Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...March of Time" cameramen began filming background shots for a documentary movie of the College yesterday morning in Lamont Library. The University will exhibit the movie, when finished, to high school and alumni groups over the country...
...Walk Softly, Stranger," the new Valli--Joseph Cotten epic proves only that the impact of "The Third Man" rested on a great deal more than the names in its cast. Perhaps with another superb musical background which could have created a powerful mood or submerged the action completely, these stony characters could have made the movie at least passable. But R.K.O. failed to take this precaution in its haste to whip up another Valli-Cotten pudding...
...amended plan may actually persuade many men to take their service before college to avoid the trouble the new regulations entail. By writing in the amendments, the Committee hopes to end the objection that there will be discrimination in favor of the man with good education and background, men who can pass the test with a high score...
They strongly dislike the Trytten or any deferments plan for several reasons. They feel that the test system would produce an "intellectual elite" in the colleges, and thus is undemocratic. And, of course, the test itself is not so much one of intelligence as it is of education and background. Thus, some groups would definitely be discriminated against--Negroes, low income groups, people in backward rural areas...
Peter E. Pratt '40, secretary of the Alumni Association and chairman of the Film Committee appointed last month by Provost Buck, said yesterday that the cameramen will be filming scenes around the College from now until June. Monday they will begin taking general background pictures of the College, including shots of Widener and Lament Libraries...