Monterey Pop
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Monterey Pop movie poster
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| Directed by | D. A. Pennebaker |
| Produced by |
John Phillips Lou Adler |
| Starring |
The Mamas & the Papas Canned Heat Simon & Garfunkel Hugh Masekela Jefferson Airplane Big Brother and the Holding Company The Animals The Who Country Joe and the Fish Otis Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience Ravi Shankar |
| Edited by | Nina Schulman |
| Distributed by | Leacock Pennebaker |
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Running time
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79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Monterey Pop is a 1968 concert 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 illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, The Mamas & the Papas, The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, whose namesake set his guitar on fire, broke it on the stage, then threw the neck of his guitar in the crowd at the end of "Wild Thing".
Songs featured in the film, in order of appearance:
* = Studio version, played over film footage of pre-concert activity.
The order of performances in the film was rearranged from the order of appearance at the festival. Additionally many artists who appeared at the festival were not included in the original cut of the film.
Monterey Pop was shot on 16mm film blown up to 35mm for theatrical release. Director D. A. Pennebaker said he recorded the audio on a professional 8-channel reel-to-reel recorder borrowed from The Beach Boys. The movie's theatrical released used a four-channel soundtrack that included two to three minutes of rudimentary surround sound. Dolby noise reduction was added in 1978 when fresh prints of the film were struck.
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