everything: paper, plastic, leather, clothes, fingers, and concrete walls… but that smell, can’t you smell that smell? It was great and if I should get the munchies… I just nibbled on the play-dough… very psychedelic dude… course that was like way before the IFB got ahold of me. I mean, I still sniffed markers in the IFB Sunday School classes …but felt very guilty about it. Especially since by the time I got to the IFB I was a teenager… besides by then their budget couldn’t support my play-dough habit. Yep, it was a “FlannelGraph Jungle”….

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  Comment by Jason — June 14, 2010 @ 11:21 pm

  Hey, I’ve seen this movie! It featured a hit song by Bill Holy and the Charismatics. I think the song was “Rock Around the Clock of Ages”…

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  Comment by Eddie Eddings — June 15, 2010 @ 12:56 am

  Is that Anne Francis of Assisi?

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  Comment by dominic — June 15, 2010 @ 2:57 am

  If it’s a Sunday School taking place during the Lord’s Day worship service then it truly is a violent underbelly…

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  Comment by LuLu — June 15, 2010 @ 7:46 am

  That Glenn Ford was quite the agent of Satan. I remember another of his insidiously evil movies:”3:10 to Emergent Village”!

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  Comment by Don — June 15, 2010 @ 9:00 am

  Speaking of old movies: I always thought “How the West was Won” was a story of all those missionaries that came through our church on perpetual deputation, headed out west where there were no Independent, Fundamental, 1611 King James only, sin hatin’, satan fightin’, gospel preachin’, Baptist churches. Why as we heard it everyone west of Hammond, In. was heathens, pagans or mormons. The closer to the left coast you get, the more liberal things became until you reach Babylon, USA …Hollywood.

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  Comment by Dennis — June 15, 2010 @ 9:53 am

  Indeed, I think flannelgraph was the powerpoint of the 60s and 70s, with these advantages:

  Upgrades were just a cheap shirt away
  Three dimensions!
  No freeze-ups

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  Comment by Nabal Ben Nimrod — June 15, 2010 @ 6:01 pm

  Speaking of flannel…
  http://jlosinski.blogspot.com/2010/04/fashion-nightmare-me-i-dont-think-so.html

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  Comment by SamWise — June 15, 2010 @ 8:05 pm

  When this movie was played at various MegaChurch IMAX theaters, the teenagers in the audience began to riot, tearing up seats and dancing in the aisles. They chanted “Down with face paint!”

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  Comment by Janis — July 1, 2010 @ 2:46 pm

  My kids were raised without TV. A friend (also a homeschooler) who couldn’t understand our objections to it saw me buying some flannelgraph Bible story kits some years ago and remarked that she guessed my grade school-aged kids needed at least some kind of visual stimulation since we didn’t have TV……Clueless.

  Incidentally, “flannelgraph” is still the term I use when my flannel jammies get stuck against the flannel sheets during the winter. Gotta recycle those fossil words.

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