Following Sean 17 years old

The more things change, the more we're not the same

Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in Haight Ashbury at the height of the 1960s. The city was awash with the trappings of America’s cultural revolution-the San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear, the Haight filled with drifters and idealists, and, on the third floor of Arlyck’s building, a come-one-come-all crashpad apartment. It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4-year-old Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talk-and one day Arlyck turned on his camera. Sean’s casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to living with speed freaks was delivered in simple sincerity throughout the soon-to-be famous 15-minute film. This First Child of the notorious decade may have shaken the audience with his simple sentence- “Sure, I smoke pot”-but it was his barefoot impishness which would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation: a promise of infinite possibility.

Credits

Following Sean Cast

Name	Character
Ralph Arlyck He was 106, now 124 years old	as Narrator (voice)

Following Sean Crew

Name	Department
Ralph Arlyck as Director. He was 106 (now 124) years old	Directing
Ralph Arlyck as Writer. He was 106 (now 124) years old	Writing