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Show Ht&vSttCUJjjfc&t" Guild A trae, Ui small fry, and Chrhtmai morning a lore-fir anapihot combination. Plan to Shoot a Christmas Story Today we'd like to tell you how one family we've heard about records Christmas at their house. A week or so before the holiday, all the members sit down for a "story conference." Everybody makes suggestions about what should be included as picture ma. terial, and a list of all the mutual-ly-agreed-upon items is drawn up. This "shooting list" generally contains such preliminary activities as Junior's letter to Santa; making and decorating Christmas cookies; putting the traditional trimmings on doorways and fireplace; festive store windows and fat Santas; packages and mail; bringing home the tree and decorating it; hanging the children's stockings; carolers on Christmas Eve, etc. For Christmas Day itself, high on the list come gift-opening, holiday callers, test runs of skates and bicycles, and, of course, Christmas dinner. As you can see, the story begins '.o take shape. The first shot will i.robabl be Junior peering into - tnr window then a clo4-s of one particular toy. From then on, the toy becomes the unifying theme that holds the story togetherwhether it's to be recorded on snapshot film or by a movie camera. Junior confers with a curbstone Santa; he writes a letter to Santa. Then, a series of shots will show trimming the tree until the Star of Bethlehem at last shines forth from the very top. The gifts including the toy are wrapped and piled high at the foot of the tree and the stockings are "hung with care" at the fireplace. On Christmas morning, Junior opens his gifts and "Boy meets toy". A good close-up shot of his reaction will almost tell a story all by itself and so will the faces of the holiday callers to whom he shows off his new and already beloved toy. Don't even be surprised to see the toy going alonj to the dinner table and-Snlb to bed with him after a -- fuOr -rcitii day I |