Rare Footage of The Social Beaver
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Happy Friday! Enjoy this great video from the MIT Museum: The Social Beaver. It was produced in 1956 as a promotional piece for prospective students and visitors to the Institute. Community living, dorm life, hobby clubs, and Field Day competitions all get their five (plus) minutes of fame. Props to alumnus Oscar Henry Horowitz '22 who wrote and directed the film.
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jb
Thu, 03/24/2011 9:27pm
Fun to watch!
It is shocking the number of sexist things that were completely acceptable when this video was made! The poor women who went to MIT so long ago.
Betsey McCrory
Fri, 05/27/2011 2:44pm
What jb and Paul perceived as sexist, I felt was a gentle, humorous appreciation of femininity. Contrast this with MSNBC's Ed Schultz's recent public denunciation of Laura Ingraham as a "talk sl--", or the recent brouhaha at Yale. If this video was "shocking", how do Paul and jb
deal with the steady stream of degrading language applied to women in rap lyrics and popular culture?
Paul
Thu, 03/24/2011 10:09pm
One does feel deeply sorry for the female students who had to live daily with the kind of sexist comments used as ostensible humor in the film.
Curly
Sat, 03/12/2011 11:45am
Great when compared to today's Interactive Introduction to the Institute videos regarding dorm life.
Also the bits about administration encouraging student autonomy and development? Yeah, that's starting to take a turn into the crapper.
Brenda Bell
Fri, 03/11/2011 2:17pm
A reminder of both how MIT has changed and how it has remained the same.
David
Fri, 03/11/2011 11:39am
F=MA!