Following Sean

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 Americas cultural revolutionthe San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear the Haight filled with drifters and idealists and on the third floor of Arlycks building a comeonecomeall crashpad apartment It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4yearold Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talkand one day Arlyck turned on his camera Seans casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to living with speed freaks was delivered in simple sincerity throughout the soontobe famous 15minute film This First Child of the notorious decade may have shaken the audience with his simple sentence Sure I smoke potbut it was his barefoot impishness which would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation a promise of infinite possibility