Happy 47th Anniversary to the Monterey Pop International Music Festival
Original pins from the 1967 DONT LOOK BACK theatrical release. Available on our Kickstarter until May 22
Happy Birthday, Duke Ellington!
Senator Henry Scoop Jackson and James R. Schlesinger during The Energy War. (Photo Credit: Rich Frishman).
“When there was no possibility of Chris and I getting access to the newly formed Energy Department or the Senate cloak room with its speaker system in order to record the battle that was going on over Carter’s Energy War, Jim Schlesingertook us there in his limo. He truly helped make our five hour ENERGY WAR film for PBS and we really loved him even though in the beginning he called us snoops.” - D A Pennebaker
Janis Joplin, taken from Pennebaker’s film Comin’ Home featuring her and Big Brother and the Holding Company performing at the Generation Club at a memorial for Martin Luther King, recording their first major album, “Cheap Thrills” and at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival performing their legendary “Ball and Chain.”
From Town Bloody Hall, Jill Johnston and Germaine Greer
To celebrate women’s history month, a few photos from the women’s lib. debate featured in Town Bloody Hall (Diana Trilling, Germaine Greer, Norman Mailer, and Jacqueline Ceballos)
Tom Wilson might be the “the greatest producer you’ve never heard of.” He worked with Simon and Garfunkel, The Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa, and “was instrumental in helping Bob Dylan ‘go electric’ on his 1965 album, Bringing It All Back Home.”
Our film “65 Revisited” (companion disk in the “Dont Look Back” box set) includes a scene of Wilson listening to Dylan play an early version of “I’ll Keep It With Mine.”
Timothy Leary during his wedding to Nena Von Schlebrugge. Millbrook, NY 1966. From Pennebaker’s film You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You. (Photo Credit: Nick Proferes)
Rip Torn getting arrested after Jefferson Airplane’s 1PM rooftop performance. New York City 1968. (Photo Credit: Kate Taylor)