Introduce Yourself : Long time movie maker - Tom Barker by Thomas B Barker

I began making movies as a teen back in the mid 1950's. Later while attending Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) pursuing a degree in imaging science, I dabbled in an extracurricular activity of making short stop motion animation films. I entered one in the first Brown University Intercollegiate Film Festival. A budding filmmaker by the name of Martin Scorsese also entered that festival with his NYU backed picture, "What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" My title was "EXPLOSION" and came in second to Marty. I continued making films over the years for my own pleasure and for just the fun of it. Now in my retirement from a job at Xerox where I gleaned many patents on the Xerographic process and a second career at RIT as a professor of quality and statistics, I travel and each summer conduct a "Movie Camp" for my two grandsons and their ten friends who range in age from 4 to 11. I have taught them and continue to teach them some of the fundamentals of film making and they have written and produced 6 short films that reflect their fertile young minds. I feel that film (movies, pictures, whatever you call it) is an essential part of communication in the 21st Century and I want these kids to be proficient in crafting this form of expression. Unfortunately movie making is not taught in the curriculum of our public schools which is reflected in the preponderance of simply awful movies on YouTube. My YouTube ID is: tbbeqa.