Scorpio Rising

Duration: 29 min.

Year Published: 1963

Creator: AMERFED

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Experimental satire using a motorcycle gang, juxtaposed with mythic figures from Hollywood, politics and religion and commentary in the form of pop songs of the 1950's and 60's. MCLS subject heading: Experimental, Miscellaneous & Abstract Films., An exploration of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The Power Machine seen as tribal totem, from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans. Anger utilizes montage of image and sound to evoke counterculture iconography and its adulation of mass media heroes (movie stars, rock-and-roll idols, comic strip characters). In four sections: Part 1, Boys & Bolts (masculine fascination with the Thing that goes); Part 2, Image Maker (getting high on heroes: Dean's Rebel and Brando's Johnny; the True View of J.C.); part 3, Walpurgis Party (J.C. wallflower at cyclers' Sabbath); part 4, Rebel Rouser (The Gathering of the Dark Legions, with a message from Our Sponsor).

Complete Record: , An exploration of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The Power Machine seen as tribal totem, from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans. Anger utilizes montage of image and sound to evoke counterculture iconography and its adulation of mass media heroes (movie stars, rock-and-roll idols, comic strip characters). In four sections: Part 1, Boys & Bolts (masculine fascination with the Thing that goes); Part 2, Image Maker (getting high on heroes: Dean's Rebel and Brando's Johnny; the True View of J.C.); part 3, Walpurgis Party (J.C. wallflower at cyclers' Sabbath); part 4, Rebel Rouser (The Gathering of the Dark Legions, with a message from Our Sponsor). NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.