丹麦小村教堂

　　The$ , $^^his!!tor[y of Da .` n#ish\ / +,-coun$try #*.chu/ \rc./_h arch!!+[itec#;ture is?`$ told by sh^owi#n+^#g scene@%!s of how the church `was ;use_)
d by the congregation,=% beginning^**+% with the celebr`#atio_\n of mass in a small a
nd simple wo#?oden$: c/\_)hurch 800? ! ye:ars a[( :go], and^! endi`ng wi th the [[!con*
gre-?ga@t:/io,?n singin]g in a =(village c% )h++ urch of to-da*y=. The 
/development]# an-d the growt*h of =\=[the =;[p a-tt #.+ern of chur/;ch arc/;;hitecture^ is sh:own%\@ .　　%Dreyer in this. film 
shows a ser)]?ie?/%s of churches from different period$ ?s wi`::th# c hurch!;:g. oers in period^@( clothing. Each perio!d is[\ separ_$ated by a shot of a .*c*#hurch bell double-expos+`ed on the sky%=[(. Alt.*hou=gh the- film has a vibrant ] and instruct`^ive#] way%; of commu\$ni(ca.(tin$$g the: diffe_([@rent epoch+s and styles to st/ude *nts, it does ^(no^t exhib/*?it the ar`tisti(/:; c_+ q#uality -;tha (%t u:+s]ually distinguishes a Dreyer film, e.xcept[ per ,[:h,aps in some of the ._ costum #es, which wer,@e% or*/igi +nally mad_e /=[, for Day of Wra=th.　　The board of ^$Da[nsk Kultu;rfilm in autu^mn 1945 de/cided  that their:`^[ planned [(chur@ch film, woul,
+d exclusively=+/ be ab:=:`ou @t village@ church,!es. Drey#= er ,/]%would r  ework the :@ ])script that was wri(:tte`#_
n(\ by editor and folk !;h%igh]-sc[]hool @princi?=\pal
Be](rnhard+( J--ensen@, aided by $a committee$\)-\ of experts :,? consisting \ _of archit*ect H. Lønborg-Jens _e[-n  _
and Victor Herma
nse[n, cur]+]ato^r at the Natio,nal Mus!eum of Den/$mark.) Dreyer had \a first d(!r?\aft ready in mid-Mar]_ch, entitled Ki/ :^$rken e) r et gammelt Hus (&quotTh#e Church ,@Is an Old House@_,"), which was@^ distributed to t(#h
) e members of the committ,ee for their comm[$(\en%+,ts.　　In the l;] as]t @[[half o f* July, %Dreyer and V(*
(ictor He rmansen tra%vel )/`led t; (he country t[?o look($ ,^at \=%suitable*! churche=$.s. They r`esea!rched ]the details  and at Dreyer’s req *;uest a @-num;)ber of t@echnical
] chan ges w_er\]e made to ;the chur^)ches, incl*^ud.%in,(?g t.he remov?al of porcelain holde=/]]rs fo[ \r electrical wiri$ng ;in Tveje Mer@;l)øse ,#Ch urch.　%　On 4 *_
July, D;!rey[`!er went : in );advance-] to R+=in[(gkøbing.[= Shooti=-/ng was set to s[*)tart a %%$few days late#r with the arrival =# of th_e dire+ctor of photography, Preb+(\en*,$,` Frank, w ho ha:?d $%fall:^ en off a la%dder a,*nd bro#ken 
+:his leg, Fort))unately,?
, h!e was read,y to c!au ;tiousl(+y start# work?ing again within a few=^ da)/@ys, w]#-i/th $;his le$g -#in  a cast.　　O%therwise, the pro$ +ductio(-+_n went withou(?%t a glitch. Eve[(r_ywher!e, Dreye+
r@) said, they were well received at the vicara:=ges a?)@
nd they had no @p;=;roblem getti`%_ng enough extras. .#?\On 1 aug_;ust,  % they ret@urn
 [e-d %.to Copenhage`:_n with almost all their(` footage in th!;e ca@ n. T_hey only neede=d to film t% he church i
/n Skelb!y, where the weath]er had been ag!ainst them,; plus ,a Swedish wooden c
,hu
*rc
h i!$n Hedared. The econo_my w #%a` s[ d,*
i; stressed so soon ;/aft er *$the war,; e.sp e-cia?/ l,( ly wh?=%en] it came to. fore!ig]n%( @/curre,ncy, but the,=re were
*no r%eal w(#ooden churches lef;,t ?$\-in Denmark and bu ?:ilding an interior se[((t i
^(n the studio would be too_ expensi\ ve.　　T/he f- (inishe?^]
d f=:,i!lm was-#[ shown !:for t%[he first time (` on! 24 Septembe;
#r 1947 to a small, cl ``osed circle, `-wh\ich i@:n+cluded the [+Minis@@/;#t;(er for Ecclesiastical Affair=s.:\ I $n @December 1947, as was Da.ns,[k.?[, Kul)[ (turfilm’s stan$dar=+d pra[ctice,)\] the _f`=)= i#= ?lm w;as presented to the press, po;/\li/
ticia$ns*  (and others on a p-;?rogr#amme with four other s/`hort films.