The Beat Generation (Part 1)

[ContagiousAnus]

Does anyone know what the tune is at 4:50? Thanks.

[PoetryETrain]

Thank you, this has been added to our playlists here and on facebook..

[TheEndOfTheSand]

The beat movement is a detriment to American history. Truly sad..

[TheEndOfTheSand]

@TheEndOfTheSand Funny and sad..

[PinkFloydrulez]

healthy disrespect for the powers that were/are

[YoungNubb]

Seriously, does anyone know if a scene like this exists in the modern world at all? A real, authentic scene? Not some shop with people buying clothes to fit the roles of the "brilliant newcomers, brilliant hipsters", but real and actual people moving with their spirits interlocked into something. Anyone?

[89Paralysis]

@YoungNubb Who knows mate. It's a shame that like-minded people don't get together and create something new and distinct.

Brilliant documentary though!

[PinkFloydrulez]

@YoungNubb all of us here on this video and others like it and into this sort of thing in general are kindred spirits. it doesn't exist so much in the real world as a "scene" but we and our future generations have more potential than ever thanks to the internet. this is the time where we figure things out and how to do it. it's just the growing pains; there's something greater coming. like guy said, we're a blank generation, but i prefer to see it as the slate being wiped clean.

[RudyGotSUS]

@YoungNubb I've been on that trust me. I'm also french-canadien (Like Kerouac...well of haitian descent..) Be patient cause it's def coming seen?

[geekgroupie42]

@YoungNubb there's place called the internet where likeminded people hang out

[h1imcam3r0n]

who is the guy speaking in the beginning

[Ledonist]

@h1imcam3r0n Ray Bremser, poet.

[unlockmymind]

i was born during the wrong time, i belong to the beat generation

[adeebkasem]

@unlockmymind no man, we belong to the blank generation.

[idic5]

who is the bushy haired white guy with the baby ?

[earinsound]

@idic5

David Amram

[idic5]

who is the black guy w/ a beard who was speaking in this clip?

[Grahami90]

@idic5 leroy jones/amiri baraka

[earinsound]

@idic5

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

[arbutus27]

@idic5 Has to be David Amram

[DrHogfan]

6:22 "always talking" Exactly ! seems to me they just got high alot then rambled -blah blah blah ...because when you're stoned to the bone everyone sounds so intelligent.

[jhop9898]

Who's the guy at 6:20? He's a really good spoken word performer.

Thanks for uploading.

[dubby211]

@jhop9898 thats gary snyder, im almost positive. japhy ryder from darma bums is/is based upon snyder

[dubby211]

@dubby211 i stand corrected, that is indeed creeley

[jrodl8]

@jhop9898 thats robert creeley at 6:20

[jhop9898]

@jrodl8 Thanks. I didn't realize he was reading his own work. It's funny to hear him discussing his own poem like that.

[JusRam1]

Damn that they all have died and beat is dead.

[cruiserkid1]

@JusRam1 lets rebuild it

[iuliaszekely]

but who's the first one who talks? here, in the first part? and there isn't any other part? 3,4...? and most of all, what is name of this documentary?>

[dubby211]

@iuliaszekely ray bremser....he was a poet and aquiantence/friend to ginsberg i believe

[sonido89]

What's the name of the third poet who talks? that third woman that talks about Jack and Allen?

[Goetia78]

@sonido89 Diane Diprima

[jpapare]

In the films and photos of the Beats and Greenwich Village lots of the same people are highlighted. The really wonderful thing is that the Village was populated with many, many people who were fabulously talented, had pride in being creative and well read, sat and talked over coffee for hours, and it was all very interesting. It was a time for that. One could escape from the outskirts (Jersey City, Queens, Hoboken) and be in a world less restrictive and be who one was. Being true to self...

[jawmo1]

Any video with Thelonious Monk is worth watching, but it was George Shearing whom Kerouac chose to highlight in "On the Road." No knock on Shearing, but no one would confuse him for a "visionary" (no pun intended).

[Bodhidharma1986]

What's the full movie called? I tried to get it but only found the one hosted by J. Depp. Anyone know?

[sammaroney]

I accidentally rated it one star

:(

great video though

[LucasSumtimes]

Don't worry, I rated it five stars for both of us =)

[MUFC127]

@LucasSumtimes Yeah well I rate thumbs bitch!!

[TwigDjango]

I can't hear a damn thing. And the beginning seems to be cut out entirely. Fail.

[donuthater]

looks like ray bremser at the beginning.

[shutupandshave]

The sound is only coming out of the right channel, maybe your right channel isn't working

[TwigDjango]

I know it's only coming out of the right channel, that's my point. How am I expected to hear anything if it's only coming out of one channel? On a laptop no less? Put on headphones? God no.

[sunoftheutube]

When was this made???

[Oscar301]

...spit your word out, Tim!

[almanacofsleep]

i'm sorry but that comment was complete bullshit.

And you going to have a hard time to convince me your part of the "normal people " when your so clearly, how shall i put it...touched in head

[procommenter]

This is no place for sorrow.

[almanacofsleep]

or morons

[procommenter]

And so here you are writing of cow manure.

[almanacofsleep]

no bull manure, there is a difference

[81538]

nice to hear more...i lived it but did not know al the dudes

[kraigus]

helping me with my history project;)

[nickybadboy50]

Cool daddy O...

[harlemw651]

Awesome, thanks for posting!!

[Ledvolta]

where is neal?

[SEATTLEGRL1]

I am really looking forward to Francis Ford Copolla's film coming out called "On the Road".

[rozz669]

i hope thats been talked about since the 80's

[rozz669]

lewis lapham said they were trying to make the movie in 1959

[namaste91]

Johnny Depp also said,that it's his dream to realise this film.

[goodvibesallround]

i hope on the road never becomes a film, it's beautiful the way it is without hollywood putting it's own spin on it. Ok sure they did it with naked lunch but they had to mix book because DC had no idea how to turn the book into a film.

[dbfkjmatt]

the guy in blue with hair lyk abbie hoffman's is neall cassidy right? great video btw, i love those crazy cats!

[telebob59]

That's David Amram - in all probability that's his french horn playing you hear shortly after. Amram hooked up with Jack for some of the first "jazz-poetry readings" in NYC around 1957-8 and also appeared in the film "Pull My Daisy" in '59 and also wrote the film's music.

[myradioon]

No that is not Neal Cassady. Definitely not. He was dead by then and looked nothing like that. I thought it was Gregory Corso- looks like him- but the accent is wrong. Sadly this film doesn't list the speakers. Diane DiPrima is the woman speaking I think.

[jude13]

Jack Kerouac lived with his mum.

[dbfkjmatt]

with his aunty and others of the family whilst moving around.

[dannyfitz]

seems like its missing a beginning sequence. anybody know? very cool stuff though

[subjectiveman]

I agree, very intersting video.

[deathwalk60]

I love this video along with its sequel. Is this going to be a film. Great work.