Captain Voyeur (1969)
December 31, 1969Release Date
Captain Voyeur (1969)
December 31, 1969Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Jerry Cox
The Captain
Kathy Maynard
Actress
Victor Ponderosa
Actor
Jane Whiteridge
Actress
John Carpenter
Director
Joanne Willens
Cinematographer
Trace Johnston
Editor
Alan Marx
Actor
Julie Wedgeworth
Actress
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Captain Voyeur (1969) was the first short film by director John Carpenter while a student at USC Cinema. The 8-minute film is about a bored computer worker who becomes fixated on a woman at work and follows her back to her home. The film remained in the USC's Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive until 2011, when it was rediscovered by archivist Dino Everett. The film is notable because it includes several elements that would appear in Carpenter's later horror film, Halloween. Everett says that the similarities include a striking resemblance between the lead actresses.
The film was selected in 2011 for preservation by the National Film Preservation Foundation because of its historical significance in showing Carpenter's development as a filmmaker.