Puce Moment is a short 6 minute film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, filmed in 1949. Puce Moment resulted from the unfinished short film Puce Women. The film opens with a camera watching 1920s style flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. (The original soundtrack was Verdi opera music; in the 1960s, Anger re-released the film with a new psychedelic folk-rock soundtrack performed by Jonathan Halper.) A long-lashed woman, Yvonne Marquis, dresses in the purple puce gown and walks to her vanity to apply perfume. She lies on a chaise lounge which then begins to move around the room and eventually out to a patio. Borzois appear and she prepares to take them for a walk.
Credits
Puce Moment Cast
Puce Moment Crew
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Department |
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Kenneth Anger as Director. He was 21 (now 97) years old
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Directing |
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Kenneth Anger as Editor. He was 21 (now 97) years old
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Editing |
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Kenneth Anger as Producer. He was 21 (now 97) years old
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Production |
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Kenneth Anger as Writer. He was 21 (now 97) years old
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Writing |
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Curtis Harrington as Cinematography. He was 22 (80) years old when He died
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Crew |
