UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Film records, 1960-1986.

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UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Film records, 1960-1986.

Description: Correspondence, meeting minutes of faculty committees, program proposals, and planning documents. Correspondence is mainly between the chairman of the department and the dean of the School of Fine Arts, faculty committees, outside consultants, the UWM faculty and the chancellor regarding the formation of the department, curriculum planning and budgeting. Committee minutes document curriculum changes, equipment purchasing, and budgeting. Also included are proposals for formation of bachelor's degrees. Files pre-dating the department's creation in 1975 consist mainly of proposal and planning items and programs for the Milwaukee Film Circle, a society which held screenings at the UWM Union and had university faculty as its organizers. Finding aid available in the Archives.

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Milwaukee Film Circle.

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Skoller, Donald S.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Instructional Communications Center.

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Blau, Richard Manley

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Dept. of Film. Office of the Chairman.

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Administrative history note: Prior to the creation of the deaprtment, activity in film at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee was limited to screenings by the Fine Arts Film Series and the the Milwaukee Film Circle, which received its sponsorship from the Instructional Communications Center of UWM beginning in 1960. The Department of Film officially began as an academic department of the School of Fine Arts in the fall of 1975. From the description of UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Film re...