Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...huge undeveloped sprawliness of St. Louis as its grew back from its waterfront to there stolid respectability of kingshighway, the mediocrity of Page avenue, where Lilly move when the war and her father's money came, the verging of the flat city with the clayey surrounding. country. Similarly. The cinema screen of the book's pages, are thrown flashes of all the aired sections of New York Washington Square, Grimace Park. Grand Central Station while it still held the informality of partial construction. Amsterdam avenue, Spuyten Devil, Riverside Drive, all the the part of the city except the canons...
Your recent editorial comment on the consideration of motion pictures as a class record by the Junior class at Yale is distinctly gratifying, in that it shows an appreciation of the qualities belonging peculiarly to the cinema record...
...perhaps not generally known that the cinema record was employed with entire success at Wellesley College last year. Its use at the commencement exercises, last June, of a preparatory school not far from Boston, was highly acclaimed. Its desirability is admitted; its practicability is proved; and its perfect adaptability to Harvard can with little difficulty, be demonstrated...
...friend, Mr. Griswold, in presenting this plan for consideration at Yale, has taken a step that may very well bring the cinema record into the ranks of the worthy and established customs of many of our universities and colleges. There, is I believe, no reason why the adoption of such a plan might not lead to the development of a Harvard Film News, which could be made available for Harvard Clubs everywhere, on a basis and with a purpose similar to that of the familiar news reels. The problem of projection has been simplified; the future must certainly bring interesting...
...recent proposal of the Junior Class at Yale is adopted, the motion picture industry will have a new field to invade. The scheme is to record life at Yale by means of the cinema. In this way, alumni coming back for class reunions could review the events of their own time. Such a vivid reproduction of college life is highly practical and would be a source of much pleasure to those graduates who will have been out of college for some years...