Documentary Film Group. Records 1923-2008

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Documentary Film Group. Records 1923-2008

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Contains administrative and financial records, correspondence, and publicity materials of the University's Documentary Film Group, a student-run film society in operation since the 1930s. The bulk of the material dates from 1950-1979.

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Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,

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The University of Chicago's Documentary Films Group is the oldest student film society in the United States. It had its beginnings in the early 1930s when a group of students living in the university's International House came together around an interest in the emerging documentary genre. In 1941 the name "Documentary Film Group" was adopted, and the group began showing films in the university's Social Sciences building. Early favorites of Doc Films, as it later came to ...

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