The Documentarian has a brief clip from 1963’s The Moving Finger of the blind avant-garde composer and Norse-inspired NYC street character Louis Thomas Hardin (aka Moondog). Now we have the Naked Cowboy. It’s a downgrade.
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From the 1940s until the mid-1970s, a blind Manhattan street musician nicknamed “Moondog” used to stand on Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street, dressed like a Viking. At a time when outré characters were all over the city, he just seemed like one more eccentric. But Moondog (real name: Louis Thomas Hardin) also happened to be an acclaimed classical composer. Filmmaker Holly Elson is hoping to make a documentary about the late musician, who passed away in 1999, and this is the very earliest piece of it. (Thanks Documentarian.)
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