Beats on Film – Pull my Daisy

If you haven’t heard of it, check out Pull My Daisy. In this 26:13 minute film, Kerouac and Ginsberg show a typified depiction of the Beat generation.

The film tells a story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a bishop over for supper. However, the brakeman’s Beat-like friends crash the party, with comic results.

The movie’s form matches its content; it seems improvised and spontaneous, something that Beat literature is renowned for. Check it out, there is hardly any video footage of the famous Beats.

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