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Title Work

Title No: 11835

Title: Six short films by Les Blank

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Video

Original Summary:
Compilation tape of six films by Les Blank. 

Cigarette blues: "Oakland bluesman Sonny Rhodes sings Cigarette blues, a musical warning that compares cigarette smoking with playing with a loaded gun"--lesblank.com. 

Chicken real: "A surrealistic (and often hilarious) look at a large-scale chicken farm that produces 156 million chickens a year"--lesblank.com. 

The sun's gonna shine: "A lyrical recreation of Lightnin' Hopkins' decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living"--lesblank.com. 

God  respects us  when we work, but he loves us when we dance: "Hippies and flower children dance and create rituals at the historic Los Angeles "Love-In" of Easter Sunday, 1967. This '60s classic documents a once-in a lifetime phenomenon, preserving all the fashions, energy and idealism of the first alternative lifestyles"--lesblank.com. 

Dizzy Gillespie: "Rare images of immortal bebop jazzman Dizzy Gillespie as he talks about his beginnings and music theories -- and blows a lot of hot music on his famous bent horn"--lesblank.com. 

Running around like a chicken with its head cut off: "Les Blank's first student film ... an hommage to Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal, the film that inspired Blank to become a filmmaker"--lesblank.com. 

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Name As Subjects: Blank, Les

Credits:
RoleName
CreatorBlank, Les

Items x1

ItemDescription
11835-1Video Tape : Video home system 


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111836Dizzy Gillespie


Contained By x1

Title NoTitle
4907Blackside video reference library