Little Boy - A Short Film About The Bomb

Film Title: Little Boy
Director: Frank Mosley

ShortFilmTexas (SFT): What is your short film "Little Boy" about?
Frank Mosley (FM): It mainly concerns an everyman named Michael Morse who works for the Manhattan project. He gets a call from the hospital that his first son has just been born. A moment later, he gets another call from his superior who tells him that the bomb has just been completed and that they're going to test it soon. The film essentially gets into the mind of this man as both these calls overwhelm him with juxtaposed images of both life and death, from both staged actions and old archival footage I'd come across online....a fusing of past, present, and future all from this one nightmarish moment. The color images follow the boy's birth and growing up, paralleling it with the black and white images of the bomb's creation and it's (never-ending?) lineage of evolving destruction.

Follow the link below to read an interview with the filmmaker:
http://www.shortfilmtexas.com/2009/arlington-texas-director-frank-mosleys-sho...

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Film & Animation

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• film
• short film
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• frank mosley
• dallas
• war
• bomb
• children
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• twilight zone

[cassavetesman]

clint, my godfather john rainone (who played the doctor) told me stories about how his dad, who was a big surgeon at Parkland hospital in Dallas, used to let him come in and watch these intense operations when he was young. That was apparently one of the things he heard his dad say at one point during surgery. :) There were several other lines that he took from his dad.....His dad had wanted him to be a doctor; he instead became an actor so that he could play a doctor in this film...heh. :)

[clintnio]

"Don't give me what I ask for...give me what I need". Funniest part :)

[cassavetesman]

thank you for the support!

[yltboyz]

Nice effort! However, the ending came across weak, imo. The character should've been given the balls to tell his good news too. It could have been a great opportunity to present a very uncomfortable phone moment where congratulations end up being painfully awkward on both sides of that phone. With the guy then laying his wife's photo down and calling someone (probably to say he couldn't make it to the hospital), just made him a real SOB...losing a profoundness somehow. Otherwise, good technique.

[MrInstrumentalist]

Man I wish I could afford you to DP my music video. Nice filming techniques