90001_42219_05
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1957
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Scenes from the home movies of David Eugene Bell, a famous gay interior home designer. It is New Years Eve 1957. A man wearing only his white underwear stands in the middle of the room while other men attach a green wreath around his waist. Another man drinks from a platter and pretends that he has been poisoned. Men sit around a living room, drinking and talking. A man puts a big black hairy wig on another man's head. They pass around the wig, placing it on each other. A man wearing the wig mugs into the camera. The scene ends with a closeup of red flowers.