Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Directed by Kenneth Anger
Starring Sampson DeBrier
Marjorie Cameron
Joan Whitney
Anaïs Nin
Music by Leoš Janáček (Glagolitic Mass)
Distributed by Mystic Fire Video (DVD)
Release date(s) 1954
Running time 38 mins
Country USA
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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is a short 38 minute film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, filmed in 1954. Anger created a new version of this film in 1966 which he called the "Sacred Mushroom Edition". According to Anger, the film takes the name "pleasure dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's atmospheric poem Kubla Khan. Anger was inspired to make the film after attending a Halloween party called "Come as your Madness."[1]

The film – primarily the 1966 revision – was widely played in American universities during the 1960's by people using LSD and so-called magic mushrooms.

The soundtrack is a complete performance of Glagolitic Mass by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pratt, Doug. "The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol. One", The Hollywood Reporter, 2007-02-01. Retrieved on 2008-04-10. 
  1. David Curtis, Expermental Film (New York: Dell Books/Delta, 1972)

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Kenneth Anger
Magick Lantern Cycle films
Fireworks (1947) • Puce Moment (1949) • Eaux d'Artifice (1953) • Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954/1966) • Scorpio Rising (1964) • Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) • Invocation Of My Demon Brother (1969) • Lucifer Rising (1970-1980) • Rabbit's Moon (1950-1979)
Post Cycle Films
Don't Smoke That Cigarette (2000) • The Man We Want to Hang (1995-2002) • Anger Sees Red (2004) • Elliott's Suicide (2004) • Mouse Heaven (1986) • Ich Will! (2000-2007)
Lost and Unfinished Films directed
Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) • Tinsel Tree (1941-1942) • Prisoner of Mars (1942) • The Nest (1943) • Escape Episode (1944-46) • Drastic Demise (1945) • The Love That Whirls (1949) • Maldoror (1951-1952) • Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (1953) • Thelema Abbey (1955) • Histoire d'O (1959-1961)• Senators in Bondage (1976)
Books Written
Hollywood Babylon (1959) • Hollywood Babylon II (1984)
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