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The Life and times of Allen Ginsberg / a New Yorker Films release ; produced and directed by Jerry Aronson.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Aronson, Jerry, director, editor, producer.
Dorsky, Nathaniel, editor.
New Yorker Films, distributor, producer.
Tobias Wagner Library Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Ginsberg, Allen.
Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
Poets, American.
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
United States.
Social conditions.
Genre:
Biographies.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographical films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (84 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition:
Director's cut / with newly updated and unseen footage.
Other Title:
Life & times of Allen Ginsberg
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : New Yorker Films, [2006]
Language Note:
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
System Details:
DVD.
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
Summary:
Depicts Allen Ginsberg, an American poet and social activist in the different decades of his life and activities. Utilizes still photos, home movies, news footage, television programs, and interviews with Ginsberg and others filmed especially for this movie.
Contents:
1. [Feature. Special features]
2. [Special features (cont.)].
Credits:
Camera, Jean de Segonzac ... [et al.]; edited by Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerry Aronson, Antony Cooper; music, Tom Capek.
Notes:
Special features: interviews; "The making of The life and times of Allen Ginsberg"; Ginsberg reading selected poems; Bob Dylan and Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac's grave; William S. Burroughs and Ginsberg at Naropa University; Neal Cassady and Ginsberg at City Lights book store; making of the music video "A ballad of the skeletons"; Ginsberg guides us through an exhibition of his photographs; excerpts from "Scenes from Allen's last three days on Earth as a spirit" by Jonas Mekas; Ginsberg's photo gallery; director's photo gallery; original theatrical trailer; memorial for Allen Ginsberg.
Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2002, re-edited from the motion picture originally released in 1994.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.
ISBN:
156730382X
9781567303827
OCLC:
71146930
Publisher Number:
717119942649
NYD 94206 New Yorker Films

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