RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

274 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
maintenance by the Department of Drama on its
regular budget.
This is the second Foundation grant toward
the creation of a collection of photographic
prints, fully documented, that will provide
an international record of theatrical history.
Materials gathered for the library under the previous
grant have proved of substantial value in
the training offered by the Department of Drama.
About 15,000 photographs, mainly of stage and
costume designs, have been collected, of which
the majority had not been noted or described
hitherto by historians of the theater. Through
their use students are gaining an acquaintance
with stage practice in the past and are drawing
on tradition for the presentations which they
direct. Study of these materials also gives graduate
students in the department a sound understanding
of many points in theatrical history.
The university furnishes copies of prints from
this collection to students elsewhere and arranges
loans to other centers of dramatic study
throughout the United States.
Film
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Motion Picture Department
An appropriation of $120,000 has been made to
the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,
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