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Sep. 11th, 2007 07:49 pmUpdate: YouTube
On Saturday I received a DVD in the post from my brother. It has 4 minutes of silent film, shot in 1967 on an 8mm cine camera which none of us can remember, found among family photos when clearing our parents' house after their deaths last year. My brother describes the film briefly here.
I wasn't yet born when this film was made. But there I am, in my mother and father, quite different from each other yet both uncannily similar to me. I don't have my mother's curly hair at the moment, but those who saw me before the latest cut would know it immediately, and I still have her eyes and smile. I'm happy to have avoided the Haines chin, but as my father propels my brother on a tricycle, he has my stance and awkward gait.
Our parents go before us through the world and (God willing) out of it. But we follow in their footsteps, and carry them onwards within us.
On Saturday I received a DVD in the post from my brother. It has 4 minutes of silent film, shot in 1967 on an 8mm cine camera which none of us can remember, found among family photos when clearing our parents' house after their deaths last year. My brother describes the film briefly here.
I wasn't yet born when this film was made. But there I am, in my mother and father, quite different from each other yet both uncannily similar to me. I don't have my mother's curly hair at the moment, but those who saw me before the latest cut would know it immediately, and I still have her eyes and smile. I'm happy to have avoided the Haines chin, but as my father propels my brother on a tricycle, he has my stance and awkward gait.
Our parents go before us through the world and (God willing) out of it. But we follow in their footsteps, and carry them onwards within us.
