Movie: Amazing Stories

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    Second in this series of lost and in-completed amateur Super8 films is "Amazing Stories", a 1983 vignette piece of short sketches. Based on the early pulp magazine. (pre-dates Spielberg's Amazing Stories)

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    1983-03-24

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