- Title: F-A0909
- Summary: COMING ATTRACTIONS: AVANT GARDE FILM, "ART". TINY TIM, SALVADOR DALI.
- Description:00:31:28 - TITLE CARD: COMING ATTRACTIONS, ART, (FLASHING ON AND OFF) 00:31:37 - TITLE CARD: "ART" 00:31:40 - "A FEATURE FILM BY TAYLOR MEAD AND BUDDY WIRTSCHAFTER 00:31:43 - "IN COOPERATION WITH CAPS AND THE NYS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS" 00:31:45 - "COMING ATTRACTIONS" (FLASHING) 00:31:48 - "ART" 00:31:49 - CU OF MAN'S DOUBLE BREASTED SUIT, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO OLD MAN SINGING ABOUT ART, WEARING POLKA DOT SHIRT AND BOW TIE, VAUDEVILLE STYLE, PAN DOWN TO MAN'S FEET SHUFFLING TO THE MUSIC, PAN UP TO MS OF SINGER, TERRIBLE VOICE 00:33:45 - CU OF MAN'S FACE STARING RIGHT AT THE CAMERA, WHITE HAIR BOPPING TO THE MUSIC 00:34:40 - CU OF LADDER, SOMEONE CLIMBS LADDER, ONLY HAND IS VISIBLE 00:34:58 - CU OF REAR END OF MAN CLIMBING LADDER, PAN UP TO FACE, SHAKY CAMERA WORK, MAN CLIMBS DOWN LADDER, CU OF HIS FACE FRAMED BY LADDER 00:35:55 - MAN CLIMBS UP AND DOWN LADDERS FRANTICALLY, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT 00:36:20 - TWO LADDERS IN A ROOM WITH WHITE SCREEN 00:36:28 - WOMAN ENTER VIEW, SITS DOWN IN FRONT OF WHITE SCREEN, WEARS HUGE SUNGLASSES,SMOKES CIGARETTE AND TALKS ABOUT ART, ***TERRIBLE SOUND*** CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON HER HANDS, ZOOMS OUT, SHE SHAKES HER HEAD AND GETS UP, 1960S AVANT GARDE 00:38:42 - HEAVY WOMAN WITH SHAWL AND GOLD PUMPS FANS HERSELF, TALKS TO HERSELF, ACTS OUT MONOLOGUE, SINGS, ROLLS EYES, ACTS CRAZY **TERRIBLE SOUND** 00:41:43 - BLANK SLUG 00:41:47 - MAN CHANGES INTO A ROBE AND GETS INTO A BATHTUB, WASHES FACE, STANDS UP AND DRIES HIMSELF WITH A TOWEL AND GETS DRESSED, PULLS TURTLENECK SWEATER OVER HIS HEAD 00:43:30 - EXTREME CLOSE UP OF TEDDY BEAR, VOICE OFF CAMERA TALKS ABOUT ART, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL TAYLOR MEAD WITH LARGE UGLY TEDDY BEAR WITH A STRAW HAT, TAYLOR TELLS STORY ABOUT THE HISTORY, DISCOVERY OF ART, RIDICULOUS FARCE, CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON HIS HANDS FIDDLING WITH RIBBON 00:46:24 - CU OF PAISLEY SEQUINED FABRIC, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL WOMAN HOLDING GLASS VASE WITH FILM, SHE PULLS IT OUT AND LETS IT FALL TO THE FLOOR, OUTLANDISH COSTUME WITH UNICORN CROWN 00:47:22 - BLANK WHITE SCREEN 00:47:46 - WOMAN IN SEQUINED GOWN WALKS BACK INTO VIEW TWIRLING AROUND WITH WIND CHIME,SLOWLY PICKS UP THE FILM STRIPS AND SHOVES THEM BACK INTO THE GLASS GLOBE VASE 00:48:42 - BEARDED MAN IN FLORAL PRINT SHIRT WRAPS HIS HEAD WITH A ROLL OF MASKING TAPE, COVERS EYES AND MOUTH, ROTTEN TEETH STICK OUT, PUTS HIS HAND UP TO EAR 00:50:00 - TINY TIM, VERY YOUNG SITS AND PLAYS UKELELE, SINGS A SONG ABOUT MARYLOU, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL ROOM, WICKER CHAIR, SINGS LIFE IS BUT A DREAM 00:52:46 - OLDER WOMAN IN PAGEBOY BRUSHES HER HAIR UNDER AN UMBRELLA, WEARS HUGE FEATHER BOA, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL COUCH, WOMAN READS FROM PAPER, TAKES OUT PROPS AND TALKS ABOUT ART **TERRIBLE SOUND**, KEEPS REPEATING THE WORD ART THEN LAYS DOWN 00:55:11 - CU OF TWO LADDERS IN A ROOM, MAN (BUDDY WIRTSCHAFTER ?) WALKS INTO DUST AND SWEEP LADDERS, GETTING ANGRY, COMPLAINING 00:56:18 - CU OF OLD WORN MID-CENTURY QUILT, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL MAN SITTING ON THE FLOOR WITH BABY AND BABY BOTTLE, FEED BABY, CUTE BABY, BABY GETS SLEEPY 00:59:13 - SALVADOR DALI, GALLERY OPENING ?, NO SOUND 00:59:42 - EXTREME CU OF DALI, POINTY MUSTACHE CUT TO DALI TALKING TO MAN AND WOMAN 00:59:47 - CU OF MAN IN SUIT TAKES HIS GLASSES OFF, PAN ACROSS GALLERY, UNFOCUSED 01:00:01 - TWO MATRONLY WOMEN DRESSED UP GLANCE AT CAMERA 01:00:08 - BLANK SLUG 01:00:15 - MAN SITS DOWN IN FRONT OF CAMERA, FALLS OFF THE PILLOWS, SHRUGS, REPEATS THE WORD ART AND POINTS UP, SNORTS COCAINE AND SNEEZES, GETS UP AND WALKS OFF CAMERA ***TERRIBLE SOUND*** 01:01:50 - BLANK SLUG 01:01:56 - MAN IN SUIT HOLDS LADDER, CU OF HANDS 01:02:08 - END TAPE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1970
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: F-A0909