Movie Mavens

1916

1917

The Nugget proves to be a gold mine. After one year of operation the enterprise not only recoups the costs for the new building but makes a $17,000 profit.

Dartmouth's filmgoers love the movie spectacle asmuch as its filmmakers.

1937

Freshman participating in the traditional storming of the Nugget are gassed by theater employees. One student is hospitalized.

1948

The Dartmouth Film Society is founded.

1964 (spring)

The Drama Department wants Arthur Mayer to teach film. Humanities faculty deny the request, saying "the study of film, as a discipline, is hardly fitting since it is backed by no vast body of literature."

1964 (fall)

Vice president (and former MGM exec) Orton Hicks '21 personally brings Mayer to campus.

1965

Dartmouth hosts a seminal conference that brings together the nation's leading film scholars and critics. The New Yorker's Pauline Kael warns, "If you think the movies can't be killed, you underestimate the power of education."

1968

The Dartmouth Film Society presents a semester-long retrospective on the films of Bullwinkle J. Moose.

1987

Porn star Annie Sprinkle visits campus for the screening of Informed Hysteria:Very Hot Video Art.