From: Fred Camper (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Dec 19 2009 - 22:12:22 PST
Quoting Gail Silva <email suppressed>:
> If it is the one I'm thinking of, it is not Burroughs but rather Walt
> Whitman.
The commercial can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdW1CjbCNxw
The Whitman poem quoted in part on the sound track is at
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/318
The text scratched on film look has been used in commercials for
decades, and I have seen scratching that is much more "scratchy" than
this, that has the Brakhage frame-at-a-time look. Additionally, music
videos have been ripping off avant-garde film iconography almost from
their beginning.
Fred Camper
Chicago
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