Balch, Burroughs, Herman Video Experiment

This video originally posted at was recorded on Dec. 21, 1971, in William S. Burroughs London flat at 8 Duke St. , where I visited him for several days. I had an Akai video camera and portable reeltoreel recorder with me. It used 1, 4 black white tape. We turned off the lights and Bill sat in front of the movie projector. He looked remarkably like Buster Keaton, his stare so blank and deadpan he could have been a mummy. This video has been left unedited, including the set up, to give context.