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Rarely seen archival footage by filmmaker Jonas Mekas captures John Lennon and Yoko Ono's early years in Greenwich Village - surrounded by New York City staples such as Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg.

Allen Ginsberg, the visionary poet and founding father of the Beat generation inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the 20th century with groundbreaking poems such as "Howl" and "Kaddish."

In the midst of post-war conservatism, Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs had become disenchanted and were experimenting with new forms of communication.