Once Upon An El
1955 · Movie · 21m
Overview
"The poet Daisy Aldan (who brought Gerard Malanga into the world of experimental filmmaking) directed a beautifully evocative and impressionistic documentary, Once Upon an El, in 8mm color with a 7 1/2 ips tape soundtrack. The 15-minute film's cast included John Ashberry, James Broughton, Chester Kallman, Frank O'Hara, Olga Petroff, Kermit Sheets, and other luminaries of the Avant-Garde, the soundtrack was composed by Storm de Hirsch. Once Upon An El documented the activities of a group of writers and composers...[demonstrating] against the demolition of New York's Third Avenue elevated railway (FMC 1967, 7-8) , which was demolished anyway" - Wheeler Winston Dixon
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Key crew
- Daisy AldanDirector
Cast
- James BroughtonCast
- Frank O'HaraCast
- Kenward ElmslieCast
- Jane FreilicherCast
- Grace HartiganCast
- Leon HechtCast
- Robert HellmanCast
- Chester KallmanCast
- John LatoucheCast
- Richard MillerCast
- Olga PetroffCast
- Fabio RietiCast
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