Story, a gay man himself, was reportedly captivated by the scenes in the film, some depicting uniformed soldiers kissing other men, the fleeting happiness of the scenes a poignant force. “But I don’t know if we’ll actually find them.” “We naively set out thinking, ‘Oh, these men might be in their mid-90s, they could still be alive,’ and that might be true,” said Prusaczyk.
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He and his co-director, Beth Prusaczyk, have found relatives of some of the men, but none of the men themselves.
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Since stumbling on the recordings, Story has made an attempt to find anyone from the pool party who might still be alive today and willing to talk about it. Related | The Circle Illuminates Switzerland’s Post-WWII Underground Gay Scene
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“Queens and president’s wives and movie stars – he was always around fancy places and fancy things,” Susie Seagraves, Walton’s niece, told St. The films were bought at the estate sale of Buddy Walton, who was a preferred hairdresser to celebrities in the 40s. The film will explore the time period of the movies, where invisibility was imperative to survival. Having made the rare find of a depiction of queer life during a time when being found out as LGBT could ruin almost every aspect of your life, Story has started piecing together parts of the home movies into Gay Home Movie.
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Louis Public Radio.ĭecades-old home movies show men in the summer sun, dancing with one another and kissing at a private pool party in 1945, ephemeral freedom radiating from them. A new documentary is under production after filmmaker Geoff Story made a unique discovery at an estate sale in St.