Ephemera: Campus Film Societies
By Film Comment on November 8, 2017
For the November/December issue, Nick Pinkerton wrote a feature article about the golden age of film societies, which gave students and other members of the film community access to a wide variety of international and art house films that were otherwise unavailable to them. Here, we present a few items from the organizations mentioned in his feature—posters, photographs, zines, and more. Do you have some (scanned) memories you’d like to share? Send them to us at [email protected].

Poster courtesy of Doc Films at the University of Chicago

Poster courtesy of Doc Films at the University of Chicago

Poster courtesy of Doc Films at the University of Chicago

Zine courtesy of Doc Films at the University of Chicago

Poster courtesy of Doc Films at the University of Chicago

Poster courtesy of Doc Films at the University of Chicago

Membership card courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Membership card courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fritz Lang at the University of California at Berkeley

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Tom Luddy at Pacific Film Archives, courtesy of the University of California at Berkeley

Photograph of screening courtesy of the University Wisconsin-Madison Archives

Photograph of posters courtesy of the University Wisconsin-Madison Archives
Categories: Ephemera
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