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TERRY SANDERS operates the Mitchell 35 camera photographing a Efrain Ramirez, actor Richard Widmark, student Mike Nyman, special
dramatic scene for "Off The Highway," a non-profit production con effects technician Sass Bedig, director Fred Zinnemann, and students
ceived to give on-the-job training to college cinema students under Lear Levin and Len Miller. (Photograph by Helen Mil jakovich.)
guidance of Hollywood professionals. Others from left are: student
The Pros Show The Students How
College cinema students working with Hollywood professionals produce “Off The Highway” in 35mm and sound as a non-profit job-training project.
By CLIFFORD V. HARRINGTON
of production equipment and fa¬ cilities to work with. They pro¬ vided half of the raw film stock themselves, and Eastman Kodak supplied the rest. Sound facilities were donated by Todd-AO. Camera equipment was loaned by Mark Armistead, Inc. Grip equipment came from the Masterlite Co. Ed¬ iting facilities were provided by the Goldwyn Studios, and labora¬ tory work was donated by DeLuxe Lab of 20th Century-Fox. An arti¬
ficial boulder, an important prop in the picture, was borrowed from Columbia Studios.
With this top flight backing a tremendous responsibility fell upon the students. They had to show the pros that they could meet the challenge.
Writer Ira Wolfert had donated his short story “Off the Highway” for the production. It is a story of a traveling salesman surprised and attacked on the highway by a luna¬
tic. The role of the salesman was played by Widmark and the luna¬ tic by Whit Bissell, both wellknown Hollywood screen actors.
Prior to production, director Zinnemann asked each of the stu¬ dents to prepare shooting scripts. These were finally resolved into one. Then the students were sent out to scout locations for the pic¬ ture. Zinnemann suggested that the story locale be set in the desert to reduce the story’s elements to their
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