Once Upon An El
1955
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"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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