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‘‘Modem Times’^ Salutes
Genius of Chaplin
Photo Contest
(Continued from Page 1)
for good pic-
Suggestions
tures:
1. When photographing
people watch for pleasing ex
pressions.
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Shows 7 and 9 H. M.
Saturday and Sunday
1-3-5-7-9
2. Focus on a central object.
R^ember your eye likes to
look at one thing. Don’t vex
your eye by trying to include
too much.
3. Aim carefully and hold
the camera steady. Do not
laught while taking the pic
ture. Watch your lighting and
use an exposure meter to
guide your shooting. Shooting
hand held under 1/30 of
second is usually taboo.
Rules of competition;
1. Pick HP your free film
and sign up in the Admissions
Office oi Monday, November
3.
2. Shoot your pictures.
3. Return your exposed film
to Admissions Office before
November 14,1975.
4. 120 film will not be si^)-
plied but will be processed.
5. All darkroran work will
be done by Kim McRae.
Photography is fun,
especially when it’s free. All
photo freaks are encouraged
to stop by the Admissions Of
fice. You could be published
with full credit in the up-
coming St. Andrews publicity
This Sunday at 7 p.m. in
Avinger Auditorium, CUB,
SAS and Commai Experience
will present Sir Charles
Chaplin’s “Modern Times.”
This film has excited public
and critics alike for over 35
years and is essential viewing
for anyone interested in film.
It also promises to be
outrageously funny.
The following comments -
provided by the film’s
distributor - explain why
“Modem Times” is a must
for the St. Andrews com
munity:
For MODERN TIMES
Charles Chaplin once again
defied motion picture in
dustry convention and
produced a silent film nearly
ten years after wholesale con
version to dialogue films.
Charlie was bom silent, it
was through silence that he
became a universal figure,
and silent he would remain.
Except for a short song
Chaplin sings in complete gib
berish near the end of the
movie, dialogue is heard in
MODERN TIMES only from
loudspeakers and television
screens.
THE POEM in Mick Meisel’s
column last week (page 12)
was accidentally not at
tributed to its autha-. The
piece, entitled “Death,” is by
William Butler Yeats.
brochure. Even if your jdiotos
are not published in the St.
Andrews brochure, one might
end q) in the Lamp and Shield
but without the five dollar
prize.
In the more than thirty-five
years since its original
release, MODERN TIMES
has become perhaps the most
popular of the Chaplin films.
Although firmly rooted in the
Depression period of the mid-
thirties, this satire of mass
production and its effects
upon the lives of factory
workers has taken on the aura
of a timeless classic.
Actually, MODERN TIMES
is concerned with a good deal
more than assembly lines.
Some criticism has been
made of the film’s alleged
lack of thematic unity, since
we are presented with a half-
hour of Charlie in the factory,
then Charlie in jail, Charlie as
a ni^t watchman, as a
singing waiter, and so on. To
this point of view (which was
widely voiced at the time of
the film’s original release)
the effect is one of several
sequences which, clever as
most of them are, fail to add
up to a unified whole. What is
overlooked by such criticism
is that the very mater of day -
to-day survival, always a
strong underlying current in
Chaplin’s-work, becomes in
MODERN ^MES the central
concern, and indeed the very
theme of the film. This was
not only singularly ap
propriate for the America of
1936, but also contributes no
doubt in large shar to the
film’s remarkable refusal to
become dated.
THE ART of puppet making is illustrated above as Jan
Williams paints one of the stars of heer adaptation of J.M.
Barnes’ Peter Pan. See story, page 6.
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