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The Young Filmmakers

The young filmmakers are here to stay — to grow older and more experienced and, in time, to give way to the next wave of inspired firebrands.

If today’s unfettered, exuberant experimentation permits no other predictions, at least the above can be anticipated as surely as that there will be a continuing demand for filmmakers in the foreseeable future, even though technological progress may change the name of the medium. To be on the safe side, let us note here the clause inserted in writers’ contracts, which encompasses all presently known technical devices as well as the future ones yet to be invented.

For the interest in storytelling is sure to persist; curiosity did not come to an end when the listeners gathered in a ...

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