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Alfred’s Hollywood Career
Alfred's dream ever since he was a little kid was to become a Hollywood director. Growing up in rural South Carolina, he always usd to watch television as a way to connect with the greater outside world. He would spend hours watching shows like "Leave it to Beaver" and "I love Lucy." When he was nine, his mother gifted him a camera, seeing is love for screenplay and video. Alfred was hooked. He began recording sketches with his friends, mini television episodes. Most of the episodes they filmed were funny, with palpable laughter and twisted endings.
Alfred continued this until he became an adult, where he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his television dreams. He was lucky and talented, getting a lower level job at Warner Brothers to start his career. There, he was recruited to be in charge of the sound in action movies. His biggest movie was a 1970's edition of Batman. He got to put in the sounds for the batmobile, adding the zoom and whishing tire sound into the film.
Later in his career, he did become a director, and did produce movies in Hollywood. But in the end, he really just missed the simple life of watching television. It was harder to create it, more fun to just enjoy it. So, after finishing his career, he retired back to South Carolina, and freely watched television as he did when he was a little kid.
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