Editing King Vidor (section)

==Amateur apprenticeship in Galveston==
As a boy, Vidor engaged in photographing and developing portraits of his relatives with a [[Brownie (camera)|Box Brownie camera]].<ref>Baxter 1976. P. 5</ref>

At the age of sixteen Vidor dropped out of a private high school in [[Maryland]] and returned to Galveston to work as a [[nickelodeon (movie theater)|nickelodeon]] ticket taker and projectionist.  As an 18-year-old amateur newsreel cameraman Vidor began to acquire skills as a film documentarian. His first movie was based on footage taken of a local hurricane (not to be confused with the 1900 Galveston hurricane). He sold footage from a [[Houston]] army parade to a newsreel outfit (titled ''The Grand Military Parade'') and made his first fictional movie, a semi-docucomedy concerning a local automobile race, ''In Tow'' (1913).<ref>Baxter 1976. P. 5: ''In Tow'' "a documentary"<br />Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 21: In Tow "a two-reel comedy...in all respects incompetent."</ref>