The Beats: An Existential Comedy, 1980
- Type of resource
- moving image
- Date created
- 1980
- Language
- English
- Digital origin
- reformatted digital
- Broadcast standard
- NTSC
- Sound content
- Sound
- Color content
- Black and white
- Extent
- 1 3/4 inch videotape: U-matic
- Form
- videocassette
Digital content
Context
Item belongs to a collection
Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-2017
Contains correspondence, manuscripts by Ginsberg and other writers, business records, notebooks and journals, clipping files, books, periodicals, audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, and posters. Accessions received in 1998, 1999, 2002, and 2004 totaling some 153.5 linear feet have not yet been processed., Accession 2011-038, .25 linear foot, includes letters from Alan Ansen, Charles Bukowski, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Louis Ginsberg, John Holmes, Norman Mailer, Michael McClure, Kate Orlovsky, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, Philip Whalen, and others. Also included is "A commonplace book," a bound manuscript notebook by Ginsberg, 1946.
- Digital collection
- 2707 digital items
- Physical collection
- circa 1,340 linear feet, .008 gigabytes
- Finding aid
- Online Archive of California
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Description
Creators/Contributors
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Beats and Existential Comedy views like a documentary, where members of the Beats are interviewed or filmed seperately. Some of the works performed include Ferlinghetti's Dog.
Subjects
Bibliographic information
- Note
- Reformatted by Stanford University Libraries in 2017.
- Source ID
- M0733_s11_ss11k_b370_80-009
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/jf032ds3570
- M0733
- Repository
- Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish
- Copyright
- Copyright © Allen Ginsberg Estate. All Rights Reserved.
