A GREAT CAST FOR "FLICK'S 84"

For many a generation of Dartmouth men to "flick out" meant that the world of books, notes, papers and all was being abandoned for an escape into Cinema-land, but that's not necessarily so this term because of English 84; Code 34845;History of Motion Pictures.

This first course on the history of films ever offered at Dartmouth is a response to a petition signed by 200 students asserting that the motion picture is a legitimate art form and that as such it deserved serious study in a liberal arts college. The seminar is being taught by Arthur L. Mayer, film historian and movie importer, publicist and exhibitor, who has been designated Visiting Lecturer on the Art of the Motion Picture.

Mr. Mayer, in the tradition of the production of the art form about which he lectures, assembled an all-star cast for the spring term "production" including Dartmouth alumni Arthur Hornblow '15, producer; Walter Wanger '15, producer; Charles A. Palmer '23, writer and producer; Budd Schulberg '36, writer; and David Picker '53, film company executive; as well as Dore Schary, Joshua Logan, and Max Youngstein.

Each of the visitors spends a day or two on campus to lecture and conduct discussions. The course consists of two lectures and two film showings a week and a weekly round-table discussion. Prof. Henry B. Williams of the English Department and J. Blair Watson, Director of Audio-Visual Services, helped plan the course. It is also a natural extension of the Dartmouth Daily Film Program, started five years ago by the late Beardsley Ruml '15 and Vice President Orton H. Hicks '21.