Filmography/Video/DVD/Downloads   (Table of Contents)

 

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Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990   See Text

The Genius of Joe Pass, Vestapol 13073 Video, 2001

 

Filmography:

  • The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
  • Beverly Hills Cop (1984),
    • Eddie Murphy, Santa Monica,1984
  • Black Eye (1974) A private dick and murder and a drug ring in Venice.
    • Also shot in Venice, S. Monica and Marina del Rey.
  • Bowfinger (1999),
    • Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham*, 1999
    • Rae's Restaurant, 2901 Pico Blvd., 1999
  • Bride and Prejudice (2004)
  • Busdriver Video filmed at 2421 Third St., Santa Monica, 90405, January 14, 2007
    • www.epitaph.com/videos/player/913
  • Carnations, Ostriches and Condos: The Secret History of Ocean Park, Michael Fawcett, City TV, 1994.
  • Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001), 1970s
    • Narrated by Sean Penn, 2001
    • 1970s end of POP pier, Main St., Bay St. Hill, Ocean Park, 2001
  • Elmer Gantry, 1960, 1990, 1983
  • The Face of Lincoln, 1997, 1955
    • Academy Award Documentary featuring Merrell Gage's Sculpture, 1997, 1955
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982),
    • Sean Penn, Locations around Santa Monica, 1982
  • Forrest Gump (1994), 2004a
    • Santa Monica Pier, 2004a, 1994
  • Frankly Jazz, 1962
    • Joe Pass appearance on a Los Angeles television broadcast. 1962
  • Freaky Friday (2003), Jaime Lee Curtis, Ocean Ave., the Promenade
  • The Fugitive (last episode)
  • Inside Daisy Clover (1965),
    • Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Santa Monica Pier Carousel, 19651965, 1990, 1983
  • Kid at the Auto Races, with Charlie Chaplin
  • The Lawrence Welk Show
  • Kid at the Auto Races, with Charlie Chaplin
  • Lords of Dogtown, 2005
    • Catherine Hardwicke, director, 2005, 2005 (Filmed in San Pedro in order to look like Venice/Ocean Park/ Santa Monica)
  • Los Angeles History Project: Harbor Wars-San Pedro vs. Santa Monica (Bruce Henstel*)
  • Los Angeles History Project: Trouble in Angel City
  • The Majestic (2001) Jim Carrey, Santa Monica Pier
  • The Mod Squad
  • Mother, Jugs & Speed, 1976 (Suggested by Kate Holt, 2009)
    • with Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby and Harvey Kietel
    • (Dir. Peter Yates, 1976) features many scenes shot in Ocean Park.
    • Available at Vidiots, 2009
  • The Net (1995),
    • Sandra Bullock,, 1995,
    • Santa Monica Pier, Venice, 1995
    • The Social and Public Resources Center (SPARC ), 1995,
    • 685 Venice Blvd., formerly the Venice Division of LAPD, 1995
  • Night Tide (1963) with Dennis Hopper and Linda Lawson
  • 1941 (1979) The big Steven Spielberg comedy with the huge cast, 1979. 1990, 1983
  • Olivia's
  • One California Day: A Look at the California Surfing Experience, Film, 2007, http://onecaliforniaday.com
  • The Genius of Joe Pass, Vestapol 13073 Video, 2001
    • 20VESTAPOL 13073
    • Running time: 115 minutes • b/w & Color •
    • Cover photos by Tom Copi
    • Nationally distributed by Rounder Records,
    • © ® 2001 Vestapol Productions A division of
    • Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, Inc.
  • Pier Trilogy: I (with Glenn Yarborough)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955), 1983,
    • James Dean, Natalie Wood, Santa Monica High, 1983, 1955
  • Ross and Sandy Roberts Home Movies, DVD vol. 2, (Ocean Park, 1976), Issaquah, WA, 2005
  • Rockin' at the Ocean (1979),
    • Short by Gretchen Nemzer, 1979
  • The Rubin Method, 2004, A documentary about Jerry Rubin*
  • Say Anything, 1988, Cameron Crow [Alicia Weisberg-Roberts]
  • Sons of the Desert (1933) Laurel and Hardy features the Santa Monica Elks Lodge
  • Speed (1994),
    • Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, 1994
    • Santa Monica Buses,1994
    • Main St. at Rose Av., 255 Main St., Ballarina Clown, 1994
  • The Sting (1973),
    • Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Santa Monica Pier Carousel,, 1973, 1990, 1983
  • Swing Shift, 1984
  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991),
    • Arnold Schwarzenegger*, Santa Monica Place, 1991
  • They Shoot Horses Don't They?( 1969)
    • Jane Fonda*, Santa Monica Pier Carousel,
  • Venice, California: Feeding the Sparrows by Feeding the Horses, (1978)
    • documentary by Moritz Bormann, 2004a
    • backing track of George Clinton and Parliament's "One Nation Under a Groove."
  • Venice Venus (1977),
    • by Venice historian John "Dr. Video" Hunt, 1977
  • Windward Avenue Sketches (1976),
    • by Venice historian John "Dr. Video" Hunt, 2004a,
  • Professional Wrestling
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David Trotter All of a Tremble: A Review of Hanns Zischler's Kafka Goes to the Movies, trans. by Susan Gillespie, Chicago: 2003, London Review of Books, 4 March 2004, p. 28

" . . . Karl Rossman, in The Man who Disappeared, escaping from the police, skids on one leg round a corner in a way that seems thoroughly Chaplinesque, and could just conceivably have been meant as such. Kafka had six chapters of the novel in draft by December 1912, and resumed work on it in autumn 1914; Chaplin's tramp took shape in Kid Auto Races at Venice, a Keystone comedy released on 7 February 1914 . . . "

 

  • Aragon Ballroom at the Lick Pier, 1987, 1951, 1946, 1943
    • Managed by Gordon 'Pops' Sadrup, 1987, 1951
    • Lawrence Welk's first televised KTLA program May 2, 1951
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      • Herbert L. Strock is best known for his cult classics and early science fiction films such as "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein", "The Crawling Hand", Blood of Dracula", and "Gog" among many others. Strock worked on such shows as the pilot for "The Groucho Marx Show" and "Dragnet" and directed many famous "Science Fiction Theater" episodes.
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James R. Oestreich Variations on Chance, Anarchy and Silence, The New York Times, Sunday, 25 January 2004, AR 25, 2004, 1987, 1960

     ""Thoreau was very happy to be little known while he was alive. He said it enabled him to do what he had to do. I'm now very well known. It makes me very happy, because I'm able to do what I have to do."

     "Thus a self-analysis of John Cage, rendered in 1987 in the brief film "19 Questions," by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver. Not incidentally, that response was 23 seconds long, as dictated by Cageian chance operations imposed on the interview. The other replies ranged from one second (on Octavio Paz: "Indian") to 48 seconds.

     ""19 Questions" is one of four Cage films by Mr. Scheffer and Mr. Culver on a new DVD from Mode Records (www.mode.com), "From Zero." The others vary widely. "Fourteen" is Cage's chamber work of that name, played by the Ives Ensemble and filmed mildly chaotically. It is pointedly unconducted (by an 'unconductor") and undirected. "Paying Attention" reaps slim benefits from a filmed interview, with most of the speech slowed to a barely intelligible crawl and video as calculatedly jarring. "Overpopulation and Art" offers audio of Cage reading the title poem over his atmospheric work "Ryoanji," and video shot near his homes, rural (in Stoney Point, N.Y.) and urban (Manhattan).

     "Cage's inevitable preoccupations - chance, indeterminacy, anarchy and silence - play out in myriad ways. A 48 - second disquisition on conversations is, deliciously, mostly silence. Ultimately, haltingly, a lone aphorism emerges: "I think conversation works best when the second thing that is said is not in the mind of the person who said the first thing."

     "The films were shown last week at a festival of Cage music and videos at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village. The festival ends today with a full schedule of events, including a screening of Cage's 1960 appearance on the television game show, "I've Got a Secret." Indeed, for all that he revealed over the years, he had so many."

{Is a percussionist primarily a keeper of time? Did Cage keep time well?} {"incidentally;" coincidentally; "inevitable;" evitable; "chance;" "indeterminacy;" determinacy; "anarchy;" "silence;"}

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  • Preceded by short film "The Box Man"

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  • Moviolas, 1990, 1930s
    • Santa Monica Pier Arcade, 1990, 1930s
    • For Children, 1990, 1930s
      • Dempsey-Tunney Championship Fight, 1990, 1930s
      • Electric Chair at Sing Sing; 1990, 1930a
      • Fire at Sea!, 1990, 1930s

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Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990

     ". . . Man Ray, an internationalist and American founder of Dada who spent the forties in Hollywood as a refugee from occupied Paris. . . . he contributed Ruth, Roses and Revolvers, a script for a segment of the 1946 film Dreams That Money Can't Buy. . . ." p.33

[Other participants in the project were Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ferdinand Leger, Alexander Calder, John Cage*, and Darius Milhaud.]

     "James and John Whitney . . . wandered even further from tradition in creating their audio-visual music. Feeling that music was too dominant in Fischinger's non-objective films, they invented a "pendulum system" to transcribe sounds directly. This optical printing and pendulum composition was the basis for their revolutionary Five Abstract Film Exercises. "

Jules Engel, 1990

     "Born in Budapest, Hungary, raised in Illinois, moved to Los Angeles in 1937 to work as an animator for Disney. During World War II he enlisted in the Motion Picture Unit of the Air Force. Afterwards, in 1947, he formed United Productions of America (UPA), where he helped to created Gerald McBoing-Boing, Madelaeine, and Mr. Magoo.

     "His painting are described as abstractly noir rather than the poised cubism of Neutra, Schindler, Soriano and Ain, more deconstructive or Gehry-like.

     "Since 1969, Engel has served as founding chair of the Department of Animation and Experimental Film at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia . . . "

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 3rd annual THE OTHER VENICE FILM FESTIVAL in Venice, CA,

March 16-19th, 2006.

http://www.othervenicefilmfest.com/schedule.html

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