I had a lot more success with the other microfilm reader upstairs. I knew we had a fancy new one but I wasn't expecting it to be so nice! Anyway, here is a high quality cropped image from the article. I scaled it down because the original image was enormous, but it is still rather large.
(Unfortunately it looks like the size and dimensions have been reduced after uploading the attachment.. I'm not sure how to fix this. I have the 1200x1475 original if anyone needs it larger.) I'm still on the clock and don't have any fancy photo editing software on my computer, so... I'll let someone else mess around with the image levels to see if it will help bring some more details out.
For what it's worth, I'm not really convinced 'Kitty' is Kathy. From my untrained eye the noses appear quite a bit different and this girl/woman strikes me as someone older than Kathy appears in the photo on Facebook. The article mentions she ran away at age 13 but doesn't touch on how old Kitty was at the time of writing. For all we know, she could have stayed at the shelter many years prior. Just my opinion. The documentary would obviously help clear this up, but as Kimm11 mentioned, the Muhlenberg College Library appears to be the only library in the country that holds the tape in their collection. At the very least, they're the only library that has the tape cataloged and shared with OCLC Worldcat.
Concerning the possibility of being able to view the Runaway documentary - I handle the interlibrary loans here and I'm currently looking at the Muhlenberg College Library's lending policies through the back end of OCLC. They list "Children's Collection, AV material, Special & Rare collection, New York Times Best seller collection, DVD, CD" as items that do
NOT circulate (i.e., they will not loan these materials to another library). Unless someone lives near Allentown, PA and can ask to view the tape within the library, I think this might be a dead end.
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