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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your recent editorial comment on the consideration of motion pictures as a class record by the Junior class at Yale is distinctly gratifying, in that it shows an appreciation of the qualities belonging peculiarly to the cinema record.

Such personal experience as I have had, has served only to emphasize a conviction that the motion picture record must replace the conventional' "class photographs," or at least supplement them. For such a record preserves the actual life and reality of things; it shows the individual as he really was, and not simply as he looked to the eye of a camera planted four points north by northwest of a dignity-fighting countenance.

It is perhaps not generally known that the cinema record was employed with entire success at Wellesley College last year. Its use at the commencement exercises, last June, of a preparatory school not far from Boston, was highly acclaimed. Its desirability is admitted; its practicability is proved; and its perfect adaptability to Harvard can with little difficulty, be demonstrated.

My friend, Mr. Griswold, in presenting this plan for consideration at Yale, has taken a step that may very well bring the cinema record into the ranks of the worthy and established customs of many of our universities and colleges. There, is I believe, no reason why the adoption of such a plan might not lead to the development of a Harvard Film News, which could be made available for Harvard Clubs everywhere, on a basis and with a purpose similar to that of the familiar news reels. The problem of projection has been simplified; the future must certainly bring interesting ramifications of a plan as sound as many of us believe this to be.  JOHN G. CURTIS '22.

April 27, 1921