On his 12th birthday , in 1936 , Wood received as a gift his first movie camera , a Kodak " Cine Special " . One of his first pieces of footage , and one that imbued him with pride , showed the airship '' Hindenburg '' passing over the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie , shortly before its disastrous crash at Lakehurst , New Jersey . One of Wood 's first paid jobs was as a cinema usher , and he also sang and played drums in a band . He later fronted a singing quartet called " Eddie Wood 's Little Splinters " , having learned to play a variety of string instruments
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