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Once Upon An El

01/01/1955

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0hr 21min

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STORY

"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

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • James Broughton
  • Frank O'Hara
  • Kenward Elmslie
  • Jane Freilicher
  • Grace Hartigan

    Director

  • Daisy Aldan

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Folder Editions

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Frank O'Hara

Kenward Elmslie

Jane Freilicher

Grace Hartigan

Leon Hecht

Robert Hellman

Chester Kallman

Richard Miller

Olga Petroff

Fabio Rieti