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SCREEN TESTS
1964-1966
Andy Warhol's Screen Tests were filmed from early 1964 - November 1966 (GM25). Factory visitors who had potential "star" quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running.
Subjects included factory Gerard Malanga, filmmaker Barbara Rubin (1964), filmmaker Jonas Mekas (1964), filmmaker and poet Piero Heliczer (1964), poet Allen Ginsberg (c.64/65), John Ashbery (1965), Italian model model and one time girlfriend to Gerard, Benedetta Barzini (1966), Francesco Scavullo (1965), Phoebe Russell (1965), model/actress/granddaughter of designer Elsa Schiaparelli Marisa Berenson (1965), Nico (1966), Lou Reed (1966), John Wieners, Bob Dylan, Ingrid Superstar, Edie Sedgwick (1965), Ivy Nicholson, Danny Fields, Billy Name, Salvador Dali (1966), Donovan (1966), Charles Henri Ford (who was responsible for introducing Andy to Gerard) (1966), Rene Ricard (1966), poet Willard Maas (1966), Baby Jane Holzer, Phoebe Russell (1965), International Velvet (Susan Bottomly)(1966), Marie Menken - filmmaker/wife of Willard Maas/star of Chelsea Girls)(1966), Italian millionaire publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Benedetta Barzini's stepbrother) Nov. 66, poet Ted Berrigan (1966), Allen Midgette (1966) Anne Buchanan (early '64), and Andy's first superstar Naomi Levine.
According to Gerard Malanga, the Screen Tests originated from Malanga's need for a publicity still of himself. After seeing Warhol's film Eat (around the time of the move to the silver Factory), Gerard Malanga asked Warhol if would shoot a reel of a tightly framed headshot of Gerard so that Gerard could select a frame, have it printed as a still and use it to publicize Gerard's poetry readings. This became the first Screen Test. (GM24-5)
More than 500 Screen Tests were made. Some of the footage was incorporated into Warhol's films, 13 Most Beautiful Boys (1964), 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964) and 50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities (1964). Malanga also used some reels in his multimedia poetry readings called Screen Test Poems in 1965. (GM26) In 1966 Andy and Gerard also prepared a book together of Screen Test stills from 54 subjects (17 women and 37 men) and Gerard's poetry called Screen Tests/A Diary (NY: Kulchur Press, 1967).
The only Screen Test shot outside the Factory was that of Phoebe Russell. Russell was the girlfriend of poet Lewis MacAdams (who she would later marry, have two sons by and then divorce). She was an undergraduate at Radcliffe College during the time of her Screen Test, which was filmed at the apartment of curator Gordon Baldwin. (GM33)
Edie Sedgwick was still recoverying from her car accident at the time of her Screen Test.
According to art historian Debra Miller, the last Screen Test was of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (GU25). Apart from being the step brother of Gerard's girlfriend, fashion model Benedetta Barzini, Giangiacomo was a left-wing extremist who had smuggled the original manuscript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia and published it for the first time in Italy. Three years after his screen test, he was implicated in in the bombing of Milan's National Bank of Agriculture on 12 December 1969 in which 16 people died. Three years after that, on March 15, 1972, he was found dead in a field near Milan "the apparent victim of an explosive device he was preparing to detonate a powerline pylon - or, of a right-wing trap, staged to look like a self-induced terrorist accident." (GM35) The Feltrinelli Screen Test was shot at night at the Factory by Malanga working alone.
THE WARHOL/TAVEL SCREEN TESTS
Philip Fagan, Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol (1964/5)
(photo: Duane Michals)
In 1978, author Patrick Smith interviewed Ronald Tavel (the scriptwriter for many of Andy's early films) and Tavel mentioned three screen tests which he refered to as No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. (PS572) The Tavel screen test films lasted approximately 70 minutes each, much longer than the short one reel screen tests that Andy and Gerard Malanga did. (SG146)
Patrick Smith referred to Screen Test #1 as the very first one, shot on 23 January 1965, although Malanga and Warhol started shooting the shorter screen tests in 1964. Ronald Tavel was involved in the shooting of what is referred to as Screen Test #1. The subject was Philip Fagan, Andy Warhol's boyfriend at the time.
Ronald Tavel: "He [Warhol] had an assistant then, called Philip Fagan, who was an incredibly good-looking Irish boy - "Black Irish" - who hung around him all the time, and they used to bake cake together and all this sort of thing... He was so beautiful: Philip." (PS480)
According to Tavel, Andy told him to "sit and ask him (Fagan) questions which will make him perform in some way before the camera. You will not be on camera, but we'll hear you talk. The questions should be in such a way that they will elicit, you know, things from his face, because that's what I'm more interested in rather than in what he says in response." (PS160)
Screen Test #2 was shot on February 7, 1965. The subject was Mario Montez who also appeared in Warhol's Harlot, Mario Banana, Camp, Hedy (aka The Most Beautiful Woman in the World and/or The Shoplifter and/or The Fourteen Year Old Girl), More Milk Yvette (aka Lana Turner) and The Chelsea Girls ("The John" segment). Mario had been an underground film actor, appearing in Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (1962) and Normal Love (1963). In addition to making underground films, Jack Smith also played the part of Dracula in Warhol's Batman Dracula. Mario Montez was the first transvestite used by Andy, although Mario did not live his normal life in drag.
Screen Test #2 was one of Warhol's more entertaining early films. During the film, Tavel tells Montez that he is auditioning him (as a her) for a role in their new film - The Hunchback of Notre Dame and asks him to repeat words/phrases - like repeating the word "diarhea" in a very emotive fashion - or describes scenarios and asks Montez to give him a look that expresses various "themes" in the film. Montez is hilarious, scrunching up his face in an effort to reveal emotions, often not understanding quite what Tavel is after. At one point, Tavel tells him to take her cock out, which he presumably does, although it is not revealed on camera, which remains on his face.
Screen Test #3 is sometimes referred to as Suicide. Author Patrick Smith described it as "the Technicolor close-up of a young man's wrists that have been slashed many times, and the youth's monologue concerning each of his 19 attempts at suicide." (PS160) During the filming, the subject of the film freaked out and threw a basin of water at Tavel:
Ronald Tavel: "There was a basin of water on the floor, and the basin was catching the water which I would pour on him each time he went through a suicide, and at one time he picked it up... and threw the whole basin on me. So, we stopped the camera, and Warhol said, 'Do you want to just stop?' And I said, 'No,' like a regular trooper." (PS486).
According to Tavel, the actor sued, threatening that "if this is ever released, you'll all go to court." (Ibid) Consequently, the film was never shown in public, although there were private screenings. It was filmed on March 6, 1965.
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Andy Warhol - Screentests VHSrip XviD CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi 
I've no idea which screentests are these most likely #1 and #2.SCREEN TESTS
1964-1966
Andy Warhol's Screen Tests were filmed from early 1964 - November 1966 (GM25). Factory visitors who had potential "star" quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running.
Subjects included factory Gerard Malanga, filmmaker Barbara Rubin (1964), filmmaker Jonas Mekas (1964), filmmaker and poet Piero Heliczer (1964), poet Allen Ginsberg (c.64/65), John Ashbery (1965), Italian model model and one time girlfriend to Gerard, Benedetta Barzini (1966), Francesco Scavullo (1965), Phoebe Russell (1965), model/actress/granddaughter of designer Elsa Schiaparelli Marisa Berenson (1965), Nico (1966), Lou Reed (1966), John Wieners, Bob Dylan, Ingrid Superstar, Edie Sedgwick (1965), Ivy Nicholson, Danny Fields, Billy Name, Salvador Dali (1966), Donovan (1966), Charles Henri Ford (who was responsible for introducing Andy to Gerard) (1966), Rene Ricard (1966), poet Willard Maas (1966), Baby Jane Holzer, Phoebe Russell (1965), International Velvet (Susan Bottomly)(1966), Marie Menken - filmmaker/wife of Willard Maas/star of Chelsea Girls)(1966), Italian millionaire publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Benedetta Barzini's stepbrother) Nov. 66, poet Ted Berrigan (1966), Allen Midgette (1966) Anne Buchanan (early '64), and Andy's first superstar Naomi Levine.
According to Gerard Malanga, the Screen Tests originated from Malanga's need for a publicity still of himself. After seeing Warhol's film Eat (around the time of the move to the silver Factory), Gerard Malanga asked Warhol if would shoot a reel of a tightly framed headshot of Gerard so that Gerard could select a frame, have it printed as a still and use it to publicize Gerard's poetry readings. This became the first Screen Test. (GM24-5)
More than 500 Screen Tests were made. Some of the footage was incorporated into Warhol's films, 13 Most Beautiful Boys (1964), 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964) and 50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities (1964). Malanga also used some reels in his multimedia poetry readings called Screen Test Poems in 1965. (GM26) In 1966 Andy and Gerard also prepared a book together of Screen Test stills from 54 subjects (17 women and 37 men) and Gerard's poetry called Screen Tests/A Diary (NY: Kulchur Press, 1967).
The only Screen Test shot outside the Factory was that of Phoebe Russell. Russell was the girlfriend of poet Lewis MacAdams (who she would later marry, have two sons by and then divorce). She was an undergraduate at Radcliffe College during the time of her Screen Test, which was filmed at the apartment of curator Gordon Baldwin. (GM33)
Edie Sedgwick was still recoverying from her car accident at the time of her Screen Test.
According to art historian Debra Miller, the last Screen Test was of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (GU25). Apart from being the step brother of Gerard's girlfriend, fashion model Benedetta Barzini, Giangiacomo was a left-wing extremist who had smuggled the original manuscript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia and published it for the first time in Italy. Three years after his screen test, he was implicated in in the bombing of Milan's National Bank of Agriculture on 12 December 1969 in which 16 people died. Three years after that, on March 15, 1972, he was found dead in a field near Milan "the apparent victim of an explosive device he was preparing to detonate a powerline pylon - or, of a right-wing trap, staged to look like a self-induced terrorist accident." (GM35) The Feltrinelli Screen Test was shot at night at the Factory by Malanga working alone.
THE WARHOL/TAVEL SCREEN TESTS
Philip Fagan, Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol (1964/5)
(photo: Duane Michals)
In 1978, author Patrick Smith interviewed Ronald Tavel (the scriptwriter for many of Andy's early films) and Tavel mentioned three screen tests which he refered to as No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. (PS572) The Tavel screen test films lasted approximately 70 minutes each, much longer than the short one reel screen tests that Andy and Gerard Malanga did. (SG146)
Patrick Smith referred to Screen Test #1 as the very first one, shot on 23 January 1965, although Malanga and Warhol started shooting the shorter screen tests in 1964. Ronald Tavel was involved in the shooting of what is referred to as Screen Test #1. The subject was Philip Fagan, Andy Warhol's boyfriend at the time.
Ronald Tavel: "He [Warhol] had an assistant then, called Philip Fagan, who was an incredibly good-looking Irish boy - "Black Irish" - who hung around him all the time, and they used to bake cake together and all this sort of thing... He was so beautiful: Philip." (PS480)
According to Tavel, Andy told him to "sit and ask him (Fagan) questions which will make him perform in some way before the camera. You will not be on camera, but we'll hear you talk. The questions should be in such a way that they will elicit, you know, things from his face, because that's what I'm more interested in rather than in what he says in response." (PS160)
Screen Test #2 was shot on February 7, 1965. The subject was Mario Montez who also appeared in Warhol's Harlot, Mario Banana, Camp, Hedy (aka The Most Beautiful Woman in the World and/or The Shoplifter and/or The Fourteen Year Old Girl), More Milk Yvette (aka Lana Turner) and The Chelsea Girls ("The John" segment). Mario had been an underground film actor, appearing in Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (1962) and Normal Love (1963). In addition to making underground films, Jack Smith also played the part of Dracula in Warhol's Batman Dracula. Mario Montez was the first transvestite used by Andy, although Mario did not live his normal life in drag.
Screen Test #2 was one of Warhol's more entertaining early films. During the film, Tavel tells Montez that he is auditioning him (as a her) for a role in their new film - The Hunchback of Notre Dame and asks him to repeat words/phrases - like repeating the word "diarhea" in a very emotive fashion - or describes scenarios and asks Montez to give him a look that expresses various "themes" in the film. Montez is hilarious, scrunching up his face in an effort to reveal emotions, often not understanding quite what Tavel is after. At one point, Tavel tells him to take her cock out, which he presumably does, although it is not revealed on camera, which remains on his face.
Screen Test #3 is sometimes referred to as Suicide. Author Patrick Smith described it as "the Technicolor close-up of a young man's wrists that have been slashed many times, and the youth's monologue concerning each of his 19 attempts at suicide." (PS160) During the filming, the subject of the film freaked out and threw a basin of water at Tavel:
Ronald Tavel: "There was a basin of water on the floor, and the basin was catching the water which I would pour on him each time he went through a suicide, and at one time he picked it up... and threw the whole basin on me. So, we stopped the camera, and Warhol said, 'Do you want to just stop?' And I said, 'No,' like a regular trooper." (PS486).
According to Tavel, the actor sued, threatening that "if this is ever released, you'll all go to court." (Ibid) Consequently, the film was never shown in public, although there were private screenings. It was filmed on March 6, 1965.
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Andy Warhol - Screentests VHSrip XviD CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi 
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