Clips from The Factory

Back in January of 1966, The Velvet Underground and Nico rehearsed at Warhol's Factory. This is an 11 minute clip of footage shot on that day, produced and directed by Andy, and with Nico's son Ari at her feet. The complete "Symphony of Sound" rehearsal footage is over an hour long, coming to an end when the police arrive and break it up (due to a noise complaint).

The Factory, located at 19 E 32nd and 22 E 33rd, between Park and Madison, still has at least one remnant of Warhol, on a wall it says, ''I never wanted to be a painter, I wanted to be a tap-dancer.'' There's a current shot of the outside here, though the last we heard The Factory was going to be turned into, what else, condos.

Here's an outtake from Ciao! Manhattan, starring Warhol's star Edie Sedgwick. Lots of great above shots of the city in that one.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on August 7, 2006 10:19 AM

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What?

It says there are 4 comments, but I only see one?

scott

The one at 33 Union Square West is arguably the most infamous of the several factory locations.

Automocar

Dave, you're right- the Velvet Underground pretty much stopped hanging around with Warhol after 1966.

jen/arts

that's right, i knew there were several factories, i just couldn't find out where they were in this one. but it does look like they were at the factory located at 221 east 47th street, which was Warhol's studio from 1963 to 1967.

Dave

There were several versions of The Factory with the 32nd St location being the final and the most corporate. I would guess that the VU footage is from the first Factory located on E47th.