> Yes, I know, but I find it hard to believe that
> Sam didn't see any movies at all before he
> learned how to write, or that he remembered
> and wrote down all the movies he ever saw
> before the age of six or seven.

Anything that far back that I haven't seen since I wouldn't trust to be able to evaluate properly now, even if I remembered it well.

However, now that you mention it, one of my early childhood memories is trying to make a list of all the movies I had seen. These were mostly things like "The Apple Dumpling Gang" and "The Love Bug." I filled up two sides of a single sheet of paper (gigantic writing in crayon) and was amazed at how many there were (maybe 15). I remember being very frustrated, though, that I couldn't be sure if I had gotten them all.

S "decided what he liked early; has a photo of himself at age 3, operating a punch card machine, which is found in the RinkAlbum" am