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My First Film – Part Five
Wesley Ellenwood
The stalk of beams began to wave erratically. Faces of laughing boys appeared and then disappeared into the darkness. A trio, their faces lit from below to mimic grimacing pint-sized movie monsters, floated into and out of the frame. The camera wandered aimlessly through what I’d describe as a cross between a backyard Halloween party…
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My First Film – Part Four
Wesley Ellenwood
My brother smiled and shouted, “Lights! Camera!” Suddenly, a bank of flashlights lit up the ground. Then he yelled, “Action!” Two-dozen beams of light began to sweep back and forth in every direction like mini searchlights at a film premiere in the forest.
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My First Film – Part Three
Wesley Ellenwood
He tapped my head. “I didn’t think you could run that fast.” He turned to his older sons and said eight magic words. “You two owe your little brother an apology.”
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My First Film – Part Two
Wesley Ellenwood
Two steps into the chase I could hear the ‘clump, clump, clump’ of Pan’s feet behind me.
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My First Film – Part One
Wesley Ellenwood
I believe the creator of the cosmos hand picked my Mom and Dad to win the camera raffle as a consolation prize for losing so badly in the gene pool raffle with their first born and especially their second.