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Steven Spielberg: Young Filmmaker"Steven Spielberg's interest in film-making was encouraged. By 12, he'd made his first amateur film, an 8-minute Western called The Last Gun, which Steven financed with a tree-planting business. He'd charge admission to his home movies, getting Annie [his sister] to sell popcorn..."
["His projects rapidly became more ambitious in scale and scope. By 14, he'd made a 40-minute war film, Escape To Nowhere, on 8mm, and another short, Battle Squad, which mixed WW2 footage with sequences he'd shot at Phoenix airport. Even that young, he'd learned how to make stationary aircraft seem as if they were travelling at supersonic speed. Within two years he was working on Firelight, a 140-minute sci-fi epic, based on a story his sister Nancy had written about a UFO attack."]
[Trivia: As a young man, Steven Spielberg displayed symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism which leads to obsessional interests.]
Spielberg, Steven Allan (1946- ) American director [noted for such films as
Duel (1971, TV), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Poltergeist (1982), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Lost World: Jurassic Park II (1997), Amistad (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002)]
[Sources: tiscali.co.uk, Steven Spielberg bio]More Steven Spielberg anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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