Inspired by her junior high school English teacher Liane Brandon, who later became a noted filmmaker and co-founder of New Day Films, Janet Prolman bought a Super 8 camera in the late 1960s with money she made working in her dad’s dry cleaning plant. Her earliest reels capture Quincy, Massachusetts, high school friends and the friends she hung out with when she entered Clark University in the mid-1970s. “Most of the films were just shot by me in the moment,” she says. “Occasionally there’s some playing to the camera and in the college era ones an attempt or two at artiness. In some cases, I did in-camera editing to create a bit of an arc…. I had a little editing equipment … a little guillotine contraption, some splicing tape.” Prolman continued to film on Super 8 when she took a break from Clark.  After time in North Carolina and going cross country, she returned to Clark where she became active in Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists (TALF), worked with Project Mediation, and learned to shoot and edit video. She continued to make videos when she moved to New York City. Her collection currently includes 43 Super 8 reels and 20 minidvs and spans the years 1967-2002.