Pull my daisy [videorecording] / a G-String Enterprise ; [adapted, photographed and directed by] Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie ; written and narrated by Jack Kerouac. The last clean shirt / Czé Zléyiuz Edu Filméei presents ; [produced, photographed, written and directed by Alfred Leslie ; dialogue written by Frank O'Hara].

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [1998]
Description
1 videocassette (41 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

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Summary note
In Pull my daisy, a family struggling to fit in with their suburban neighbors, invites the local bishop over for dinner. However, their "Beat" friends crash the party. The last clean shirt follows a man and a woman as they drive a convertible automobile around in a city and talk to each other.
Notes
  • Pull my daisy was adapted from the third act of Jack Kerouac's play: The beat generation.
  • "The Museum of Modern Art"--Container.
  • Originally produced as 2 avant-garde motion pictures: Pull my daisy, produced in 1959 (28 min.); and, The last clean shirt, produced in 1964 (13 min.).
Creation/​Production credits
Pull my daisy: editors, Leon Prochnik, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie; narrator, Jack Kerouac; music, David Amram.
System details
VHS, hi-fi, stereo compatible, Dolby system.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Cast: Allen Ginsberg, Larry Rivers, Alice Neel, Beltiane (Delphine Seyrig), Gregory Corso, David Amram, Pablo Frank, Sally Gross, Mooney Peebles (Richard Bellamy), Peter Orlovsky, Denise Parker (Pull my Daisy); Richard White, Ruth Cazalet (The last clean shirt).
Other title(s)
  • Last clean shirt.
  • Pull my daisy.
Title on cassette label and container
  • Films of Alfred Leslie
ISBN
1561278866
Publisher no.
1886
OCLC
41168025
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