Joelle's film teacher: "the knack," the Pilotone, the American Century set

pivotal · ~Y.W. into Orin's B.U. years

• When: Joelle's B.U. years with Orin — her early clips date "from the start of the Y.W. season"; the set visit comes "Right after Thanksgiving" of the American Century production (the film is stamped Year of the Whopper in the filmography)
• What: When Orin brings the P.G.O.A.T. into the Incandenza orbit, it is Leith — not Himself — who trains her. Joelle had "devoted her life to her twirling and amateur film," and Leith delivers the verdict the text treats as her credential: "Disney Leith said she had the knack: her camera-hand was rock-steady; even the early clips from the start of the Y.W. season looked shot off a tripod." He attends her sideline shoots of #78, B.U. Punter — "sometimes with Leith in attendance (never Himself)" — and when Orin buys her sync-sound gear, "It took Leith three weeks to teach her to use the Pilotone." The apprenticeship formalizes on a real set: "Right after Thanksgiving Himself let the P.G.O.A.T. understudy with Leith on the set of The American Century as Seen Through a Brick in return for getting to film her thumb against a plucked string." Tagged pivotal because this is the on-ramp, as the text gives it, of Joelle's movement from amateur clips into Himself's production world — the collaboration whose endpoint is the final cartridge; what that collaboration became is covered on Joelle's page, not adjudicated here.