From the San Rafael Daily Independent Journal, November 25, 1965
Film Review
by John F. Kearney
Nearly every seat was taken five minutes before the start of the movie.
By the time the wall lights in the Gate Theater, Sausalito, were dimmed, a middle-aged couple had squeezed into the last remaining space, a few feet from the screen set up on the stage.
Whatever their motives, members of the audience were in high spirits to witness the arrival in Marin of an American phenomenon known as the Underground Cinema.
There were those curious to see movies made in cellars and back yards on a shoestring by arty people who, until a couple of years ago, expressed themselves only in the relatively introvert world of canvas and paint.
Then there was the fun crowd, anxious not to miss a thing considered “in,” even if it meant having its collective leg pulled from time to time.
Film Review
by John F. Kearney
Nearly every seat was taken five minutes before the start of the movie.
By the time the wall lights in the Gate Theater, Sausalito, were dimmed, a middle-aged couple had squeezed into the last remaining space, a few feet from the screen set up on the stage.
Whatever their motives, members of the audience were in high spirits to witness the arrival in Marin of an American phenomenon known as the Underground Cinema.
There were those curious to see movies made in cellars and back yards on a shoestring by arty people who, until a couple of years ago, expressed themselves only in the relatively introvert world of canvas and paint.
Then there was the fun crowd, anxious not to miss a thing considered “in,” even if it meant having its collective leg pulled from time to time.
- 11/11/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
From the Austin Daily Texan, September 22, 1966
Film-Makers’ Co-Op Shows ‘The Wild One’
The Gulf Coast Film-Makers’ Co-Op, an off campus student organization, will inaugurate its Film Factory at 8 p.m., Friday.
Founded to encourage student film-making, Film-Makers’ Co-Op is a result of interest among university students for a place to show and make films. Spokesmen cite the fact that at present there isn’t any University course for the beginning student who wants to make creative films, and of the two courses devoted to film on campus, both are oriented for radio and TV majors.
The Group has received support from the New American Cinema groups on both east and west coasts. Independent film-makers like Bruce Baillie and Robert Nelson from California have provided films for the first program. In New York, Pop Artist Andy Warhol will provide his newest film, “Camp” with Baby Jane Holzer and Jack Smith, for...
Film-Makers’ Co-Op Shows ‘The Wild One’
The Gulf Coast Film-Makers’ Co-Op, an off campus student organization, will inaugurate its Film Factory at 8 p.m., Friday.
Founded to encourage student film-making, Film-Makers’ Co-Op is a result of interest among university students for a place to show and make films. Spokesmen cite the fact that at present there isn’t any University course for the beginning student who wants to make creative films, and of the two courses devoted to film on campus, both are oriented for radio and TV majors.
The Group has received support from the New American Cinema groups on both east and west coasts. Independent film-makers like Bruce Baillie and Robert Nelson from California have provided films for the first program. In New York, Pop Artist Andy Warhol will provide his newest film, “Camp” with Baby Jane Holzer and Jack Smith, for...
- 7/8/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
West coast based underground filmmaker Robert Nelson, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer within the past year, passed away this week. He was 81 years old.
Nelson began making films in the early 1960s and his work stood out from his peers at the time thanks to their prankish energy and humor. His most notorious film was 1965′s Oh Dem Watermelons, a parody of racist attitudes towards blacks that divided audiences with its shocking antics. The film was originally commissioned and planned to be shown just as intermission entertainment during live shows performed by the San Francisco Mime Troupe, but its popularity turned it into a regularly programmed hit.
Other films of note include his longest work The Great Blondino (1967), a 42-minute romp that features a curious young man exploring the beguiling world around him, and The Off-Handed Jape (1967), a film in which Nelson and his filmmaking partner William T. Wiley...
Nelson began making films in the early 1960s and his work stood out from his peers at the time thanks to their prankish energy and humor. His most notorious film was 1965′s Oh Dem Watermelons, a parody of racist attitudes towards blacks that divided audiences with its shocking antics. The film was originally commissioned and planned to be shown just as intermission entertainment during live shows performed by the San Francisco Mime Troupe, but its popularity turned it into a regularly programmed hit.
Other films of note include his longest work The Great Blondino (1967), a 42-minute romp that features a curious young man exploring the beguiling world around him, and The Off-Handed Jape (1967), a film in which Nelson and his filmmaking partner William T. Wiley...
- 1/13/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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