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After the fall of the Nazi regime Rauff fled Germany and went to Chile. He lived in Porvenir, Chile's southernmost town, on the island of Tierra del Fuego. He managed to remain in comparative anonymity and still accumulate substantial wealth, through his ownership of a medium-sized factory. Rauff made no effort to conceal his identity, relying instead on the good graces of the Chilean government, which refused to honor a West German request for his extradition in 1963. (Chile has a fifteen year statute of limitations on prosecution of crimes, and the pre-Allende governments saw no reason...
...sixties, though, it suddenly became vogue to use films as a teaching device. In my high school, apathetic students and tired teachers banked their hopes on film, the new, fun, relevant medium. It promised to rescue us all from tedium. In history classes, especially, teachers began using films to replace the dry, outdated textbooks. Watching films became the painless way to absorb facts. But the films we watched were usually as boring as the textbooks we'd shoved aside. We watched films only to glean a few salient facts, and we never considered that films, as cultural artifacts, might...
...most historians have yet to accord film the validity they have granted to literature. Maybe these historians can't get over their initial orientation towards film as an entertainment medium. Twenty years ago, Sir Arthur Elton, one of the first to write about the value of film as source material, suggested another possible reason for the historians' reluctance to study film. "The principle thing frustrating the proper application of film to history," he wrote, "is lack of awareness of the possibilities; and the lingering feeling, a hangover from the Nathan flare days, that it is undignified for scholars to take...
Film is an integral part of our society, and may prove to be the chief way our culture is preserved for future historians. Films document events and coalesce dreams with a vividness unmatched by any other medium. They speak for the film-making elite and for the film-going masses...
Campus film societies were organized by Harvard students for two reasons: (1) to serve as a neutral vehicle to bring films rarely shown in commercial theaters to the university community for the benefit of students of the cinema and anyone interested in the medium and (2) to provide a forum for the primarily aesthetic questions about films and film-making raised by the pictures shown. Film societies select movies for their artistic merit and/or their importance in the history of the craft...