Today was supposed to have been my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary. Sadly, my father passed on January 27, 2009, three days after their 55th. My brother and I made a short film to celebrate their 25th anniversary back when I was 23 and he was 19, and I’ve been watching it and getting weepy.

And why keep that weepiness all to myself?

Back in 2010, when I had a YouTube limit of 10 minutes or less, I uploaded the first two-thirds of it. Now that I’ve been freed from that limit, I’ll upload the whole thing someday, but for now, here’s most of what my brother Lee and I screened for my parents and their friends at the surprise party we threw for them in 1979.

This was made way before digital editing tools came around, so my brother filmed and animated it all, using equipment he borrowed from Brooklyn College, and we then created the soundtrack by speaking into a cassette tape recorder while playing records in the background.

I know that my mother is thinking today about what should have been. So am I.

And now, so are you.