Fifty years ago, I convinced two friends to take a short drive with me to upstate New York to attend a rock concert. That rock concert was called "Woodstock" and the rest is history.
I took my Kodak Super 8 movie camera along for the ride and shot a roll of film. Actually, I only shot a half roll of film that weekend, but about six weeks later, I made the trip a second time and shot the rest of the roll.
After the film was developed, I cut and spliced the film to compare scenes of Woodstock during and six weeks after the event.
I recently digitized the film and uploaded it to YouTube where you can see for yourself what I saw at Yasgur's farm in 1969.
Enjoy!
Seriously? You were there? I'm so jealous. If I had a time machine...
ReplyDeleteI saw the Saturday line-up, but came down with flu-like symptoms and missed the Sunday show. So I saw The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Grateful Dead, John Sebastian, Mountain, Canned Heat and Country Joe McDonald. I was very ill for about five days after returning home.
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I have some friends that actually went to Woodstock. They didn't film it, but they took lots of photos. If everybody who says they went actually was there, the attendance would have been about 2 million! I highly recommend "Woodstock, Three Days That Defined a Generation". We saw it in June at my film screening group, Cinema Sunday at the Charles.The audience uniformly loved it. The film deals with the actual festival from the original idea to the final product with the actual music being a small part of it.It's currently screening on the PBS American Experience website https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/woodstock/
ReplyDeleteAng Lee did a lovely film in 2009 called "Taking Woodstock", which is also about putting the festival together. One of the featured actors, Liev Schreiber, plays a transgender woman who does security for the organizers.
Some of my friends were there- I was at Army Camp. I am jealous. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow. Living history, Impressive that you had the wherewithal 50 years ago to record that.
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But I did not have the wherewithal to film myself for my friends at that event! LOL
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