Dartmouth Movies
With the cooperation of the Dartmouth Players, the College movie service sponsored by the Secretaries Association has begun filming its second student written and student acted scenario. The three reels which will make up this latest production will take approximately one hour for showing. S. H. Silverman '34 and B. W. Schulberg '36 are the authors of the new play which has been filmed during the past few weeks and will be sent to alumni clubs throughout the country for showing during the winter months. Prof. Warner Bentley, coach of the Players, is directing the production. Photography is being done by S. D. Brown '34 who is the official movie photographer for the College and the Athletic Council.
Parts in the play designed to show typical undergraduate life in Hanover during the fall season are taken by four students who have been selected by Director Bentley on the basis of previous experience in movie acting and through screen tests made under his direction. Two members of the cast of last year's production, will again appear on the screen in the new movie.
W. L. Powers '34, varsity football and hockey star and son of Walter Powers 'O6 of Newton Highlands, Mass., will play the role of an athlete, and Emerson Day '34, Senior Fellow and son of E. E. Day 'O5 of New York City, is again cast as an honors student and leader in D. O. C. activity. The other two parts call for a freshman, to be played by R. B. Bernhardt '37 of Brookline, Mass., and a sophomore, to be played by W. W. Bradt '35 of Milwaukee. The play concerns the troubles a freshman has in getting oriented to college life. Without much of a plot but with enough to hold things together, the freshman is shown in his contacts with faculty and administration and later with the three upperclassmen of the picture, who become his good friends and who introduce him to their several extra-curricular activities.
This movie service to alumni clubs started six years ago in a news reel form of production. The desirability of including shots of news interest from the campus has not been lost sight of in the new type of scenario. Interspersed with the scenes depicting the daily life of undergraduates at the beginning of the College year, and during the fall season, are slow motion movies of all the major games.
Alumni clubs will use the completed films during the winter for showing at dinners and smokers. Individual alumni may secure the movies at a nominal rental fee upon application to the DARTMOUTH COLLEGE NEWS, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover.
