Classic Hollywood: A look back at the storied history of the USC Film School as it turns 90
On Feb. 4, 1929, USC, in collaboration with the recently founded Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, added a new class to the curriculum: Introduction to the Photoplay.Among the instructors were silent cinema’s superstar and first academy president Douglas Fairbanks, his wife, the legendary actress, producer and academy co-founder Mary Pickford, and such noted filmmakers as Ernst Lubitsch, D.W. Griffith, Irving Thalberg and Darryl F. Zanuck.Within three years, USC became the first U.S.
The school is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year with talks, screenings and exhibits, including one on the 40th anniversary of the “Alien” franchise at the Hugh M. Hefner Exhibit Hall at the George Lucas Building and another on the school’s history at the Steven Spielberg Building.
“I enrolled as a writer because at that time everybody was concentrating on the production side,” he recalled in a recent interview. “Somebody told me when I was in high school that you have to have a story first. “
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