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...Valley Regional High School in Demarest, N.J. Taught by English Teacher Rodney Sheratsky and Documentary Film Maker Eric Camiel, the course includes esthetic theory, film history, and exercises in cinematography, cutting and editing. Students, most of whom borrow their parents' 8-mm. equipment, are required to make one filmlet a week, which is subjected by Camiel to scathing professional criticism. He can be high in his praise for efforts that show both imagination and care-and many do. One of his students this year did a four-minute movie on the theme of pregnancy, using dense filtered colors, quick...
...third filmlet concerns one Gabrielle Fenayrou, who, while never bloodying her pretty hands, was the muse for two murderers. Gabrielle lives with a gouty old husband and keeps a handsome young lover. One afternoon while tangoing (the year is 1913), he tells her he is betrothed to another-but, with true Gallic practicality, assures her that this need not interrupt their dalliance for a moment. Gabrielle, combining sang-froid with S. Freud, goes along with this, and together they plot to kill her husband. But the lover's pistol only clicks, and the husband shoots him instead. Gabrielle...
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