serious thought for Peter Jones

Amanda Riddell
Mar 16, 2024
1 min read

I reckon that Stephen Sondheim's films might be of interest to people. But yeah, I have no idea if they survived the fire in the late 1990's. They're mentioned in the Secrest biography. But yeah, he made a bunch of 16mm films in the 1950's and 1960's.

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