LEADER 00000ngm 2200481Ma 4500 001 43993933 005 20000506 TAPE oclc9991: 0138 007 mr maaadmnartabac199610 008 000710s1963 xxu034 mleng d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 000710 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080528 Modid: XRF 033 2 1959----|a1963---- 035 (PFA-FILM)225 035 GLADN50874421 040 CUY|eamim|cCUY 090 |b1612-01-2967 245 00 Blonde cobra|h[motion picture] /|ca philm by Bobby Fleischner [and Ken Jacobs] with Jacky [i.e. Jack] Smith. 257 U.S. 260 [United States :bRobert Fleischner,|c1963] 300 1 reel of 1 (1234 ft.) (34 min.) :|bopt sd., b&w with col. sequences ;|c16 mm.|3triacetate print. 500 Live radio is to be played during the film's projection. 500 No credits on film other than unbracketed ones in main entry. Jack Smith's roles supplied by cataloger. All other credits supplied from: Film: the front line 1984 / David Ehrenstein. 500 Running time: 34:17. 500 No date on film; date supplied from: Film: the front line 1984. 500 Handwritten on leader: Blonde cobra -- Fleischner. Smith. Jacobs. -- Sound: play loud and very high treble ... with additional radio sound (any clear talking but preferably local and/or news) even louder. Important! Thank you. 500 Ken Jacobs' name is printed on clear leader at 53 ft., 13 frames. Not legible when projected. 506 PFA 1612-01-2967. Restricted: Not for research use. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 508 [Camera, Bob Fleischner; editor, Ken Jacobs]. 510 4 Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary film. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979,|cp. 330-334 510 4 Curtis, David. Experimental cinema. New York: Universe Books, 1971,|cp. 151 510 4 Ehrenstein, David. Film: the front line 1984. Denver: Arden Press, 1984,|cp. 41 511 0 With: Jacky [i.e. Jack] Smith (as himself, Madame Nescience, and improvised monologue), Jerry Sims. 518 Footage filmed between 1959-1963. 520 The soundtrack consists of an unsynchronized improvised monologue by Jack Smith, commenting on the images on the picture. The occasional appropriated music also matches the images on the screen. The film begins with three men in a bathroom. One falls into the bathtub (Jack Smith), then holds up titles for the film. Smith poses like an odalisque, cavorts, and plays with objects in improvised motions. The voiceover continues a stream-of- consciousness monologue, telling the story of Madame Nescience, a psychic who wanted to be a nun. Smith appears dressed in flowing robes as the psychic. The films ends with Smith imitating a little boy and speaking homosexual innuendos. 590 PFA 1612-01-2967. |aCONDITION NOTE: Previous inspection: 25 Oct 1996; magenta; splices; Very good/excellent condition; 5 splices; very light lines and scratches; the two color sections have faded to pink/magenta CONDITION NOTE: Previous inspection: 05 Sept 1992; pink; scratches; splices; Satisfactory condition: heavily scratched; color sequences and some of the inserted black leader have been tape-spliced in, resulting in 14 tape splices; color sequences are pink CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2007/10 /02; Very good condition; color sections faded to pink/ red; very light scratches 650 0 Male homosexuality. 655 7 Shorts.|2mim 655 7 Personal/independent films.|2mim 690 U.S. films. 700 1 Fleischner, Bob. 700 1 Jacobs, Ken. 700 1 Smith, Jack. 700 1 Sims, Jerry. 935 GLADN50874421 941 0 PFA 1612-01-2967. American Federation of the Arts purchased with the aid of funds from the NEA; logged in 04 Aug 1976 PFA. 948 PFA 1612-01-2967. Restricted: Not for research use. 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140928 994 92|bCUY