GME LICENSES STILLS FROM WARREN SONBERT'S "AMPHETAMINE" FOR DR. MAURICE NAGINGTON'S BOOK "THE MORAL LESSONS OF CHEMSEX: A CRITICAL APPROACH"

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GME LICENSES STILLS FROM WARREN SONBERT'S "AMPHETAMINE" FOR DR. MAURICE NAGINGTON'S BOOK "THE MORAL LESSONS OF CHEMSEX: A CRITICAL APPROACH"

Two stills from Warren Sonbert’s debut film AMPHETAMINE (1966) will appear in Dr. Maurice Nagington’s forthcoming book The Moral Lessons of Chemsex: A Critical Approach, due to be published in 2025 by Routledge. The stills from Sonbert’s film that have been licensed from Gartenberg Media Enterprises — which depict young gay men using intravenous drugs — are well-suited for Nagington’s book, which “explores how gay and bi men’s lived experiences of chemsex intersect with its cultural representations.”

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GME LICENSED RAIMONDO BOREA'S PHOTOGRAPH OF SHARI LEWIS AND LAMB CHOP FOR 2023 DOCUMENTARY

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GME LICENSED RAIMONDO BOREA'S PHOTOGRAPH OF SHARI LEWIS AND LAMB CHOP FOR 2023 DOCUMENTARY

For Lisa D’Apolito’s 2023 documentary SHARI & LAMB CHOP, GME licensed Raimondo Borea’s photograph of famed ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children’s entertainer Shari Lewis appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s with her beloved anthropomorphic sheep sock puppet Lamb Chop.

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RAIMONDO BOREA PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN DARREN NEWBURY'S BOOK "COLD WAR PHOTOGRAPHIC DIPLOMACY"

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RAIMONDO BOREA PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN DARREN NEWBURY'S BOOK "COLD WAR PHOTOGRAPHIC DIPLOMACY"

Raimondo Borea’s photograph "African students at Friends World College”, taken on August 9th, 1963, appears on page 192 in Darren Newbury’s book COLD WAR PHOTOGRAPHIC DIPLOMACY, published in 2024 by Pennsylvania State University Press.

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NAM JUNE PAIK DOCUMENTARY LICENSES CLIPS FROM GIDEON BACHMANN AND JONAS MEKAS FILMS

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NAM JUNE PAIK DOCUMENTARY LICENSES CLIPS FROM GIDEON BACHMANN AND JONAS MEKAS FILMS

GME provided clips from Jonas Mekas’ ZEFIRO TORNA (1992), LOST LOST LOST (1976), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1992), and RE: MACIUNAS AND FLUXUS (2011), as well as  from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), for this documentary feature by Amanda Kim on the father of video art.

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CRITERION LICENSES JONAS MEKAS' AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL FOR BLU-RAY RELEASE OF TODD HAYNES' THE VELVET UNDERGROUND DOCUMENTARY

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CRITERION LICENSES JONAS MEKAS' AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL FOR BLU-RAY RELEASE OF TODD HAYNES' THE VELVET UNDERGROUND DOCUMENTARY

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for the Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

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THELONIUS MONK, BILLIE HOLIDAY, AND SARAH VAUGHAN PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR DEBORAH WILLIS' "ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK"

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THELONIUS MONK, BILLIE HOLIDAY, AND SARAH VAUGHAN PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR DEBORAH WILLIS' "ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK"

MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow Deborah Willis updated her 2000 comprehensive history of Black photographers and groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life, “Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present.” The new edition “ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK,” includes work by Hugh Bell, among other notable black photograhers, and is published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a wholly subsidiary of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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JONAS MEKAS DOCUMENTARY FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE LICENSES CLIPS FROM GIDEON BACHMANN

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JONAS MEKAS DOCUMENTARY FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE LICENSES CLIPS FROM GIDEON BACHMANN

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) featuring scenes of Jonas Mekas for director KD Davison’s intimate look at Mekas’s life and work. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, a story of a man who was also the most significant force behind the evolution and promotion of the American Avant- Garde film movement, and who tried to make sense of it all… with a camera.

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LEADER OF THE PACK ALBUM COVER PHOTO BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR PHYLLIS NAGY ABORTION DRAMA FEATURE

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LEADER OF THE PACK ALBUM COVER PHOTO BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR PHYLLIS NAGY ABORTION DRAMA FEATURE

This photo for the cover of The Shangri-Las debut album from 1965 is one of many commercial photos by Hugh Bell, whose photographs appeared on many album covers throughout the period. They primarily featured jazz artists, including Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderly, Houston Person, Bill Hardman, Larry Coryell, and the Nat Dixon Quartet. Director Nagy included this cover in her upcoming Roadside Attractions release CALL JANE, starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Mara, about a 1960s housewife (Banks) who joins the Jane Collective to fight for women's rights as she struggles to cope with her need for an abortion during a time of limited social or political support.

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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND DOCUMENTARY BY OSCAR NOMINATED DIRECTOR TODD HAYNES LICENSES CLIPS FROM BACHMANN, GOLDMAN, MEKAS, & SONBERT FOR APPLE TV+

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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND DOCUMENTARY BY OSCAR NOMINATED DIRECTOR TODD HAYNES LICENSES CLIPS FROM BACHMANN, GOLDMAN, MEKAS, & SONBERT FOR APPLE TV+

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes for the Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.


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HUGH BELL PHOTO EARLY MORNING PUBLISHED IN BUZZFEED NEWS

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HUGH BELL PHOTO EARLY MORNING PUBLISHED IN BUZZFEED NEWS

Hugh Bell’s photograph Early Morning, 1964 (from his collection of more than two dozen Afro-Caribbean photographs), was licensed by BuzzFeed News for their 2021 Black History Month feature article “The Black Photographers Who Paved The Way For The World We Live In Now”.

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MIDNIGHT COWBOY DOCUMENTARY FROM AUGUSTA FILMS LICENSES JONAS MEKAS FOOTAGE

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MIDNIGHT COWBOY DOCUMENTARY FROM AUGUSTA FILMS LICENSES JONAS MEKAS FOOTAGE

GME provided scenes from Jonas Mekas’ film REPORT FROM MILLBROOK (1965-1966) and SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1990, from THE SIXTIES QUARTET, 1990-1999) for director Nancy Buirski’s documentary about a dark and difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed people who made it. It is about New York in a troubled era of cultural ferment and social change.


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CONVERSATION WITH A KILLER: THE JOHN WAYNE GACY TAPES BY JOE BERLINGER LICENSES CLIPS FROM SONBERT, RAYNAL, GOLDMAN, & WATERS FOR NETFLIX SERIES

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CONVERSATION WITH A KILLER: THE JOHN WAYNE GACY TAPES BY JOE BERLINGER LICENSES CLIPS FROM SONBERT, RAYNAL, GOLDMAN, & WATERS FOR NETFLIX SERIES

GME provided footage from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Jack Waters’ BERLIN/NEW YORK (1984) and THE MALE GAYZE (1989), Jackie Raynal’s NEW YORK STORY (1980), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) as B-roll for the Radical Media production CONVERSATION WITH A KILLER: THE JOHN WAYNE GACY TAPES.


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BUZZFEED NEWS PAYS TRIBUTE TO LGBTQ HISTORY & CULTURE WITH PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL

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BUZZFEED NEWS PAYS TRIBUTE TO LGBTQ HISTORY & CULTURE WITH PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL

Hugh Bell’s was an American photographer of Caribbean descent, most well known for his photographs of jazz clubs and musicians. Born and raised in Harlem, he also captured Pride marches and demonstrations like Wigstock during the 1980s and 1990s. Bell influenced a generation of photographers, as well as documenting a different time for #pride. BuzzFeed News looked back in June, 2021 at LGBTQ history and representation through the years in the US and abroad.

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ANDY WARHOL'S AMERICA BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES LICENSES FOOTAGE FROM JONAS MEKAS' WALDEN

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ANDY WARHOL'S AMERICA BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES LICENSES FOOTAGE FROM JONAS MEKAS' WALDEN

WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969) is a 3-hour masterwork included in the collection JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS avialable from GME. Mekas’ footage of the Velvet Underground’s maiden performance at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry appears in an episode of the 3 part BBC series.


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MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY BY ERROL MORRIS LICENSES JONAS MEKAS FOOTAGE FOR TIMOTHY LEARY DOC, AIRED ON SHOWTIME

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MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY BY ERROL MORRIS LICENSES JONAS MEKAS FOOTAGE FOR TIMOTHY LEARY DOC, AIRED ON SHOWTIME

GME provided scenes from Jonas Mekas’ film REPORT FROM MILLBROOK (1965-1966, part of his magnum opus WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES, 1969) to Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris for his documentary about Leary’s whirlwind romance with Joanna Harcourt-Smith. The film began broadcasting on Showtime in December 2020.


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NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, BROADCAST ON THE PBS SERIES AMERICAN MASTERS, LICENSES CLIPS FROM JONAS MEKAS FILMS

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NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, BROADCAST ON THE PBS SERIES AMERICAN MASTERS, LICENSES CLIPS FROM JONAS MEKAS FILMS

GME provided footage from Jonas Mekas’ films, including SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990) and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), to acclaimed director Martin Scorsese for his Peabody Award-winning portrait of Bob Dylan, originally released on PBS in 2005.


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