There are those who think that my job involves nothing more than watching television, interviewing my personal idols, and spending hours on YouTube. There is actually some truth to that.

In researching an article, I stumbled across a video clip uploaded to YouTube, a ten-minute montage of scenes from David Johnson's1995 film The Lavender Lens: 100 years of celluloid queers.

So of course, I watched it, to see if the wedding dance from Pandora's Box with Louise Brooks, my favorite lesbian scene from a pre-Code Hollywood movie, was included, which it was. And then I saw that the entire documentary was available to view online, uploaded by the filmmaker himself.

Who not only included code to make it embeddable, but also made it downloadable. And included, of course, a handy link to purchase the high-quality DVD if watching movies on your computer isn't your thing.

This is almost a full-length fan video, with no commentary, just music and clips. There's a lot of rare footage, some of which was in Celluloid Closet, some of which wasn't. I love free stuff to download, because, as is widely known here at AfterElton, I'm extremely shallow and materialistic. So I thought I'd give filmmaker David Johnson some love. Check out the short montage on YouTube, then tell him he's a wonderful guy.