:06:03
And the next day after that, and before
I knew it he was doing it every day.
:06:09
So after about a week or ten days. . .
:06:12
. . .I finally got up enough
aggressiveness to say:
:06:16
"Stanley, why aren't you doing
your homework?" He said simply. . .
:06:20
. . .and in what I learned was his
characteristic quiet way:
:06:24
"Well, I'm not interested. "
:06:26
It wasn't as if he were stupid.
He was simply not interested. . .
:06:31
. . .and acted upon that.
:06:33
Stanley was really quite involved,
quite passionate about photography.
:06:38
Stanley, you must understand, was,
by the general lights of the time. . .
:06:43
. . .the son of a wealthy person,
as they had their own home.
:06:48
They could have a darkroom.
:06:53
His father was interested
in photography. . .
:06:56
. . .and I think he encouraged Stanley
to use it and become a photographer.
:07:00
That darkroom background, actually. . .
:07:03
. . .was one of the bedrock things. . .
:07:06
. . .that enabled him to develop
a very high level. . .
:07:10
. . .of sophistication
about photography. . .
:07:13
. . .and then finally cinematography.
:07:15
Stanley was fascinated by photography.
:07:18
He was the photographer on the school
newspaper and looked for pictures. . .
:07:22
. . .that would capture the imagination.
:07:24
We interrupt for
a special news bulletin.
:07:27
A press association has just announced
that President Roosevelt is dead.
:07:33
Roosevelt was a god to us.
That's what my mother said. She said:
:07:37
"I'm not sure there's a God,"
when he died.
:07:41
And then when he took that picture,
whoa.
:07:45
It made everybody that saw it cry.
They'd just start to cry.
:07:49
He looked like just
the world had ended. . .
:07:53
. . .and Stanley just got that.
:07:55
It was this photograph of a news vendor
mourning the death of Roosevelt. . .
:07:59
. . .that transformed the amateur
into a professional.