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SHIPPING:
 
Standard Shipping is via:
Priority mail on small orders. UPS Ground on all others, unless speedier (and more expensive) shipping is required.
 
$5.00 for the first item and $1.00 for each subsequent item. Allow one to two weeks for delivery.
 
Outside the US:
(Surface) same prices as above. Overseas shipping for DVDs is same as domestic and will come by air. For heavier items such as books, posters and Tee shirts, we will need to charge extra. If time is not pressing, we can ship by surface, which could take 4-6 weeks. Please specify.

Note that shipping for postcards is $1.00 per card, but please note that poscards are available only when purchasing other items.

VIDEOS:

Note: All VHS prices are for use in North America, Japan, and other NTSC countries.
 
PAL versions are no longer available.
 
Video Sale:    Most Video Tapes Are Now 40% Off, Tape Sale Pricing is Good Only While Stock is Available.
 
DVD:

Les Blank's DVD versions are international, and are Not region encoded. Our DVDs will play on PAL country machines.
  
 
Note: Prices are for HOME USE customers only.
Note: Prices listed on this web page, and in our limited computer program's reply are for home use customers only.
 

If your order is for a University, or University Library, we will calculate your total accordingly, which will include public performance rights for life of tape / dvd.
 
Public performance rights are required if film to be used in a classroom at the university level.
 
Except for 'All In This Tea', the Single Unit Base Price in any format for Libraries or Universities is $99 each.
 
To avoid confusion University Users (i.e. any *.edu) and University Library Users: please note in 6. Special instructions section at bottom of order form that you accept higher prices for public performance showings.
 
Except for 'All In This Tea', special discounts are available for Universities, and University libraries on orders of 5 or more titles which reduces that pricing to $59.00 each - in any format.
 
We will send you an accurate, separate invoice along with your order. Please disreguard the quote based on these forms for non-Home use orders.
 
Except for 'All In This Tea', a Public Library may order at the Home Use rate if NO public performance rights are required.
 

 
Purchase orders are accepted, as well as credit cards and checks. Please indicate under the heading "Special instructions and additional information", below, which of the above is applicable.
 
Discounts for retail sales: Please contact Flower Films with specifics.

 
Most DVD's Now Come Complete with Covers
 Prior Customers needing Covers
Please Note Below in 6) Special Instructions, and we will send Cover(s) with a new DVD Case.
 
 
Films by Les Blank in DVD format
      * with addional bonus footage and commentary
Price
All In This Tea [dvd]   (2007) $ 29.95
The Arch [dvd]   (1969) $ 29.95
Always For Pleasure [dvd]   (1978) $ 29.95
Burden of Dreams (deluxe Criterion-Janus production)*  [dvd]   (1982) $ 39.95
El Pesar de los Sueños (Burden of Dreams in Spanish) [dvd]   (1982) $ 29.95
The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins [dvd]   (1969) $ 29.95
Chulas Fronteras*  [dvd]   (1976) $ 29.95
Dry Wood [dvd]   (1973) $ 29.95
Gap-Toothed Women [dvd]   (1987) $ 29.95
Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers [dvd]   (1980) $ 29.95
Hot Pepper [dvd]   (1973) $ 29.95
Huey Lewis and the News: Be-FORE! [dvd]   (1984) $ 29.95
Innocents Abroad [dvd]   (1991) $ 29.95
In Heaven There Is No Beer? [dvd]   (1984) $ 29.95
J'ai Été Au Bal / I Went to the Dance*  [dvd]   (1989) $ 29.95
Marc & Ann [dvd]   (1991) $ 29.95
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists [dvd]
     includes 30 minute update on artist's work 1995-2005		   (1994) $ 29.95
Puamana [dvd]   (1991) $ 29.95
Roots of Rhythm [dvd]   (1994) $ 39.95
Six Short Films of Les Blank [dvd]
     includes Dizzy Gillespie (1965)
     and Chicken Real (1970)
     and Cigarette Blues (1985)
     and Running Around Like A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off (1960)
     and God Respects Us (1968)
     and The Sun's Gonna Shine (1969)
   (1960-1985) $ 29.95
Spend It All [dvd]   (1971) $ 29.95
Sprout Wings and Fly [dvd]
     includes Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge
     and My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1994)		   (1983) $ 29.95
Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella [dvd]   (1983) $ 29.95
A Well Spent Life [dvd]   (1971) $ 29.95
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe [dvd]   (1979) $ 29.95
Yum, Yum, Yum! [dvd]   (1990) $ 29.95
Ziveli! Medicine for the Heart [dvd]   (1987) $ 29.95

Other Films Distributed by Flower Films in DVD format
       
Price
Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco (1987) [dvd]   Chris Strachwitz $ 29.95
Delusion Of The Fury: A Ritual Of Dream And Delusion (1971) [dvd]   Madeline Tourtelot $ 29.95
Here Comes Everybody (1961) [dvd]   David Lawrence $ 29.95
In the Land of the Owl Turds (1987) [dvd]   Harrod Blank $ 29.95
'N' is a Number (1993) [dvd]   George Csicsery $ 29.95
Perfumed Nightmare (1978) [dvd]   Kidlat Tahimik $ 29.95
Seven Second Love Affair (1965) [dvd]   Robert Abel $ 29.95
Stoney Knows How (1980) [dvd]   Alan Govenar and Bruce Lane $ 29.95
Talking Feet (1992) [dvd]   Mike Seeger $ 29.95
Tree of Life (1973) [dvd]   Bruce "Pacho" Lane $ 29.95
Turumba (1983) [dvd]   Kidlat Tahimik $ 29.95
Wild Wheels (1992) [dvd]
DVD includes: the Original Version, the PBS Version, plus Commentary, Spanish Language, Closed Captions, and Out Takes		   Harrod Blank $ 29.95
Zydeco (1984) [dvd]   Nick Spitzer $ 29.95
 
Films by Les Blank in Video - VHS format - Most VHS TAPES 40% OFF As Marked - Only While Available
      for other videos distributed by Flower Films please scroll down
Price
The Arch [vhs]   (1969) $ 17.97 29.95
A Blank Buffet [vhs]   (1988) $ 17.97 29.95
Burden of Dreams [vhs]   (1982) $ 17.97 29.95
Christopher Tree [vhs]   (1982) $ 11.97 19.95
Chulas Fronteras [vhs]   (1982) $ 17.97 29.95
Del Mero Corazon [vhs]   (1979) $ 17.97 29.95
Dizzy Gillespie [vhs]   (1965) $ 17.97 29.95
Dry Wood [vhs]   (1973) $ 17.97 29.95
Huey Lewis and the News: Be-FORE! [vhs]   (1984) $ 17.97 29.95
Hot Pepper [vhs]   (1973) $ 17.97 29.95
Innocents Abroad [vhs]   (1991) $ 17.97 29.95
J'ai Été Au Bal / I Went to the Dance [vhs]   (1989) $ 17.97 29.95
Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge [vhs]   (1991) $ 11.97 19.95
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists [vhs]   (1994) $ 17.97 29.95
Marc & Ann [vhs]   (1991) $ 17.97 29.95
My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge [vhs]   (1994) $ 17.97 29.95
Puamana [vhs]   (1991) $ 17.97 29.95
Spend It All [vhs]   (1971) $ 17.97 29.95
Strike! & And Freedom Came!? [vhs]   (1961, 1962) $ 11.97 19.95
Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella [vhs]   (1983) $ 17.97 29.95
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe [vhs]   (1979) $ 17.97 29.95
Yum, Yum, Yum! [vhs]   (1990) $ 17.97 29.95
Ziveli! Medicine for the Heart [vhs]   (1987) $ 17.97 29.95

Other Videos - VHS format Distributed by Flower Films:       Many VHS TAPES 40% OFF As Marked - Only While Available		  
Title   Producer/Director   Price
Cajun Visits [vhs]   Yasha Aginsky $ 29.95
Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco (1987) [vhs]   Chris Strachwitz $ 17.97 29.95
Driving the Dream (1998) [vhs]   Harrod Blank $ 29.95
In the Land of the Owl Turds (1987) [vhs]   Harrod Blank $ 17.97 29.95
Music of the Spirits (1989) [vhs]   Ron and Ophera Hallis $ 29.95
Photo Album (1985) [vhs]   Enrique Oliver $ 19.95
Short Films of Pascal Aubier (1986) [vhs]   Pascal Aubier $ 29.95
Stoney Knows How (1980) [vhs]   Alan Govenar and Bruce Lane $ 17.97 29.95
The Story of Anna O(1979) [vhs]   Terrell Seltzer $ 29.95
Tree of Life (1973) [vhs]   Bruce "Pacho" Lane $ 17.97 29.95
Turumba (1983) [vhs]   Kidlat Tahimik $ 17.97 29.95
Wild Wheels (1992) [vhs]   Harrod Blank $ 17.97 29.95
Zydeco (1984) [vhs]   Nick Spitzer $ 17.97 29.95
 
Tee Shirts:

All T-shirts are three to six color, doubleweight, and hand-screened (unless otherwise specified). All Tee-shirts are 100% cotton, preshrunk and available in the following sizes:

Small (S),Medium (M), Large (L), and Extra-Large (XL).

Prices:   S, M, L, XL: $15.00     XXL: $17.00 available in certain styles only

Selected sweatshirts are available; please inquire.

IMPORTANT! We don't always have all sizes in all colors! - In addition we may have combinations not listed below.
Please list preferences for ALL acceptable colors/sizes in Box #6:"Special instructions and additional information", below.

  Always For Pleasure

white, ecru, pink 		Small
Medium
Large
X-Large
XX-Large (white only)
 
  Always For Pleasure
(Handpainted)
$25.00

black, navy 		Small
Medium
Large
XX-Large
 
  The Blues Accordin'to Lightnin' Hopkins

white only (6-color design) 		Small
Medium
Large
X-Large
 
  Burden of Dreams

front: Burden of Dreams logo;
back: "The Making of Fitzcarraldo," in French.
black, navy 		Small
Medium (Black only)
Large
X-Large
XX-Large
 
  Flower Films: 25th Anniversary

white only (6-color design) 		Small
Medium
Large
X-Large
 
  Gap-Toothed Women

 
white, black, ecru, grey in S, M, L sizes
 		Small
Medium
Large
 
  Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers

blue, beige, gray, red, tan, yellow in S size
beige, shamrock green, red, yellow in M size
black in S, L, XLand XXL sizes
 Small
Medium
Large
X-Large
XX-Large
 
 
  Children's Garlic T-Shirt

red, yellow, blue 		Extra-small(2-4)
Small (6-8)
Medium(10-12)
Large (14-16)
 
  In Heaven There Is No Beer?

white, red ; and also a French Cut in white, red 		Small
Medium
 
  In the Land of the Owl Turds

Colors: white, ecru, grey 		Small
Medium
Large
 
  Polka Til You Puke

white only (design is salmon, green& black)
Single weight		 Small
Medium
 
  Sprout Wings and Fly

front: Tommy Jarrell;
back:"I eat when I'm hungry,
I drink when I'm dry,
If I get to feelin' much better,
I'm gonna sprout wings and fly."
 
white, tan, gold in S, M, L sizes
white only for Youth Large, & X Large sizes 		Youth Large
Small
Medium
Large
X-Large
 
  Yum Yum Yum!

white only (6-color design) 		Small
Medium
Large
X-Large
XX-Large
 

Posters
Price
Always For Pleasure   (18 x 24)
silkscreend, signed, limited edition! 		$ 200.00
Burden of Dreams   (18 x 24, color.) $ 7.00
Gap-Toothed Women   (17 x 22, color.) $ 7.00
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers   (17 x 22, color.) $ 7.00
In Heaven There Is No Beer?   (20 x 27, color.) $ 7.00
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists   (9 x 24, black & white) $ 7.00
 

Books
Price
Burden of Dreams - paperback   (Michael Goodwin)
paperback 		$ 15.00
Burden of Dreams - hardback   (Michael Goodwin)
hardback 		$ 25.00
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People   (Ann Allen Savoy)
paperback 		$ 39.95
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People   (Ann Allen Savoy)
hardcover - out of print 		$ 99.99
Fitzcarraldo   (Werner Herzog) $ 8.00
A Joyful Noise:
A Celebration of New Orleans Music 		  (Michael P. Smith)
hardcover - out of print 		$ 39.95
Spirit World   (Michael P. Smith) $ 15.00
Talking Feet:
Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap 		  (Mike Seeger with Ruth Pershing) $ 13.00
Art Cars   (Harrod Blank) $ 18.95
Wild Wheels   (Harrod Blank) $ 18.95
Wild Wheels (out of print hard cover)   (Harrod Blank) $ 40.00

Postcards
All postcards are 25¢ each and are available for purchase only when purchasing other items.
Shipping is $1 per card.
Always For Pleasure
The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins
Burden of Dreams
Flower Films: 25th Anniversary
Gap-Toothed Women
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
In Heaven There Is No Beer?
In the Land of the Owl Turds
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists
Blue Cowboy
Red Cowboy
Andy Warhol Can't Paint
Sprout Wings and Fly
Yum, Yum, Yum!
Wild Wheels
 
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Shipping charges: $5.00 for the first item and $1.00 for each subsequent item. Allow 1-2 weeks.
 
Overseas : Overseas shipping for DVDs is same as domestic and will come by air. Unless noted, we ship all videos in NTSC format and by surface, for the same price as above. Allow 4-6 weeks.
 
For heavier items such as books, posters and Tee shirts, we will need to charge extra. If time is not pressing, we can ship by surface, which could take 4-6 weeks. Please specify surface or air for all heavier items.
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