- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
- 1 Early Years
- 2 “We Enjoyed the War”
- 3 “Dear Miss Barry”
- 4 The Other Bloomsbury
- 5 Life with Lewis
- 6 Children
- 7 Alan Porter
- 8 The Spectator
- 9 Splashing into Film Society
- 10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary
- 11 Let’s Go to the Pictures
- 12 Victory and Defeat
- 13 America
- 14 The Askew Salon
- 15 Museum Men
- 16 Remarriage
- 17 Settling In
- 18 Cracking Hollywood
- 19 Art High and Low
- 20 On to Europe
- 21 Going Public
- 22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr
- 23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library
- 24 New Work, Old Acquaintances
- 25 “The Master” and his Minions
- 26 Temora Farm
- 27 The Museum Enlists
- 28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office
- 29 L’Affair Buñuel
- 30 The Other Library
- 31 Divorce
- 32 Postwar Blues
- 33 Abbott’s Fall
- 34 Hospital
- 35 Departure
- 36 La Bonne Font
- 37 Things Past
- 38 The Austin House
- 39 Readjustments
- 40 New York and London
- 41 Final Breaks
- 42 The End
- Sequel
- Sources
- Index
Going Public
Going Public
- Chapter:
- (p.221) 21 Going Public
- Source:
- Lady in the Dark
- Author(s):
Robert Sitton
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter describes how the film library connected with the public. The first public film exhibitions of the Film Library in January 1936 were a disaster, failing to generate in audiences an appreciation of film art. As a result, the Film Library turned away from public exhibition and concentrated on developing programs for colleges and museums. Iris and Abbott were invited by the Extension Division of Columbia University to teach a course on the “history and aesthetics of the motion picture,” using the Film Library collection as its base. The first meeting of the class on film as an art form was held on September 28, 1937, in the reading room of the Film Library at 485 Madison Avenue. Iris' initial address to the students remains significant not only for its deft summarization of her point of view on film but also as a model, still valid, for how film could be taught in universities.
Keywords: film exhibitions, films, motion pictures, Museum of Modern Art
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
- 1 Early Years
- 2 “We Enjoyed the War”
- 3 “Dear Miss Barry”
- 4 The Other Bloomsbury
- 5 Life with Lewis
- 6 Children
- 7 Alan Porter
- 8 The Spectator
- 9 Splashing into Film Society
- 10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary
- 11 Let’s Go to the Pictures
- 12 Victory and Defeat
- 13 America
- 14 The Askew Salon
- 15 Museum Men
- 16 Remarriage
- 17 Settling In
- 18 Cracking Hollywood
- 19 Art High and Low
- 20 On to Europe
- 21 Going Public
- 22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr
- 23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library
- 24 New Work, Old Acquaintances
- 25 “The Master” and his Minions
- 26 Temora Farm
- 27 The Museum Enlists
- 28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office
- 29 L’Affair Buñuel
- 30 The Other Library
- 31 Divorce
- 32 Postwar Blues
- 33 Abbott’s Fall
- 34 Hospital
- 35 Departure
- 36 La Bonne Font
- 37 Things Past
- 38 The Austin House
- 39 Readjustments
- 40 New York and London
- 41 Final Breaks
- 42 The End
- Sequel
- Sources
- Index
