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|a Documentary Film Group records,
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|a Series I, Administrative; Series II, Film Rentals; Series III, Quarterly Schedules and Publicity; Series IV, Festivals and Preview Series; Series V, Voyeur and Focus!; Series VI, Affiliations and Other Film Groups; Series VII, Photographs; Series VIII, Oversize; Series IX, Restricted
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|a The collection contains one student paper with evaluative remarks, which is restricted until 2052. The rest of the collection is open for research
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|a Contains administrative and financial records, correspondence, publicity materials, posters, programs, a history of the organization, and memorabilia. The bulk of the material dates from 1950 to 1979
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|a When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Documentary Film Group. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
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|a University of Chicago's Documentary Film Group is the oldest student film society in the United States. It had its beginnings in the early 1930s when a group of students living in the University's International House came together around an interest in the emerging documentary genre. In 1941 the name "Documentary Film Group" was adopted, and the group began showing films in the Social Sciences building. Almost from its inception, the group showed fiction films as well as documentaries, with a focus on bringing European films to campus. The group made explicit that its purpose was not merely to provide entertainment to the campus community, but to explore and cultivate an appreciation for film as an educational and artistic medium. The idea that film could be a legitimate subject for serious study was not widespread in the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1950s, Doc Films continued to show rare, avant garde, and experimental films. The group took an interest in the work of Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren, who visited the campus in 1951. She was among many famous visitors during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, including Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, John Ford, Otto Preminger, George Cukor, Fritz Lang, and Anais Nin. 1962 was the inaugural year of the Midwest Film Festival, a Doc Films project. By this time, the group had taken on a strong auteurist leaning, manifested in the championing of hitherto under-appreciated American Westerns and B-movie melodramas, particularly the works of John Ford. They continued to screen documentaries and European "art" films, however, as well as such experimental works as the short films of Stan Brakhage. Doc Films' activities and projects frequently went beyond screening movies. The members had interests in movie-making themselves, and in criticism. The late 1960s and early '70s saw two forays into print media: Voyeur, a small magazine featuring short articles, cartoons, and other informative tidbits, and Focus!, a more professionally produced critical publication. The group's presence on campus nurtured a scholarly interest in cinema at a time when universities were just beginning to include film classes among their curricula. In 1986, a gift from Max Palevsky enabled the construction of a movie theatre in Ida Noyes Hall. The accordingly named Max Palevsky Cinema has been the group's home since then
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|a Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637
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