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Note 1: "Is not right tape of Pat. Begins with a record of prisan singing. Then Pat frees charming voice as a phone call from Harold from Philadelphia about hitch hiring. Then Pat talking and talking and blues and opera records in background. Some of miami in background."; Note 2: CD 1: Prison record--muffled sound. Smith on the phone, teasing someone. Smith talking to a child (or a woman with a baby voice??), prison record continues. Old jazz record. CD 2: Opera w/ baby voice and Smith in bkgrnd. CD 3: Opera cont'd (on record, not IDed. "He's so virile compared to most tenors," says Smith.) Jazz record--Duke Ellington. Smith and another man talking--mention of John Morris, man asks Smith what they pay. Loud TV drowns out Smith's conv. CD 4: recording of Smith on a discussion panel (see reel 856, Smith, Feinstein, Martinez) playing over Smith and another man talking. Recording is turned off, then movement, walking on stairs, faint conv, etc. CD 5: In the loft. Movement, no talking. CD 6: In the loft. Conv. btw. Smith and another man about photo layout. Man talks about seeing a kid who looks like "a miniature Harold Feinstein." Smith singing- tr. 3. **Good sampling of ambient noise, clear recording. CD 7: cont'd--movemnt in the loft, faint conv, whistling. Tr. 8:more talking. "Hey Gene? Can I borrow George's blender?" Tr. 9: some piano--Smith? CD 8: Conv. btw. Smith and another man about photos. Ambient noise. **Tr. 7: Conv. about Smith's microphones in the loft. Banging on piano. CD 9: Smith singing, playing piano. Yelled conv. btw Smith, Carole, another man. Smith keeps singing. Man: "Why are you so happy?" Smith in background reading aloud--faint. CD 10: Smith on piano and singing. Distant conversation--Smith, Carole, another man. Buzzing, static. More singing. CD 11: Movement, traffic noise, stairs, opening doors. End: Smith and another man talking about layouts. Smith talking to Pending the cat. ;

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CD 1: Traffic noises, movement in the loft. Tr. 12: Smith singing/chanting. CD 2: Traffic, movement. CD 3: traffic movement. Tr. 12-13: Smith yelling/groaning--weird. CD 4: traffic, movement. CD 5: cont'd. CD 6:cont'd. CD 7: cont'd, Smith talking to a cat, cat meowing in background, then close to mic. CD 8: Silence, movement. tr. 4: TV in background. CD 9: Cats, movement. Tr. 5: cat fight. Typewriter sounds. CD 10: TV in background. Silence, movement, whistling. CD 6-7: Smith talking to cats. TV in background again at end of CD. ;

Note 1: "James Farmer. A Dream of Death. Ernest Hass - ch 19 - art of seeing and….. Agee and the print - Jan Peerce look up and like (s,,,) Madam Nuh."; Note 2: CDI Show about seeing, photography "Art of Seeing" first of 4 shows by Ernst Haas on NET 2. creation story, sermon News Kennedy and Cuba, Gov. Rockefeller. Interrupted by a drama and breif bit about Episcopal Minister (interview) CDII cont'd interview and Tv drama about father son strife "A Time to Live" CDIII Religious commentary about TV drama material things v. God (CBS Lamp Unto my Feet) James Moore, host, director of community action for the commission of reliion and race of the national Council of Churches. Ads, then Camera 3 show on folk music with performance and commentary CDIV Ads, Metropolitan Opera star Jan Peerce, Interview of Performance. CDV Inteview with James L Farmer, director of CORE (Congress on Racial Equality) on civil rights movement, Kennedy, Birmingham, switches to program discussion : Playwrights, Tennessee Williams. Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller "The American Literary Scene" one of a series of interviews about contemporary lit. Guest: John Mason Brown, theater critic. Interviewer: Prof. Edgar Johnson from City College on WNBC-TV Public Affairs, S. Vietnam, Interview with Madame Nhu, S. Vietnam, on Meet the Press about communism in America. CDVI cont'd interview Program of songs from the Labor Movement on WBAI "Songs w/ Significance" then "The American Way w/ Death" inteview with Jessica Mitford, author of book of the same name all about funeral procedures, products. CDVII . British Comedy Show, Lecture "Psychological Roots of War and Destruction, by Eric Fromme. radio music and lecture, very much static. CDVIII lecture, cont'd. ;

Note 1: "One side blank. Other side is mostly running water, occasional monologue by Smith and finally dialogue with Carole, then Klein then Buddy."; Note 2: CDI 1in the loft. Smith humming, running water, darkroom. Smith talks to self while working CDII 4. Carole enters, Smith "You look wonderful today." Carole: "Well I slept on the couch where it's warmer, I like to sleep there." 7. another man enters and joins conversation "Gary?" 9. Smith sings: "I'm just younger cause I'm in love with Carole" Carole "mmmm." ;

Note 1: "Ted Runge - Dark Room teaching. Played. Also both inner tracks. L. John - Randi. Conversation with Bill Pearce. Ted Darm and girl who was student of Art Freed."; Note 2: CDI 1. Good discussion includes microphones over piano, and photo stories. 2. Smith ocean drive story about printing 3. cont'd 4. printing and bleaching "Teddy" 5. Ted, Charlie and "flashlight" 6. Christmas tree lights and "Thank you, Bill Pierce" 7. darkroom talk 8. cont'd, several voices, "Larry" 9. con'td 10. con'td 11. con'td 12. "hole puncher" and "Damn that John Durniak" 13. talk includes Shustak and "Walter Gibson, guy who writes "the Shadow" this weekend" (group trip account). CDII 1. **Intro: "Second session of the fifth session, ...Ted Runge, ...next session November ninth, 28 West Thirty First. Wednesday, in a week." 2-5. Printing directions and instruction 6. ***Ge's recipe for fixer without hardene given. 7. Printing directions 8. Willoughby and photo talk 10. cont'd 11. Bill Pierce question and example, Modern Age for printing (store) 12. cont'd teaching, burning and dodginig 13. cont'd, Ted's printing as example/critique 14. mood image change of pace. CDIII 1. mid broadcast "Art or Anarchy" on NBC. Guests: Mr. Hartford, family foundation. Mrs. Earl Hubband, W. McNeill Lowry, Ford Vice President; Goldman, Colodan(?) 2. -12 discussion inlcues Picasso, foundations, Ballenchine and guests listed at end Jumps to New Content 12. Recount of Mississippi civil rights and President Johnson 13. Jumps to Martin Ransohoff, film producer and talk about his shows and films 15. cont'd CDIV 1. cont'd film producer 2. cont'd then NBC News Jerry Damon. Jumps to Jake Millen on WNYC on Milton and disobedience 3. poem 4. Poem cont'd Paradise Lost, by John Milton. 5. cont'd 6. cont'd 7. ends, Caedmon, Anothony Quail reading Book One" 8-11. back to poem 12. ends and Miltons Angel Pagitica in remaining minutes, Cromwell, Milton, book burning and poem on 13. CDV 1. Milton. End of poem and annoncement for 11 tomorrow Paradise Lost , then Monday December 7th, WNYC Nws 2 .cont'd and weather. Noon. Mascagni, in L'Amicao Intermezzo (Municipal Symphony) begins and drops out, silence until 3. 2:22 mark: Photo talk, mid story Garbo and Cleopatra, this is Long John Nebel show with Rouben Mamoulian, guest and Rudy Rank, Danny Knostle and Miles? Kruger. 4-12. Great talk includes music, film photography of flowers, and cats ** 13. Jumps to Helen Morgan, What wouldn't I do for that man" and back to LJN talk . CDVI 1. LJN cont'd with film talk and cat talk -10. 10. Jumps to Loft: mentioning "Lee Eddington" 11. Talk "Are we all here and we can commence ...." David Vestal, Carole, Harold; all mentioned. CDVII 1. overlap with CDVI then nto new content with piano and David Vestal's name 2. cont'd with Larry Shustak, Ted, and Bill mentioned. And Avedon (not in loft) 3. cont'd 4. discussion, man smoking pot photo. 5. Shustak teaching Runge present and joke about tape ** 6. Bill Pierce comment 7. cont'd class 8. cont'd, regrouping around printer 9. Percy Heath photo 10. small talk 11. cont'd "trombone bell" photo (Smith's?) Bill Pierce comments and "Howard" 12. proof prints, and bulletin board discussion, Playboy shoot, Shustak, jazz? Ted Runge sold me some... and "Peter Ingram" (???) 13. horse wagon photo by Robert Frank and photo store, Willoughby's in loft neighborhood, directions given. 14. Marty Forscher, negative carrier and recap of print process "Pek-o-sol" CDVIII 1. cont'd with insturction on timer and focussing device. Ted and Charlie 2. Ted Runge as sharpshoot, story 3. cont'd, and mention of Gordon Parks (piano in loft, again) 4. driving instruction talk and multiple vox from small talk, class. 5. Smith story and brief loft description 6. drugs, vitamins, Monk, and Smith's drugs all discussed *** 7. Jumps to photo critique and *** "That's a tape recorder, everything we say is being taped, from the minute you walkied, in...microphone." "How about you, Helen?"" 9. back to demo 10. cont'd 11. cont'd, developer and mention of Jean Cocteau 12. Ted and otehr talk. CDIX 1. LJN show with Rouben Mamoulian. art and literature 2. Life Magazine, Issue December 11, 1964 mentioned. 3. Big Wilson, with news, piano recording and telegram, 4. WNBC news and Jumps to loft: "Now you're getting to be a real hot printer." Nature of printing and **Charlie Chaplin Smith photos. 5. Carole Thomas: "Gene, are you on the bottom floor?" "Yes..." Talk with Bill Pierce includes: Harold, Stravinsky, Halsman, Balenchine, spotting, and burnished metal. 6. cont'd: Ralph, Teddy, money and Pittsburgh photo 7. cont'd talk Pleasantville Fine Arts Center and Larry's photos. 8. **Esformes, Japan, 9. departure 10. Jumps to loft talk same night 11. talk mentions deKooning, Gary Hawkins, Greenwell, Bridget, Tommy Jons Desdemona, Bloomindale 13. mention of Piper Laurie photo and Robert Rothman and Louis and Pianist Race Newton 14. visiting midwife, bleach, and kitty litter (errand) CDX 1. cont'd talk: Runge, money, Forbes 2. cont'd film and Chaplin's autobiography, Smith leaves and returns. Tape recorder, and money for lab expenses, camera talk (filming) 4. cont'd Shustak 5. cont'd talk, on printing.;

Note 1: "Taped duped for Zimmerman project 4/81. Tape 5 2 cassette. 3 3/4 April 7, 1961. Steve Shapiro and Gene, talking about his Haiti pictures and about Thompson."; Note 2: CDI 1. loft putter and brief Smith voice, with other male (Shapiro?) 2. cont'd bleaching and printing technique ** "different medium when I put them together like that, …great strength, different kind of strength, let's say." 3. cont'd with phone call for Smith 4. mentions, money and Rigoletto 5. cont'd talk 6. putter 7. more talk, 8. cont'd with funding discussed 9. talk 10. less talk 11. talk, off mic. CDII 1. phone rings and Smith and Carole on phone (Smith's voice evident) Judy Holliday, Martinez, Paris, Ford Foundation, lovey dovey talk. 2. cont'd, footsteps after phone call 3. Smith laughs and talks to someone off mic 4. Thompson letter discussed 5. politics of photo business 6. cont'd 7. calling Romeo Martinez multiple times. 8. cont'd activity 9. layout talk 10. cont'd 11. cont'd 12. call for Smith 13. new call (operator) 14. talk in loft ;

Note 1: "Aug 1962. I can't make out the rest."; Note 2: CDI 1. Smith talking to Japanese man, Carole present. He speaks in simplified English. Conversation about people's mixed feelings about Japanese people. Also, general race relations. . Nicknames, manners, and 2 japanese men talking 13. Smith on "untouchables" in Japanese society "like negroes in the American South" CDII cont'd talking about prejudice and related topics ;

Note 1: "Some passable but ungreat. Yap - Yar. Gene, Carole, Phil or Bert, etc. Stereo."; Note 2: CDI In the loft, faint talk. Buzz. CDII silence, then buzz/quiet conversation CDIII 1. Very faint, ambient traffic, conversation on last track CDIV cont'd. ;