Evening star., 1938-06-05
Western High School Students Making School Movies
Scoop Mcclure at
Head of New
Enterprise.
BY FRANCES LIDE,
Junior Pare Editor.

Junior Pase Editor.
THEY are saying at Western
High School that Bill Mcclure,
better known as Scoop" has
4 lived up to his nickname again.
This time Bills scoop Is = moving
picture stunt.
From the staff Of the Western
Breeze. the school newspaper of which
he is editor in chief, Bill has assembled
q moving picture company called the
Scoop Production Co.
Pictures filmed by this youthful out
fit are: "Of Western students, by West
ern students and for Western stu
dents"
Bill explained that the Breeze ex-
poets local shorts to act as q plug for
school movies when they are added to
the regular school moving, picture
programs. And one show, at least, has
proved that the Breeze is right.
The Scoop Production Co.'S first
"superspectacle"-a 15-minute reel en-
titled Cadets in Action" and showing
high lights of Westerns annual cadet
competitive drill-had its premier a
short time ago to a packed house. A
few days later Cadets in Action" was
presented second time on Q special
request program. again to a packed
house Of Western students who en-
joyed seeing themselves in the movies.
After this initial success the COM
pany has gone ahead with plans to film
another show.
The next "superspectacle," however,
will have q story back Of it and will be
called Sweet Sixteen" The idea, the
moviemakers explained, is to show
typical classroom scenes, a few extra
curricula activities and to lightly bur-
lesque puppy love. The finale will be
school show In which various enter
tainers at Western will be given an op-
portunity to display their art.
In the meantime Bill added,
well continue to make our news reels
and add them to the school programs
as often as we can"
Though the Scoop Production Co.
has the sanction of school officials and
Is sponsored by the Breeze, it owes its
origin to Scoop" Bill personally In
vested in the equipment and studied
up on movie making before he enlist
ed his assistants.
When his idea was presented even.
tually to the staff Of the Breeze, an
organization was formed with the fol-
lowing members, all of whom are mem.
bers Of the Breeze STAN:
Bill Mcclure, producer; Alvin Stein
berg, director; Bob Moore. financial
adviser; Jack Parker, technical ad.
wiser; Leo Stoutsenberg, art director in
charge of making titles. and Otto
Healy. John Browning and Lee Mum,
in charge Of operation. Otto is Of
1cially known as yes man and back
scratcher," 1t was explained, a job for
which his training as q copy boy on
the Breeze well fitted him. The other
two in charge Of operation are assist
ant yes men"
The company does not have a script
writer, nor does it have an oficial
studio, though the office Of the Breeze
frequently Is pressed into studio serv-
Ice and looks sort Of like HOLLYWOOD
gone mad when q rush Job is under
way.
Sweet Sixteen is the first film
planned with a story, Bill said, and
explained: - "a. ...I
We know what that story is, and
we tell 1t to the actors before we
start . scene. Then they Just say the
natural thing that .fits the situation.
and it will be up to the cutter to make
sense out of the show rs q whole"
With Western beauties who might
like part In the picture. the company
Is little hard-boiied.
There will be no tryouts and no
screen tests other than those the movie
makers already have on hand.
you see, we figured the girls
couldn't keep from trying to act il
they came for = screen test, 20 We took
pictures Of most of the popular girls
while We were making Cadets In Ac-
aon.'" young director declared.
Now we know how they look In the
movies and can just 60 on from there"