The Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film
The Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, designed by the renowned architectural firm of Cesar Pelli and Associates, opened in May 2003. The facility features our Rosenwald Film Theater as a screening space for our class films; this theater – which is equipped with surround sound, 35mm and advanced digital projectors – offers a higher quality viewing experience than many commercial venues. The Center also features modern classrooms equipped for screenings and discussions; a sound-proof studio equipped with lighting grid and green screen; and a variety of high tech classrooms/editing labs devoted to film editing, digital editing, Avid systems and multimedia.

Production Facilities
In our production courses we work in both 16mm film and digital multimedia. In film, our students work with a wide variety of Bolex, Éclair and Arriflex 16mm cameras; Nagra, Marantz and Magnasync recorders; Lowell and Mole-Richardson lights and upright and flatbed editing machines by Moviola and Steenbeck. In video, our students use DV, Mini-DV and Hi-8 tape formats with cameras by Sony and Canon. Our students have access to both Avid and Final Cut Pro non-linear editing systems. Students taking production courses pay a modest expense fee and a refundable damage deposit. Otherwise, their equipment, supplies and processing costs are covered.

Extensive Film History and Theory Resources
The Vassar library offers a comprehensive collection of scholarly books, as well as an ever-growing archive of more than 7,000 feature and documentary films on videotape, laser disc, or DVD (from Adam’s Rib to Z), which are available to all students whenever the library is open.

Vassar College is also a charter member of American Film Scripts Online, a web database by Alexander Street Press that will soon enable online access to thousands of movie scripts.

Other related facilities and organizations on campus include the Media Cloisters in the library and the Vassar Student Film League.

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