Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)

I watched this movie that wasn't bad. It was Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965). The advantage of watching something like that is that you don't feel the need to pay close attention, so I don't have much to say about it. It LOOKED good, black & white. It was a good quality print that made it look strangely modern, like a spoof of a 1965 movie of that sort.

I looked up the filmmaker. According to IMDb.com, the director had a career than spanned five years. He directed this movie and two documentary shorts and he was an uncredited director of photography on some scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was claimed that he was friends with Stanley Kubrick and that he was the one who first gave him a copy of A Clockwork Orange.

He also produced five movies. It was a short career but it seemed like he did okay. I assume he went on to work in a related field.

I've started saying this a lot. For most people, movie careers don't last very long.

I read an interview with one independent filmmaker who seems to be doing pretty well. He's made several very low budget movies. But he complained that it was all on him. No one is coming to him to help make another. He has to write all his own scripts which he doesn't think is a good thing. He's been able to keep going but not everyone would.

I've noticed people whose brief careers petered out long ago and I wonder why, in this new age of digital video, they don't make another run at it. I don't know what it tells you that once they're out of it, almost nobody decides to try again.