Counter Culture Volume II
- Synopsis
- Two more films on the 1960’s youth movemement in the USA.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Year of release
- 2006
- Year of production
- 1968 1977
- Subjects
- Politics & government; Sociology
- Keywords
- police; protest demonstrations; public order; United States of America; counter-culture; San Francisco
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0
- Price
- $9.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 102 minutes
- Year
- 2006
Sections
- Title
- San Francisco Good Times
- Synopsis
- As the war in Vietnam dragged on and Richard Nixon was elected to his first term as President, a group of people in San Francisco began publishing an "underground" newspaper. The paper was called the San Francisco Good Times in the belief that out of the ferment of dissent a new community based on new ways of living and cooperation was taking shape. The paper was to be the voice of this community and a motive force in its creation. This film is a chronicle of people who worked on the paper and events they lived through and covered. The people who worked together to produce the paper went on to form a commune. In November 1972 the Good Times commune stopped publishing the newspaper.
Highlights include a Black Panther demonstration in support of Huey Newton; stills of public nudity and marijuana smoking; an interview with Bill Graham; outtake from the song "Sweet Marijuana"; Pete Townsend of "The Who" interview; the "People’s Park" land squatting experiment that ended in armed confrontation; herbiculture; astrological column written by The Berkeley Astrology Guild; performance outtakes from The Floating Lotus Opera Company; interview with Timothy Leary; the formation of the Good Times commune, where it is learned that members ate the placenta of a child born to the commune; San Francisco street life and happenings; members of Good Times arrested and put in prison. - Duration
- 57 mins
- Title
- Seasons Change, The
- Synopsis
- A film document by the American Civil Liberties Union and The National Mobilization To End The War In Vietnam detailing the truth about what a federal court judge ruled was "a police riot" in the city of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Includes accounts of perjured testimony by a policeman regarding innocent arrested citizens; harrassment of delegates by policemen; racially motivated police brutality; accounts by Rennie Davis, leader of the National Mobilization Committee; an account by poet Allen Ginsberg; an account by Tom Hayden, leader of the Students For A Democratic Society; acts of random and unprovoked violence by the police in bars, hotels and upon cripples; accounts by George Yumich, an aide to Senator McCarthy, and McCarthy speech writer Paul Gorman; CBS news coverage outtakes including convention footage, the roughing-up of Dan Rather on the convention floor during a broadcast, anchoring and interviews by Walter Cronkheit; an account by comedian and political activist Dick Gregory; National Guard armed confrontation with a middle aged woman trying to drive protestors to safety; police beating of newsmen covering the convention; an account by British Parliament member Anna Kerr who was an innocent bystander who was brutalized, arrested and maced before TV cameras; various accounts by Mayor Daley; the violent assaults upon demonstrators in Lincoln Park and in front of the convention center.
- Duration
- 45 mins
Distributor
- Name
MediaOutlet.com
- service@prosperohouse.com
- Web
- http://www.mediaoutlet.com/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- PO Box 1432
Bayonne
NJ 07002
USA - Notes
- Specialises in US archival moving image and sound material, particularly vintage radio and public service films and broadcasts that have been digitally restored. Formerly known as Earthstation.com. Sale on multi-region DVD or CD.
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