Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: LB-11

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01:24:38 5.03	LYNN BARKLEY TALKS TO SYLVIA MILES (for better complete version use LB-37A)
01:26:58 145.03	LYNN TALKS TO MODEL (for better complete version use LB-37A)
01:28:59 266.58	film pauses.
01:29:02 269.03	LYNNE TALKS TO MICHAEL MURPHY & GIRLFRIEND MARY. (for better complete version use LB-37A)
01:29:06 273.04	Speaker 1 04:32 Sexually arousing to watch the people dance and things like that. I should have taped the whole thing. Did you get it did you get it. All right, great. Don't you see a lot of different colorations here a little more pizzazz. Do you? Do you ever write like concept albums around situations and locations or ideas or you just write individually for Speaker 4 Michael Murphy I once wrote a whole album about a ghost town but I don't think New York would qualify Speaker 1 the ghosts are already here. You're just visiting us for the first time Michael, are you going to spend some time with us now, or are you going to sneak back out to New Mexico? Speaker 4 Murphy No, I'm going to be up here for about three months. This fall, I'm going to spend some time here in depth and get to know the place a little bit more and try to divide my time evenly between New Mexico and here. Speaker 1 You have a house or ranch in New Mexico? Speaker 4 Murphy Yeah we have a ranch there. It'll be nice to be up here. I think there are a lot of parallels between the Country Music dancing that's been going on for a long time and the dance scene that's just starting here in New York now. I think that they're really very similar in a lot of ways. I think that's why Travolta is doing a country in western movie that's like a country version of Saturday Night Fever now, down at Gilley's in Pasadena in Houston with country music.
01:30:29 356.02	Blank footage. Cameraman take 4
01:30:45 372.12	Speaker 1 That's one thing you'd never gotten to see at a bar room in Texas. There are all these colorful costumes and clothes and legs and bodies stretching out of shape. I mean, in New York City a man really has a difficult time here, keeping his mind and his senses straight. You're talking about being here for a few months, so you're going to work on a project and recording a new album or something? Speaker 4 Murphy I'm gonna record a country album here in New York City. I'm gonna play and play on a couple of themes of cowboy the Texans, the people who come from down south to live up here in New York and what they go through what it's like and I'm gonna do some songs on that subject in the album Speaker 1 Eldorado. I know. Ah edit edit, stop for a second i lost my train of thought.
01:31:41 428.85	Interview pauses. Cut. Shots of the cameraman,
01:31:50 437.24	Speaker 1 Mary, let me ask you a question. Living in New York for as many years as you have, and working in the fashion industry, the way you have traveling, you find it difficult having a relationship, when you're always on the go? Speaker 5 MARY I used to a lot more than I do now. Now I feel like I've settled in to a little more and it's taken priority, a little bit over my business life. Speaker 1 Must be love Speaker 5 Mary Definitely yeah. Speaker 2 Do you find it difficult moving from New York City to New Mexico, Speaker 5 Mary I didn't know at first how it would feel. And I lived there for three months like December, January and February. And I never thought about New York even once so I was surprised. But it's a good feeling because it's the first time I've been away where usually I go away for about six weeks or even two months and have that itch to come back. And now all of a sudden, it's like the itch is gone. Now coming back, it's like, I feel I'm a little bit reborn, where maybe I've acquired a little bit of the Southern mentality, a little bit of southern accent and hospitality because I find I smile a lot more I talk to the cab drivers again like I did seven years ago that I forgot for that period of seven years, we get hard if you don't leave for long periods, Speaker 1 you think you're gonna get back into the pace of the New York environment? Speaker 5 Mary I think I can get back into it with a little bit of more of awareness than I did before. Because I can come in and out I'd like to spend like six months here and six months at home in Taos. And I can work the way i've been working it. It works out really good, because with the awareness there, you can you can take up right where you left off. You don't have to slowly get into it. You can just go. Speaker 1 do you find any difficulties adjusting to New York City? Speaker 4 Murphy No, it's not really that hard because I was raised in Dallas and then spent a lot of time in Houston and also I play in different cities every night playing music. So it's not really an adjustment. I talked to a writer today who interviewed me, he was in a group called the New York Texans Club and they all get together once a month and talk about home you know, it's really not not hard to adjust to the city. I think people here try to help you adjust much more so than LA. I lived there for six years and I'll never go back. Speaker 1 viewers as well as a participant?.
01:34:12 579.22	Speaker 4 Murphy I think that you know that it's very much based in that you know, tremendously so. But that's true. And you know, this, this scene it serves us Speaker 1 Do you think this disco music will continue? Speaker 4 Murphy About three more weeks. No, no, I think you're are advised no no and you know there's nothing wrong with it staying. I think that it won't be a situation where every radio station will play disco forever. Right now everybody's gone crazy for it in radio format. New Yorkers are even complaining even the people who come to the discos are saying, gee I can't come home and turn on my radio and hear anything else but disco. It's fun to dance to but you know who wants to sit around the house and listen to it. That will change that will begin to die down you know we'll see we'll see other music coming back in a little bit, and a little bit more variety.
01:35:13 640.17	Pause in footage. Beat of disco music is heard.
01:35:30 657.03	BONEMAN INTERVIEWED. CRAZY. ECCENTRIC. TONS OF BONES ON CLOTHES. PROBABLY PERFORMANCE ARTIST
01:35:37 664.89	CU Boneman. Speaker 1 Do you create this for... You understand you have a school? Speaker 6 Boneman I have a school. Speaker 1 What's it about? Speaker 6 Boneman It's a school for geniuses Speaker 1 is this an everyday costume for you? you wear this in the daytime also? Speaker 6 Boneman I am conscious Speaker 1 would you live anywhere else other than New York Speaker 6 Boneman I live everywhere. I live within YOU
01:36:05 692.03	Artistic woman in an outrageously weird costume stands on stage posing. (for better complete version use LB-33)
01:36:11 698.41	Speaker 1 look at the camera, look into the camera, just watch the camera, look in the camera . Why do you wear these clothes? Talk to the camera. Speaker 7 unknown weirdly dressed woman Well this particular costume Speaker 1 I got the sound. you just look in the camera okay? That's all you have to do. Everything else works automatically. Does it inhibit you to wear regular clothing? Speaker 7 Well you know sometimes I, it takes too much attention and I thought it may look more discreet but naturally I Speaker 1 Does anybody ever molest you? Speaker 7 No.
01:37:12 759.96	Cut
01:37:13 760.03	GOOD LOOKING BLACK MAN (for better complete version use LB-33)
01:37:21 768.65	Speaker 8 Black man Ohh all right, dancing in the moonlight. Are we ready, two three four Speaker 1 Does the nightlife here have an impact on you? Speaker 8 Nightlife impact on me? I Am the nightlife. Speaker 1 Why do you come to discos? Speaker 8 I come to the discos to absorb an energy, to give an energy, to enjoy, to participate, to emit a positive energy that is happening in New York and in the world today. Disco is a phenomenom of our time. everybody gets connection. Speaker 1 In what way? ECU Speaker 8 Connection as far as raising your mental mentality to a higher consciousness level. Everyone has the same kind of mentality. They are now focusing now ,,, Everyone has to come to New York to absorb an energy. At this point America New York is like Egypt. I mean it is the hottest spot in the world. Like the sun has hot spots.
01:38:35 842.55	Cut
01:39:29 896.03	LYNN TALKS WITH ARTISTIC COUPLE (for better complete version use LB-35)
01:39:29 896.67	Shots of some disco goers, sitting sipping drinks, chatting amongst themselves.
01:39:39 906.97	Speaker 1 Nice to see. Nice to see you. All right. Are you concerned with what people say or think about you? Speaker 9 about me? No, no, I'm concerned about people that are close to me, people that I respect what they say or think about me. People that are transitory in my life, I'm not concerned with that because they don't know me so why should we be concerned about what they think about me? Speaker 1 Does it amuse you that people might think you're extremely bizarre? Speaker 8 No, they're there are other things in life that are more amusing. Um And I don't even know what a hang up is. For instance, I like politeness maybe that's a hangup. I like people to respect maybe that's a hangup. Speaker 1 In the nightlife is there any particular changes in the recent three years that have changed your life in any way? Speaker 8 hasn't changed my life, no hasn't changed. You know, you have so many options over you. Whatever your tastes are, you know be it chic, raunchy, that or whatever, be they for dancing, be they just for hanging out, be they for whatever kind of crowd you care to associate with on that particular evening, will need to do something desperately to go someplace, to find someplace to find something to do. They have the same desires we have. They have no ? there is nowhere to go that you're going to find. They have the option. They have the desire but not the options in that New York is unusual. Speaker 1 You think watching rather than participating is more interesting Speaker 9 Oh anything is important to one that one wants to be important. It may not be important for me to watch, it may be important for you to watch, but people go to discos for different reasons, some some go fo dancing, some go for um to watch dancing, some go to cruise, they want to score.
01:41:42 1029.03	Speaker 1 with all the active body movements that are in dances it's been an incredible what do you think about the changes in the visuals of the nightclubs and discos today as compared to the 60s? Speaker 9 Huge change as you know better than anybody. Yeah, they've become more splendid. Speaker 1 Do you make any personal contacts with photographers or people or you're directly with the business that might enhance your career. Speaker 10 I don't really like to do business when I'm going out dancing. I mean, when business comes from that or something else (Speaker 9: I try to avoid that too). No I don't think about business when i'm here. (Speaker 9 Yeah i don't come here for business) or come here to show myself. you know we decide to all go and have a good time. Business is something else. Speaker 9 Yea I almost resent it when people stop talking shop to me. That happens a lot Speaker 1 You're in a wild bizarre atmosphere like this, do you ever feel the need to be naughty? Speaker 9 This isn't that wild Speaker 10 afterwards all things happen