Jun 1921 – Rex Ingram Recognition

Rex Ingram, Silent Film Director, was in New Haven, CT on his old Art School, the University of Yale, who conferred on him a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in recognition, for his merits for the art of the cinema and especially for directing “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. It was the first time, a University recognized motion picture as an art –the first time in the world!