Play of the week (Television program). Waiting for Godot.
Notes:
Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed. "Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive." Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965. Filmed in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1964. Bonus features: Waiting for Godot, 1961, 104 minutes. Written by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Alan Schneider for "Play of the week". Starring Zero Mostel and Burgess Meredith. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive; "The dog and cat takes" from film by Samuel Beckett, 8 1/2 minutes.
Summary:
A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."
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