Purity Players, The

Alternate Name:

The Purity Players of Yale University

Year Founded:

1925

Location:

New Haven, Connecticut

Film Formats:

16mm

Associated Filmmakers/People:

S. Winston Childs, Jr.

William M. Hinkle

Resources:

Noted to be one of the earliest amateur movie clubs to organize: "The depiction of eighteenth century English life in town, country and army was done most accurately. The film was photographed by S. Winston Childs, Jr., a charter member of the Amateur Cinema League. Mr. Childs has had several years' experience as an amateur camera man. and organized the Purity Players, one of the first Amateur Movie Clubs." ("Novel filming" 31)

Featured in the article "Hollywood in Harkness: Yale Students are First to Film Famous Novel" (1927).

References:

"Hollywood in Harkness: Yale Students are First to Film Famous Novel," Amateur Movie Makers, August 1927, 28, 48.

"Novel filming," Amateur Movie Makers, July 1927, 31-32.