Historical June 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
For the second year, the students at Hamilton School have written, produced, and filmed their own motion picture. Last year’s movie, The Return Of The Return Of The Fly, was a big hit!
In that film, Jeron Navies mistakenly ate a fly in chemistry class and immediately turned into a giant hideous fly.
This strange creature was not accepted by the student body and was forced to kill to stay alive. Only after the boy’s girlfriend discovered a chemical formula that returned him to his original self, could the students live in peace!
This year Hamilton is under attack again, this time from mysterious aliens: drawings come alive in art class, people disappear, children run at superhuman speed.
Not even the uniformed school patrol seems able to stop this year’s menace. Can Hamilton be saved once again? No one will know until Tuesday, June 3, the date set for the world premier of Disco Alien. Casey Howard, Michael King and Yvette Lampkin star in this thrilling science fiction film that took months to create.
The Disco Alien crew has learned a great deal about communicating through film. Photographer Anthony Gowdy of the seventh grade is the producer. Helena Graham, director of The Fly, returns to direct a cast that also includes Angela Williams, Kathryn Williams, Rodney Pearson, Carolyn Kimbrough and nearly every student in the school. Actors James Foster and Kenneth Jarrett are also responsible for the animation. Last year’s writer, Anthony Young, collaborated on this year’s script, with Michael King, who is the Disco Alien. Sixth grader Patricia Betts did most of the editing.
The film class is part of the art program offered by R. D. Zurick, Hamilton’s art teacher. Disco Alien will be shown in the art room a number of times throughout the school day, June 3. There is limited adult seating.
For reservations, call 367-0552. Disco Alien was made entirely by students, using Super-8 cameras and basic editing equipment, but no lights. Sound, mostly in the form of prerecorded music, was taped by Michael King and Anthony Young. Last year’s world premier of The Return Of The Return Of The Fly was so well received that additional showings were immediately scheduled for the same day. Unfortunately, those were the only public screenings of a movie that is still a hot topic of conversation within Hamilton.
The Return Of The Return Of The Fly mysteriously disappeared last year when Fox Photo sent the film to Eastman Kodak to be duplicated. That is the last record of its existence.
Those who missed the premier showing of last year’s movie may never get a chance to see Hamilton’s first film production; however, Alan Brawn, district manager for Fox Photo, has yet to declare the film permanently lost, and, a neighborhood of children anxiously await the return of The Return Of The Return Of The Fly.
Originally published in The Paper, June 1980.
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