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eversal film at 1200 ft. per hr.
ositive film at 1200 ft. per hr.

MODEL
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* EXCLUSIVE OVERDRIVE eliminates film breakage, automa¬
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* FEED-IN ELEVATOR & 1200-FT. MAGAZINE permits uninter¬
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focal point of action, and preserved
audience orientation by such devices
as following a player from light into
darkness. An especially expert example
of this style of lighting occurs in a se¬
quence showing Studs in his bedroom
at night. His mother comes in and talks
to him and then leaves, turning out the
light. He is left momentarily in sil¬
houette, his mood enigmatic until he
turns toward the window and the
"moonlight'" illuminates his anguished
face.
Throughout the film Studs' fears and
the phantoms of dread which prevent
his facing the world of reality are sym¬
bolized by looming shadows which
seem to block his path, menacing him
at every turn. Even while he and his
cronies gather in a speakeasy, a locale
ordinarily denoting gaiety, the shadows
conspire in the background and seem
to reach out, dooming certain of the
group to destruction. At a corner table
they spy a shopworn prostitute. They
surround her and taunt her with
macabre compliments about her beauty.
There is a moment of horror in which
she lifts her wretched face hopefully
into the glaring light and beholds the
visages of the decadent youths sur¬
rounding her, their faces thrown into
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* 1960

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