{"id":310,"date":"2009-03-17T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/03\/christian-film-pioneers-pass-away\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:58:00","slug":"christian-film-pioneers-pass-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/03\/christian-film-pioneers-pass-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian film pioneers pass away"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Time has been too tight to blog much lately, but I figured I should link to a couple of brief items I have written up at the CT Movies blog on two recently-deceased Christian film producers who were very active between the 1950s and 1970s: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctmovies\/2009\/03\/robert-e-a-lee-1921-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert E.A. Lee<\/a>, producer of the Oscar-nominated Lutheran films <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/commentaries\/luther.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Martin Luther<\/a><\/i> (1953) and <i>A Time for Burning<\/i> (1966); and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctmovies\/2009\/03\/dick-ross-1918-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dick Ross<\/a>, director of several early <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/from-billy-graham-movies-to-nudie.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Billy Graham movies<\/a> (1951-1965) and producer of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/run-baby-run-soon-to-be-movie.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Cross and the Switchblade<\/a><\/i> (1970).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time has been too tight to blog much lately, but I figured I should link to a couple of brief items I have written up at the CT Movies blog on two recently-deceased Christian film producers who were very active between the 1950s and 1970s: Robert E.A. 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