print previewback ROBERT GIBB
Cinema Club, Kutztown State College, 1971
Those movies about the movies: Sunset
Boulevard, Singing in the Rain, Targets . . .
We cherished every close-up of the projector,
Its smoke-swirled beam,
the film editor
Splicing footage together in the dark.
Keaton crossing the proscenium arch.
The boom mic taking center stage
In Welles’ stark trailer for Citizen Kane.
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Mirrors held up to mirrors. Soliloquies
Of light.
In black-and-white especially—
That old, combustible, nitrate stock
The images themselves could touch off.
Veronica Lake in a bathrobe in Sullivan’s
Travels, the film lit as if with platinum. 
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Cinema Club, Kutztown State College, 1971