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Over the weekend, I took a tour of Denison (a small, liberal arts college in Ohio), and I must say...if you want to convince me to go to your college, just introduce me to the cinema house (And have a good bio program, small classes, band, and low cost that also helps!)
I've never visited the film building on a college tour (sadly, most of the college tours opted to show the football field instead of the art buldings) and the first thing I saw was a huge (about my chest height), old-fashioned, camera from the early movies. It got me excited, because I've only seen those in "The Artist," and "Hugo."

It looked something like this

Although the camera was only for display, a film major showed me some old technology that still was in use.
Like the photography class in Herricks, the Denison film class starts with the basics before going digital: they shoot and develop film with traditional techniques.
I haven't paid much attention to traditional film making, but seeing all of the different machines people had to use gave me a new appreciation for how quickly we are able to shoot and edit film today! For example, the film major took me to a room where an old film editor was. She gave a brief overview of the process, and mentioned how hard adding sound was to the movies (Most graduates used the machine for silent films, because adding sound was that hard!)
Although I'll probably stick with digital, it was fascinating to see how people had to film in the older days.

http://denison.edu/get-to-know-denison/cinema-house