Beat Generation - Kerouac & Ginsberg - New York 1959
This 5-minute film by Robert Frank was no doubt shot around the time Frank was working with Alfred Leslie on the Beat classic 'Pull My Daisy' featuring Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg. In this short clip we see Lucien Carr & his wife Francesca & their three sons Simon, Caleb & Ethan as well as Mary Frank with her & Robert's children Pablo & Andrea. I put a live version of Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five' behind this Beat meet-&-greet at E 9th Street & 3rd Avenue because"Take Five' came out the same year, 1959, & it seems to go with the upbeat mood among all those kids & smiling Beats.
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"Take Five" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet always puts me in a good mood. Especially if the weather is lousy outside my humble home.
when everyone was dark academia
NYU destroyed the East Village and around Washington Square Park with their Real Estate intrusion and their connections to developers, so much was destroyed and continues today.
both men in their mid 30s looking very much in their early to mid 30s. fast forward a decade and Kerouac looked infinitely more aged some saying looking well into his 60s. He drank like we breath the natural air. Horrifying what alcohol can do. Ginsburg did much less of the drinking if he did any and lived nearly twice as long.
pretty hip scene!!
‘Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. "Take Five" went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time and still receives significant radio airplay.’
What a bizarre little film we have here.. Great piece of history.
Great musical choice: Dave Brubeck Quartet.
I think the woman in the white peasant blouse with long hair is Diane Di Prima. Her book of poetry, "Revolutionary Letters" is must reading.
My favorite beat was Diane di Prima, one of the few women within the circle and a prolific writer/poet.
Lucien Carr is on the screen at
This is perfect seeing Jack like this!
Nice document. Jack Kerouac wears the same striped shirt and black trousers in an interview given to journalist Pierre Nadeau on 29 November 1959 for Radio Canada. Jack, the heavenly hobo. I love it!
Jack looks totally bombed and it seems like it's early afternoon at the latest.
In American poetry there is nothing like the Beat Generation.
The very Harmony Bar and Grill of early sketches of Visions Of Cody;the Old beat shoe repair shop;the employment office,the Elevated waiting room,and across the street will be the factory whose walls Doctor Sax climbs.
I'm pretty sure that is Lucien Carr seen at
This is a ripping version of Take Five. Like any band they had good and great nights. THIS was an excellent night.
This is gold
Que guapo era Jack Kerouac...