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A PREP SCHOOL PHOTOPLAY
Movie Making Is Now the Most Popular Sport at this Florida Boys' School
EXIT THREE BOOTLEGGERS" is the title of the photoplay recently completed by the boys of the Indian River School, at New Smyrna, Florida. It is an amateur picture if there ever was one, yet such a pronounced success, according to all who have viewed it, that it promises to be the first of many which the boys of Indian River will produce. And this is such good healthy activity that I am not surprised to hear that similar productions are being planned by many other private and public schools. This is a new means for the dramatic expression of growing
By William A. Buell
Since a good rescue is admittedly a sure-fire success on the screen, the next question was how to weave this situation around our available material. Bootleggers thrive on deserted beaches — so they would make a good
bers of the Coast Guard, sufficed for costumes. The necessary dummy cases for the "stuff" were constructed in the school shop, to identify the profession of the villains.
With this general outline to follow, the English class of the school worked out the following scenario. While putting ashore a small cargo, the bootleggers are by chance observed by a young boy at play with his dog among the dunes. He slips away to warn the Coast Guard. The villains continue loading up the contraband to move it to a cache in the woods. Meantime the heroine, who is the daughter of the chief of the Coast Guard, and her friend are enjoying a pleasant ride in the woods. They round a bend and
children, and opportunity for such expression is vitally important to their well-rounded development. To the ever present interest in dramatics is added the fascination of "making movies," so I predict that as one of the leisure-time activities of our schools amateur movie making is here to stay, and I, for one, am delighted that this is the case.
An inventory of movie assets determined the nature of the scenario of this first production of ours. There was a perfect beach, pine groves and palms some thick jungle and the ruins of an old Franciscan mission. There were plenty of horses, cars of various descriptions, a few boats, a variety of bungalows, and enough talent for a small cast. While the ruins were a tempting invitation for a plot dealing with the early Spanish settlers, it was decided to avoid complication and adapt these assets to present day circumstances.
elow: PART OF THE CAST
gang of villains. The hero could be recruited from the ranks of the U. S. Coast Guard. So argued the boys of the school. And the daughter of the school director, a popular favorite, would make an ideal heroine. She had a friend visiting her for the winter, so thus the cast was complete. Some old clothes for the gang, riding habits for the ladies, whites for the mem
find themselves in the midst of the
smugglers. In the attempted seizure
the heroine is captured and dragged
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