VU Photo Thread

[iaredatsun]

Amaizing early picture with Andy Warhol,Beverly Grant and Jack Smith,filming collaboration at The Factory 1964.

Taxine. Great photo, thank-you. Beverly Grant who married Tony Conrad and collaborated on films with him. I guess here they're shooting or prepping for Warhol's Batman Dracula?

[taxine]

Fred W. McDarrah, Lou Reed,John Cale,Sterling Morrison, Velvet Underground Filmmakers Cinematheque,February 8,1966

ps:Yeah,iaredatsun........I blow my mind with these old pictures,seems are ready for make up with Warhol bitching around.

[bleach]

That last pic is a killer Taxine, thanks. Beautiful shadows.
Just to lower the tone - I wonder what Warhol was 'selling'..a movie no doubt. Bridget put them away!



This one is new to me - i just love those slides Warhol used to project onto the band.

[peppergomez]

Great pics guys. Thanks.

[alfredovu]

Fred W. McDarrah, Lou Reed,John Cale,Sterling Morrison, Velvet Underground Filmmakers Cinematheque,February 8,1966

ps:Yeah,iaredatsun........I blow my mind with these old pictures,seems are ready for make up with Warhol bitching around.

TAXINE , this pic is simply A-L-U-C-I-N-A-N-T-E!!!

[iaredatsun]

Amaizing early picture with Andy Warhol,Beverly Grant and Jack Smith,filming collaboration at The Factory 1964.

Scenes from the Smith and Warhol's never screened/finished Batman Dracula. Includes interesting interview fragment from George Kuchar concerning Smith's reaction to Warhol's filming technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68hsCvK2dDI

[taxine]

Great find iaredatsun,just pray out for some kind soul could make some kinda restoration work of that "film",remember mostly
Factory people along with Jack Smith's gang took a role on it.

[iaredatsun]

Great find iaredatsun,just pray out for some kind soul could make some kinda restoration work of that "film",remember mostly
Factory people along with Jack Smith's gang took a role on it.

Taxine. Doesn't Jack Smith look great in that clip? The clip is from the Jack Smith & The Destruction of Atlantis documentary by Mary Jordan and must have been licensed from the Warhol Foundation. It looks like very good quality to me (maybe in part due to it not having been screened). Compare it to all the footage in Smith's own Flaming Creatures which was shot on old or stolen stock and poorly exposed. I assume the Foundation did the digital scanning of Batman Dracula, which means they might have done all the footage that was shot (or found). I understand (from the internet) that Warhol clips cost approx. $6000 per minute to license.

btw. I don't recognise anyone in that photo you just posted! [edit - OK, it's Baby Jane who starred in Batman Dracula, too!]

btw, btw. Batman Dracula is listed as 2 hours long by Stephen Koch. Someone has listed it as having a VU soundtrack (The Nothing Song) on imdb but of course it predates Warhol's sound films.

[taxine]

Regards on Tony Conrad,Primitives 64 portrait,btw Who's the tupe-tie guy next to Reed on first picture....??

[alfredovu]