Robert Frank's film C'est vrai! (One Hour) is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan's Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July 1990, the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. It appears to be a document of a journey but is also a kind of stream of consciousness retracing the same patterns and spaces. This book is a reprint of a little-known Frank publication first issued by Hanuman Books in 1992. It is a tiny book, comprising mainly a transcription of the dialogue heard (over 74 pages), but also two pages of credits: half a dozen production or crew workers and 27 actors. Plus an acknowledgement that the film has a script (by Frank and his assistant, Michal Rovner), that a conversation heard in a diner is written by Mika Moses, and that the lines of Peter Orlovsky (intercepted by Frank roughly halfway through the hour, in front of the Angelika Cinema on houston Street) - who gradually wrests the film's apparent center away from O'Connor - are total improvisation. Unravelling the apparent documentary nature of the film, this book is published as a part of Steidl's long term publishing program to re-issue all Robert Franks previously published and unseen works. The film C'est Vrai (One Hour) will be published as a DVD as part of Robert Frank: The Complete Film Works, the first volume of which is published this season. For more than 50 years, Robert Frank has repeatedly broken accepted rules and confronted well-worn conventions to expand the expressive potential of the photographic arts. Best known for his seminal book, The Americans and his avant-garde film Pull My Daisy, Frank pioneered a revolutionary approach to photography and filmmaking that combined autobiography, poetry, and emotion with the logic of gritty realism. His portrayal of the tension between the personal and universal - the internal...