Fifteen page paper for film history: done. Among all the things that I needed to do in December, this one caused me the most headaches, although I have to be honest and say that I've never been more responsible about writing a paper in my life, and certainly in film history. The first paper I ever wrote for film history was about East German Cinema. It was a group paper, and it was supposed to be 5-7 pages long. A week before the paper was due, my group had only decided on a film to watch and a topic to write about. We hadn't watched the film, and we hadn't even started researching. My two group members were in a production class, and every time I wanted to get together they said they had a shoot to go to. Finally, it was the day before the paper was due, and we had done no work. We decided that we would start working on it when their shoot wrapped. They he called me at 11 PM. I went over to a group member's house, only to hear that our other group member wasn't com...
