LEADER 00000ngm 2200397Ma 4500 001 43993888 005 20000506 TAPE oclc9991: 3740 007 mr baaaduzauannau199210 008 000710s1960 xxu030 mleng d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 000710 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080528 Modid: XRF 035 (PFA-FILM)7022 035 (PFA-FILM)133 035 GLADN50870436 040 CUY|eamim|cCUY 090 |b1616-01-5499 245 04 [The flower thief]|h[motion picture] /|c[filmmaker, Ron Rice] 257 U.S. 260 [United States :|bRon Rice,|c1960] 300 1 reel of 2 (r1) (1084 ft.) (30 min.) :|bopt sd., b&w ; |c16 mm.|3triacetate workprint (?). 500 The more commonly known release version runs 75 minutes. 500 No title or credits appear on film. Title supplied from leader and can; credits supplied from: 500 Running time: 30:04. 500 No date on film; date supplied from: Visionary film / P. Adams Sitney. 506 PFA 1616-01-5499. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only. 506 PFA 1612-01-809. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 511 0 [Cast:] Taylor Mead, "Big Daddy" Nord. 518 Filmed in San Francisco. 520 [Reel 1] 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. 541 0 PFA 1616-01-5499. D0378 541 0 PFA 1612-01-809. D0224 562 This version was apparently edited by Francis Rigney, who says that it is the "definitive version". 590 PFA 1616-01-5499. |aCOPY-SPECIFC DESCRIPTION: 2 reels of 2 (63 min.) : opt sd., b&w ; 16 mm. print. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 1996 Jun 24; splices; scratches; Good condition; a few splices and scratches; film appears to be mostly a positive print with a variable density track and clear perf's; approximately 2/3 of the way into the first reel what appears to be a reversal section with black perfs and variable area track is cement spliced in; this section runs about 150'; the remainder of the print is positive with variable density track; beginning of second reel is marked: "Audio Film - Rice - Composite - Dupe Neg"; this is in white letters on black, implying that this reel (and most of the first) was printed from an internegative CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2007/02/06; Good condition; Kodak b/w positive print cut with approx. 200 ft. b/w reversal print about 2/3 into R1; occasional perf damage; from composite dupe neg; typical linear gash between pix and track, emulsion side; 3 splices total 590 PFA 1612-01-809. |aCOPY-SPECIFC DESCRIPTION: 1 reel of 2 (r1) (1084 ft.) (30 min.) : opt sd., b&w ; 16 mm. triacetate work print (?). |aCONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 31 Oct 1992; splices; warped; scratches; Fair condition: all scenes are cement-spliced together; slightly warped as comes off reel; scratches; puncture marks around sprockets from 166 ft.-180 ft.; at 722 ft. 13 fr., are two pieces of white tape: one has the frame marked with an X and the words "print sync;" the other piece has written on it "725'" with an arrow pointing to the sync mark (inspector's footage count for this reel began with the first frame of picture) CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2007/02/06; Kodak b/w edited composite positive print; cement splices; approx. 117 splices 655 7 Features.|2mim 655 7 Personal/independent works.|2mim 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 GLADN50870436 941 0 PFA 1616-01-5499. D0378 donation; logged in 1996 Jan 18. 941 0 PFA 1612-01-809. D0224 donation. 946 PFA 1616-01-5499. This version was apparently acquired after Francis Rigney recommended the PFA to donor Robert S. Rheem. Collections memo states that this is the "second copy of the original", and the "Widow has other copy of the original". As film is clearly made from an interneg, with another section hand-spliced in, its authenticity and completeness are unverified by cataloger. The film is known to exist in multiple versions. 946 PFA 1612-01-809. It is doubtful that this is Rice's original working copy, as it contains a variable density optical track of added sound, and frames wherein a positive splice is visibly printed from a previous generation. Francis Rigney says he edited it, and that it is the "definitive version". If so, it seems to have been a hand-editing of a release print, rather than a reworking of original materials. The "outtakes" (PFA #1612-01-810) would then appear to be the material that was excised from the cut release print. 946 PFA 1612-01-809. Handwritten label on can: The flower thief "work print" - EK 7/28/80. 948 PFA 1616-01-5499. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only. 948 PFA 1612-01-809. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition. 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140928 994 92|bCUY