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Rolling Stones Super 8 Footage
Released January 01, 1972Runtime 10min

Invited to shoot the cover for their 1972 album Exile on Main St., Robert Frank developed a relationship with the Rolling Stones that extended beyond Cocksucker Blues to include this Super 8 short, a jittery montage of the band slumming on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and gadding about in Mick Jagger’s rented Bel-Air mansion that Frank wryly contrasted with images of poor Black street buskers on the Bowery. Graphic designer John Van Hamersveld ended up using still images and film strips from the Super 8 footage to create collages for the album’s back cover and inner sleeves; the original material is on view in the exhibition Life Dances On. — Museum of Modern Art

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        Cast
        posterMick JaggerSelf
        posterKeith RichardsSelf
        posterMick TaylorSelf
        posterCharlie WattsSelf
        posterBill WymanSelf
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        posterRobert FrankDirector