Document Type
Freshman Seminar Essay
Publication Date
1986
Excerpt
Toward the end of his career, King of the Screen, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. saw fit to dignify what he had come to think of as the Art of Motion Pictures. Fairbanks went to his colleague, Louis B. Mayer and Cecil B. DeMille, and told them there ought to be in Hollywood a respectable and dignified institution symbolizing the existence of movies as an art form. His ideas were thought well of and in 1927 the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was announced to the world. Fairbanks became the first President of the Academy.
Recommended Citation
Affeld, Colleen, ""The Envelope Please": The Oscars (1986)" (1986). The Valpo Core Reader. 504.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/504
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