Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy (1959) is not a documentary, but the film's setting and characters make it a worthy document of New York's Lower East Side beats, artists, poets, and musicians. Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, and Alan Ginsberg (top still) are among the actors. That's Ginsburg, in close-up, in the second still. An improvisational, wise-cracking narration is by Jack Kerouac.
As in Robert Frank's book of photographs, The Americans, Pull My Daisy occasionally uses American flags to add an ironic touch (third still).
