The history of Danish country church architecture is told by showing scenes of how the church was used by the congregation, beginning with the celebration of mass in a small and simple wooden church 800 years ago, and ending with the congregation singing in a village church of to-day. The development and the growth of the pattern of church architecture is shown.
Dreyer in this film shows a series of churches from different periods with churchgoers in period clothing. Each period is separated by a shot of a church bell double-exposed on the sky. Although the film has a vibrant and instructive way of communicating the different epochs and styles to students, it does not exhibit the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, except perhaps in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath.
The board of Dansk Kulturfilm in autumn 1945 decided that their planned church film would exclusively be about village churches. Dreyer would rework the script that was written by editor and folk high-school principal Bernhard Jensen, aided by a committee of experts consisting of architect H. Lønborg-Jensen and Victor Hermansen, curator at the National Museum of Denmark. Dreyer had a first draft ready in mid-March, entitled Kirken er et gammelt Hus ("The Church Is an Old House"), which was distributed to the members of the committee for their comments.
In the last half of July, Dreyer and Victor Hermansen travelled the country to look at suitable churches. They researched the details and at Dreyer’s request a number of technical changes were made to the churches, including the removal of porcelain holders for electrical wiring in Tveje Merløse Church.
On 4 July, Dreyer went in advance to Ringkøbing. Shooting was set to start a few days later with the arrival of the director of photography, Preben Frank, who had fallen off a ladder and broken his leg, Fortunately, he was ready to cautiously start working again within a few days, with his leg in a cast.
Otherwise, the production went without a glitch. Everywhere, Dreyer said, they were well received at the vicarages and they had no problem getting enough extras. On 1 august, they returned to Copenhagen with almost all their footage in the can. They only needed to film the church in Skelby, where the weather had been against them, plus a Swedish wooden church in Hedared. The economy was distressed so soon after the war, especially when it came to foreign currency, but there were no real wooden churches left in Denmark and building an interior set in the studio would be too expensive.
The finished film was shown for the first time on 24 September 1947 to a small, closed circle, which included the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs. In December 1947, as was Dansk Kulturfilm’s standard practice, the film was presented to the press, politicians and others on a programme with four other short films.
【尋寶智多星】（Treasure of Matecumbe）是迪士尼在１９７６年所推出上映的一部電影，是部走冒險路線的作品。
【尋寶智多星】的劇情故事改編自 Robert Lewis Taylor 的小說《A Journey to Matecumbe》，故事背景是發生在經歷南北戰爭之後的美國肯塔西州，少年 Davie Burnie 意外得知了他家族代代相傳的一大秘密，那就是一張通往神秘 Matecumbe 寶藏的藏寶圖，在佛羅里達蠻荒之處，深埋著這個失落許久的寶藏，於是少年 Davie 就踏上了他的尋寶之途。他與四位同伴結伴同行，他們分別是 Jim 、Lauriette Paxton 、Thad 以及 Ewing T. Snodgrass 博士。然而 Davie 父親生前的死對頭 Spangler 也虎視眈眈，也伺機想奪得 Matecumbe 寶藏，而且還有颶風、印地安人、沼澤種種威脅等待著他們，他們必須一一化險為夷，才能找到神秘的寶藏。
本片是由 Vincent McEveety 執導，片中飾演少年 Davie 的是 Johnny Doran ；飾演 Jim 的則是 Robert Foxworth ；飾演 Lauriette Paxton 的則是 Joan Hackett ；飾演 Ewing T. Snodgrass 博士的則是還曾經演過迪士尼電影【黑鬍子】等片的 Peter Ustinov ；至於和 Davie 生死與共的少年 Thad 則由 Billy Attmore 擔任；大反派 Spangler 則是由 Vic Morrow 擔任，片中其他演員還包括 Jane Wyatt 、Dick Van Patten 、Virginia Vincent …等等。至於本片配樂則由 Buddy Baker 負責，歌曲“Matecumbe”則是由 Shane Tatum 所作。
