[The flower thief--workprint and outtakes]

[Workprint:] Taylor Mead portrays the flower thief, a man who wanders the North Beach area of San Francisco, observing the world around him and displaying kindness to a large teddy bear. Like a child, he stops by a playground and talks with the children there; he dances in the street; watches the destruction of a building, and then has coffee with an almost-naked woman he meets in an abandoned, rubble-strewn building. He finds a teddy bear, and carries it with him on his travels. He stops in a bar and listens to jazz with other Beatniks, then returns to the abandoned building and treats the teddy violently. Perhaps feeling remorse, the man puts the bear in a little wagon and pulls it up a hill to Coit Tower. There he offers the bear to the statue of Columbus, but Columbus does not respond. The man sits in the wagon with the teddy bear and rides the wagon down the hill. He returns to his abandoned warehouse, sitting morosely. Many men appear in the loft and come downstairs, wheeling a large circular object. | [Outtakes:] Scenes not used in the completed film. Includes shots of the man (Taylor Mead) wandering on the beach, other people walking in the street, superimpositions, and scenes in a park.