By Harriet Polt in the Spring 1964 Issue Miss Polt, who has written for American and European film magazines, interviewed Shirley Clarke while both were attending the Venice festival last summer. This article appears for the first time in English; it was published originally in Czech translation in Film a Doba, Prague. How did you get your start in filmmaking? My first film was a short dance film called Dance in the Sun. When I saw the first rushes I was horrified: it was just terrible.