Andy Warhol Makes a Film

Andy Warhol making a movie in East Hampton in 1967. With Andy Warhol, Paul Morrisey, Ondine, Ingrid Superstar, Waldo Díaz-Balart, Edie Sedgwick, Rolando Peña and others

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Film & Animation

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• photos
• Andy
• Warhol
• Paul
• Morrisey
• Ondine
• Ingrid
• Superstar
• Waldo
• Díaz-Balart
• Diaz-Balart
• Edie
• Sedgwick
• Rolando
• Peña

[MowgliX]

@delsure Please post them if you can find the time!

[MowgliX]

@delsure True, digital photography has changed things. But yeah, even then, b&w photography was not expensive. I was trained how to shoot with all manual cameras and do the actual lab work. It's a lot more fun to develop film and then print that on very large photo paper, and not just do some editing on the computer and press Print. It's a whole different thing. And anybody could get a proper tape recorder at that time. Quality equipment was just bigger, more cumbersome and more expensive then.

[MowgliX]

@delsure I understand that Edie had a real meltdown in the early summer of 1967, and from then on it was all downwards. She attempted suicide in New York, I don't know the exact circumstances, and was committed by her mother, much too late, in the fall of 1968. But Edie spent time in some really horrible mental institutions in New York too. She had electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in NYC and in California. It was such a terrible tragedy, and really, none of that was her fault.

[delsure]

@MowgliX I'll try, and if I do, I'll let you know.

[MowgliX]

@delsure Wow, please post them! Or publish them somehow.

[delsure]

@MowgliX Edie was pretty spaced out, I think, but still quite an amazing person. I wish I had known her during her good times. She must have been really amazing. All in all I was quite taken by her. And as you say, there probably is a bunch of pix in private collections. Thought not like today, but still there were a lot of cameras back then, and tape recorders and film cameras.

[delsure]

@MowgliX Yes, I have a few more of the same weekend, both B&W and color, but not that many.

[MowgliX]

@delsure Do you have any more photos of Edie?

[MowgliX]

@promenade237 What was Edie like when you talked to her? I wish there were more photos, film clips or voice recordings out there of this wonderful girl. I guess they are sitting in people's old boxes up in the attic...

[promenade237]

decades later after this weekend of fimlming, my friend john wolford was in a restaurant in west hollywood and andy was there as well with some celebrities. andy instantly recognized john and ran over and asked him to stay after he finished with his people. after dinner andy came over and asked how we were doing and asked if we got any artwork from all the art we made for him. john said no and andy said he would fix that when he got back to ny. he had the operation and died after his return.