Colgate University Amateur Motion Picture Club, The

Alternate Name:

Colgate Motion Picture Club

Year Founded:

1927

Location:

Hamilton, NY, USA

Resources:

Howard E. Richardson of Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, is Director of the Colgate Motion Picture Club, and has had practical moving picture experience.

The club is featured in Amateur Movie Makers 2, no. 2 (1927) on pp. 20-21.

"The universities of America have definitely entered the amateur motion picture production field with the filming, now in progress, of a complete amateur photoplay by the students of Colgate University at Hamilton, New York. Other universities will undoubtedly soon follow Colgate's lead, and the day does not appear to be far off when undergraduate movies will gain fame and popularity ... The original conception of this first "Colgate Classic" was brought about by the desire to create a closer bond between the University and its alumni." (Richardson 20)

References:

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Amateur Movie Makers 2, no. 12 (1927): 25:25.

Richardson, Howard E. ""Room Mates" Colgate Classic," Amateur Movie Makers 2, no. 2 (1927): 20:21.

"The Traveling Campus: How Are American Universities Publicize With Motion Pictures," Amateur Movie Makers 2, no. 6 (1927): 7:8.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Amateur Movie Makers 3, no. 1 (1928): 33:34, 57:59.