[The flower thief--outtakes]

Duration: 22

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Ron Rice presents Taylor Mead in The flower thief.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Rice, Ron.; Mead, Taylor.

Description: The released version of the film runs 75 minutes.; Typed title card in negative spliced at head of print: THE FLOWER THIEF. The film you are about to see is a mixture of fact and fantasy. These have been fused in a way that gives the film its own internal logic. At times, it faithfully documents life in San Francisco's Grant Avenue Bohemian Colony (known to most as Beatniks). At times there is a plot, but only in the loosest sense of the word. (There were no rehearsals: the acting was spontaneous, generated by a peculiar mystique between the director and the actors). The film was made in 1960, at a time when most outsiders were condemning and berating these Bohemians as ineffectual humorless frauds.--P.J. Rigney, M.D. San Francisco, 1961.; Running time: 21:37.; No date on film; date supplied from: Visionary film / P. Adams Sitney.; PFA 1612-01-810. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; With: Turk, Ella, Mikey, Ted, Bob Kaufman, Phil McKenna, Eric Nord and many others.; Scenes not used in the completed film. Includes shots of the man (Taylor Mead) wandering on the beach, other people walking in the street, superimpositions, and scenes in a park.; PFA 1612-01-810. D0235; PFA 1612-01-810. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 31 Oct 1992; splices; scratches; Fair condition: scenes are cement and tape-spliced together; at times film sticks as it comes off the reel; some scratches CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2007/02/06; Kodak b/w positive print; neg material titles; over 110 splices, mostly tape; appears to be edited outtakes but with track (probably outtakes from the Francis Rigney edit)

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE