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In elementary school my best friend, Butch, and I would experiment with his dad's Super 8. His dad worked for Bell & Howell, so their house was full of these products, many cameras and something that was like a filmstrip projector with a record player. At that time, Willie Mosconi and Minnesota Fats were all over TV, and Butch's family had a pool table. So, I learned how to play pool. Never once did I rip the felt, either!
The best thing we used to do was my little playlets. We'd all gather up anything that could be a character, dolls, toys, stuffed animals. I'd get all the playsets and doll furniture and other "props". These I would rig with thread so that it looked like the doll puppet was making things open or move. Or, if we were going for a dramatic crash or earthquake effect, as Bela Lugosi might say, I'd pull the strings. I had to have voices, so many of my friends would play parts, and I had to have music and effects. Those I would play on the portable record player. I loved sound effects records and had a few. One was given to me by the school librarian who was thinning out their records. It was full of sound effects that I played over and over to try to tell which were real and which were created. If I thought they were created sounds, I would think of how those sounds could have been made. My playlets were really improvised, but we'd come up with stuff that was so hysterical. Later, I would write what I later learned was a scenario, and we'd improvise off of that. This was all in elementary school.
When I got into high school, I did a video project which I had fully scripted and used sound effects and music, but this was all done live to tape. No editing or fancy stuff as we didn't have that equipment. It was my version of how everyone kept bothering Betsy Ross and coming up with ludicrous ideas for a flag. We had a lot of fun with that.
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