在美国,各学院和大学的学生有很好的条件搞影片的拍摄工作。全美学生电影竞赛节就是为了提高学生的导、演、摄及编剧水平,同时也是为了促进电影教育的开展而设立的。以大学生为主的电影制作人,可以将自己的片子寄给一个由电影界著名人士组成的评选委员会,由他们进行逐一的严格审查,最后,产生出四至六部得奖的片子。在一九八○年的第六届全美学生电影竞赛节上,赞助这次竞赛的负责人曾说:这些学生拍摄的电影在质量上年年有所进步。他认为,这种进步的情形理所当然地应该归功于大学里的电影课程的逐渐普及,而且很多的电影课程的质量也都在改进着。美国电影学院院长卡林也这样认为:“电影竞赛就是代表了一项承诺,那就是美国的电影事业会继续健康而且繁荣发展,因为邀请学生参加电影竞赛可以充分发展和显示他们创造的才能,鼓励他们发展多方面的兴 In the United States, students at colleges and universities have good conditions for filming. The National Film Festival is designed to enhance the level of student guidance, performance, filming and screenwriting, and to promote the development of film education. University-based filmmakers can send their films to a selection committee composed of celebrities from the movie industry, conducting rigorous scrutiny of them one by one, culminating in four to six winning films. At the Sixth National Students Film Festival in 1980, the sponsors of the contest once said: “The quality of these films is improving year by year. In his opinion, this progress should be attributed to the gradual popularization of cinema programs in universities, and the quality of many cinema programs is also improving. Carlin, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts of America, said: ”The film contest represents a promise that the film industry in the United States will continue to be healthy and prosperous because inviting students to the film competition can fully develop and demonstrate the talents they create, Encourage them to develop many aspects of Hing