THE FRANCIS SCHAEFFER COLLECTION 2012

In May of this year (2012, as of the writing of this post), we visited The Francis Schaeffer Collection at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and interviewed Dr. Bruce A. Little (Director, Custodian) and Dr. Bill Youngmark (Archivist) about the collection. It's taken some time, and there were a lot of details that needed to be worked out, in addition to production difficulties that needed to be overcome. Yet we are finally able to release the video, an interview-based documentary, on the Francis Schaeffer Collection at SEBTS. We were granted special access to the collection to report on the ongoing work and we are very excited and relieved to finally show it to you. 

While at the collection we also collected footage for our documentary on the Schaeffer's Wheaton Lectures which is another project we are working on. We hope to follow up this collection video in the future when we check back with Dr. Little for additional details and findings. 

Please note that Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) has custodianship of the Francis Schaeffer Collection which is owned by the Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation of which Udo Middelmann is the president. As part of the contract between the Schaeffer Foundation and SEBTS, the seminary will digitize the collection after which a copy of the digitized material will be given for study purposes to the Schaeffer Foundation study program in Gryon, Switzerland and the Hill House in Austin, Texas.

NEWS: FRANCIS SCHAEFFER COLLECTION TRIP

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Jason and I will be flying to D.C. Sunday morning May 13th, and then driving through Virginia to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (L. Russ Bush Center for Faith & Culture) in NC, to visit the FRANCIS SCHAEFFER COLLECTION. Jason and I have been granted special access to film/photograph in the collection (with restrictions due to the legal arrangement with the Francis Schaeffer Foundation) and will be privileged to interview Dr. Little again. We will also be blessed to stay on campus at SEBTS, which is a real blessing. We are very honored to have this opportunity. ~ As you may know, we created a promotional video for the collection earlier this year, as well as did an initial interview with Dr. Little for the Francis Schaeffer Centennial via Skype. Our work next week will be a follow-up on this interview, record Dr. Little for the Legacy project, and to shoot footage to further document the collection and the work being done. It is our hope to continue ongoing coverage of the findings as the collection is further analyzed. This will take some time as the collection contains over 50,000 pieces, so we anticipate this being an ongoing project over many years. You can watch the previous interviews on our new Francis Schaeffer Collection YouTube Channel Playlist:

VIDEO INTERVIEW: THE SCHAEFFER COLLECTION WITH DR. BRUCE LITTLE

As part of the Francis Schaeffer Centennial Celebration we were honored to interview Dr. Bruce Little, the director of the Francis Schaeffer Collection at the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith & Culture at SEBTS. Dr. Little shared how Schaeffer influenced him, as well as gave an update on the early findings from the Francis Schaeffer Collection. You'll want to watch the interview to learn how the L. Russ Bush Center received the Schaeffer papers as well as initial discoveries that have been made such as a  forgotten and unreleased Schaeffer film.

As you may recall, we were privileged to create a video for the Francis Schaeffer Collection as well. This video highlights the event itself and contains an interview with Udo Middleman and actual photos depicting the archiving process that is underway on the Francis Schaeffer Collection.

We think you will be delighted to watch both videos!