Multiple SIDosis

Multiple SIDosis (1970)
Director: Sid Laverents

Sid Laverents, a retired Convair engineer, has long been a legend in the amateur film community. Multiple SIDosis is a kind of latter-day trick film, in which Sid reprises the one-man band act he performed as a traveling vaudevillian in the '20s and '30s. This self-reflexive masterpiece features Sid--or rather many, many Sids--hysterically performing the song Nola, recorded with Sid's ingenious sound-on-sound looping technique and filmed with the use of his handmade in-camera mattes.

Preserved at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation and Fotokem Film and Video. Preserved from a 16 mm. Kodachrome reversal print, a 16 mm. Eastmancolor positive print, and the original 1/4" magnetic audio recording. Laboratory services by Fotokem Film and Video. Sound services by Audio Mechanics and DJ Audio. Special thanks to: Sid Laverents, Walt Rose, Melinda Stone.

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