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Once again, however, this working method is not the only one, as can be seen with Hébert’s fairly quick adoption of the so-called “stencil” method after it was suggested by a Matane Cégep student in an etching on film workshop given by Hébert at the NFB. This approach consists in reproducing a fixed object for a period of time in the centre of the image in order to avoid the fluctuations caused by the absence of guide marks on the opaque film stock.