Film

Rolling Stones Super 8 Footage

1972 · 8m · Documentary

Invited to shoot the cover for their 1972 album Exile on Main St., Robert Frank developed a relationship with the Rolling Stones that extended beyond Cocksucker Blues to include this Super 8 short, a jittery montage of the band slumming on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and gadding about in Mick Jagger’s rented Bel-Air mansion that Frank wryly contrasted with images of poor Black street buskers on the Bowery. Graphic designer John Van Hamersveld ended up using still images and film strips from the Super 8 footage to create collages for the album’s back cover and inner sleeves; the original material is on view in the exhibition Life Dances On. — Museum of Modern Art

Mick Jagger

Self

Keith Richards

Self

Mick Taylor

Self

Charlie Watts

Self

Bill Wyman

Self

• Robert FrankDirector

Release date

January 1, 1972

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

8m

Genres

Documentary