By day, he was the director of professional development for the Connecticut Education Association, a state teacher’s union.  By night, he was the director of over 100 home movie travelogues—“documentaries”—chronicling the goings-on of mid-century America, lovingly pimping his family for his part-time passion of home movie making.

He’s Robbins Barstow (yes, that was someone’s real name) and although his films won’t be coming to a multiplex near you, his online following rivals that of the Dustin “Screech” Diamond sex tape.

His most celebrated and widely viewed film was titled “Disneyland Dream,” noteworthy for a number of reasons, among them:

-“Disneyland Dream” was the product of a nationwide contest sponsored by the 3M Company in 1956, who sent 25 winning families on all-expense paid trip to Disneyland. The contestants’ challenge: to express their love for Scotch Tape. Evidently the competition wasn’t too stiff, because his four year-old son Dan wrote the winning composition (“I like Scotch brand cellophane tape because when some things tear then I can just use it.”).

-“Disneyland Dream” is credited as the first film featuring Steve Martin, who, at age 11, was inadvertently caught on Barstow’s Super 8 while hawking guidebooks as a park employee. Child labor laws anyone?

-“Disneyland Dream” was named to the National Registry of the Library of Congress, who called it “a priceless and authentic record of time and place.” The film is one of few amateur titles to nab such a distinction (the Zapruder film of the assassination of Kennedy is another).

Barstow’s oeuvre includes a jungle drama called “Tarzan and the Rocky Gorge” (1936) which he made at age 16 in the woods of Connecticut, “Family Camping Trip Through 48 States” (Parts 1 and 2) 1957-1961, as well as several films about endangered species.

You can view other Robbins Barstow titles at archive.org.