Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, November 25

Students took a brief (seven-question quiz) over the handout on Citizen Kane distributed Friday, and we graded it.

Then Mr. Potratz spoke briefly about the Hays Code and the pre-code early sound films, after which we watched as examples two early Betty Boop cartoons and discussed racial images and attitudes in the second of the two, "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You!"