SidLaverents &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:SidLaverents @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:35:09 +0200 Multiple SIDosis (Sid Laverents, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/multiple-sidosis-1970 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Multiple SIDosis (Sid Laverents, 1970)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" National Acoustic Soul Day/div div class="img" Multiple SIDosis (1970)/div div class="caption" Clockwise: Sid playing a ukulele, Sid whistling, Sid playing improvised chimes (metal pipes and one cymbal hanging from an overhead microphone stand), Sid blowing a tune on champagne bottles, one metronome. DP: Sid Laverents./div div class="txt" There's a handful of notable amateur films in the National Film Registry. One of them is the Zapruder film, another Sid Laverents' Multiple SIDosis.\ "In terms of sheer entertainment value, I think that it demonstrated that one eccentric genius alone in his garage can rival the best of the Hollywood studios"" ### – Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive restorationist\ ##### Sid Laverents was an airplane engineer and former one-man band vaudevillian who in his fifties joined the #SanDiego Amateur Moviemakers Club. One of his best-known outputs, Multiple SIDosis, took him and his 16 mm #Bolex four years and 1,900 feet of celluloid to make. In it, Sid – and a musical troupe made up of many overdubbed versions of himself – performs the popular and insanely catchy tune Nola.\ &nbsp; Catch it here./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #SidLaverents #AdelaideLaverents #vaudeville #OneManBand #music #ChristmasMovie #AmateurFilm #ShortFilm #Christmas #comedy #USA #1970s ★★★★½ /div /section ]]>

Multiple SIDosis (Sid Laverents, 1970)

Mar

27

National Acoustic Soul Day

Multiple SIDosis (1970)

Clockwise: Sid playing a ukulele, Sid whistling, Sid playing improvised chimes (metal pipes and one cymbal hanging from an overhead microphone stand), Sid blowing a tune on champagne bottles, one metronome. DP: Sid Laverents.

There's a handful of notable amateur films in the National Film Registry. One of them is the Zapruder film, another Sid Laverents' Multiple SIDosis.

“In terms of sheer entertainment value, I think that it demonstrated that one eccentric genius alone in his garage can rival the best of the Hollywood studios””

– Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive restorationist

 

Catch it here.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #SidLaverents #AdelaideLaverents #vaudeville #OneManBand #music #ChristmasMovie #AmateurFilm #ShortFilm #Christmas #comedy #USA #1970s ★★★★½

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