A Bob Dylan Song, a video based on the words and music of Bob Dylan’s “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest” ©Bob Dylan 1967, which was released on the “John Wesley Harding” album on the Columbia Records label in 1968. The video was made of 42 miniature paintings initially painted in the Fall of 1976 following Freeman’s attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was first shown in his “Postively 4th Street” in the East Village shortly after finishing the painted works

The video was initially shot on 16mm film by Bob Achs, and edited by Bill Daughton for a budget of around $2,000, or a little more than 25% of the National Endowment Funds that paid for the film’s production. It was later bumped up to VHS 1/2″ videotape. The film was digitized in 2023 direct from film. Though the original film had Dylan’s recording, the digitized version was first produced as a silent video with studio re-recording of the film’s soundtrack by Freeman and his robot buddies, dubbed The Nudds… It is for this reason that it garnered the version number as v.3, the first being the original 16mm film with sound, and the second version being the now forever-lost VHS 1/2″ videotape. As cautioned by Dylan in the lyrics , the admonishment “Don’t go mistaking paradise for that home across the road” should be unnecessary.