Dwight's fun with movie making started with super 8 stuff back in the early 70's. He started out just making a lot of typical goofy stuff with his friends. When Dwight and my folks lived in Christiansburg, I visited once a year. Dwight was always in a mood to CREATE! We did some a lot of experimenting with claymation and time lapse movies. Fortunately he also recorded MANY of his rocket launches and trips to Cape Canaveral. After I left, Dwight took off on super 8 movie making. He started doing his rocket launch animations with hand crafted astronauts. He was ready to start making full length features. Somewhere in the 80's Dwight decided to get an associates degree in commercial art. At school he started using computers to do art. As we moved into the 90's and computers became part of our lives, Dwight discovered a program called ASTOUND, that allows you to create animation. Dwight could spend hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours in front of a computer screen creating and editing frame by frame by frame by frame at the minute pixel level. He created LIFE ON THE FARM and TO THE WALL with ASTOUND. Dwight was so passionate about his labors of love. He just couldn't understand why all of the rest of us weren't doing the same thing! What wimps we all were! Starting around 1995 Dwight established his studio in Middleburg and threw himself into the creation of Mars1, collaborating with Rick Thomas and Michael Sullivan. They all spent hours and hours and hours and hours on the phone discussing the script and actually recording the voice tracks. I estimate that Dwight spent 20 hours per week, 52 weeks for 4 years creating the hour long Mars1...that's 4160 hours!!! ( it was probably double that ) When Mars1 was done, I could only sit in envy at the description of the first screening and celebration that Dwight and Rick and Sully had! MARS1 was released on VHS. After Mars1 Dwight took a break.....for a couple of months..... He always loved the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Many of the ideas and dialogs in the movie mirrored Dwight's views of how it was SO URGENT that we earthlings redirect our warlike tendencies to being more responsible shepherds of this fragile planet. So, Dwight embarked on another 4 year odyssey to produce THE HOUR NO ONE WENT, merging his own, Rick’s, Sully's and my (yes I finally got a part) images into the original movie film, frame by frame by frame by frame by frame by frame. THE HOUR was released on DVD in 2004. Chalk up another 4-6 thousand hours!