I Was A Teenage Movie Maker!

I Was a Teenage Movie Maker - Don Glut's Amateur Films is an exceedingly strange movie package. (It was my Halloween treat for myself.) Don Glut is well known to my generation of comic book fans as a prodigious writer of comics for most of the major publishers such as DC, Marvel and especially Gold Key. But when he was a youngster, he was apparently a relentless moviemaker. The movies he made were the stuff you'd expect from kids at first but later they became much more refined.  

There are hours and and hours of homemade movies about dinosaurs, classic monsters, and later superheroes. Glut's films even got mentions in Famous Monsters of Filmland.  The DVD also has a pretty lengthy documentary hosted by Don Glut himself explaining how his various films came to be over the course of his life. To get a look at the documentary check out this link. 

When Glut finally became an adult and headed off to film school in California, he continued to make weird but fascinating films, often with the help of other film fans such as Bob Burns, notorious for his own roles as Tracy the ape in Ghost Busters. Glut also made movie serials in the tradition of the classic Republic films and even was able to attract pros like Roy Barcroft and Glenn Strange to play roles for him. Some of those films, made on locations such as the famous Bronson Canyon were even show on local television. 

If you're a "Monster Kid" or sympathetic to the cause you might find this interesting. Watching the all the movies can be a chore, but there are many charms to be discovered. 

There is a companion book for this collection, but I was unable to acquire a copy alas. 

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