"My late friend and fellow filmmaker, Dean Snider and I had a contest to see who could make the shortest film with a sound track. Lonesome Cowboy, a self portrait, clocked in at 29 seconds. Dean's film, Hey!, was a single frame with a fleeting image of bales of hay. The prize? The loser, me, paid for breakfast at the U.S. Restaurant on Columbus Avenue." (Toney W. Merritt)

Creation of preservation 16mm print and digital file funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation (2023)