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U Is For Underground Movie / Scott, Anthony ; Campbell D., 1969

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Identifier: CC-58863-66495

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Scope and Contents

A typed label on the verso reads as follows: U is for UNDERGROUND MOVIE starring DONALD CAMPBELL with fulll supporting cast of pink anatomical forms to be cast according to a shooting script to be improvised by the audience . DO NOT FOLD TOO FLAT. Anthony Scott (1969).Wikipedia: Anthony David "Tony" Scott (21 June 1944 -- 19 August 2012) was a British film director and producer. His films were generally more popular with audiences than critics, and include The Hunger (1983), Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), True Romance (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), The Fan (1996), Enemy of the State (1998), Spy Game (2001), Man on Fire (2004), Dejà Vu (2006), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), and Unstoppable (2010).This film script is not part of "The Longest Most Meaningless Movie" (1969) in the World, an underground movie made in the UK that ran to 48 hours long and directed by Anthony Scott. No actual footage was shot for the project, which consisted entirely of outtakes, commercials, strips of undeveloped film, Academy leader, and other filmic castoff material, creating a seemingly endless stream of newsreel and stock footage. There is no record of the film "U is for Underground Movie" on the internet.Anthony Scott was the younger brother of film director Ridley Scott. In November 2010, Tony (and Ridley) Scott received the BAFTA Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. Tony Scott died on 19 August 2012, committing suicide after learning that he had inoperable brain cancer by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, California.Scott was born in North Shields, Northumberland, the youngest of three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and Elizabeth. He followed in his elder brother's footsteps, studying at Grangefield School, West Hartlepool College of Art and Sunderland Art School, for a fine arts degree. At the age of 16, he appeared in Boy and Bicycle, a short film marking the directorial debut of his then 23-year-old brother Ridley.Scott studied art in Leeds after failing to gain admission to the Royal College of Art in London at his first attempt. He made a short film in 1969 based on the Ambrose Bierce story One of the Missing. As Ridley had previously cast him in a film, he reciprocated by giving his brother a role too. "The film cost £1,000", he recalled in April 2012. Whilst at the Royal College of Art, he starred in "Don't Walk", a film by fellow students, Hank Onrust and Richard Stanley: the film credits state it was "made for BUNAC by MARCA films at the Royal College of Art". He graduated from the Royal College of Art, following in the footsteps of his elder brother Ridley, with the intention of becoming a painter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1969

Extent

0 See container summary (1 film script (folded duplicator architectural rendering print, stapled film strips, bag with cut offset images & text and newsprint fragments, stapled collaged, mimeographed sheet with film strips) crayon, handwriting) + label on verso) ; 66 x 50 cm (unfolded) + 33.3 x 25.8 cm (folded)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

flat files

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: London, England : Meaningless Movies. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copy. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Genre / Form

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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