| Hosted by | Yale Film Archive |
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| Details | BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS (Peter Rosen, 1970, 16mm, 52 mins) Peter Rosen in person! Preservation premiere! Revisit New Haven’s tumultuous 1970 May Day weekend, as seen by a School of Drama student filmmaker. This documentary captures Yale in a moment of transition, when still-significant questions swirled about the role of the university in local and national affairs. Winner of the Best First Film prize at Cannes, BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS was preserved in collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive. 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive. “The Nixon Years: American Politics in the Early 1970s” is a series of documentary and fiction films focusing on that tumultuous time. This screening is presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Yale Film Archive. |
| Admission | FREE |
| Location | Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level |
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| More Info | info link |