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The College of Communications is the supervising administrative unit for the University Broadcasting Division.
The Motion Picture Production Center was organized as a service agency to produce educational films for the people of Illinois. The Center maintained six full-time staff members until July 1, 1974 when it was closed for financial reasons.
1. Undergraduate Programs Catalog, 1975-1977, p. 255.
2. Carl Stephens, Illini Years: A Picture History of the University of Illinois, (Urbana, 1950), p. 78.
3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 33rd Report, May 16, 1925, p. 226.
4. Ibid., 45th Report, September 29, 1949, p. 882.
5. Stephens, p. 78.
6. Board of Trustees Transactions, 40th Report, July 21, 1938, p. 37.
7. Ibid., July 14, 1937, p. 362.
8. Ibid., 41st Report, February 14, 1942, p. 774.
9. Stephens, p. 78.
10. Board of Trustees Transactions, 43rd Report, February 14, 1946, p. 1007.
11. Ibid., 44th Report, April 10, 1948, p. 1087.
12. Ibid., 46th Report, December 28, 1950, p. 493.
13. Ibid., 49th Report, November 23, 1955, p. 874.
14. Michael Soaper was in charge of the Center's closing and supplied this information.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Motion Pictures (Audiovisual Digital Surrogates)
10/1970; 6/15/1983; 7/15/2008
Numerically (by can number)
Motion pictures including original and negative 16mm and 35mm color and black and white films, with and without sound tracks, about the Agriculture Department (feeding the nation), Anthropology field trips (McGregor), Art Extension (New Salem), Eliot Banquet, Fencing (Garret), Nursery School activities, Olympic Gymnastics (exercise on saddle), Physical Education for Men (Navy Pier), Purchasing Agent (biographical in form), Abraham Rattner (Art, man walking on campus), mentally disabled children activities, Tau Kappa Epsilon Initiation, the story of the University of Illinois Airport, Educational Research, Rose Bowl Parade, Illinois Football, including Rose Bowl game films (1953 & 1964), Education (Inquiry Training, Contact with Books), Physical Education (Jackson inspection trips), Band and Glee Club tours, Campus Locations, and Installations of Presidents David Henry (1956) and George Stoddard (1946) and other subjects, including a reel of campus shorts in black and white featuring Greek activities during Homecoming 1959, eclipse, architecture model, lectures televised into a classroom, lab rat brain surgery, smoke, Norman Graebner, Sorority Rush 1961, construction on the Quad (possibly Illini Union expansion ca. 1962), Art short course at Allerton Park (w/ sound), 4
Note: record series 39/1/812 has been integrated into this record series.
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