Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...
...Film Committee met last night to list scenes of the College life that they want the film to contain. This list went to the March of Time offices in New York. Band manager Paul A. Lucey '51 will meet with the director of the four-man shooting crew tomorrow morning in order to plan Band shots...
Stanley Kramer is an intense young man who learned moviemaking from the ground up, as studio handyman, film cutter, script editor, scenario writer, wartime writer-director of Signal Corps training films. At 32, just out of the Army, he got together a team of bright young moviemakers, wangled financing, started in as an independent producer. Short of money, he slashed costs by rehearsing his actors thoroughly before the cameras began to grind. The B-budget results he turned out -Champion, Home of the Brave, The Men-rated A with both critics and the ticket-buying public, made Hollywood...
...Winthrop House film series started Tuesday night. There are six more films in the series yet to come; a pair of seats for the whole series costs $2.80. The movies are excellent, with future programs ranging from "The Great Train Robbery" to "Camille," from Greta Garbo to Douglas Fairbanks...
Tuesday's film played to a half-empty common room, which is too bad, considering that Winthrop's movies are among the best--and most inexpensive--entertainment around...