Veritas Plans New Shows As First Nears Completion

Students who want to crack into movie writing need not catch the next train for Hollywood. They can do it right here, for Veritas Films.

With this year's show, "Touch of the Times," moving toward completion, the organization is searching for a suitable vehicle of production next fall, and any Radcliffe or University student with a yen for seeing his work on cellulose may offer scenarios for competition.

One-thousand word synopses of the scripts must be submitted by May 1, and announcement of the winning script will come on May 10. To the winner goes the chore of completing the final product by the end of the summer.

From inauspicious beginnings, Veritas has developed into a compact, 50 member organization. Even though "Touch of the Times" and next year's movie will be silent, president William L. Alden '50 plans eventually to produce sound pictures.

"We are now using," he explained, "equipment belonging to the members, but we hope to buy our own sound cameras, with receipts from sale of the films." Undergraduates groups at Yale, Dartmouth, and Smith have already indicated a desire to show "Touch of the Times."

Man and the Masses

With warm weather on the way, out-door shooting is being continued on the film, a fantasy "which burlesques the conflict between the individual and the masses."

The plot of "Touch of the Times" stems from a factory worker's loss of his girl to a fellow worker. He seeks solace in flying a kite and remains apart. Soon the other factory workers follow suit, and everyone is flying kites. When the factory issues on edict against kite-flying, everyone goes back to his job except the hero, who just continues flying his kite and is immensely happy.