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{{Infobox film

| name = Vinyl

| image = Andy Warhol Vinyl.jpg

| alt =

| caption = DVD cover

| director = [[Andy Warhol]]

| producer = Andy Warhol

| writer = [[Ronald Tavel]]

| based on based_on = {{Based on|''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''|[[Anthony Burgess]]}}

| starring = [[Gerard Malanga]]<br />[[Edie Sedgwick]]<br />[[Ondine (actor)|Ondine]]<br />Tosh Carillo

| distributor = [[The Factory]]

| released = {{Film date|1965|06|04}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

'''''Vinyl ''''' is a 1965 American [[black-and-white]] [[experimental film]] directed by [[Andy Warhol]] at [[The Factory]]. It is an early [[Film adaptation|adaptation]] of [[Anthony Burgess]]' 1962 novel ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', starring [[Gerard Malanga]], [[Edie Sedgwick]], [[Ondine (actor)|Ondine]], and Tosh Carillo, and featuring such songs as "[[Nowhere to Run (Martha and the Vandellas song)|Nowhere to Run]]" by [[Martha and the Vandellas]], "[[Tired of Waiting for You]]" by [[The Kinks]], "[[The Last Time (The Rolling Stones song)|The Last Time]]" by [[The Rolling Stones]] and "[[Shout (The Isley Brothers song)|Shout]]" by [[The Isley Brothers]].

==Plot==

The film is about the [[Greaser (subculture)|youth perpetrator]] Victor, who spends his time lifting weights, dancing and torturing people. When he hits his friend Scum Baby, he calls the police. Victor gets the choice to go to jail or undergo a behavioral change. Victor decides on the treatment and is bound to a chair by a doctor. He has to watch violent videos and describe what is happening on the screen while warm wax from a candle runs over his hand. After a while Victor swears off the violence and is unbound. He rejects the doctor's request to beat him and take drugs. Victor is cured.

==Cast==

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==Background==

''Vinyl'' was the first adaptation of the novel ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orangenovel]]'', which was filmed six years later by [[Stanley Kubrick]] (seeas ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''). Warhol bought the book in the spring of 1965 and forwarded it to his screenwriter [[Ronald Tavel]]. He had claimed that he had secured the right to the story for $3,000. The film is solely based on the original and reproduces the plot in a very condensed form and the names of the characters have also changed.

The recording of ''Vinyl'' took place on a day in April / early May 1965 with a very low budget and without samples. The only location in the film is a corner in Warhol's Factory while the 16mm black and white camera, the [[Auricon]] brand, stood on a stand and was barely moved.

''Vinyl'' was originally supposed to consist of a purely male casting and bring out [[Gerard Malanga]]; Butbut since the model [[Edie Sedgwick]], who Warhol had met earlier the same year, coincidentally showed up for photography, Warhol gave her the last minute role in the strip.<ref>David Bourdon: Warhol, DuMont, Köln 1989, S. 203</ref> Some of the extras in ''Vinyl'' did not even realize that they were filmed and had no connection to the plot.

The movie features the songs "[[Nowhere to Run (Martha and the Vandellas song)|Nowhere to Run]]" by [[Martha and the Vandellas]], "[[Tired of Waiting for You]]" by [[The Kinks]], "[[The Last Time (The Rolling Stones song)|The Last Time]]" by [[The Rolling Stones]] and "[[Shout (The Isley Brothers song)|Shout]]" by [[The Isley Brothers]]. "[[Nowhere to Run (Martha and the Vandellas song)|Nowhere to Run]]" is played twice in full length while the artists dance to it.

''Vinyl'' was shown the first time on June 4, 1965 as part of [[Jonas Mekas]]' ''Film-Makers' Cinematheque'' listing.

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==Production==

[[File:Warhol silver trunk 03.jpg|thumb|right|alt=silver painted trunk within a Plexiglas vitrine|The trunk on which [[Edie Sedgwick]] sits in the film is now on display at the [[Andy Warhol Museum]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]].]]

'' Vinyl '' is often credited as [[Edie Sedgwick]] 's first appearance in film, although she actually appeared in a non-speaking role in the earlier Warhol movie ''[[Horse (1965 film)|Horse]]'' (1965). Sedgwick has no lines of dialogue in the entire film. ''Vinyl'' was filmed unrehearsed and was also performed live in various stage productions.<ref> Joseph, Branden. Neo-Dada and Pop Art, Fall 2007 G4848 at Columbia University, December 4, 2007 lecture. </ref>

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