Springtime Is Movietime.

Replacing the duckboards as a contemporary harbinger of spring is the spate of public notices on the big doings in "The History of Motion Pictures" course taught by film-man Arthur L. Mayer and supported (for the third year) by a grant from the Nicholas and Pansy Schenck Foundation. And this year the doings were more exciting than ever.

The film course's kickoff participant from the film world was Jack Valenti, former aide to President Johnson and now President of the Motion Picture Association of America. About the same time it was announced that Maurice Rapf '35, Executive Producer of Dynamic Films, had been appointed Visiting Lecturer in Drama. Producer Rapf will also advise students engaged in film production.

Another Dartmouth alumnus well known to film people, Rudi Blesh '21, Buster Keaton biographer and a member of the faculty at Queen's College and New York University for many years, came to Hanover to introduce several Buster Keaton movies. Steamboat Bill Jr. and Seven Chances were the first of 22 outstanding films being presented by the Dartmouth Film Society this spring under the general title, Forty Years of Film:From Griffith to Godard.