Beat girl

Let’s take a walk along the towpath by the Thames, breathing in the heady scent of summer. See that island in the middle? That’s where we’re headed. And I’ve got a map, so I know it’s there! Past the gently bobbing riverboats moored at Twickenham, Until we reach a single footbridge. Here

Gillian Hills in Beat Girl (1960) http://dustyvideobox.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/off-beat-girl-1959.html

If there’s one scene in late-1950s British cinema which tells you the new teen tribes were thriving in the capital, it’s the opening sequence from Edmond T. Gréville’s sleazy Soho exposé Beat Girl. As a stream of eager youths pours down a staircase from a Soho milk bar into the club below, the attention’s firmly on wild-child Gillian Hills as she’s transfixed by the call of John Barry’s riff-tastic title number, a feral glare straight down the camera before she joins the frugging throng and…

From jazz bars and spoken word poetry to berets and black turtlenecks, we chart the evolution of beat from subversive to chic

beatnik

Posing before a sample of beatnik art are Miss Beatnik of 1959 contestants in Venice, Calif. Published caption:BEATNIK BEAUTIES-Posing before a sample of beatnik art are contestants for the title of Miss Beatnik of 1959, which will be conferred Sept. 12 under sponsorship of the Venice Arts Committee. From left are Michi Monteef, Sammy McCord, Patti McCrory, Shaunna Lea and, in rear, Jan Vandaveer. Publication:Los Angeles Times Publication date:August 27, 1959 Subjects:Beat…

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From jazz bars and spoken word poetry to berets and black turtlenecks, we chart the evolution of beat from subversive to chic

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