Lesson58 A Sunset on the Screen

The director of a film planned to film a beautiful sunset over the ocean. He sent his       1 crew out one evening to shot the sunset for him.

The next morning he said to the men, "Have you got that sunset?"

"No, sir," the men answered.

"      2  ?" he asked.

"Well, sir," one of the men answered, "we're on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get you a sunrise over the sea, if necessary, but not a sunset."

"But I want a sunset!" the director shouted. "Go to the airport take the next flight to the west coast, and get one."

But then a young secretary had an idea. "Why don't you photograph a sunrise," she suggested, "and then put it through the projector backwards? Then it'll look like a sunset."

"That's a very good idea!" the director said. Then he turned to the camera crew and said, "Tomorrow morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea.

The camera crew went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise       3  in the middle of a beautiful bay. Then at nine o'clock they took it to the director. "Here it is, sir," they said, and showed it to him. He liked it very much.

They all went into the studio. "All right, now run the film backwards through the projector." Said the director.

The "sunset" began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly       4  the camera crew to stop.

The birds in the film were       5  , and the waves on the sea were going away from the beach.