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Creative Christian Media Services Complete List
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ID: 890101
Description: The host of a sports talk show interviews the coach of the P.U. Gophers and focuses on the negative aspects of a losing season. The coach, put off by this approach, is rescued by the production assistant who suggests looking at the positive possibilities of next year’s opportunities versus last year’s failures.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 4 *
Time: 7 min.

YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED

ID: 890108
Description: In the course of dining at an exclusive restaurant, a man attempts to propose marriage to his girlfriend who skirts the issue in a vain attempt to maintain both her relationship with him and her independence.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 3 *
Time: 9 min.

LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE

ID: 890115
Description: When his wife leaves the incredibly slow concession line at a basketball game to go observe the fans, a man frustrated with the absurd wait discovers he is unprepared to pay for the food items as he suddenly realizes he had given his wallet to his wife for safe keeping.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 7 * + UK extras
Time: 10 min.

A GOOD DAY AT THE OFFICE

ID: 890122
Description: A demon reveals temptations that dwell within co-workers in an office setting.
Category: Drama, Object Lesson
Actors: 6 *
Time: 8 min.

THE CAR POOL

ID: 890129
Description: Four co-workers car pooling to work reveal their true ability to handle stress and anger.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 4 *
Time: 9 min.

YOU ONLY HURT THE ONES YOU LOVE

ID: 890205
Description: Excessive demands of time at the office comes between a husband and wife who at first skirt then zero in on the conflict. She is resentful that she and the children are the ones to be deprived of his time. He in turn, feels caught in the middle as to how to resolve the needs of both worlds.
Category: Drama, Slice of Life
Actors: 2 *
Time: 8 min.

DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY

ID: 890212
Description: With the song ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ running incessantly through his mind to the point of driving him over the edge, problems which afflicted an angry young man as a child and the difficulties he faces as an adult come to light as he relays his past while lying on the couch in a psychiatrist office. The doctor points out that he may be in need of learning forgiveness and to stop piling up resentment as he hands the patient his enormous bill.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 6 * + extras
Time: 10 min.

AVOIDING THE ANGER TRAP

ID: 890219
Description: A teacher instructs the class (audience) on the pitfalls of the anger trap as portrayed by a husband and wife and, how it could possibly be avoided altogether.
Category: Comedy-Drama, Melodrama
Actors: 3 *
Time: 8 min.

THE PIANO LESSON

ID: 890226
Description: A not so inspiring pupil causes a closet drinking piano instructor’s stress level to rise as he becomes frustrated with her inability to keep up with his confusing teaching tools.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 3 *
Time: 8 min.

THE MASQUERADE PARTY

ID: 890305
Description: A Hollywood star invites his friend and wife to cover for himself and his wife at a masquerade party as he has another commitment for the same evening. The friend and his wife are the focus of the party when the evening begins until they remove the heads of their costumes for a photo, wherein it is discovered they are not who they were first thought to be and are ultimately deserted by the disillusioned crowd.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 7 * + extras
Time: 6 min.

LIP SERVICE, INC.

ID: 890312
Description: A member of the Consumer Advocate’s Bureau is shocked as he investigates Lip Service, Inc., where he discovers all phone call orders are never fulfilled and is given pure ‘Lip Service’.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 3 *
Time: 9 min.

A MOTHER’S MEMOIRS

ID: 890319
Description: On the day of her daughter’s eighth grade graduation, a mother reminisces over a family album of her first child, a son who, on this day would have been 15, however, he died as a baby.
Category: Drama, Slice of Life
Actors: 2 *
Time: 7 min.

NO OBLIGATION

ID: 890326
Description: A college ball player is disturbed over what others feel is his obligation to donate a kidney to a brother who has caused him nothing but grief, for the simple fact that they are brothers. His friend, concerned over the player’s discontent, reveals the true reason the brother will donate the organ, in that it is out of love, not obligation.
Category: Drama, Slice of Life
Actors: 2 *
Time: 6 min.

THE PHOTO ALBUM

ID: 890402
Description: As a family reviews their photo album, the light hearted stories behind the pictures are portrayed by the family members.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 8 *
Time: 10 min.

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

ID: 890409
Description: A professor takes an outsider’s view of both sides of the parent’s and teenager’s positions as each views the other and their demands on one another.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 6 *
Time: 10 min.

THE VICTIM

ID: 890416
Description: The statistical facts of child molestation and their long term affects are relayed as two scenarios are portrayed. First, two women discuss the depression of their friend, another woman of whom seems to be constantly depressed. The other scene reveals the conflict with the woman’s own marriage and her husband’s unsuccessful attempts to help her reach and solve the basis of the mystery.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 4 * + 1 VO
Time: 8 min.

I THINK IT’S TIME WE MADE SOME RULES

ID: 890423
Description: Slightly jumping the gun, a mother and father, in their attempt to set near life long ground rules for their daughter, discuss how they were able to get around the rules their parents had set for them. In the end we hear the sound of their infant daughter awakened by their debate.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 2 * + 1 VO
Time: 10 min.

WHO DO YOU LOVE?

ID: 890430
Description: A man desperately in love seeks advice from a co-worker. When he relays the sequence of events in his relationship he is unable to understand a letter from the object of his affections when she asks for a respite from his advances. The co-worker points out that perhaps he is more in love with the thought of being in love than he is with the realization that to love her is to respect her needs over his own.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 2 *
Time: 10 min.

THE COMMON THREAD

ID: 890507
Description: A doctor and his wife open their home to survivors (from all walks of life) of a plane which had crashed a week and half earlier. Over looking social status, all feel a ‘common thread’ as one of the survivors relates his particular insight. Lost within his own hopelessness of life, and while on his way to the airport, he had contemplated suicide by jumping into the same icy river the plane had ironically crashed. At the moment of rescue, he was taken aback that at that particular moment, there was nothing separating one victim from another. Simply, they were all in desperate need to be saved.
Category: Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors: 7 *
Time: 10 min.

MAKING IT A LOT HARDER THAN IT REALLY IS

ID: 890521
Description: Three executives attempt the most advantageous approach for assembling the dressings of a hamburger, with unsavory results.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 3 *
Time: 10 min.

FROM THE HIP

ID: 890528
Description: Two grown school mates unwittingly meet one another at a park. The discussion touches on their formative years and another school chum who use to join them in their escapades unaware that he is the unfortunate ‘bum’ sitting nearby.
Category: Drama, Object Lesson
Actors: 3 *
Time: 8 min.

IF YOU CAN

ID: 890604
Description: The perspective of a surgical team’s approach to a appendectomy is lackadaisical at best. The ineptitude is apparent as they begin they fail to anesthetize the patient. The carelessness and disregard for the patient’s welfare peaks as they exit to catch their favorite T.V. show, failing to close the patient.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 5*
Time: 9 min.

THE REVELATION

ID: 890611
Description: A man comes to terms with the fact that he is not living life, it is living him when he reviews his life at home and at the office. Unable to organize co-workers who are equally as confused as he is regarding a project, he also discovers that when he returns home, his wife has not only orchestrated their social life, but has canceled the cable subscription to enable them to spend more time together, removing the one item in life he felt he had power and control over: his choice of stations and the remote control.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 5 *
Time: 8 min.

MODELING CLAY

ID: 890618
Description: The responsibilities of fatherhood is a slap in the face to a dad who places his work and appearance over and above the love and adoration of his son who, with a school project due the following day, is chastised for making a mess with the clay and for being up past his bedtime. Mom enters after the brokenhearted son has left the room and explains that the boy had been waiting for over 3 1/2 hours to work on a project Dad had said he would help with. Dad, realizing his mistake, redirects his efforts to make amends.
Category: Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life
Actors: 3 *
Time: 8 min.

AN INSTRUMENT OF THE HEART

ID: 890625
Description: A director takes pains instructing an amateur actor to express feelings from the heart and not the use of mere words. Using the yellow pages as the instrument of communication, the director carries on an argument with the actor, without directly saying what is in her heart.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 6 min.

THE RECEPTIONIST

ID: 890702
Description: In an office scene, a receptionist with very poor public relation skills becomes the element of destruction to her employer when she alienates all possible business contacts on the phone and in person when they come into the office. The boss ultimately fires her and seeks another.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 5 *
Time: 10 min.

DEADLY INNOCENCE

ID: 890709
Description: The Agatha Christie style investigation of assassination attempts on the life of a VP initiates his own undercover guise to isolate and expose the culprit as one by one, the suspects are ‘shot’ by the evildoer who is finally reveled in the end.
Category: Comedy, Melodrama
Actors: 5 *
Time: 11 min.

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL

ID: 890716
Description: As two families drive to church, the fathers of each family display their true emotions through their language and driving habits as they encounter one another traveling the same roads. The children take on the same characteristics displayed by the adult male role models. To children, adult actions speak louder than their words.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 9 *
Time: 12 min.

NO LAUGHING MATTER

ID: 890723
Description: A wisecracking husband and offended wife return from an evening out with friends where he had used her as the butt of his many jokes. He is befuddled as to her cold demeanor, but finally realizes the error of his ways. A troublesome tongue can be a razor sharp whip.
Category: Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life
Actors: 2 *
Time: 7 min.

OPTIONS UNUSED

ID: 890730
Description: A young man, incarcerated on a possession charge, reveals the underlying cause of his insecurities to his siblings. Yielding to the lifelong belittling verbal attacks, he believes he has just lived up to what was expected of him. His brother makes an effort to understand and reaches out to forgive and begin again, whereas the sister is coldhearted, believing that he got what he deserved and is unwilling to lift a finger to help.
Category: Drama, Object Lesson
Actors: 3 *
Time: 8 min.

LOGGING YEARS OR LOGGING MILES

ID: 890806
Description: Three women become lost when they take a short-cut off a hiking trail in the high Sierra’s. One of the women claims to know the trails like the ‘back of her hand’ as she had worked at a lodge in the area, leading the others to believe she had been a tour guide. After seven hours of wondering, they stop to assess their situation only to discover that the one who claimed to have the knowledge of the area had in fact worked at the lodge as a maid and had never hiked any of the trails.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 3 *
Time: 8 min.

THE GREAT SARA LEE CAPER

ID: 890813
Description: While both are dieting, a wife catches her indulgent husband sneaking a piece of Sara Lee’s chocolate cake in wee hours of the morning. He attempts to justify his childish decision for this antic by redirecting the focus of the conversation of his wife’s childish behavior as she carries the diet menu card with her at all times.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 8 min.

NEVER IN MY LIFE - PART I - DEPENDENCE

ID: 890820
Description: In a VO, a business man complains to his wife of the childish abilities of his subordinates. The scene shifts to a time when he, himself was a babe and in constant need of help from his vigilant mother. The antics encountered when feeding a one year old are portrayed.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 6 min.

NEVER IN MY LIFE - PART II - EARLY CHILDHOOD

ID: 890827
Description: A man reflects on his childhood. He recalls his mother reminding him of the times he would take toys over to grandmother’s home and they would ultimately become lost. As a 4 year old however, he had believed the older you are, the more knowledge you have, so of course the next time he wouldn’t lose them. The toy in question on this particular remembrance ultimately was lost.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 9 min.

NEVER IN MY LIFE - PART III - ADOLESCENCE

ID: 890903
Description: A mother deals with her teenage son who is attempting to ‘find himself’. His lack of responsibility, respect for the needs of the family, and his personal family obligations are highlighted by his mother, which he acknowledges, continues on his way as though nothing had been mentioned.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 10 min.

NEVER IN MY LIFE - PART IV - ADULTHOOD

ID: 890910
Description: Harry helps his wife clean and prepare the house for their son’s birthday party. After the children herd through and annihilate any semblance of order they had achieved prior to the party, Harry suddenly becomes aware that it is more blessed to give than to receive.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 9 min.

SOLILOQUY

ID: 890917
Description: When attempting to work in self-imposed isolation, a writer begins to realize his loneliness as he begins to speak to his typewriter regarding the need to be with others. He is unimpressed with his boring thoughts played back on his tape recorder describing to the nth degree each and every thought coming into mind regarding the bliss of soliloquy. He comes to realize that to grow as an individual, one needs other individuals, otherwise personal stagnation will arise.
Category: Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors: 1 *
Time: 6 min.

THE LINE IS OPEN

ID: 890924
Description: When a repairman begins work on an office intercom and leaves to troubleshoot the line leaving the line open to a member of upper management. Four co-workers enter the office and unwittingly discuss proceeding with a project which has not been approved by their superior who by coincidence is listening to them through the open line.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 6 *
Time: 7 min.

HOLDING DOWN THE FORT

ID: 891008
Description: A father humorously recounts the ordeals of managing his three small children single handedly for the week-end while his wife attends a retreat.
Category: Comedy, Melodrama
Actors: 1 *
Time: 8 min.

THE REPOSSESSOR

ID: 891015
Description: A successful business man believing himself to be the one who orchestrated his personal success is brought to his knees by the repossessors who reclaim that which was only given to him to use. The true owner will reclaim what is His, and He delights in our good stewardship of our gifts.
Category: Comedy-Drama, Twilight Zone
Actors: 5 *
Time: 9 min.

NO MORE MARSHMALLOWS FOR ME, PLEASE!

ID: 891022
Description: A marshmallow contest at a family picnic proves to be the undoing in a man who believed he could handle any quantity of marshmallow stuffed in his mouth as he repeats the words ‘Chubby Bunny’. He and the competitor however, discover their limitations as more and more marshmallows are added, resulting in overload, violent bodily rejection.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 6 * + extras
Time: 8 min.

LEADING LADY, LEADING MAN

ID: 891029
Description: As a writer works on his latest endeavor, he creates a leading lady and places the desire of ‘want’ within her. With her limited knowledge of existence, she discovers the ups and downs of attempting to satisfy it, discovering that the phrase ‘leading man’ arouses her senses of ‘want’. The writer is persistent insisting she be patient for her ‘leading man’ until the end where he suggest he fill this role for now, quelling her fears and filling the void of ‘want’.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 11 min.

TRUE CONFESSIONS-THE SPORTS JUNKIE

ID: 891105
Description: A sports junkie alienates his wife with his incessant sports viewing. He outlines how he begins the pastime as a child and how it grew as his wife interjects her futile attempts to gain his attention and ultimately leaves him.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 5 min.

IT’S ONLY A GAME

ID: 891112
Description: Two couples meet to play a game which combines the elements of Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit (Married Couples Edition) designed to reveal how cognizant they are of each other and their relationship. As the game begins, one couple takes the lead as they are able to answer the questions without much to do. The other couple is hopelessly lost at the other’s attempt to draw aspects of their relationship and become completely frustrated with one another, resulting in a conflict between them.
Category: Comedy, Slice of Life
Actors: 4 *
Time: 9 min.

ALL THOSE DISTRACTIONS

ID: 891119
Description: With finally a moment to themselves at home, a couple becomes distracted by thoughts of the other activities in their lives, which begin to sabotage their romantic interlude until they come to terms that their real focus should be on each other.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 5 *
Time: 9 min.

THE POWER FIGURE

ID: 891203
Description: When two companies merge, a renown economist, able to greatly influence a board of directors, is addressed by a small management group representative who gives him insight to the very real human aspect regarding the medical coverage of the employees who could lose a very necessary benefit with the merge. He struggles with the understanding of the needs of the masses versus his own personal image where he ultimately decides on his own terms where the importance of the outcome of the decision lies, himself.
Category: Drama, Melodrama
Actors: 2 *
Time: 8 min.

A SIGNIFICANT EVENT

ID: 891210
Description: In a maternity ward, on Christmas Eve, a father-to-be is so overcome with the excitement of video taping the event that he appears to have lost his grasp of the importance of the event. The doctor, curious of the father’s antics, becomes aware that the father is quite in touch with the significance of the hope this birth means to his family to continue and parallels the event with the birth of Christ which gives hope to mankind.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 4 *
Time: 10 min.

TWELVE DAYS REVISITED

ID: 891224
Description: To the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", a comical rendition utilizing typical holiday gifts (the ones nobody wants to receive) are substituted for the first eleven days, completing with the only gift that matters, Christ as the final gift from God.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 15 *
Time: 17 min.

RESOLUTIONS, INC.

ID: 891231
Description: A salesman at Resolutions, Inc. attempts to sell various resolution packages (ranging from personal resolves to world conscientiousness to self-indulgence), to an indecisive woman. When he brings to light that she is pursuing a pliably spirit, the ability to learn, and achieve humility, she realizes that what she seeks is an entire character overhaul, to wit he claims she is looking for a miracle.
Category: Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors: 2 *
Time: 8 min.

 

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