Jim Morrison sighting around 5:15 in the video, the guy that appears in the white shirt to the right of Ray is Jim. Another sighting at 7:00. Well before any thought of The Doors existed. A couple years later without Dorthy supporting Ray and even Jim, there would have been no Doors. Without Ray there would have been no Doors. Such an amazing couple and soulmates.
Ray Manzarek and Dorothy Fujikawa were together until Ray's passing. Beautiful thing. He only spoke of her with total respect of her as an individual. Secretly, he was my inspiration for being a father and husband. Watching him in interviews and reading his autobiography, he was always a creative Beatnik/Bohemian, but very responsible and actually traditional in many ways. RIP Ray: you are in my top 5 musicians (combining Cool and Bebop Jazz into Rock) and as an inspiration for how to behave in this uptight society.
I met Ray a couple years before he passed on. Such a cool guy. He treated me like I was an old friend he had not seen in a while. Posed for a couple pictures with me. I thanked he for all he had given us (the people / fans).
At minute 5:14 when they greet each other and 7:01 as Ray Manzarek goes up the stairs you can see Jim Morrison with his first love Mary Werbelow... They separated shortly after and Mary was the inspiration for some of The Doors best songs like "The Crystal Ship" and "The End". In her only interview in 2005, Mary acknowledged that Jim was the love of her life and that she would not forgive herself for not being with him again... A sad story and at the same time beautiful, like Jim's life itself.
Thanks for the heads up Jim, cooll!! Wonder why Ray didn't make movies after the Doors? Ray probably hah his hands full of staying with the legacy of the Doors.
That dude was so talented. Could play bass piano and organ with both hands at the same time, write a decently interesting film, and not to mention act pretty darn well
Ray Manczarek was a very talented director - his match-cuts to action repeated and jumping time in "Evergreen" are A1. The fact he is self-reverential in his '65 film to his own '64 film starring his girlfriend, and includes a POV of the Whisky A Go Go, that he would become the resident house band for, years later - is just prescient, and unfathomable. He was a great maestro for the Doors, but he could have been a very impactful film-maker, just as easily. I wish I had seen this 20 years ago. A key reason I had the inspiration and confidence to pursue film school, in great degree, was the Doors (Ray & Jim) going and meeting at UCLA and Morrison's quote - 'there are no experts in Cinema, it's an art unfolding' paraphrased of course. It's incredible that these films are restored to be shared. THANK YOU!
I was an undergraduate at UCLA 1965-1969 with two quarters as an inter campus visitor at UC Berkeley my sophomore year. Freshman year at UCLA was crammed with movie nights on campus watching student films screened in lecture halls. Yes, the parking lots were named after small integers. I remember helping Shiela James Kuehl looking for her car in the infamous Lot 11 that I believe is now a track stadium. Back then, an truck drove the lot on rainy days (usually Tuesdays) and shoveled asphalt wherever water accumulated to be tamped down by cars driving over the former holes. I believe there was a shuttle bus to Lot 12. I took the number 8 bus from the UCLA campus to the end of the line in Venice at Washington and Lincoln and hiked the remaining three miles home. Sometimes, I got lucky and the bus operator would let me ride south on Lincoln to 83rd street to shorten my walk over the old Hughes runway where I once saw a B-52 land. I dreamed of making any of those memories into short films of my own. Instead, I was a physicist who became a systems engineer. Now retired, I do substitute teaching in northern Virginia and occasionally tell stories of the years I went to UCLA as the classmate of many famous, and interesting people.
I really enjoyed this film. This proves that Ray would have made a great sidekick to Bill Murray in "Stripes" if Harold Ramis had not been available. A Systems Engineer is one of the more respectable applications of your scientific expertise so - good for you. I have a friend who became obsessed with becoming a Theoretical Physicist so he could study things like string theory and the multiverse. Many of us tried to talk him out of it and one time we even showed up at his house to do an intervention of sorts. He promised us he would stop spending his time on all of that nonsense. We were nervously skeptical but became pleasantly surprised that he really did kick the habit and eventually began working on the study of radioactive isotopes. For him, it wasn't the dreamy fantasy world that string theory promised but we constantly reminded him that a half-life was better than no life at all.
Check out Jim Morrison's first true real love (Mary Frances Werbelow from Clearwater, Florida) who's on the stairs with Jim Morrison (7:00) as Ray goes up to look for the other girl. It's also the same girl Jim M. reaches out to in the earlier scene as Ray says hello. (5:15) Amazing.
Really? is Mary Werbelow? She is a lucky girl!! Jim could have gone with her instead of the junkie Pamela who helped kill him. Maybe he would be among us today.
Amazing and artistic. Ray was such a talented person, even before his time with The Doors. Sadly, he does not get the recognitions he deserves. But, in my opinion, "he" was The Doors. RIP Ray.
Wow I'm a big doors fan and this is incredible. I have never seen this before. Are there any more movies that raymond Manzurek made? He is a decent actor too.
There are two very prophetic moments in this film. The first was when Ray's first girlfriend mentions the possibility of living in Paris (which Jim & Pam would later do). The second was when Ray asks her, "Is this the end?", and the words "The End" appear on the screen.
If you want more prophetic moments watch this other film of Ray's and listen to what the actor says when the Whiskey a go go appears th-cam.com/video/gpDiYto0jOA/w-d-xo.html
Back then, a lot of young people wanted to visit or even live in Paris. Also, "The End" appeared at the end of most movie credits. There's nothing prophetic about this student film.
There is a difference between visiting a place and living in it. Also, as I wrote, it wasn't just that the words "The End" appear at the end of the film. It was also that Ray asked, "Is this the end?" about the relationship, which is what The Doors' song The End is about.
A film of the period . His GF putting the ice on him . Obviously , he was artistic from the beginning . I was lucky to see the original group 3 times . It's hard to imagine Ray in the Army , unless he was entertaining the troops . We all miss Ray and his music . Thanks for sharing this .
Wow so cool a year before their London Fog gig in ‘66. Peeped Morrison two times cool to see he’d be in his movies maybe Jim’s movies had Ray as well ❤ RIP to both of them. Great artists
Did anyone else notice that the song at 4:44 is Dancing In The Street is playing, and then immediately followed by (I can't get no) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones? Ray basically predicted Mick Jagger covering the song with David Bowie (massive reach lol)
I agree with many of the comments, there was beautiful art in that era, and the Doors and Ray were a big part of that. The influence extends to this day. From his film what I understood is that there are many things in life that seem to change at a great pace but there are many aspects of relationships that are very consistent. It's not even purely romantic, as we are individuals trying to connect on multiple levels, sometimes social norms and culture are not open enough for fully developing people. Maybe I misinterpreted, would not the first time!
Ojalá el filme surrealista que Jim Morrison realizó en UCLA hubiera sobrevivido, sería interesante ver la poesía cinematográfica de Morrison durante sus días de estudiante de cine. Jim Morrison fue un genio incomprendido...
This has kind of a Woody Allen feel to it, Morrison clowning around at the party in his white shirt ( that's the real him ) , at 6:07 is Babe Hill i believe, the sound guy for the Doors later on, Harrison Ford also did that at concerts. Ray served in the Army around a year in Thailand & Okinawa before the Viet Nam war got really going, he enlisted after breaking up with his girlfriend.
Sexual freedom; undoubtedly and beautifully autobiographical. I love the foreshadowing, "the one act play where I leave him in the end" which is what kind of happens when Nikki changes their relationship at the end of Act One in this short film. ❤️ THE END is also the title of The Doors' song. There are probably many student films in need of preservation that are just as fantastic by lesser known people than Ray Manzurak of The Doors
I just just watched Ray's talking about the time Jim died and the last time he seen him. And underneath that video was this. I'm going to enjoy this. Its like a time capsule. UCLA when we was in a era of great movies to come. Ray was a genius from the top of his head to the soul of him feet. 😎
I think Ray's inspiration for this piece is Jim Morrison and Mary Werbelow who appear on the party. About their break up she said: "I had to go out and see what parts of that were me. I just knew I had to be away from him. I needed to be by myself, to find my own identity." Morrison never stopped loving her but then he also discovered Pam. But that was later. Maybe Ray predicted it...
Interesting about her. Some stories on the internet about her. I guess she went from Florida to CA to visit Jim? I wonder what happened there. Jim could probably be kinda scary in that he was so intelligent and sensitive ect. Some girls just want a beer drinking, happy all the time (doesn’t exist really, we all like it quiet now and then) regular Joe.
This is actually pretty accurate...about The way parties were back then. I went to Japan and had very different Parties. They tended to be...ahem.. Well no TMI here..but a little bit MORE
Many years ago, I read in a Doors-biography about Ray making this film. I never thought I would be seeing this film. Now I can. Thank you!! 😀 Where's Jim Morrison? Does anybody know?
Здравствуйте американцы. Я пишу из России. Америка 60х была другой, там много читали и мечтали изменить всё. Я люблю Америку 60х , мне нравится её стиль.
Ray...when you have a woman rolling on the couch with nothing on but your shirt...3:05...and you run out the door...what did you think was going to happen at the party when another man gave her the attention you didn't?
Roman Polanski in last year of Film School in Lodz Poland paid some gangsters to start a fight during one of such parties in the School and he recorded that as one of his homework etudes :)
In other words Ray made a movie about a pathetic simp.... somehow I have a feeling he was one in real life... Also - seems his real name was Manczarek not Manzarek (Manzarek sounds a lot less Polish but he probably simplified it due to pronunciation issues for Americans)
Jim Morrison sighting around 5:15 in the video, the guy that appears in the white shirt to the right of Ray is Jim. Another sighting at 7:00. Well before any thought of The Doors existed. A couple years later without Dorthy supporting Ray and even Jim, there would have been no Doors. Without Ray there would have been no Doors. Such an amazing couple and soulmates.
Ray Manzarek and Dorothy Fujikawa were together until Ray's passing. Beautiful thing. He only spoke of her with total respect of her as an individual. Secretly, he was my inspiration for being a father and husband. Watching him in interviews and reading his autobiography, he was always a creative Beatnik/Bohemian, but very responsible and actually traditional in many ways. RIP Ray: you are in my top 5 musicians (combining Cool and Bebop Jazz into Rock) and as an inspiration for how to behave in this uptight society.
Well said.
I met Ray a couple years before he passed on. Such a cool guy. He treated me like I was an old friend he had not seen in a while. Posed for a couple pictures with me. I thanked he for all he had given us (the people / fans).
At minute 5:14 when they greet each other and 7:01 as Ray Manzarek goes up the stairs you can see Jim Morrison with his first love Mary Werbelow... They separated shortly after and Mary was the inspiration for some of The Doors best songs like "The Crystal Ship" and "The End". In her only interview in 2005, Mary acknowledged that Jim was the love of her life and that she would not forgive herself for not being with him again... A sad story and at the same time beautiful, like Jim's life itself.
I know it was him!
Thanks for showing us!.
Thanks for the heads up Jim, cooll!! Wonder why Ray didn't make movies after the Doors? Ray probably hah his hands full of staying with the legacy of the Doors.
That dude was so talented. Could play bass piano and organ with both hands at the same time, write a decently interesting film, and not to mention act pretty darn well
Ray Manczarek was a very talented director - his match-cuts to action repeated and jumping time in "Evergreen" are A1. The fact he is self-reverential in his '65 film to his own '64 film starring his girlfriend, and includes a POV of the Whisky A Go Go, that he would become the resident house band for, years later - is just prescient, and unfathomable. He was a great maestro for the Doors, but he could have been a very impactful film-maker, just as easily. I wish I had seen this 20 years ago. A key reason I had the inspiration and confidence to pursue film school, in great degree, was the Doors (Ray & Jim) going and meeting at UCLA and Morrison's quote - 'there are no experts in Cinema, it's an art unfolding' paraphrased of course. It's incredible that these films are restored to be shared. THANK YOU!
I was an undergraduate at UCLA 1965-1969 with two quarters as an inter campus visitor at UC Berkeley my sophomore year.
Freshman year at UCLA was crammed with movie nights on campus watching student films screened in lecture halls.
Yes, the parking lots were named after small integers.
I remember helping Shiela James Kuehl looking for her car in the infamous Lot 11 that I believe is now a track stadium. Back then, an truck drove the lot on rainy days (usually Tuesdays) and shoveled asphalt wherever water accumulated to be tamped down by cars driving over the former holes. I believe there was a shuttle bus to Lot 12.
I took the number 8 bus from the UCLA campus to the end of the line in Venice at Washington and Lincoln and hiked the remaining three miles home. Sometimes, I got lucky and the bus operator would let me ride south on Lincoln to 83rd street to shorten my walk over the old Hughes runway where I once saw a B-52 land.
I dreamed of making any of those memories into short films of my own.
Instead, I was a physicist who became a systems engineer. Now retired, I do substitute teaching in northern Virginia and occasionally tell stories of the years I went to UCLA as the classmate of many famous, and interesting people.
This is incredible. As a student at UCLA now it's very cool to hear.
I really enjoyed this film. This proves that Ray would have made a great sidekick to Bill Murray in "Stripes" if Harold Ramis had not been available.
A Systems Engineer is one of the more respectable applications of your scientific expertise so - good for you.
I have a friend who became obsessed with becoming a Theoretical Physicist so he could study things like string theory and the multiverse. Many of us tried to talk him out of it and one time we even showed up at his house to do an intervention of sorts. He promised us he would stop spending his time on all of that nonsense. We were nervously skeptical but became pleasantly surprised that he really did kick the habit and eventually began working on the study of radioactive isotopes.
For him, it wasn't the dreamy fantasy world that string theory promised but we constantly reminded him that a half-life was better than no life at all.
Did you know Jim and or Ray back than or were you only aware of them after they left and got famous??
Yes! The track stadium, Drake Stadium, was completed in 1969. (I competed on it twice visiting from SDSU, my first school, and USC, my second school.)
Check out Jim Morrison's first true real love (Mary Frances Werbelow from Clearwater, Florida) who's on the stairs with Jim Morrison (7:00) as Ray goes up to look for the other girl. It's also the same girl Jim M. reaches out to in the earlier scene as Ray says hello. (5:15) Amazing.
Really? is Mary Werbelow? She is a lucky girl!! Jim could have gone with her instead of the junkie Pamela who helped kill him. Maybe he would be among us today.
Thanks. I spotted them but useful to have the time stamps - appreciated!
Maybe Jim should've stayed with her.
So cool. I didn't even spot Jim on the stairs.
so crazy and so cool having this on film, you can see jim around, some kind of author blueprint from ray and a rlly decent acting by him too
Amazing and artistic. Ray was such a talented person, even before his time with The Doors. Sadly, he does not get the recognitions he deserves. But, in my opinion, "he" was The Doors. RIP Ray.
St.Rita Chicago Grad.🎶
Ray is considered one of the best keyboardists in rock history... That is already a great recognition.
Great film, thank you. Love to see J.Morrison even for a bit. Ray great play.
Wow I'm a big doors fan and this is incredible. I have never seen this before. Are there any more movies that raymond Manzurek made? He is a decent actor too.
There are two very prophetic moments in this film. The first was when Ray's first girlfriend mentions the possibility of living in Paris (which Jim & Pam would later do). The second was when Ray asks her, "Is this the end?", and the words "The End" appear on the screen.
If you want more prophetic moments watch this other film of Ray's and listen to what the actor says when the Whiskey a go go appears
th-cam.com/video/gpDiYto0jOA/w-d-xo.html
Back then, a lot of young people wanted to visit or even live in Paris. Also, "The End" appeared at the end of most movie credits. There's nothing prophetic about this student film.
There is a difference between visiting a place and living in it. Also, as I wrote, it wasn't just that the words "The End" appear at the end of the film. It was also that Ray asked, "Is this the end?" about the relationship, which is what The Doors' song The End is about.
@@roberthanawalt3919 It's only coincidence, nothing more.
@@dualityofman1253 I find it an interesting coincidence.
A film of the period . His GF putting the ice on him . Obviously , he was artistic from the beginning . I was lucky to see the original group 3 times . It's hard to imagine Ray in the Army , unless he was entertaining the troops . We all miss Ray and his music . Thanks for sharing this .
Yeah, Ray was in Vietnam I think before he attended UCLA.
WOW - You're lucky to have seen the greatest American rock band that ever existed
Wow so cool a year before their London Fog gig in ‘66. Peeped Morrison two times cool to see he’d be in his movies maybe Jim’s movies had Ray as well ❤ RIP to both of them. Great artists
Love the jazz music in the background. ❤
Outstanding comedy (farce). Love the ending. Perhaps inspired a bit by the Morrison/Werbelow intrigue.
Vintage classic beautiful!!! Thank you for posting this...😃🙏
Wonderful. Thank you !
Quite an artifact. Thanks for posting this. Dorothy is beautiful!
This is really good Ray was a talented dude
The music at the end is the melody from one of the songs in "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" (Because We're Kids)
Did anyone else notice that the song at 4:44 is Dancing In The Street is playing, and then immediately followed by (I can't get no) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones? Ray basically predicted Mick Jagger covering the song with David Bowie (massive reach lol)
I agree with many of the comments, there was beautiful art in that era, and the Doors and Ray were a big part of that. The influence extends to this day. From his film what I understood is that there are many things in life that seem to change at a great pace but there are many aspects of relationships that are very consistent. It's not even purely romantic, as we are individuals trying to connect on multiple levels, sometimes social norms and culture are not open enough for fully developing people. Maybe I misinterpreted, would not the first time!
Jim Morrison at @05:13 and @07:01 in the white shirt. Thank me later.
Ray The Genius Manzarek!!!!❤❤❤
This is great. Ray was a decent actor too. And spotted Jim in the background! Wow never knew about this.
Ojalá el filme surrealista que Jim Morrison realizó en UCLA hubiera sobrevivido, sería interesante ver la poesía cinematográfica de Morrison durante sus días de estudiante de cine. Jim Morrison fue un genio incomprendido...
Damn Ray pretty good shit.
thanks a lot for this.
-D
Amazing ❤
Jim Morrison at 05:14
being Jim 😅
magnificent, indeed
Thanks Ray.
@5:15 Jim Morrison appears on the right over Ray's shoulder and again @7:00 at the bottom of the stairs.
Who is that dude that emerges at 5:14 in the background? Seems familiar.
Awesome
This has kind of a Woody Allen feel to it, Morrison clowning around at the party in his white shirt ( that's the real him ) , at 6:07 is Babe Hill i believe, the sound guy for the Doors later on, Harrison Ford also did that at concerts. Ray served in the Army around a year in Thailand & Okinawa before the Viet Nam war got really going, he enlisted after breaking up with his girlfriend.
Sexual freedom; undoubtedly and beautifully autobiographical. I love the foreshadowing, "the one act play where I leave him in the end" which is what kind of happens when Nikki changes their relationship at the end of Act One in this short film. ❤️
THE END is also the title of The Doors' song. There are probably many student films in need of preservation that are just as fantastic by lesser known people than Ray Manzurak of The Doors
9:03 "This is the end.... beautiful friend. This is the end.... my only friend, the end".
At 6:37 am I going crazy or is that Taffy Lewis from Blade Runner?
That is Taffy Lewis...but you may well still be going crazy.
I also thought I knew his face from somewhere and thought he made an acting career
I just just watched Ray's talking about the time Jim died and the last time he seen him. And underneath that video was this. I'm going to enjoy this. Its like a time capsule. UCLA when we was in a era of great movies to come. Ray was a genius from the top of his head to the soul of him feet. 😎
Love ❤️ you, Ray 😊
I think Ray's inspiration for this piece is Jim Morrison and Mary Werbelow who appear on the party. About their break up she said: "I had to go out and see what parts of that were me. I just knew I had to be away from him. I needed to be by myself, to find my own identity." Morrison never stopped loving her but then he also discovered Pam. But that was later. Maybe Ray predicted it...
So she turned out to be like all the other ones - just decided to hop on the cock carousel and dump Jim for chads! Hope she regretted later!
Interesting about her. Some stories on the internet about her. I guess she went from Florida to CA to visit Jim? I wonder what happened there. Jim could probably be kinda scary in that he was so intelligent and sensitive ect. Some girls just want a beer drinking, happy all the time (doesn’t exist really, we all like it quiet now and then) regular Joe.
SPOILER : 05:18 Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison before "The Doors". 😉
This is actually pretty accurate...about
The way parties were back then. I went to Japan and had very different
Parties. They tended to be...ahem..
Well no TMI here..but a little bit
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Many years ago, I read in a Doors-biography about Ray making this film. I never thought I would be seeing this film. Now I can. Thank you!! 😀
Where's Jim Morrison? Does anybody know?
Very early glimpse of Jim Morrison at 5:15.
And again 7:01
He could talk about the phone book and make it interesting.
Or, he could read the phone book and be interesting, either works!
Jim Morrison appearance at 5:15
how is this in stereo
Bro what is that music playing at 5:30
Dancin’ in the street
4:45 - Morrison in white tee shirt .
Not a t-shirt, dummy.
Jim came in at @5:15 lol!
Apparently this is the only video clip ever of Jim and Mary 😮
The male voice at about 13:25 sounds like Jim Morrison, not Ray.
Definitely not
凄ぇ興味深い レイは ハンサムな三枚目 っつー役が似合うね
ウディ・アレン感があるよね それとやっぱヌーベルバーグ
最新作としてのゴダール「男性・女性」なんかも観てたのかな
つーか こっからザ・ドアーズの世界に行っちゃうんだもんなぁ
生きる事は面白いよね
Ray seemed like such a square.😄
8:06 I hope this isn’t the end. Correlation?
Like my parents, Ray and Dorothy remained married until one of their deaths.
Name spelled differently in the opening screen. Is that the way his birth name is spelled, or a typo?
Birth name, "Manzarek" is anglicized; in Polish the "c" is silent.
is that Mama Cass at 9.37?
A glimpse into the past?
9:05 this is the end my only friend the end...
Cool history 😎
Здравствуйте американцы. Я пишу из России. Америка 60х была другой, там много читали и мечтали изменить всё. Я люблю Америку 60х , мне нравится её стиль.
Now we are one big zoo.
The Doors 🔥😎👍🏻♥️🇨🇱
Morrison again 7:01
Ray...when you have a woman rolling on the couch with nothing on but your shirt...3:05...and you run out the door...what did you think was going to happen at the party when another man gave her the attention you didn't?
There’s a moral to that statement, but I can’t think of it 😂
Roman Polanski in last year of Film School in Lodz Poland paid some gangsters to start a fight during one of such parties in the School and he recorded that as one of his homework etudes :)
It should be call the ventriloquists
Why?
Where’s the one that Jim made that had the girl dancing on top of a TV set that was playing a nazi march?
I watched his real film yesterday- the one in the doors movie apparently was never made by Jim!
Where is it whats the link? How do I find it?
The movie Jim made in college supposedly did not survive. However the movie he made years later called HWY is on TH-cam
Ray Manzarek dropped off the "c" in his last name in the 1960's 😮
Why Manzarek looks like he is in his mid 40s?
He had the wrong hairstyle. He looked better in the 80s with the pompadour hairstyle.
5:14 a very young Morrison behahid Ray.......7:01 Jim Morrison on the stairs with a Girl
I think this has changed this 13 yr old's life.
❤🙏
Paul Ferrara 7:32- 7:48
Further insights about this film directly from Ray at this video :
th-cam.com/video/eSkllKaA8dE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks so much for this, great look back at his life in Venice.
Too bad UCLA discarded Jim’s film. I read that. They were probably like what is this lunatic trash lol
Chews with his mouth open
Fun fact: Ray marrying an Asian woman was the only thing Oliver Stone did accurately.
Woody Allen before Woody Allen.
Absolute rubbish, and I can't get enough !
Straight laced Jazz guy Ray Manzarek seems the least likely person to be part of a dark psychedelic rock band like The Doors.
She’s beautiful… the film is whacked though
In other words Ray made a movie about a pathetic simp.... somehow I have a feeling he was one in real life...
Also - seems his real name was Manczarek not Manzarek (Manzarek sounds a lot less Polish but he probably simplified it due to pronunciation issues for Americans)
He was no simp! He put together the Doors and was their leader, although he may have not said so.
In other words you are an involuntary celibate...somehow I have a feeling you are one in real life
The pathetic simp gets a better girl.
a simp for whom?
Ray grow your hair out and stick to playing the Organ and Keyboard bass