{"id":1012,"date":"2012-05-25T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesmusser.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2012-05-25T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T23:44:13","slug":"standish-lawder-my-teacher-role-model-returns-to-yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charlesmusser.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Standish Lawder: My Teacher & Role Model Returns to Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Standish Lawder ca. 1970<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/a> Stan Lawder was an inspirational figure for me when I was a Yale undergraduate in the late 1960s and early 1970s.\u00a0 He and Jay Leyda were my two main film studies teachers–what a deal!\u00a0 Stan taught a Silent Film course in the Yale Art Gallery–and filled lecture hall (one of the biggest on campus). There were at least two hundred students–probably more.\u00a0 I still remember many of the films that were shown in that class: Rene Clair’s Entr’Acte <\/em>(1924) and The Crazy Ray<\/em> (Paris Qui Dort<\/em>, 1927), plus Bunuel’s L‘Age D’or<\/em> (1930). (Was this even possible then?) He also showed us Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera<\/em> (1929), about which I wrote my first film paper.\u00a0 As I have said on other occasions, when I came to Yale to teach I was determined to maintain the tradition and show that film in Introduction to Film Studies.\u00a0 Eventually we were able to buy a 35mm print.\u00a0 If Stan was the inspiration for that then I was able to pass that inspiration on to John MacKay who was a teaching assistant for Introduction to Film Studies and subsequently decided to write his first post-dissertation book on Vertov, turning John into a film professor–and now chair of Yale’s Film Studies Program.\u00a0 So it was great–and I think also symbolic for John to not just meet Lwader but to introduce Stan when he came to show us his films and collect the Yale Film Studies Program Award.<\/p>\n

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John MacKay introduces Standish Lawder<\/p><\/div>\n

Our audience was medium size–mostly faculty and graduate students (undergrads are always finishing papers and otherwise getting ready for the summer).<\/p>\n

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I had seen most of these films as an undergraduate –and Necrology (one of my favorites) since then.\u00a0 But I have to say that I was stunned to see them as a group.\u00a0 They were so fresh, sparkling with a knowing, sophisticated sense of humor.\u00a0 Earlier in the day, Stan had given a lecture on early and silent cinema.<\/p>\n

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