- When he left school, Romero decided to stay in Pittsburgh.

He then occasionally did some painting, like this large portrait of a Pittsburgh neighborhood that still hangs in the dining room of his Oakland apartment with some friends.

He started a commercial film company called The Latent Image.

They found work around town and even did some work for WQED.

- The first jobs we ever had were QED.

We did some stuff for the junior league and then we did, we used to, we did some picture, picture things for, for Fred Rogers.

- Unless we could ask picture.

Picture to show us how people make light bulbs.

Why don't we do that?

'cause picture, picture has a film about it.

Let's ask it.

Hello again.

Picture picture.

Picture picture.

We'd like to see how people make light bulbs, - How to make light bulbs was one of 'em.

I remember that we had to go to New Jersey and we did how to make light bulbs.

Movie, how they make light bulbs, and that was really, really fun.

Also a very, you know, just sort of encouraging experience, you know, to work for someone that can, that that really has, you know, strong ideas about what he's doing and trying to shoot that stuff and trying to, you know, make him happy.

And it was, it was great fun.