Monterey Pop
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Monterey Pop is a 1968 film by D.A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles; the painter Brice Marden has an "assistant camera" credit, and Bob Neuwirth, who figured prominently in Pennebaker's Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back, acted as stage manager. Titles for the film were by the artist/cartoonist Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, The Who (destroying their instruments at the end of "My Generation") and Jimi Hendrix, setting his guitar on fire during "Wild Thing."
-->In 2002, Monterey Pop was (re-)released on DVD as part of a boxed set, The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, that also includes Pennebaker's short films Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) and Shake! Otis at Monterey (1986), as well as a two hours of outtake performances, including some by bands not seen in the original film.
Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave director, was so taken by the performances by Jefferson Airplane in this film that when later in 1968, in conjunction with Pennebaker and Leacock, he set out to make a (never finished) film called "One A.M." (for "One American Movie"), he shot a sequence of the Airplane playing at high noon on a business day on the roof of a New York hotel across the street from the Leacock Pennebaker offices, with the tower of Rockefeller Center in the background. Attracted by the extremely high volume of the music, the police arrived and put an end to the shooting. This incident inspired other bands, notably the Beatles, to mount their own rooftop performances.
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