Columbia University historical recordings, 1902-1985

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Series III: Film and Tape Reels, 1937-1985



Box 17 Reel 1 Alumni Service Awards, 1966

(From the Office of Joseph D. Coffee, Jr. Film, 16mm, b/w, sound, 1 reel)



Box 18 Reel 2 Education is Everyone's Business, April 7, 1960

(Ordered by Coordinator of University Planning. Film, 16 mm, color composite print, 1 reel)


Box 18 Reel 3 Lions At Play, undated

(film, 1 reel)



Box 17 Reel 4 Mark Evans Show, 1966

(From the Office of Joseph D. Coffee, Jr. Film, 16mm, 1 reel)



Box 18 Reel 5 Stand, Columbia. Produced by the Center for Mass Communication of Columbia University Press., 1966

(From Jacques Barzun, 1969. Film, 1 reel, pt. 2 only. MULTIPLE COPIES. ALSO FOUND IN BOX 16)



Box 17 Reel 6 Dunning, John R. The Columbia Cyclotron, January 24, 1954

(Omnibus TV-Radio Workshop. Film, 16mm, sound, 1 reel)


Box 17 Reel 7 Dunning, John R. Chronoscope, March 1953

(CBS TV program. Film, 16 mm, sound, 1 reel)



Box 22 Reel 8 Mead, Margaret. Lecture No. 5, New York, November 20, 1978

(videotape, b&w, 2 cassettes)



Box 21 Reel 9 Highet, Gilbert. Lecture No. 3, New York, April 23, 1968

(videotape, b&w, 1 cassette)


Box 21 Reel 10 Bell, Daniel. Lecture, New York, April 22, 1968

(Two 2-inch video tapes ARCHIVAL COPY. Two transfer copies found in Box 25: 1 videocassette, sd; black-and-white; 54 min, UCA60 User Copy.)



Box 23 Reel 11 Kusch, Polykarp. Lecture No. 2, New York, April 23, 1968

(2" videotape, b&w, 2 cassettes)



Box 24 Reel 12 Hofstadter, Richard. Lecture, April 23, 1968

(Two video tapes; sd. 2"x4800" ARCHIVAL COPY. Two transfer copies in Box 25: 2 videocassettes; sd; black-and-white; UCA60 USER COPY.)



Box 22 Reel 13 "Columbia College Goes Coed", August 29, 1983

(WCBS-TV. Program for Channel 2 News. Videotape: 1 cassette)


Box 22 Reel 14 "Columbia co-ed", August 29, 1983

(WNBC-TV. Program for Channel 4 News. Videotape: 1 cassette)



Box 18 Reel 15 Columbia College, Class of 1927 Tenth Year Reunion, New York, Spring 1937

(Film made by Eric Bernt and John Maurer for W. French Githens (CC 1927); claims to be first privately produced sound motion picture. Film, 16mm, sound, 1 reel. Original film restricted. Three VHS transfer copies in Box 25.)



Box 17 Reel 16 Columbia College, Class of 1927 Twentieth Year Reunion, New York, 1947

(Robert S. Curtiss, President. Made for W. French Githens (CC 1927), sponsor. Film, 16mm, sound, 1 reel)



Box 22 Reel 17 Lily Peters, Poet Laureate of Arkansas. Arkansas Endowment of the Humanities, Arkansas Portrait, 1985

(videocassette, color, VHS)



Box 19 Reel 18 Dwight Miner. Lecture to Freshmen, September 2, 1977

(Reel 1: Nick Serwer intro of Henry Coleman. Henry Coleman intro of Dwight Miner. Dwight Miner - History of Columbia. Reel 2: Dwight Miner - History of Columbia (continued))



Box 20 Reel 1 Charter Day Dinner, Queen Mother's Speech, Part 1 and Part 2, 1954

(2 reels. Part 1 is an OS reel and Part 2 is a smaller reel)


Box 20 Reel 2 Dean's Day, February 22, 1962

(2 reels of tape.)


Box 20 Reel 3 Forum on Democracy, undated

(2 reels of tape.)



Box 19 Reel 4 Alexander Hamilton Dinner, 1962

(two reels of audio tape - parts I and II.)


Box 19 Reel 5 Vetlesen Award Dinner - Award to Maurice Ewing, March 24, 1960

(1 reel of tape. Phonograph album #25 is of the same event.)



Box 25 Transfer Copies, 1937, 1968

(This box contains transfer copies of Reel #10 Professor Bell Lecture, Reel #12 Richard Hofstadter Lecture, and Reel #15 Columbia College Class of 1937 10th year Reunion.)



Box 37 "Three Faces of Protest", Spring 1972

Video documentary on student anti-war eemonstrations at Columbia University in Spring 1972. (3) reels of tape, both half-inch and three-quarter inch. Produced by Ralph J, Begleiter, Guy Sterling, Mike Monroe, Peter Firshauf, and Steve Petrou for a Graduate School of Journalism course at Columbia University. Tapes donated by Guy Sterling in May 2023. Run time: 47:11.