This is the music film for Bob Dylan's great song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues," from the great Bringing It All Back Home album (the one that has the cover of the young lady in red stretched out on the couch, behind Dylan).
If you watch the video, you probably will mostly focus on Dylan holding the cue cards, but the guy on the left, who can be seen gesturing and talking, and who walks across the scene with his cane at the end, is Allen Ginsberg, the famous poet.
As Eric Wagner has pointed out, today is Ginsberg's centennial, i.e. he was born on June 3, 1926.
In his book Coincidance, Robert Anton Wilson writes about Ginsberg in the piece "The Poet As Defense Early Warning Radar System." RAW refers to Ginsberg as "our major living American poet."
Ginsberg has a long Wikipedia biography. Here is the Allen Ginsberg Trust website. You can also see the calendar of Ginsberg centennial events, one is tonight in New York City, but there's stuff all over the world.
Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl," and (in the comments) Van Scott mentioned in yesterday's post reading in April Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems.
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