Don Hoyt Collection

Don Hoyt Collection

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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.
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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.
June 1982
Bob Malak films a girl at Tony Cilento's studio and Tony Cilento shooting a camera. September, 1982
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Bob Malak films a girl at Tony Cilento's studio and Tony Cilento shooting a camera. September, 1982
September 1982
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
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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
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.
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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.
October 16 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.
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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.
August 1982
Jim talks to me about going into the back room with one of the girls at his bar.. April, 1982.
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Jim talks to me about going into the back room with one of the girls at his bar.. April, 1982.
April 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.
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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
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
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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
March 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
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Bob Malak films Al Detlaff and reherses with him the lines that he should have me helping him clean out the garage. June, 1982
June 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.
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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
I start stripping at a bar on the South side as people start throwing things at me. I start over again. March 1982.
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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
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
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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
October 16 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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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.
March 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.
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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.
August 1982
I strip at Victory Hall and Bob Malak and Doug Corcoran are telling me how to dance and strip. March, 1982.
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I strip at Victory Hall and Bob Malak and Doug Corcoran are telling me how to dance and strip. March, 1982.
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
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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
March 1982
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
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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
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.
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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.
August 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.
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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.
March 1982
Cashier at Downer, April, 1982
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Cashier at Downer, April, 1982
April 1982
I am stripping at Victory Hall, March 1982
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I am stripping at Victory Hall, March 1982
March 1982
Darcy strips at her house... July, 1982
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Darcy strips at her house... July, 1982
July 1982
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Items with Viewable Media
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.