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LURCHING FROM ONE
Dance
NEAR DISASTER TO ANOTHER. Warren Miller
Moon Landing

O
N A DECEMBER DAY IN would rather spend the time with my
Montana, it is just too cold to ski. kids teaching them old stuf that I knew.

On a blazing hot day in July of At the time, I was still shooting 16mm
1969, I was about to be introduced to the Kodachrome ilm with a hand-wind Bell
wonderful world of electronics. It would and Howell, three-lens turret movie
be many years before Steve Jobs and Bill camera. I was recording my narration on
Gates would invent what they invented.
16mm magnetic tape with sprocket holes
I had spent the day at San Onofre rid- that matched those on the ilm. Then
ing shoulder-high waves. In short, I had I would feed the sound track and the

EVERYONE’S SOURCE spent a perfect day enjoying perfect surf- ilm through a synchronizer and match
FOR ALL THINGS VALLEY’S BEST
ing conditions.
the words to the images. I wished I had
DANCE.
The stove had been put away and some of the electronic wizardry of today
POWER most of the people on the beach had to make those ilms better, but it had not
Leotards, Tights, Shoes, gathered around the for the Saturday been invented yet.
Accessories, Gits HOUR
night guitar, ukulele and sing-along fest.
Amazing what can be done these days
and so much more.
Big Sky
There was a full moon shining bright- just with an iPhone. Yesterday, I ilmed a
ly when a friend invited me to the tailgate whole video shoot using just a cell phone.
Dance Fahions
4-6PM
of his station wagon to view something This century is already passing me by.
on his TV that no one on Earth had ever An iPhone with a camera that is the
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I sat in warm sand while watching a deck of cards has more computer ca-
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Wines by I could sit there and watch the small them when they blasted of for the moon
TV and look up at the moon in a mental that July in 1969.
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lieve.
get stuf up to the space capsule, it costs
I learned many years later that the $20 million to get a 200-pound astro-
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today. The two astronauts climbed out in landing, I was spreading the word that it
Creative
their space suits and walked around for had been staged in a sound studio in Hol-

Cocktails
awhile for the ultimate photo op.
lywood and I had some of my less-clever
Then they climbed back into the surfer friends convinced that my story
for $4 each
landing module and blasted of to reat- was the true one. I’ve always been known
tach to the rocket that would bring them to stir things up a bit.
6 back to earth. The mathematical prob- I realized the next morning that
ability of all of this working is so remote nothing had changed in my suring and
Hand and complex that it is impossible to write movie-making world. You still had to
the formula on a single piece of paper.
Selected
scramble for a good spot on a wave. I still
I never did invest in a 12-volt tele- used wax on my surboard and I still paid
Draft Beers
vision set so I could watch TV from the all of the bills of raising three young chil-
remote places I traveled. I could never dren.
for $4 each
igure out how to get the signal. Now Now it’s the time of year for us to get
you can get cell or internet service just on the chairlift and ride up to the Tim-
about anywhere. In retrospect, I doubt berline Cafe with Laurie and watch her
that I would have watched it anyway. I
ski down the hill once again.

For more of Warren’s wanderings go to www.warrenmiller.net or visit him on his Face-
book page at facebook.com/warrenmiller. For information on his Foundation, please
visit the Warren Miller Freedom Foundation, at www.warrenmiller.org.

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