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October, 1940
Pictures at Columbia University
THE Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University has announced a series of eight Monday evenings devoted to the subject "Life Today and the Film," presenting a selection of the finer documentary pictures that have genuine educational and cultural content. A more detailed announcement of this series will be given out later. Also among the talks in the series "The World of the Arts," will be one by William deMille on "The Art That Has to Be an Industry," on Januar}' 23rd, and one by John Van Druten on "An Author in Hollywood," on March 6th.
Motion Picture Courses
THE School of Education of New York UniA^ersity offers for the seventh year its well-known course on The Motion Picture, giA^en by distinguished lecturers imder the joint auspices of the University and the National Board of Review. This course is directed by Dr. Frederic M. Thrasher and is especially useful to the teacher, the social worker, and the layman working in community motion picture programs, because it discusses practical problems of schools, social agencies and community organizations in relation to both entertainment and educational films. One session of the National Board of Review Conference is held each year in connection with the course, which is given in the School of Education auditorium, Washington Square, New York City.
Scenario Writing and Production is one of the well established courses in Dramatic Arts again being offered by Columbia University, University Extension. The course is under the direction of Mrs. Frances Taylor Patterson.
Dr. Thrasher is a member of the Board of Directors, and JMrs. Patterson a member of the Exceptional Photoplays Committee of the National Board of Review.
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In Camera
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ments in Time in tlie Sun, and Tisse's brilliance makes the film worth seeing for their sake alone.
These moments of beauty appear time and again through the first thirty minutes of the film, and in themselves they are little masterpieces. The trees and deserts of Mexico, the foods and fruits, the brilliant dresses, laces and headgear, the religious processions and the incredible masks of the symbolic dancers — all these present themselves so effectively and penetratingly that we are often ready to lose ourselves in their poetry and forget all such critical considerations as continuity and tmit}'. Whatever may be said of the film as a whole, and however it may be assembled and edited, the artistry of Tisse can never be under-rated and the credit for the great beauty in Time in the Sun. must be given essentially to him. N. D.
Remember the Nezv CONFERENCE DATES November 14th-16tit, 1940 Hotel Pennsylvania Nezv York City