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...projector starts and the screen stays black--we hear a "haunting," "exotic" flute and soon the clatter of oxen's feet. After an interminably long time, the camera finds the cattle, and immediately pans in on the cloven hooves scuffing through the dusty soil. Thereby Rooks has introduced what turns out to be a major motif in the movie--feet. The film's fascination with this part of the anatomy is endless. When Siddhartha pads solemnly through the forest in search of you know what, we become familiar with his dirty toes. And when Siddhartha has 'crossed the river" (this...
...this were not enough cause for wonder, the Delta 2000 is hooked up to a little slide projector filled with schematic diagrams of the utility systems used throughout the University. When something goes wrong, all the attendant on duty has to do is to push a specially coded number into the computer's logic system and the diagram pops onto a television sized siren that sits next to the computer console. Without leaving his seat, he can see what's wrong...
...program has become an immediate boon to the community. Students work each afternoon on jobs that Lodwick helped them land, and Lodwick marches them to the local bank once a week to deposit 10% of what they earn. One boy runs the projector at the local drive-in, another who loves horses helps at the town tack shop. One has worked out so well on a nearby cattle ranch that the owner wants to pay the youngster's tuition at agricultural college...
...next act in the show was a dance troupe, with a polished Brechtian little mime about the dog-eat-dog world. In the background a slide projector flashed pictures of atrocities in Indochina. Again a question--What is the way out of all this? Blackout. And on stage appears Davis to give The Answer...
...excellent coordination; it's simply that they drive a pretty good idea beyond its limits. Flashing slides of the actors' faces across the stage must have been somebody's favorite gimmick, but it doesn't have any place in the Harvard-Epworth Church, where the click of the projector is clearly audible to the audience. That, together with scratchy, muffled tapes of the actors' voices is enough to make anyone lose his faith in multi-media...