I found some old photos yesterday
They help explain
how my movie-making began.
I thought it was because Mother and I
went to the movies
every Sunday.
Seeing all those movies
was a big influence, however.
But now,
60 years later,
I’ve actually submitted
They help explain
how my movie-making began.
I thought it was because Mother and I
went to the movies
every Sunday.
Seeing all those movies
was a big influence, however.
But now,
60 years later,
I’ve actually submitted
two short i-movie films
to The Sundance Film Festival.
to The Sundance Film Festival.
Here are the old 1950 photos.
I’d taken apart an old clock
to see how it worked.
Then, I couldn’t put it back together!
I remember thinking that
my frustration and disappointment
would make a good photo.
I set up the card table between
the crape myrtle tree,
the one I always climbed up into
to sit and listen
to my radio in the window.
to my radio in the window.
I had to wait for Mother
to get home
from work
to get her to take the picture.
When the photos came back
from the Drug Store,
I was so disappointed
because I saw
all the distracting patterns.
the lines of the clapboard siding,
my striped t-shirt,
the shadows
from the crape myrtle tree.
So maybe that’s where it all
started . . . an eye for photography,
It’s taken me a life time
to fulfill that dream of
making my very own movie.
And I have loved every .05 sec of
precision timing it takes to edit
just one little 2:37 movie
and burn a DVD and then
play it on my own Big Screen TV.
Yes, Shug, Your Dreams can Come True!
I can’t wait to start the next one.
I think it’s going to be called
The Adventures of a Blue Tomato!
stay tuned . . .
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