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The silliest thing I ever saw was when a military captain in Ghana demanded to inspect our exposed film to see if his picture was on it. We discreetly exchanged a short end for the exposed stock. Needless to say, he didn’t get to see himself and we didn’t open our exposed footage.

The story actually goes further when the captain can’t see his image on the unexposed negative and he gets suspicious and wants to haul us down to the station. On route we encounter his superior who overrides the captain and returns us to our location. Well, it turns out that the new soldier just wants to be in the film. So he watches us and every time we roll he steps uninvited in front of the camera and addresses the audience on his love of cinema and American culture. He was so intrusive yet he saved us from an uncertain mess that we appeased him by faking a scene for him to be in while he went off on his pontifications. At least we didn’t get arrested!

Jim