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Just as this letter was delivered, I was about to tell you
of a very exciting event that happened the day before yesterday.
One of the highest ranking men, at the very top of one of the
important governments of Europe, had heard about Ambassador
College, had been shown a copy of the Ambassador College annual
published by the students, was much impressed -- especially that we
are a character-building college, and expressed that he would like
a meeting with me. The meeting was arranged for me to visit him in
his palace in the afternoon of day before yesterday.
Two of our officials accompanied me, we were met at our
hotel in the morning by a personal associate of this high
personage. The man who came for us is head of an association which
produces very unusual motion pictures in close cooperation with,
and in some sense I do not fully understand, under the personal
direction of the high government official. He took us to two
projection rooms. In one we saw the most remarkable pictures of
wild animal life in the African Jungle that have ever been filmed.
These are actually superior to some of the Walt Disney pictures,
such as "The Living Desert." They showed wild animals in their own
natural habitat, just as they live. They are totally different
from ordinary Travelogues. It took a large professional crew two
years to film this 1 1/2 hour picture. It is in full color
cinemascope -- very professionally done. It reveals strange
animals never discovered by man until a few years ago. It is
exciting, full of astonishing action. It reveals NEW EVIDENCE
about Evolution -- will be of great help to my son Garner Ted in
his television series on Evolution.
Then at another viewing room we saw an exceedingly
dramatic full color cinemascope of the eruption of a huge volcano,
showing a long river of bright red molten lava flowing for miles.
Never have such realistic pictures been photographed before.
Then in the afternoon we were driven to the palace, and
received by this personage whose name I must withhold. He asked
questions about Ambassador College and showed real appreciation to
know of a college putting emphasis on building right and wholesome
character in this age of teen-age rebellion, hippies, mods,
"rockers," and "beatniks." He had to be assured that we are
strictly noncommercial, and that if any of these films were made
available to us they would not be used commercially for profit.
Then he took us to a projection room in the palace, where
he had many thousands of color slides of pictures he has
photographed himself. We learned that our host is a very
experienced photographer of high professional ability. We were
shown 150 slides, mostly taken in the wilds and jungles of South
America, showing natives as they live in these regions. He himself
sat beside me, and gave us a running commentary describing each
slide as it was projected.
He offered to make these available to us.
Why is this important? I say we must accomplish more in
the next four years than in the last thirty-four. We are now
making plans, full speed ahead, to go on COLOR TELEVISION with The