In the film, Dylan holds up for the audience, with words from the song. While staring at the camera, he flips the cards as the song plays. There are intentional errors throughout the video, for instance when the In addition to the Savoy Hotel video, two alternate videos were shot: one in a park where Dylan and Ginsberg are joined by a third man, and another shot on the roof of an unknown building (possibly the Savoy Hotel).
A montage of the videos can be seen in The "Subterranean Homesick Blues" music video and its concepts have been popularly imitated by a number of artists. Influenced tune, and its video duplicated the format of the Dylan video, even in its use of apparently deliberate errors.
One card shown during the song is not a palindrome, as it reads "Harmonica Solo", similar to INXS' "Sax Solo". Earlier on, he parodied a segment from INXS' "Mediate" tells Juliet ( ) that he is in love with her, by holding up cards with messages on them. features standing motionless in an alleyway, showing and dropping cue cards that are blank, while the band's singer energetically dances to the left of him.
Warhol directed the video in New York's , although the director credit is given to a pseudonym.
