Video clip of Velvet Underground at The Factory

Here is an all-too-short clip of the Velvet Underground playing "Venus in Furs" at Andy Warhol's Silver Factory. Also making the scene are Edie Sedgwick and "whip dancer" Gerard Malanga.
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Anonymous

That would be some random dude hopped up on goofballs, with a whip.
a mosquito

Here they are on the Lawrence Welk Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48BP1PUoFI
Anonymous

and Jack Smith in the sweater and sunglasses too, right?
David Pescovitz

Wow. Is it Jack Smith? Very cool. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him before! Or known it was him, anyway. How about John Cale though. The other Velvets were ultracool but Cale was (is) so downtown avant-garde. I love it.
eenie meenie

that would be “Malanga”.
clubspit

And is that Jack Smith dancing around in a fair isle sweater and sunglasses?