It's the first time.
His eyes open like saucers.
In the dark, Sammy discovers cinema.
In 1952, in New Jersey, his parents took him to see
Under the Largest Big Top in the World
.
The kid can't believe it.
With his electric train, he tries to reproduce the train accident that impressed him so much on the screen.
We offer him a Super 8 camera. You know what it is: afterwards, it didn't stop.
Sammy Fabelman will become a director.
He has three sisters, as in Chekhov.
They serve as actresses, in horror short films.
His pianist mother gave up her ambitions as a virtuoso to raise her offspring.
The father, a bit withdrawn, is a computer pioneer.
There's also Uncle Bennie, who isn't related but is Dad's best friend.
All this little world moves to Phoenix before settling in California.
It is not without tears.
Sammy enrolls in the scouts, shoots a western and a war movie with his…
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