It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

[Bekah]

I'll agree with this - the issues of the times were there in 1967 and  
everything that came down in  1969 was a DIRECT result of it.  But it  
was different after Altamont (12/67) and the Dem National Convention  
(1968 - Yippies), the Weathermen  and Manson ( summer '69) and so on.

Bekah

On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> Realizing that my response to Bekah might seem OTT, here's some  
> additional information of "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today." The  
> Youtube bits are the first half of the show. PBS broadcast the show  
> in the U.S. in 1987. There's more material from the interviews with  
> Paul, George, Ginsberg, Derek Taylor, et. al. Malcolm McDowell is  
> the narrator, here's more info from IMBd:
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093285/fullcredits#cast
>
> While it is true that '67 was different from '69, the documentary  
> shows how many of the issues and figureheads we think of as "1969"  
> emerged in 1967. There was an extended edit of IWTYAT broadcast on  
> cable in the late 80's. Unfortunately, the program was never  
> officially issued as a home video. I've taped it myself and watched  
> it many times but that tape [and the betamax I recorded it on are  
> long gone. There are bootleg copies floating around, if you're  
> willing to track down that sort of thing.
>
> I suppose one of the things that makes IWTYAT related to Vineland,  
> is its retrospective look at the hippie/yippie era from the vantage  
> point of "The New Age." In a way, this documentary is as much of a  
> period piece as the era it's discussing.