Don Hoyt Collection
Inclusive Dates
1956 – 1992
Bulk Dates
1979 – 1982
Abstract
Films shot by Don Hoyt of Milwaukee, mostly from 1979 - 1982. Primarily on Super 8 with sound, the footage includes home movies, concerts at Summerfest and the Wisconsin State Fair, and scenes shot for an unfinished narrative film.
Collection Items
Film
Doug approaches me for $50.00 which I don't want to give him but I give him $60.00 so that he can go to the back room with Ruby. He gives me $10.00 back because he doesn't want to take advantage of me and people laugh. March 1982
March 1982
![I am having dinner with four strippers. Adrienne says that the pot is making her giggle. The Spanish girl said that a girl in the magazine lost 225 pounds and then laughs. Adrenne tells her to keep going. The Spanish girl says "why don't you come with me an look at my spread. I want to go with her. Frankie asks why think about food when there are all these other things that [illeg.] could be eating. August 1982.](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/7/0/42448_ca_object_representations_media_7049_large.jpg)
Film
I am having dinner with four strippers. Adrienne says that the pot is making her giggle. The Spanish girl said that a girl in the magazine lost 225 pounds and then laughs. Adrenne tells her to keep going. The Spanish girl says "why don't you come with me an look at my spread. I want to go with her. Frankie asks why think about food when there are all these other things that [illeg.] could be eating. August 1982.
August 1982
Film
I talk to Jim about going into the back room with the girls and relate this to the sexual advances a girl made to me at Milwaukee Psychiatric Hospital. March, 1982.
March 1982
Film
I start stripping at a bar on the South side as people start throwing things at me. I start over again. March 1982.
March 1982
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Items with Viewable Media
- Ann and I go into the train exhibit and watch the trains. July, 1982.
- Arthur Murray Dance party. February, 1979 November,
- At the Liberace concert there is someone that walks on the stage with a duck before Liberace actually comes on.. September, 1982
- A band at Summerfest plays Spanish Eyes. This is at the Jazz Oasis. July, 1982.
- The band at the Participater's dance sings Do Wha Diddy Diddy and part of Kicks. The close-ups are a little out of focus. March 1982.
- The band plays In the Mood at the Eagle's Club. I am dancing the polka with someone in my dance class. March, 1981
- A band sings Green green Grass of Home at the State fair near the grandstand and another up tempo song in the beer tent near the midway. August, 1982
- The band sings Twist and Shout and I fought The Law at the Participator's dance, March, 1982
- Barbara + Manhoff's Kid 1/6/56
- The Beach Boys sing Barbara Ann and the camera is running slow so the action is speeded up. 18 fps. There is one other shot of a Summerfest or rather State Fair stage, August, 1982.
- The Beach Boys sing California Girls and All Summer Long at the State Fair, August, 1982.
- The Beach Boys sing Good Vibrations and the leader of the beach boys encourages the audience to sing along with him. 18 frames per second. August, 1982.
- The Beach Boys sing Help Me Rhonda and Rock and Roll Music. The State Fair, August, 1982.
- The Beach Boys sing Hey Now and 409 at the State Fair. This was taken with a camera from Photoart and filimed at 18 frames per second. August, 1982.
- The Beach Boys sing Little Old Lady from Pasadena. Little Deuce Coup and I Get Around. A couple of time the picture fades to white and the sound goes out. It is filmed at 18 frames per second. August, 1982.
- The Beach Boys sing Runaway and Come Go With Me at the State Fair. There are shots of the crowd. 18 fps. August, 1982.
- The Beach Boys sing Surfin' Sufari. While they are singing this the picture goes black and then they sing Surf City. 18 frames per second. August, 1988.
- Bill Hoyt is intervieed abotu his role in a play that was presented at Marquette University. the picture is dark and there is no sound... there are shots of the Merry go round and other rides at the state fair at night. August, 1982
- Bob filims me at the Victory hall pretending to be in the back room of the 41 Club. I show a scene of the 41 Club. June, 1982. Some people are shown on the beach.
- Bob Malak and three girls from Tony Cilento's studio are riding horses and Doug Corcoran is making comments about Bob Malak riding. June, 1982.
- Bob Malak films a girl at Tony Cilento's studio and Tony Cilento shooting a camera. September, 1982
- Bob Malak films Al Detlaff and reherses with him the lines that he should have me helping him clean out the garage. June, 1982
- Bob Malak says he loves Summerfest as he is walking to the grounds. He asks me to take a picture of the motorcycles. July, 1982.
- Bob Malak tries to get on a horse but falls. Then he gets on the second time he tries. Ann said that she has been riding since she was 5 years old. October 16, 1982
- Bob Reitman announces news headliners at the State Fair.. July/August, 1982
- Bradford Beach April, 1982
- Britains sing I Want to Hol Your Hand at Summerfest, July, 1982.
- Britains sing It Won't Be Long and All My Loving, July, 1982
- The Britains sing Please Please Me and Do You Want to Know a Secret. July, 1982
- The Britains sing Roll Over Beethoven and there are some shots of girls in the crowd. Bob Malak filmed this. July, 1982.
- The Britains sing She Loves You at Summerfest, 1982. A jazz band is at the Jamm Oasis.
- The Britains sing Tell Me Why almost all the way through and also the sing the end of P.S. I Love You. The girl that I interviewed is watching the band. July, 1982.
- Cashier at Downer, April, 1982
- Chicago sings Getting Stronger Every Day at Summerfest, July, 1982.
- Chicago sings Gotta Get You into my life on the main stage and Paul Revere and the Raiders sings part of Hungry on the Pabst Festival Stage. July, 1982.
- The class of '62 dances to Twist and Shout and The Boy from New York City begins. July, 1982
- The class of '62 dances to Twisting the Night Away and Pretty Woman. Terry Torzalla, Pat Doherty and Ann Shleshlater are seen dancing.. July, 1982
- The contestant look alike contest brings out a cow and a girl imitating Barbara Streisand. August, 1982
- Crime in the Cities
- Crowd at Pope arrival, September, 1979
- Darcy strips at her house... July, 1982
- Doug and two girls from Cilento studios, Jeanene and another girl are doing the film on October 16, 1982. Jeannene said that she gets a sore rear end and the other girl said the horse is too tall for her. Doug said this is the horse that is going to trample Rudy. I mention that we will have to extend the filming one more week although Bob Malak wanted it ended on my 38th birthday because we have 3 more scenes to shoot which were a model, a tennis scene and a comedy routine with me and Ruday, and we shot those scenes.
- Doug approaches me for $50.00 which I don't want to give him but I give him $60.00 so that he can go to the back room with Ruby. He gives me $10.00 back because he doesn't want to take advantage of me and people laugh. March 1982
- Eddie Rabbit sings a country song and then sings "Everywhich Way but Loose." At this time I was using another camera since my Super 8mm camera had been stolen. Therefore the image is quite small. The sound on this camera is quite good. August, 1982.
- Eddie Rabbit sings Driving My Life Away at the state fair. I am using the rented camera that I got from Photoart.
- Eddie Rabbit sings Suspicion at the State Fair. You can't see it very well. You can just barely see it. August, 1982
- Eddie Rabitt sings Step by Step and I Love a Rainy Night. I am using the rented camera from Photoart and sometimes the sound is speeded up. August, 1982.
- The EES Show, 1982
- Fireworks at the end of the Joan Jet concert at the State Fair, 1982
- Flash Cadillac 2
- Four Wheel Drive at the Wisconsin State Fair, singing Rocky Top. Some kids break dancing. 1982.
- Frankie strips on floor. August, 1982.
- Girl is on roller skats aling the lake, April, 1982
- Girls' Tennis UWM, May, 1982
- The Glenn Miller band plays Marie. There are no lights to use as flood lights so the band is dark. March, 1981
- The Glenn Miller band plays Temptation. March, 1981.
- The Glenn Miller Orchestra plays part of String of Pearls, In the Mood and For the Good Times. I am dancing. March, 1981
- Going to see Mary Lee, June, 1982
- A group sings Lullaby of Broadway and 42nd Street at the State Fair. I am still using the rented camera from Photoart. You can not see the performers. August, 1982
- Hancock and Downer cashier talk to me.
- I am at the bar and Dough asks for $10.00 but I don't want to give it to him.. Jim tells me not to. There is a flicker in the picture. March, 1982
- I am dancing with Amy Shuman at The Arthur Murray Dance Party, November, 1979.
- I am doging bullets from Maddog Doug. May, 1981
- I am filming on the beach. Girls wave at the camera. I am driving my car. There is a girl running along the beach. There is no sound or sound track .June, 1982.
- I am flying back from John Hancock's wedding. May, 1979
- I am having dinner with four strippers. Adrienne says that the pot is making her giggle. The Spanish girl said that a girl in the magazine lost 225 pounds and then laughs. Adrenne tells her to keep going. The Spanish girl says "why don't you come with me an look at my spread. I want to go with her. Frankie asks why think about food when there are all these other things that [illeg.] could be eating. August 1982.
- I am in bed with a prostitute from Las Vegas, August, 1981
- I am in the snow with two girls at the Playboy Club February, 1982
- I am stripping at Victory Hall, March 1982
- I am talking about the flight to Minneapolis as I talk with Bob Malak about going to see John Hancock on his wedding day. November, 1982
- I am walking through the Summerfest crowd with Bob Malak in front of me. Some people wave to the camera. There is the beginning of a good jazz song at the Jazz Oasis and Buddy Rich tries to blow out all the candles on his 65th birthday. July, 1992.
- I am with the three strippers, Darcy Whilhelmi, Frankie and a Spanish girl. The Spanish girls said that I should stick to me diet because she mentioned that a girl lost 25 pounds in 30 weeks. Adrienne Carter is also there. August, 1982
- I announce that the train exhibit is at State Fair park and admission is $1.50 and it is for young and old alike.
- I dance with Amy Shuman at the ArthurMurray's November, 1979.
- I fall into Pac fountain.. August, 1982.
- I film some birds flying around the lake, April, 1982,
- I film the girl in the screenplay class who was in the Rudy film. April, 1982
- I go down Terrace Avenue to the tune of the song Magic. There is a bulldozer doing some work there. I go to Darcy Whilhelmi's house where her daughter, who is a malato films me. Darcy is white. Then I film the daughter's boyfriend kicking a football. Both of them are about 10. Then I film the dog which is a French poodle and then there is the beginning of the dinner scene. August, 1982.
- I go over to Al's house and wait for him as he comes over to my car and gets ready to film liberace with his video camera. September, 1982.
- I go to the air show and see the various planes. August, 1982.
- I go to the air show and walk out of a plane and talk to a soldier in a restricted area. July, 1982.
- I go to the air show in July of 1982. I am seen at the front of a cannon with my arms outstretched. There are shots of the woods.. I get out of my car. I drive through a tunnel. I drive past Mitchel Field and there is a shot of a plane at the entrance. There are shots of the 41 Club in the day and night. At the night shot I have the radio on with the Beatles singing Get Together... Come Together rather.
- I go with Al Detlaff to the Liberace concert. The main stage is shown before the concert. September, 1982.
- I got to the air show. I go into a big plane and notice how big it is. I am quite big also. I am about 300 pounds. July, 1982.
- I look at an airplane on the ground of the airshow.. It is called The Devil Made Me Do It. I look at Tanks that are brought in. July, 1982.
- I look at the large transport plane at the air show, [illeg.] 1982
- I mention that I want to wait until the camera starts rolling a little before I start. One of the girls says that the lights are a bitch. Corey says that a girl lost 125 pounds in 30 weeks. She says "you don't need all that food". Darcy comes in and asks If I have met all the girls. I say Yes. I tell them I went to Nutri/System but I didn't eat their food becuase it didn't taste very good. August, 1982.
- I play drums at Newman, March, 1981
- I play drums at the Newman Center and fall down. April, 1981.
- I run out of gas and fill the car up. April, 1982
- I shoot some scenes of the UWM campus and I shoot scenes of a guy riding on a bike. I ask him if he is going to the Participator's dance but he says that he is busy with a job so that he won't be going or hasn't been but might go Friday. June, 1982.
- I start stripping at a bar on the South side as people start throwing things at me. I start over again. March 1982.
- I strip at Victory Hall and Bob Malak and Doug Corcoran are telling me how to dance and strip. March, 1982.
- I talk to Jim about going into the back room with the girls and relate this to the sexual advances a girl made to me at Milwaukee Psychiatric Hospital. March, 1982.
- I talk with Doug down at Victory Hall. I tell Jim that I want to see some strippers. He tells the audience that the strippers could not make it this week but they will be there next week. March 1982
- [illeg.] an airplane. The sound is fast and garbled. June, 1982
- [illeg.] CES show, 1982. June.
- [illeg.] tennis match at Engleman until it starts to rain and then they go to Klotche
- The jazz band plays at the Jamm Oasis at Summerfest. The picture is darker than it should be. A trombone player does a solo and the band sings Hey Jude in the end. July, 1982
- Jennifer takes off all her clothes when the song For Your Eyes Only is on. March, 1982
- Jim Strzyzewski talks about Rudy. April, 1982
- Jim talks to me about going into the back room with one of the girls at his bar.. April, 1982.
- Joan Jet and the Blackhearts sing Tequila Sunday and Talking About My Generation. There is a fireworks display at the end of her concert. August, 1982.
- Johnny Mathas sings I will Survive at Summerfest with an orchestra. The close-up shots of him are out of focus. July, 1982.
- Liberace is on stage and shows is coat off to the audience. September, 1982
- Liberace is seen at the Summerfest grounds. He is wearing one of his coats and he plays the piano. September, 1982. No sound.
- Liberache is playing the piano at the main stage at Summerfest but there is no sound. September, 1982.
- The look alike contest at the state fair is based on applause also. August, 1982
- Lynn Curry is the cheerleader. There is a band singing Harden My Heart and a song by Molly Hatchet off their first album called Dreams. The song Pretty Woman is played at my 1982 high school reunion. I can see Pat Dorhety, Kathy Blazel, Terry Torzalla and Lynn, the cheerleader, July, 1982.
- Mai Lynn at the EES show, June, 1982
- Mary Lee's apartment and Milwaukee Psychiatric Hospital, June, 1981
- Mickey Rooney look alike comes on the stage at the fair. August, 1982
- Milwaukee landing from Minneapolis, November, 1979
- Minneapolis to Milwaukee, November, 1979
- One of the girls at Summerfest asks if we are going to make her a star as we film. I am eating pizza, one piece in each hand. Johnny Mathis is singing a song about a girls mother and then sings the beginning of Too Little Too Late, July 1982
- One of the girls that I interviewed at Summerfest says "Wave to the camera" as the band plays This Boy. The Britons play. July, 1982
- One of the kids from Wisconsin sings New York, New York at the fair. The picture is to dark to see her well.
- The Participator's Dance. March, 1982. A band plays Hang On Sloopy and Satisfaction. Get Off My Cloud is played almost completely through. The other two songs are just partially filmed and recorded. There are shots of the people dancing. I show shots of a girl in a blue dress that is divorced and has a daughter. I date[d] the girl shown dancing.
- The Participator's dance, March 1982. The band sings Do You Love Me, Working Too Hard and Good Lovin'. I film the longest segment on the song Good Lovin. Jim Nahrath is shown and the girl in the blue dress that I dated is shown along with other Participators at the party.
- Paul Revere and the Raiders sing the end song to Where the Action Is and the nsing Good Lovin' with La Bamba at the interlude, July, 1982.
- People dancing at the Miller Jazz tent at the state fair with Celebration being played. 1982..
- The Pope in Chicago. April, 1979
- Ray Kieran from the Fox Bay Theater is at the fair and there are shots of the other rides including the zipper.
- Rocky Mountain Music is sung by Eddie Rabbitt. It is still pretty far away and I am using the camera I rented at Photoart. August, 1982.
- The Rogues sing Peggy Sue at a Western bar on Blue Mound Road. The close up shot of Henry, the main singer, is a little out of focus. Other shots of the rides at the fair are shown with the rides, the ferris wheel, the Himalayan and the Pirate's Den. August, 1982.
- Rogues sing: That'll Be the Day, Rave On, It's So Easy. August, 1982
- The Rogues Sing You've Lost that Loving Feeling at the country bar, August, 1982.
- Rudy takes Ann from the single's dance to the Train show at Sate Fair Park. April, 1982
- Santana plays a jazz song at Summerfest near sunset and there are crowd shots. July, 1982.
- Santana plays a song called Instant Ambition. They play another song before that and there are some shots of the crowd. July, 1982
- Santana sings Black Magic Woman. There are shots of the audience. July, 1982.
- Santana sings one of their songs and then sings "Alright". There are plenty of shots of the audience at Summerfest. July, 1982.
- Shots of Playboy Club. April, 1982
- Sierra Sings Harden My Heart at Teddy's. March 1982
- Sierra sings Queen of Hearts at Teddy's, March, 1982.
- Some people go across the bridge over Bradfrod Beach, June, 1981.
- There are more close-up shots of the model trains. I talk to the engineer. I salute a girl in the army. I saulte two other army officers. I go there with the girl from the participators. April, 1982.
- There are shots of girls on the beach walking and there are also shots of two girls sitting down with their roller skates on. June, 1982 No sound.
- There are shots of the crowd at Summerfest and a jzz, rock band is playing on the stage. July, 1982.
- There are shots of the crowd at Summerfest on the grounds and at the main stage waiting to see the main attraction. Gerry Franzen, Jr. is seen in the crowd. July, 1982.
- There are shots of the State Fair. There are shots of the ride that pulls people together with centrifical force and the freak show is shown with the announcer announcing [illeg.] August, 1982
- There are some people along the beach. One girl rollerskates and sticks her tongue out at me. One boy has a Superman poncho on. Some kids look at tents and there is a shot of my wrecked car. May, 1982. silent.
- There is a band playing some South American songs. The band can't be seen but some lights in back can be seen. August, 1982.
- There is a car accident on Capitol and Maryland. A fireman cleans up things with a hose. The Volkswagon is dented. July, 1982.
- There is a car accident on Capitol Drive. A tow truck is there and a fireman gets the hydrant ready for washing the street. July, 1982.
- There is a country singer singing on the state fair stage but it is too dark to see. August, 1982
- There is a crowd watching Santana play a jazz rock song but the camera is very shakey. July, 1982.
- There is a model train show at State Fair Park. The trains go through various landscapes. April, 1982
- There is a scene at the bar where Doug asks if he can borrow some money and I don't want to give it to him. Jim the bartender says that you've been seeing a priest and a psychiatrist and you still do these dumb stupid things. March, 1982.
- There is a shot of the Summerfest grounds. One girl says it is my first flower. A girl pretends she is my daughter as I buy her a large cheese and sausage pizza. She says we should check out hte main stage. July, 1982.
- There is the Pirate's Den that is shwon at the amuseument Park at the State Fair. Other rides are shown also. August, 1982.
- This is the dinner scene with Darcy Whilhelmi and the other girls. One Spanish girl is masashing my stomach and the black girl smells my shirt and says it is wet. Darcy says that she is the devil's daughter. Then they continue filming. August, 1982.
- This is the film Rudy in which Jim Nahrath and Doug Corcoran are talking to me in the bar and Doug wants me to give him some money. I don't want to have sex with the girls in the back room I tell him. March 1982. The sound is a little garbled but it is understandable.
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- UWM Campus and girls' tennis. April, 1982.
- Willie Nelson at the State Fair. You can't see him but he sings as Time Slips Away. 1982
Collection Identifier
C.2026-03
Extent of Collection
154 reels of Super 8 film, 3 reels of 8mm film, and 1 reel of 16mm film.
Language Of Materials
English
Custodial History
The films were stored in Don Hoyt's home in Milwaukee. Following his death in 2023, they came into the possession of his friend Andrew Swant and were formally donated to CFA by Swant and Don's brother, Robert Hoyt, in 2026.
Use Restrictions
Chicago Film Archives holds the copyright for the films in this collection.
Creators
Hoyt, Don
(was created by)
Donald “Don” Hoyt was born in 1944 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up on the east side of the city, attending Dominican High School and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He worked as a film projectionist at the Fox-Bay Theater in Whitefish Bay, a northern suburb of Milwaukee, from the late 1960s until they converted to digital projection in the early 2010s. He also worked as a projectionist at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee in the mid-1980s and as the mini-train conductor at the Wisconsin State Fair. He was a devout Catholic with a love for music, regularly playing drums at church and singing karaoke at The Buzzard’s Nest bar.
Hoyt was a film enthusiast with an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema history. In the late 1970s, he began shooting his own Super 8 films. At first his films were mostly home movies and footage of musical performances at the State Fair, but in the early 1980s, he started working on a narrative short film. It was a raunchy comedy set mostly in bars and starring Hoyt and his friends. The film was never finished.
In 2023, Hoyt passed away at the age of 78.