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Dave says

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15. My dad was in the film business and did post-production special effects

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Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:29 PM

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Mostly TV commercials as we were based in NYC. (He was also known as one of the the best colorist in the country. I was an editor for awhile.)

He'd bring home all kinds of things from time to time. A 15 inch reel-to-reel audio tape recorder that weighed a ton (had a huge transformer in it to smooth the electric current to minimize wah-wah distortion). He brought home video cameras and VCR-like video players before VCR was a thing. He'd bring home 35mm prints of movies. All kinds of goodies.

Mine and my brother's favorite was a scale model of the sailboat used in Sinbad the Sailor (there were several models, used for different scenes). It was perfect down to the smallest detail (wood, of course) and about 2.5 feet long. My brother and I spent hours playing with it until we wore it down and it fell apart. We were young.

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