Film Course Shown

A series of films tracing the development of the American cinema from 1895 to the present time was inaugurated at Dartmouth early in February under the joint auspices of the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Department of English. The film course, assembled and circulated by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, will consist of ten weekly programs, covering some forty films which have been influential in the evolution of the motion pictures as a form of modern art.

Both silent and sound films are included in the series which will be shown. By means of the new movie equipment in Dartmouth Hall, the College will be able to present the full course without omission. The finest projection and sound equipment adaptable to 105 Dartmouth, the new lecture hall, has been installed for use in connection with educational films.

The Dartmouth film course will be made up of the two series being issued this year by the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, which has declared the motion pictures to be the only great art peculiar to the 20th century and has undertaken to preserve and exhibit films just as other works of art are studied and circulated. The two series are entitled "A Short Survey of the Film in America, 1895-1932" and "Some Memorable American Films, 1896-1934." Included are many of the great movies of the past and a score of the actors and actresses who thrilled the nation when the cinema was in its infancy.

The late Henry K. Davis, New York attorney and former president of the BronxBar Association, who made a residuary bequest to Dartmouth College to be knownas the Thaddeus Stevens Scholarship LoanFund. Although not a Dartmouth graduate, Mr. Davis was led by his special interest in Thaddeus Stevens to set up a fundin memory of the famous son of the College. The exact amount of the bequest willnot be known until the Davis estate issettled.