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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

March 3, 2005

ELCA, Starlight Home Entertainment Initiate Agreement
05-037-MRC

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
(ELCA) and Starlight Home Entertainment, Inc., Los Angeles,
entered into a new agreement in February to make select original
episodes of "Davey and Goliath" available on DVD for the public.
     Davey and Goliath is a classic stop-motion animated
television series starring Davey Hansen and his talking dog,
Goliath.  Aired on commercial television in the 1960s and 1970s,
Davey and Goliath is a property of the ELCA.  The church's
mission with Davey and Goliath is to bring "moral and faith-based
values to a new generation of children in lively and engaging
ways."
     Starlight Home Entertainment will make the DVD available in
retail stores this June.  The DVD includes the classic, 30-minute
restored Davey and Goliath special "To the Rescue."  At summer
camp Davey, Goliath and friends rescue survivors of a plane
crash.	The program is also known as "Summer Camp."
     The DVD also includes four classic, 15-minute episodes --
"Blind Man's Bluff," "Finders Keepers," "Stranded on an Island"
and "The Kite" -- in restored format.
     "The restoration brightens the film without losing the charm
of the original look," said Kristi S. Bangert, director for
marketing and interpretation, ELCA Department for Communication.
The restoration, completed by a separate company, "is a manual,
frame-by-frame process requiring much care and detail," she said.
     Included as bonus material is the 2003 Davey and Goliath
documentary, "Oh, Davey!  History of the Davey and Goliath
Television Series."  Produced by the ELCA and broadcast on ABC
television, the one-hour documentary showcases the development of
Davey and Goliath and the stop-motion animation process.  The
documentary also includes interviews with Art and Ruth Clokey,
original animator and creators of Davey and Goliath, Richard
Sutcliffe, the program's original executive producer, and more.
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     News and information about Davey and Goliath are available
on the Internet at http://www.daveyandgoliath.org -- the official
Davey and Goliath Web site maintained by the ELCA.

EDITORS: Davey and Goliath images are available at
http://www.daveyandgoliath.org/media on the Internet.

For information contact:
John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org
http://www.elca.org/news