Editing Batman Dracula

{{short description|1964 film}}
{{distinguish|text=the animated film ''[[The Batman vs. Dracula]]'' or the Filipino film ''[[Batman Fights Dracula]]''}}
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{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Batman Dracula
| image          = Batman Dracula Andy Warhol.jpg
| caption        = Promotional artwork
| director       = [[Andy Warhol]]
| producer       = Andy Warhol
| writer         = 
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [[Naomi Levine]] <br> [[Gerard Malanga]] <br> [[Taylor Mead]] <br> [[Jack Smith (film director)|Jack Smith]] <br> [[Samuel Adams Green|Sam Green]]
| music          = 
| cinematography = 
| editing        = 
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{Film date|1964|07}}
| runtime        = 120 minutes<ref name=Berkeley />
| country        = United States
| language       = 
| budget         = 
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'''''Batman Dracula''''' is a 1964 silent 16mm Bolex [[black and white]]<ref>[https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8727] Batman Dracula (unseen footage of unfinished film). 1964. Directed by Andy Warhol</ref> American [[superhero]] [[fan film]] produced and directed by [[Andy Warhol]]<ref name=Berkeley /> without the permission of [[DC Comics]], who owns the character [[Batman]]. It stars [[Jack Smith (film director)|Jack Smith]] who plays the roles of both millionaire [[Bruce Wayne (Gotham)|Bruce Wayne]] and [[Count Dracula]].<ref>[https://www.faena.com/aleph/batman-dracula-andy-warhols-eccentric-experimental-film] ''Batman Dracula'' at Faena</ref> The film was screened only at Warhol's [[Pop Art]] exhibits and some of it has been lost.<ref name="lostmediawiki.com">[https://lostmediawiki.com/Batman_Dracula_(partially_found_Andy_Warhol_film;_1964)] Batman Dracula (partially found Andy Warhol film; 1964)</ref>

==Plot==
{{No plot|date=February 2025}}

==Production background==
A fan of the Batman [[comic book|comic]] series, Warhol made the film as an [[Homage (arts)|homage]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Douglas Crimp|title="Our kind of movie": the films of Andy Warhol|date=2012|publisher=[[MIT Press]]|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0-262-01729-9|page=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYBOtZc_u-AC&q=batman+dracula+1964+andy+warhol&pg=PA115|access-date=16 June 2014|quote=It might also have been Smith's greatest film performance, but sadly we may never know, because Warhol left the film in the can, unassembled and unedited.}}</ref> Warhol devoted something like seven hours of film stock to it.<ref name="lostmediawiki.com"/> The film was thought to [[Lost film|be lost]] until scenes from it were shown at some length in the documentary ''[[Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis]]'' (2006).<ref name="lostmediawiki.com"/>

==Cast==
* [[Tally Brown]] as Florence, Granddaughter of Old Woman and Old Man
* [[Beverly Grant (actress)|Beverly Grant]] as Rose<ref name=Berkeley />
* [[Samuel Adams Green|Sam Green]]
* [[Dorothy Dean]] as Doris
* Bob Heide
* [[Baby Jane Holzer]]<ref name=Berkeley /> as Rebecca, Sister of Sydney and Titus
* [[Sally Kirkland]]
* [[Ron Link (director)|Ron Link]]
* [[Naomi Levine]] as Elizabeth, Daughter of Gaston
* [[Gerard Malanga]]
* [[Mario Montez]]
* [[Billy Name]]
* [[Taylor Mead]]
* [[Ivy Nicholson]] as Roxanne<ref name=Berkeley />
* [[Jack Smith (film director)|Jack Smith]] as Batman/Dracula
* [[Andy Warhol]]
* [[Gregory Battcock]]
* [[David Bourdon]]

==Production==
''Batman Dracula'' was filmed on the beaches of [[Long Island]] and on [[The Factory]] roof in [[New York City]].<ref name=Berkeley />

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1964]]
* [[Andy Warhol filmography]]
* ''[[Batman Fights Dracula]]'', a 1967 Filipino film
* [[Batman & Dracula trilogy]]

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=Berkeley>{{cite web|author1=Jonas Mekas|title=Andy Warhol filmography|url=http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=7609|publisher=University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive|access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref>}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0057875}}

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