Jack Kerouac Explains On The Road
BackAfter an interview, Jack Kerouac reads his reason for writing while accompanied by pianist Steve Allen. - The original 7 minute appearance was in a portion of "The Steve Allen Plymouth Show", season 5, episode 7; a 2 hour commercial broadcast initially airing Monday night, around 11 PM, November 16th, 1959. - This is a few minutes edited from the 112 minute documentary "Jack Kerouac - King of the Beats". Several related scenes and simple transitional titleing effects to fill it out were combined to create a short film with its own identity. My regretful decision to leave out of the interview 3 scenes from other resources lasting about 30 seconds was due to my inexperience in resolving quality issues with editing software. - There's an convoluted back story about what's actually being read during this presentation, and it's the reason care was taken in the way the title and description were worded. - For example, near the end of the second to last scene of the final two scenes, the last paragraph of "On The Road" is being read verbatim, from "So, in America [4:21] . [to] . [5:27] I think of Dean Mor-i-ar-ty."; while the whole time reading from the front at the very front inside cover of the book. And prior to this, he's doing a mashup of other text with another work, including "On The Road" when speaking of the border in Colorado. From "I was traveling west [2:16] . [to] . [3:04] report you well and truly.", it appears he's riffing on a paraphrasing of, "As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, 'Pass here and go on, you're On The Road to heaven.'" [Page 171, paragraph 7, chapter 1, part 3 in the 1985 Penguin 14th edition.] - Some insight into this interview with Steve Allen can be read in Kerouac's thinly veiled autobiographical account in "Big Sur" and the Paul Maher - David Amram book, "Kerouac: The Defnitive Biography". Bibliography: 1950 "The Town and the City" A traditional novelization of his family's disintegration in Lowell, Massachusettes. 1957 "On the Road" The friendship between Dean Moriarty [Neal Cassady, Jr.] and Sal [Jack Kerouac] during four cross-country round trips. This was written in 1951, constantly changed and finally published in 1957. There were probably five variations written in the late 1940's, "On the Road" being the final title of one of the three versions eventually published; the other two being "Pic" 1971 and "Visions of Cody" 1973. The book is read the way the spoken word would sound, resembling a jazz composition, and is considered to be his masterpiece. 1958 "The Dharma Bums" A search for enlightenment through Zen Buddhism. 1958 "The Subterraneans" His confessional of a failed relationship with a black woman. 1959 "Doctor Sax" A fictionalized version of Kerouac's childhood. 1959 "Maggie Cassidy" A romance with his girl friend, Maggie. 1959 "Mexico City Blues" Poetic Collections. 1960 "Tristessa" His relationship with a Mexican prostitute addicted to morphine. 1960 "Lonesome Traveler" Travel sketches and an autobiographical introduction. 1961 "Book of Dreams" Stream of consciousness fantasies. 1962 "Big Sur" A fictionalized reflection on his celebrity status as a leader of the Beat Generation. 1963 "Visions of Gerard" Kerouac's childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts; and the traumatic death of his older brother. 1965 "Desolation Angels" Reflections as a fire lookout in the Washington mountains and his travels in the US, Mexico and Morocco. 1966 "Satori in Paris" Kerouac's travels in France to research his family heritage. 1968 "The Vanity of Duluoz" A Coming of Age autobiography. 1971 "Pic" The first work to be published after his death in 1969 is about a black musician traveling from the South to Harlem. 1971 "Scattered Poems" Underground literary works, including text variations of his 30 minute film, "Pull My Daisy". 1973 "Visions of Cody" The final work, a revision of "On The Road", published after his death and originally written in 1951, includes an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac had very seriously considered this version to be published as "On The Road". Filmography: 1959 "Pull My Daisy" or "The Beat Generation" A 30 minute silent film, written and narrated by Kerouac (Italian Subtitles), starring Ginsberg, Corso and others; located at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8994248541021504750
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