Director John Carpenter's First Student film CAPTAIN VOYEUR Found

In the year 1969 a USC student by the name of John Carpenter directed his first student film called Captain Voyeur. Carpenter ended up directing several classic horror films such as Halloween, unfortunately in recent years his films have been as good. 

The the preprint negative for the student film was found in perfect shape in the archives of USC by archivist Dino Everett, and according to THR it will be restored with the help of a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

The eight minute short film follows a man at a boring computer job who eyes a woman at work and follows her home. He dons a mask and attempts to kill her but is shot by his co-worker. The movie was done in black and white film, and "has visual and thematic ties to the writer-director’s 1978 classic Halloween. " Everett also noted that, "at one point, the voyeur puts on a pair of glasses over his mask, much in the manner that Michael Myers wore glasses over the bedsheet covering his head in the Halloween prologue. Like the 1978 film, much of Captain Voyeur is shot from the point of view of the attacker, and the woman being stalked “could have been a young Jamie Lee Curtis she resembled the Halloween victim so strongly."

Once the film is restored I'm sure it will make it's way online. I'd love to see it!