As a child, Spielberg began using his family's home movie camera. He started recording camping trips and other family events but soon grew dissatisfied with them. He began to film narrative movies and attempted to set up shots with different angles and primitive special effects. By the time he was twelve years old he actually filmed a movie from a script using a cast of actors. He grew increasingly ambitious and continued to make movies from then on.
When Spielberg was sixteen, he filmed a feature-length science fiction movie, which he entitled firelight This movie was over two hours long and had a complex plot about an encounter with some aliens.
