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09 January 2009

"At age eleven I worked at Disneyland. I sold guidebooks at the park from 1956 to about 1958. I am as positive as one can be that I appear about 20:20 into your film, low in the frame, dressed in a top hat, vest, and striped pink shirt...”
Steve Martin spots himself in a 1956 home movie that was recently inducted into the National Film Registry

post by: Atom Eyes at: 18:33 | 8 comments

You could work when you were 11 in the 50s?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 18:48

With the gray hair, he probably looked a lot older.

posted by mudpuppie 09 January | 19:10

I have such a crush on Steve Martin. His books are so funny and yet so gentle toward the idiots that people are.

posted by crush-onastick 09 January | 19:12

The movie is actually kind of fun to watch. linky

posted by DarkForest 09 January | 20:04

How odd - I've met Robbins Barstow through a maritime museum connection. He's a whale conservation advocate. Huh. Didn't know about his filmmaking side.

posted by Miko 09 January | 20:15

Man, their Davy Crockett jackets are pretty darn snazzy. Want!

posted by Miko 09 January | 20:28

Wow, that's great. I read the Steve Martin bio last summer. He's a good writer but he really skimmed over the big '70's fame years, I thought. Probably because they were some seemingly bittersweet years for him.
The film is pretty cool, too.
The whole fainting-in-slow-motion and running the film backwards business reminds me of the corny stuff I make my kids do on video. And my mom totally would have made that matchy matchy jacket kind of stuff on her sewing machine when we were kids.
Also, his whole folksy narration style reminded me of A Christmas Story. I love how he says, "Californ-e-a."

posted by chococat 10 January | 00:43

I so wish we had family films like that, but then we weren't that kind of family.

My grandmother worked at Disneyland opening day and for a couple more years after that. My mum and her siblings got so well known to the ride operators they'd get to go for free.

Cool post, Atom Eyes!

posted by deborah 10 January | 15:48

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