Excellent documentary about Don Glut, who made amateur monster, superhero, and dinosaur movies as a kid/teenager/college student. From 1953 - 1969, Glut made 41 movies, which are all found, along with the documentary, on this two disk set.
Glut still has many of the props and costumes that were used to make his movies. Plus he tells us how he did some special effects that are truly remarkable, considering he was a kid shooting films in his parents basement. His ingenuity and passion for making movies led him to USC to study film, and contributed to his getting to know people like Bob Burns and Glen Strange (who played the Frankenstein monster after Karloff grew tired of it) both of whom appeared in his student films!
Truly fascinating for anyone who has an interest in 16mm amateur film making, or how kids used to make movies before the age of computers and camcorders.
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