Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is a 38-minute short film by Kenneth Anger, filmed in 1954.
Anger created two other versions of this film in 1966 and the late 1970s.
According to him, the film takes the name "pleasure dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's atmospheric poem "Kubla Khan".
Anger was inspired to make the film after attending a Halloween party called "Come as your Madness".
The film has gained cult film status.
Earlier prints of the film had sequences that were meant to be projected on three different screens, an idea inspired in part by Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927 film).
The three-screen version was shown at the Brussels World's Fair.
Anger subsequently re-edited the film to layer the images.
The film (primarily in the second or third version) was often shown in American universities and art galleries during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The original edition soundtrack is a complete performance of "Glagolitic Mass" by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854–1928).
In 1966, a re-edited version known as 'The Sacred Mushroom Edition' was made available.
In the late 1970s, a third revision was made, which was 'The Sacred Mushroom Edition' re-edited to fit the Electric Light Orchestra album "Eldorado", omitting only "Illusions in G Major", a blues-rock tune that Anger felt did not fit the mood of the film.
The differences in the visuals of the 1954 original and the two revisions are minor.
An early version—shown only once on German television in the early 1980s, and held to this day by NDR—includes an additional three minutes at the beginning, including a reading of the poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The film reflects Anger's deep interest in Thelema, the philosophy of Aleister Crowley and his followers, as indicated by Marjorie Cameron's role as "The Scarlet Woman" (an honorific Crowley bestowed on certain of his important magical partners).
Crowley's concept of a ritual masquerade party where attendees dress as gods and goddesses served as a direct inspiration for the film.
The film uses some footage of the Hell sequence from the 1911 Italian silent film "L'Inferno".
Near the end, scenes from Anger's earlier film "Puce Moment" are interpolated into the layered images and faces.
Samson De Brier
Samson De Brier( March 18, 1909 – April 1, 1995) was an actor and occultist, best known for hosting a popular Hollywood salon during the fifties and sixties, and for appearing in the 1954 underground film" Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome".
Born in China, De Brier grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In 1922, while visiting Hollywood, he was given a bit part in the silent film" Salomé".
He also visited Paris as a teenager, and claimed to have met André Gide and Gertrude Stein, among others.
He later claimed to have been a lover of Gide, but this has not been substantiated.
De Brier moved to Los Angeles in 1941.
In the fifties he began hosting a regular salon at his Barton Avenue home.
It flourished for many years and was frequented by artists, writers, actors, filmmakers, and occultists.
Visitors were attracted by De Brier's knowledge of the occult( he is said to have practiced witchcraft), his store of Hollywood lore, and his collections of movie memorabilia and objets d'art.
Among those who attended De Brier's salon were author Anaïs Nin, filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, actors Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, and occultists Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron and Anton LaVey.
In 1954 De Brier played several roles, including the principal role, in Anger's" Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome", which was filmed at his home.
Harrington, Nin and Cameron also appeared in the film.
He died in Los Angeles, California.
His papers are housed at the ONE National Gay& Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries.
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Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček (baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher.
He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style.
Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research.
While his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák, his later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera "Jenůfa", which was premiered in 1904 in Brno.
The success of "Jenůfa" (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages.
Janáček's later works are his most celebrated.
They include operas such as "Káťa Kabanová" and "The Cunning Little Vixen", the Sinfonietta, the "Glagolitic Mass", the rhapsody "Taras Bulba", two string quartets, and other chamber works.
Along with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, he is considered one of the most important Czech composers.

Question: What is the date of death of the composer of film Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome?
Answer: 12 August 1928