LEADER 00000ngm 2200409Ma 4500 001 43993867 005 20000506 TAPE oclc9991: 0012 007 vf bbahou 008 000710s1960 xxu052 vleng d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 000710 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080528 Modid: XRF 035 (PFA-FILM)113 035 GLADN50874497 040 CUY|eamim|cCUY 090 |b0500-01-7852 245 04 [The flower thief--workprint and outtakes] |h[videorecording] /|c[filmmaker, Ron Rice] 257 U.S. 260 [United States :|bRon Rice,|c1960] 300 1 videocassette of 1 (52 min.) :|bsd., b&w ;|c1/2 in. 500 The release version of the film runs 75 minutes. 500 No title or credits appear on film. Title supplied from film leader and can; credits supplied from: 500 Workprint running time: 30:00. Outtakes running time: 22: 00. 500 No date on film; date supplied from: Visionary film / P. Adams Sitney. 500 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. 506 PFA 0500-01-7852. Restricted: For research use. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 511 0 [Cast:] Taylor Mead, "Big Daddy" Nord. 518 Filmed in San Francisco. 520 [Workprint:] Taylor Mead portrays the flower thief, a man who wanders the North Beach area of San Francisco, observing the world around him and displaying kindness to a large teddy bear. Like a child, he stops by a playground and talks with the children there; he dances in the street; watches the destruction of a building, and then has coffee with an almost-naked woman he meets in an abandoned, rubble-strewn building. He finds a teddy bear, and carries it with him on his travels. He stops in a bar and listens to jazz with other Beatniks, then returns to the abandoned building and treats the teddy violently. Perhaps feeling remorse, the man puts the bear in a little wagon and pulls it up a hill to Coit Tower. There he offers the bear to the statue of Columbus, but Columbus does not respond. The man sits in the wagon with the teddy bear and rides the wagon down the hill. He returns to his abandoned warehouse, sitting morosely. Many men appear in the loft and come downstairs, wheeling a large circular object. 520 8 [Outtakes:] 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. 534 |pOriginal format:|e16mm. 655 7 Personal/independent films.|2mim 690 U.S. films 690 San Francisco in films 700 1 Rice, Ron. 700 1 Mead, Taylor. 700 1 Nord, Big Daddy. 935 GLADN50874497 941 0 PFA 0500-01-7852. film to tape transfer at PFA of prints 1612-01-809 & 810; logged in 1995 Oct 25. 946 PFA 0500-01-7852. This is a video copy of what appears to be a re-editing of a release print version of The flower thief, and the resulting outtakes, put together by Francis Rigney. See records for PFA prints 1612-01-809 & 1612-01- 810. 948 PFA 0500-01-7852. Restricted: For research use. 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140928 994 92|bCUY