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An American Poet "uncut version"

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This interview between Jim Morrison and then Village Voice interviewer Howard Smith took place on a rainy day at the Doors' Workshop, Los Angeles, California on the 6th of November, 1969. Other persons audible including Cathy who serves coffee. Although commonly available material (runs almost exactly an hour), it's quite dismissed from the written sources not even mentionig it did happen.

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New Orleans the south, performing recording studio the band everybody loves to hate defending "Hello, I Love You" what kind of music do you listen to? made a short feature movie Easy Rider money talk "oh was that you?" Howard gets defensive do all of you still get along? the whole thing that happened in Miami... let's talk about you Howard what's wrong with being fat? those sultry pictures Jim's sex appeal

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Jim's one attempt at cinematic expression, his legendary 1969 experimental film, HWY: An American Pastoral. HWY is a stark 50-minute-long film, almost completely without dialogue. The references to '60s cinema are abundant. The influences of Jodorowsky, Antonioni, Warhol, Anger, and Godard seem to be present. Created by former film students, the references were most likely intentional (especially in the case of Morrison) and, in this way, HWY will likely have a much deeper meaning to experimental film students than to the average Doors fan. In a 1969 interview with Howard Smith, Morrison summarized the film: "Essentially, there's no plot, no story in the traditional sense; a person, played by me, comes down out of the mountains and hitchhikes his way through the desert into a modern city, which happens to be L.A., and that's where it ends." "The only reason I [acted in HWY] is because I couldn't think of anyone else to do it, you know, and it was just as easy for me to do it. I might do some films. I don't know. I'm not that crazy about being an actor, I'd rather be a director or a writer, something like that, but you know, if I had the chance, I'd probably do a few films. Why not?"

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