Sure, maybe some of you saw TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION this weekend (and statistically, the numbers bear that out). Or maybe you're saving your movie-going dollars for a screening of RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES later in July. Because there's nothing better in the middle of summer than hanging out in an air-conditioned movie theater to see the latest developments in visual effects. But imagine it's 53 years ago this week, and you want to see a special effects spectacular. What would you see?

How about THE PARENT TRAP?

That's the one - written and directed by David Swift - where child star Hayley Mills played identical twins, using a series of in-camera techniques to make it look as though there were two Hayleys in one scene. The movie was remade in 1998 with a pre-DIU Linsay Lohan and a variety of more advanced approaches.

But in the original, Swift and his team didn't have things like digital compositing and motion-control cameras to get the job done. Here's Swift telling the story of his career as part of our series, THE WRITER SPEAKS, chronicling the lives of prominent film and television writers whose work permeated the 20th and 21st Centuries.