CCMS Catalog - 920000s

ID:	920112
Description:	Five lifeguards, content to sit on their laurels, quip as they recline on a beach and observe six scenarios of people ‘drowning’ in their life’s circumstances, desperately seeking help. 1) A married man, guilt ridden, after having fallen in infidelity.2) A single, wealthy woman seeking and failing to find a purpose in life. 3) A woman, raised in a home void of affection, now abused by her alcoholic husband. 4) A distraught teen who does not know where to turn. 5) A the bubble bursts for a couple with ‘everything’ is now confronted with the discovery that the wife has breast cancer. 6) A couple blame one another and refuse responsibility for their own actions which are slowly destroying their marriage.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	13 *
Time:	40 min.

ID:	920202
Description:	Believing he has control over his own life and destiny, a man attempts to envision his individual freedom by today’s standards only to find himself relentlessly confined to a prison cell. When he finally realizes he is not getting anywhere, he address the guardian who offers assistance. Reluctant at first to allow the guardian to take control of the circumstances, he finally relinquishes much to his delight.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	2 *
Time:	6 min.

ID:	920209
Description:	Two of four siblings make their feelings known to their father when he unconditionally loves and honors his wayward daughter who has come home, joyously giving her equal share of the inheritance. Their jealousy of his love for her angers him to the extent of ultimately severing them from the will entirely.
Category:	Drama, Melodrama
Actors:	5 *
Time:	10 min.

ID:	920216
Description:	Striking up conversations with other people in an airport terminal, a man relays his story of the long endeavor he and his wife have made to adopt a child. As he waits impatiently for his wife’s return from Thailand, past attempts to bring a child home are revealed. The barrage of governmental requirements on both sides confounding their attempts left the only option available was that his wife go to the specific country and personally put to rest any additional requirements there. Having failed with this attempt once, this effort meets with joyous results.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life
Actors:	5 * + extras
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920301
Description:	The owner of an electronics manufacturer observes two new employees of whom he has purposefully inundated with additional work from other co-workers in order to see if either are willing to admit when they are ‘in over their heads’. One humbly puts his pride aside, requests and receives help, whereas the other, refusing to admit he is unable to handle the workload, becomes overwhelmed and is ultimately released from service.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920308
Description:	A couple pay the price when they are recipients of a gold card and, fail to read and follow the instructions given. Designated for investments only, not as a way of life, they resort to utilizing the card for personal purchases, disregarding the stipulation of paying the dividends as required.
Category:	Comedy, Twilight Zone
Actors:	4 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920315
Description:	At a 4th of July celebration, a former soldier is grateful for the opportunity to bestow a medal he received ten years prior, upon the father of the young man who save his life in combat. The soldier recalls a portion of a letter the son carried from his father filled with words of compassion and inspiration which revealed his divine sacrifice to the purpose of the cause.
Category:	Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	7 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920322
Description:	As a mother focuses on the labor process, the fetus attempts to justify several reasons to stay within the confines of her world where she believes all of her needs are met. Her excited father, however awaits for her delivery to the outside world, ready to love her and welcome her into the family.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920405
Description:	When the Yuppie is diagnosed with various etiological physical disorders, terminated from his employment, and abandoned by his adulterous wife, he seeks psychological and spiritual help. Finding none, he is left down and out on a street corner until befriended by a street person who offers food and shelter.
Category:	Comedy, Melodrama
Actors:	7 * + 1 VO
Time:	6 min.

ID:	920412
Description:	A Sunday school teacher tries various tactics to control a room of distractible children (played by adults). Unable to control her own rising temper, she resorts to using a water pistol to maintain law and order.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	5 * + 1 VO
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920419
Description:	Seeking guidance from her parents, three stages of a young girl’s life are portrayed where her questions and concerns become increasingly poignant as time goes by. As a teen she is confronted with the final realization that her decisions on adult issues are now at a level that can no longer be ignored.
Category:	Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	5 *
Time:	10 min.

ID:	920503
Description:	Four teens arrested for a DWI discuss their fears of having to face their parents when they arrive to retrieve them from the holding cell. For one of the teens, the pros and cons of having rules and regulations are revealed and outline her parents real love and concern for her welfare. Whereas for her peer, he cannot understand her faith. He realizes his parents will never show up because they do not care enough to bother to come down. Love without rules and boundaries is not love at all.
Category:	Drama, Slice of Life
Actors:	5 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920510
Description:	From mother to daughter to mother to daughter, three generations of the women in one family are portrayed and reveal the emotional support they received and still rely on in their adult lives.
Category:	Drama, Slice of Life
Actors:	5 *
Time:	7 min.

ID:	920517
Description:	A mime displays the inner development of the sole as one who began ravenously eating and destroying all before her to the desolation left in her path with nothing before her, to desperate need and repentance, to the ultimate acceptance and new beginning.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	1 * + 1 VO
Time:	6 min.

ID:	920524
Description:	When an opportunity is lost to turn a profit by misusing his professional position with unscrupulous criminal tactics, a businessman unloads his annoyance to a good friend. She reminds him of a childhood incident which caused him a permanent physical disability because of parental neglect and parallels it with God‘s guidance in this particular case to stop him from doing something which would ultimately lead to arrest.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	2 *
Time:	7 min.

ID:	920531
Description:	Game tokens are run through the various ups and downs in a game of life. One, bound and determined to play the game his way, ultimately meets with his demise. The other, reluctantly submitting to the directions and rules of the game keeper, discovers through all the adversities, that the game keeper truly loves her and prods her on to complete and win the game.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	3 * + VO
Time:	10 min.

ID:	920607
Description:	Finding himself in a courtroom at the gates of heaven, a man relives portions of his life to affirm to the ‘judge’ his worthiness to enter. Scenarios of his earthly greatness and notoriety are portrayed against others who quietly sought to know God in their lives. When he is reminded that his perceived individual greatness cannot begin to compare to the One that died for him, he finally acknowledges his finiteness, humbles himself and is welcomed through the gates.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	10 *
Time:	50 min.

ID:	920705
Description:	A friend and family members gather to pay tribute to a beloved grandmother, who has just passed on. As they recall events from the past, we hear her comment on these moments as she prepares for her hallowed eternal marriage.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	5 * + 1 VO
Time:	7 min.

ID:	920712
Description:	As a forest fire races through a canyon, a camper refuses to heed the warnings announced over a radio. Believing he has everything he needs to survive, he insists on continuing his well earned get-a-way. Rejecting time and again the ladder dropped from the rescue helicopter sent to clear the area, we find the camper desperately clinging to his belongings, refusing to give them up, but obviously panicked by the impending inferno.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	1 * + 2 VO
Time:	6 min.

ID:	920816
Description:	A husband and wife are finally able to come to terms and overlook the inconvenience of having to minister to an ailing family member currently receiving chemotherapy. After overhearing the conversation between the relative and her young child, they are compelled to commit to working through this adversity.
Category:	Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 *
Time:	6 min.

ID:	920823
Description:	When a homeless woman loiters on the front step of a clothier, the owners (also brothers), take different approaches as to how to respond. One is more concerned with maintaining if not uplifting the store’s image than the state the woman is in and, seeks to discourage her from staying. The other is compassionate to her, offering her food and speaking to her with genuine interest. He reminds his brother of their humble beginnings which causes the pompous sibling to reexamine his position who then responds accordingly.
Category:	Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920830
Description:	Characters of an artist’s painting converse over the changes they’re going through. Concerns of how they are going to fit into the picture and that others would find them freakish for their appearances are addressed and quelled when the artist calls them together in place on the canvas to complete the picture.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 * + 1 VO
Time:	10 min.

ID:	920906
Description:	The characters respond and begin to question their positions when critics remark about the painting deliberating their various outside views to the driving artistic force. Giving into the pressure, one of the characters departs from the painting, leaving an empty space that only she can fill.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	8 *
Time:	10 min.

ID:	920913
Description:	A disgruntled soldier, discharged as well as disabled, has attempted and failed at securing six weeks back pay owed him by the U.S. Government. He airs his feelings to a father and son in the park when the son displays a romanticism of war activity. He is overheard by a park visitor who claims to know a little law and who gives him a letter to submit to the paymaster. The solder becomes overwhelmed when he later discovers that the lawyer was in fact the Commander-in-Chief; President Abraham Lincoln.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	5 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	920920
Description:	Life’s predicaments for a school teacher are introduced by a television reporter as we find the teacher ‘at the end of her rope’ hanging over the ‘chasm of despair’, walking barefoot over a bed of hot coals, and confronted by a snake (insurance salesman) as she makes her way to her ‘true love’.
Category:	Comedy, Melodrama
Actors:	4 *
Time:	6 min.

ID:	920927
Description:	In a fictional account, an artist believes being kept alive is a form of cruelty after he has become a quadriplegic resulting from an automobile accident. Unable to physically pursue the passion of his artistry, he feels a psycho-social torture as he is forced to only imagine the possibilities and not create them into being. On the other side of the spectrum, the real life scenario of Joni Eareckson, a woman who accepts the results her accident rendering her also a quadriplegic is portrayed. She praises God for bringing out other strengths within her and enlightening her to a more balanced vision of the world around her.
Category:	Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 *
Time:	6 min.

ID:	921004
Description:	Unsure if he is still needed at a lighthouse, the keeper is tempted by Slubglub to give up the post on a clear night for a little relaxation for the evening. The keeper has worked diligently at maintaining all the rules, though ships have not been through for years. When the temptation becomes too much to bear he leaves the post. Causing the wreck of a distressed ship who has lost all systems. The enemy would like nothing better than to have us lose hope and drift off. What are our losses in doing that?
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	3 * + 1
Time:	6 min.

ID:	921011
Description:	A man with his dinner companion becomes uncontainable when he views an eccentric diner tenderly pouring over her food items with affectionate expressions.
Category:	Comedy, Melodrama
Actors:	4 *
Time:	5 min.

ID:	921018
Description:	A university professor alternates between delivering his class lecture, depicting our finite microscopic existence within the universe, and succumbing to his emotions to rationalize the need to continue after suffering a devastating personal loss.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	1 *
Time:	4 min.

ID:	921025
Description:	David’s emotions are spilled out as he is overwhelmed and tries disparately to seek God’s face in understanding what He would have him do as he is ‘stalked’ by the enemy. In comparison, a woman of today also trying to understand God’s design reiterates the same anguished monologue as David.
Category:	Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 * + 6 VO
Time:	7 min.

ID:	921101
Description:	With a new vaccine on the market, an interviewer attempts to understand the relationship between the researcher who discovered the vaccine and his friend, whose name appears time and again in reference to news articles about the researcher. He relates two scenarios in an attempt to help her understand what is clearly obvious to him.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	5 *
Time:	7 min.

ID:	921108
Description:	During a practice exercise, an army squad is given specific orders to wait. However, certain individuals within the chain of command are compelled to take action into their own hands and ultimately disregard their orders. The purpose of this sketch is learning to follow orders from your superiors.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	5 * + 1 VO
Time:	11 min.

ID:	921129
Description:	A married couple are at odds while en route to an important dinner with a business associate. Although the host sent a map with the invitation, the husband felt compelled to strike out on his own accord relying on his intuition, leaving the directions behind. After much time has passed and many a wrong turn, they stop the car and find themselves with the destination in sight, however, on the opposite side of the canyon, out of reach.
Category:	Comedy, Object Lesson
Actors:	2 *
Time:	8 min.

ID:	921206
Description:	When an opportunity is lost to turn a profit by misusing his professional position with unscrupulous criminal tactics, a businessman unloads his annoyance to a good friend. She reminds him of a childhood incident which caused him a permanent physical disability because of parental neglect and parallels it with God‘s guidance in this particular case to stop him from doing something which would ultimately lead to arrest.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	2 *
Time:	7 min.

Sentenced to death in the electric chair, a prisoner is granted clemency on the day of his execution, providing he sign a writ issued by the governor, acknowledging the sovereignty of the governor. The prisoner refuses to sign, and argues with the messenger, standing firm in his pride and arrogance, unwilling to accept any authority higher than himself.

ID:	921213
Description:	Promised everything she could possibly have on her list of needs, a woman is nearly coerced into accepting bogus merchandise from an unsavory store owner. Mocked when she refuses, she leaves and discovers a shopkeeper who has all the true items on her list.
Category:	Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson
Actors:	4 *
Time:	11 min.

ID:	921220
Description:	The life of Mary, mother of Jesus is portrayed. From the news delivered to her by Gabriel, through the life of the Son, to the death and resurrection of the Son, to her golden years, this drama brings to light some of the emotions Mary may have experienced as the mother of our Lord.
Category:	Drama, Slice of Life
Actors:	1 *
Time:	20 min.