The Light of the World (film)
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The Light of the World is a 2003
slideshow film by Jack T. Chick
depicting events from the Bible through 360 oil painting
s by Fred Carter
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Chick was inspired to use still images and narration after seeing the Ken Burns
' documentary
The Civil War
.
2003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
slideshow film by Jack T. Chick
Jack Chick
Jack Thomas Chick is an American publisher, writer, and comic book artist of fundamentalist Christian tracts and comic books...
depicting events from the Bible through 360 oil painting
Oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...
s by Fred Carter
Fred Carter (artist)
Fred Carter is an artist best known for his work for Jack Chick's tracts since 1972. Like his employer, he is very reclusive and little is known about his personal life. He is an African-American, and Chick has described him as being a pastor.Carter uses richly detailed shading in his art...
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Chick was inspired to use still images and narration after seeing the Ken Burns
Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...
' documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
The Civil War
The Civil War (documentary)
The Civil War is a documentary film created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from Sunday, September 23 to Thursday, September 27, 1990. Forty million viewers watched it during its initial broadcast, making it the most-watched...
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External links
- Information at Chick Publications website