THE COLLEGE
a movie about the University of Chicago

1963

Detail

0:00-4:00

Oriental Institute footage

4:15-8:30

Classroom: discussing rhetoric

8:30-10:30

Student testimonies bg; bikers and walkers fg

10:30-14:20

Classroom: discussing man's condition

14:20-15:50

More student testimonies and bikers

15:50-18:00

Classroom: discussing Milton

18:00-19:00

Students singing (Blackfriars?)

19:00-19:45

Students talking about when to talk shop: all day and night

19:50-21:40

Guitar; singing at party

21:40-22:40

A formal; jazz music

22:40-23:20

Another dance, ballroom style

23:20-26:00

Another dance, rock

26:00-26:50

Athletics/basketball

26:50-28:10

Students chatting about administration; one says 'they want this to be another Princeton'

28:10-29:20

More chatting; 'it's sad that they're ruining the place'

29:20-30:00

Touch football fg; admissions people talking bg

30:00-32:20

Real football; fans do a cheer. (old field)

      32:10

The Band playing

32:20-33:10

A fight song played

33:10-36:30

Story of the early atomic experiments

36:30-38:00

Astronomy/telescope

38:00-40:00

Professor talking: 'the U of C student is tenacious'

40:00-42:00

Rolling wheel fg; professor talking about pedagogy as an art bg

42:00-45:15

Students chat about general education and College courses; a critique of a particular student

45:15-46:40

'beware of college as a substitute culture'

46:40-48:48

Kennedy protest downtown; stuff about housing

48:50-49:20

The spoken word discussed

49:20-51:40

Hutchins discussed; also the neighborhood discussed

51:40-53:10

A student speaks about evolution

53:10-53:40

A student reads a poem: ". . . can man save himself?"

53:40-54:20

Closing credits