Spring Film Series

For its spring-term film series the Dartmouth Film Society is showing 21 films made from 1916 to 1968 to demonstrate the theme, "Persistence of Vision." The series is dedicated to Arthur L. Mayer, who has had a lifetime of motion picture experience and who is at Dartmouth this spring to offer for the fourth time his very successful course in the history of the movies.

The film series, programmed in conjunction with Mr. Mayer's course, places its emphasis on directors from D. W. Griffith to Francois Truffaut, all of whom rate as film artists of vision and perseverance. Many noted screen personalities - Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe - are being seen again in the spring series.

In addition to the regular film society showings, four films directed by Robert Flaherty of Nanook of the North fame are being presented as a tribute to that great director.