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Films

Title: Films / by David Weissman.
Publication: ©1988, 1991, 1995, 1996

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Use in library	*LDV 2054	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Martin Worman audiovisual collection, 1960-2008.

Description

1 videocassette (27:30) : sound, color with black and white sequences, NTSC, stereo; 1/2 in.

Summary

This collection contains eight short films directed by David Weissman. The first and second films, "The short, short trailer" (0:30 each; 1st in black in white, 2nd in color), are a parody of "I Love Lucy" ("I love movies"), as an advertisement of the 19th annual San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, held at the Castro and Victoria Theater on June 9-18, [1995]. The third film, "Complaints" (5:00), features a comedic musical bit of various performers singing about their personal complaints. The fourth film, "Beauties without a cause" (7:00), features The Fabulous Four Beauties, a crazy drag queen team of four ladies causing mayhem and mischief, while they terrorize a fifth lady. The fifth film, "976" (2:30), Michael calls up a gossip line, "976-DISH" and talks to Lulu. The sixth film, "Song from an angel" (5:00), features the last performance of actor Rodney Price performing the song "Less time than you" (lyrics: Janice Sukaitis ; piano: "Scrumbly" Koldewyn ; melody adapted with permission from Kurt Weill's "One life to live"), who "was a founding member of the Angels of Light ... in October 1987, Rodney Price was diagnosed with AIDS". According to David Weissman's website, Price passed away two weeks after filming. The seventh film, "HIV: un-infected = [unequal] un-affected" are a series of public service announcements in 1996 of HIV prevention which were groundbreaking for addressing both emotional and psychological stresses that HIV-infected gay men face in the wake of their disease. The eighth and last film, "JFF Trailer" (0:30) was an advertisment for the 17th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, held July 17-August 4, [1991] at various venues in the area.

Alternative Title

Short, short trailer.
I love movies.
Complaints.
Beauties without a cause.
976.
976-DISH.
Song from an angel.
Less time than you.
HIV: un-infected = [unequal] un-affected.
JFF trailer.
Martin Worman audiovisual collection.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Short films.
Promotional films.
Public service announcements (Motion pictures)

Note

Title from original videocassette container and labels; full credits from videotape title cards.

Access (note)

Access via streaming video restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Credits (note)

David Weissman, director (all works), author (5th and 7th works) and producer (7th work) ; Symon Michael (3rd-5th works) and Michael Helland (4th work), composers ; Kim Searcy and Debbie Brubaker, co-producers (3rd work) and Dana van Gorder, associate producer (7th work) ; Fawn Yacker, director of photography (4th work) and cinematographer (5th work) ; Marsha Kahm, director of photography (7th work) ; Mary Le Vesque (4th work) and Jeffrey Friedman (5th work), editors ; Joseph Durant (4th work) and Doris Fish (5th work), set designers.

Source (note)

Billy Rose Theatre Division, Martin Worman papers

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: Martin Worman audiovisual collection, *L(Special) 10-06

Call Number

*LDV 2054

OCLC

908639790

Title

Films / by David Weissman.

Copyright Date

Playing Time

002730

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

videocassette

Credits

David Weissman, director (all works), author (5th and 7th works) and producer (7th work) ; Symon Michael (3rd-5th works) and Michael Helland (4th work), composers ; Kim Searcy and Debbie Brubaker, co-producers (3rd work) and Dana van Gorder, associate producer (7th work) ; Fawn Yacker, director of photography (4th work) and cinematographer (5th work) ; Marsha Kahm, director of photography (7th work) ; Mary Le Vesque (4th work) and Jeffrey Friedman (5th work), editors ; Joseph Durant (4th work) and Doris Fish (5th work), set designers.

Performer

"The short, short trailer" ([1995]): Unidentified performers. "Complaints" (©1991): The complainers: Beverly Blair, Debbie Brubaker, Jerome Caja, Bob Collins, Rene Collins, Liz Decena, Mark Decena, Michael Ehrenzweig, Barbara Golden, David Hardy, Phillip Horvitz, Ann Skinner Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Rebecca Katz, Khadijah, Patrick Kroboth, Curtis Lim, Symon Michael, Bob Miller, Melissa Paca, Paul Rangell, Mary Robinson, Helen Rosenman, Leena Running Bear, Nikki Running Bear, Steven Smith, Bill Thibault, David Vick, Michael Wallin, Maggie Wingfield and Ron Zuckerman, vocalists ; Barbara Golden, piano. "Beauties without a cause": featuring Lulu, Theresa McGinley, Teena Rosen, and Tommy Pace, with the special participation of Silvana Nova. "976": Leland Moss, actor/writer (Michael) ; Lulu, actor/writer (976-Dish lady). "Song from an angel" (©1988): featuring Rodney Price, vocals and dancer. "HIV: un-infected = [unequal] un-affected" (©1996): Gabriel Macen, Cara Page, Sherman Koltz, Robert Hernandez, Doug Dowd, Lynn Sikes, Steve Cosson and Winston Williams, commentators. "JFF trailer" ([1991]): Unidentified dancers.

Event

Access

Access via streaming video restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Martin Worman audiovisual collection, *L(Special) 10-06

Local Note

Preservation file: (1 video file (28 min.) : digital, 10 bit compressed YUV; copied from A.O.) in long term storage, Digital Library Repository server [myh_lvh2761_v01_pm]

Source

Separated from; Billy Rose Theatre Division, Martin Worman papers, 1960-2008, *T-Mss 2009-002.

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Added Author

Weissman, David, 1954- film director.

Container of (expression): Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Lady in the dark. One life to live; arranged.

Weissman, David, 1954- screenwriter.

Lulu (Drag artist), author.

Moss, Leland, author.

Michael, Symon, composer.

Helland, Michael (Composer), composer.

Sukaitis, Janice, lyricist.

Blair, Beverly, performer.

Brubaker, Debbie, performer.

Caja, Jerome, 1958-1995, performer.

Collins, Bob (Actor), performer.

Collins, Rene, performer.

Decena, Liz, performer.

Decena, Mark, performer.

Ehrenzweig, Michael, performer.

Golden, Barbara, performer.

Hardy, David (Actor), performer.

Horvitz, Phillip, performer.

Skinner-Jones, Ann, performer.

Jones, Elizabeth (Actor), performer.

Katz, Rebecca (Actor), performer.

Khadijah (Actor), performer.

Kroboth, Patrick, performer.

Lim, Curtis, performer.

Michael, Symon, performer.

Miller, Bob (Actor), performer.

Paca, Melissa, performer.

Rangell, Paul (Actor), performer.

Robinson, Mary (Actor), performer.

Rosenman, Helen, performer.

Running Bear, Leena, performer.

Running Bear, Nikki, performer.

Smith, Steven (Actor), performer.

Thibault, Bill, performer.

Vick, David, performer.

Wallin, Michael (Actor), performer.

Wingfield, Maggie, performer.

Zuckerman, Ron, performer.

Lulu (Drag artist), performer.

McGinley, Theresa, performer.

Rosen, Teena, performer.

Pace, Tommy, performer.

Nova, Silvana, performer.

Moss, Leland, performer.

Price, Rodney, -1988, performer.

Koldewyn, Richard, 1945- performer.

Maceu, Gabriel, commentator.

Page, Cara, commentator.

Koltz, Sherman, commentator.

Hernandez, Robert, commentator.

Dowd, Doug, commentator.

Sikes, Lynn, commentator.

Cosson, Steven, commentator.

Williams, Winston, commentator.

Weissman, David, 1954- film producer.

Searcy, Kim (Film producer), producer.

Brubaker, Debbie, producer.

Gorder, Dana van, associate producer.

Kahm, Marsha, director of photography.

Yacker, Fawn, director of photography.

Yacker, Fawn, cinematographer.

Le Vesque, Mary, film editor.

Friedman, Jeffrey, 1951- film editor.

Durant, Joseph (Set designer), set designer.

Fish, Doris, set designer.

San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (San Francisco, Calif)

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

Fabulous Four Beauties, performer.

Kirsch, Dorothy, donor.

Croonquist, Robert, donor.

Added Title

Short, short trailer.

I love movies.

Complaints.

Beauties without a cause.

976.

976-DISH.

Song from an angel.

Less time than you.

HIV: un-infected = [unequal] un-affected.

JFF trailer.

Martin Worman audiovisual collection.

Found In:

Martin Worman audiovisual collection, 1960-2008.

Research Call Number

*LDV 2054

*LVH 2761

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