Who is Bozo Texino?
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Uploaded by koleoptere on Jan 19, 2008
http://www.billdaniel.net/who_is_bozo_texino/
Who is Bozo Texino?
by Bill Daniel
56 min. black and white, experimental/documentary
Who is Bozo Texino? chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous and mythic rail graffiti-- a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, "Bozo Texino"-- a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years. Daniel's gritty black and white film uncovers a secret society and it's underground universe of hobo and railworker graffiti, and includes interviews with legendary boxcar artists, Coaltrain, Herby, Colossus of Roads, and The Rambler. Shooting over a 16-year period, Daniel rode freights across the West carrying a Super-8 sound camera and a 16mm Bolex. During his quest he discovered the roots of a folkloric tradition that has gone mostly unnoticed for a century. Taking inspiration from Beat artists Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac, the film functions as both a sub-cultural documentary and a stylized fable on wanderlust and outsider identity.
"I was drawn to the subject by the universal graffiti impulse and the classic, corny notion of freight train blues escape." - BD
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Bozo Texino Is The Fucking Man!
3 years ago 9
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R.I.P. Bozo T.
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Think tha old hobo at the end is Harmonica Mike and is no longer living R.I.P
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Bozo Texino is a Mopac thing and has been forever,Has nothing to do with hobo's
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Also available from trainvideodepot com
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@jamieclark420 or you can order it directly from the man who made it here
billdaniel. net/projects/who-is-bozo-texin
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can you upload the rest of the interview with the bum? I want to know what he has to say.
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I love riding trains
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that guys my idol!
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@jamieclark420 thepiratebay . org just search it on there.
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this looks like a very good movie
graff715 3 years ago 5
One hour of happiness :)
koleoptere 3 years ago 3