His parents advised him to major in business at Pasadena City College
and California State University at Los Angeles, where he received an
A.A. degree. But in his first year in college, Muren created a
16-millimeter science fiction film, "The Equinox." The movie was picked
up by a distributor, who added 40 minutes to it, blew it up to
35-millimeter, and released it; Muren made back his $8,000 investment,
and the movie is now known as
Equinox (1970).