J. Roy--New and Used Furniture (1974, 12 mins); Washing Walls (1981, 5 mins); Betty's Corner Cafe (1976, 11 mins); Home Movies (1981, 2 mins); Peabody and Friends (1983, 8 mins); Braddock Food Bank (1985, 4 mins); Voices from a Steeltown (1983, 28 mins); Mill-Hunk Herald (1981, 13 mins). Tony Buba has been chronicling the decline of his hometown, Braddock, PA, for over ten years now. It is one of the reel world's fine ironies that, in its death, this once booming steeltown survives, and brilliantly, in the spunky, humorous and penetrating observations that are Buba's stock-in-trade. Voices from a Steeltown (PFA 4/84) is probably the best known of The Braddock Chronicles. Here, Braddock citizens--who have no political illusions--tell of their town's demise while Buba visually recreates its past and its present. One man ventures that the town was milked dry, like an old Jersey cow. At Betty's Corner Cafe, Betty plays mom and barmaid to the male "regulars." They tell their stories, Betty tells their stories, and never the twain shall meet. After forty years behind the bar, Betty predicts, "If I retire, I'll die." Soon after the film was made, she did both. J. Roy--New and Used Furniture is a capsule portrait of the American dream in the person of one Jimmy Roy, who looks and sings like Frank Sinatra (sort of), and who also has made some eleven "comebacks" in his life. He is Braddock's--and life's--biggest booster, with a sign in his window that reads "Worry is an insult to God." Everything J. Roy says is "absolutely right," according to Buba's grandmother.