Summary

SHELAGH AT THE CHELSEA HOTEL

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: SHELAGH AT THE CHELSEA HOTEL
File Number: PDA-LB-016 Beta SP 16mm
Color: Color
Type: Documentary
Year: 1970s
Description: 01:00:00:00 - 01:33:30:00 Color 1970s An interview with a denizen of the Chelsea Hotel named Shelagh, filmed much in the style of an Andy Warhol movie, "Chelsea Girls" for instance. The blonde-haired, garrulous, pretentious, chain-smoking and probably high tripping Shelagh sits in an empty white room at the famous Chelsea Hotel, talking to CAM about various subjects including the differences between men and women, art, the Lower East Side, Harry Smith, New York City, animals (cats, lions, octopi, etc.), drugs, crochet, artists' models, Bushmen and Pygmies, uptight people, the Chelsea Hotel itself, et cetera ad nauseam. This monologue continues as she sits in front of a mirror, totally naked, and intermittently draws on the mirror with a magic marker. She also makes rather crude homophobic and racist comments. [Counterculture, hippies, Bohemia].
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