ALL MOD AND POP!!! •TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON (1967), •FANFARE SHORTS (c. 1965),  •OPUS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ART & DESIGN  (1967), •THE SIXTIES (1970), •ANATOMY OF VIOLENCE (1967), •TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON (1967)

 

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                           DECEMBER

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•FANFARE SHORTS (c. 1965),

A showreel anthology of animated advertisements and public service films from the early to mid 1960's. Zippy and sophisticated animation at the service of commerce and public education. These cartoons provide a facinating insight into the social and cultural mores of '60s Australia. 9 mins. ALC

 

•OPUS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ART & DESIGN  (1967),

Miniröcke machten Mary Quant bekannt und wohlhabend.

Somewhat akin to TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON (1967), "A mod mosaic of the work of contemporary British artists, architects, composers, designers, sculptors & actors. Includes, besides sculpture, architecture & theatre, youth fashions, action painting, modern jewelry, ballet. Background sound ranges from musical to cacophonous!" (from the "Educational Film Locator"). It's beautiful to eye and ear alike; Tristram Cary provides some electronic audio, (he's got soundtracking credits on the earliest Dr Whos); Peter Brooks filming Marat/Sade. An impressionistic survey of the arts in Britain ranging from sculptors and painters at work to a display of Mary Quant fashions and vistas of modern architecture. The theatre is represented by excerpts from three plays staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and there is a sequence from a new ballet by Sir Frederick Ashton. Some of the work of Henry Moore is seen as well as paintings by Francis Bacon. Includes a brief appearance by a very young Googie Withers. Plus a whole bunch else! A hoot. Prod Co: British Information Services. Prod: James Archibald. Dir: Don Levy. 29 mins. ALC

 

•THE SIXTIES (1970),

Charles Braverman presents a collage of the events and personalities of the 1960s, both political and social. Including Brother Jack at the Berlin Wall, Martin Luther King on racism, some Vietnam demonstrations and, of course, The Beatles. Dir: Charles Braverman. 15 mins. ALC

 

•ANATOMY OF VIOLENCE (1967),

Amerikans are the global experts on violence, and here's four freaks-of-the-first-order to prove it! Allen Ginsberg (before he completely fried his brain with a popular chemical of the day), Paul Goodman (very cool cat, anarchist egghead), Herbert Marcuse (post-Wilhelm Reich egghead) and popular favourite, Black Panthers co-founder, Stokely Charmicheal!

This is the celluloid documentation of RD Laing's Dialectics of Violence Conference of 1967. Sculptors & actors. Includes - besides sculpture - architecture & theatre, youth fashions, action painting, modern jewelry, ballet. Background sound ranges from musical to cacophonous! ( - from the "Educational Film Locator"). This film presents several speeches on the relationship of violence to social reform. The speakers who took part in a Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, held in London and sponsored by the Institute of Phenomenological Studies include: Allen Ginsberg (poet), Paul Goodman (editor of "Liberation" magazine), Herbert Marcuse (Professor of Philosophy, University of California) and Stokely Carmichael (former Chairman Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee), and others. Following the speeches, two social scientists evaluated the conference.  Prod Co: National Education Television Science. Prod/Dir: Peter Davis. 28 mins. ALC

 

(Shorts notes excerpts: acknowledgement Jim Knox)

 

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•TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON (1967), 

 Peter Whitehead's "pop concerto for film", which features the music of Pink Floyd, examines various aspects of Swinging London "of the sixties". Interviews include VANESSA REDGRAVE, MICK JAGGER, JULIE CHRISTIE, MICHAEL CAINE and painter DAVID HOCKNEY.

This 1967 documentary of the London scene in the swingingbv'60s is a visual treat for Mod enthusiasts everywhere. Featuring a Who'sWho of the scene, TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON is a visual patchwork of '60s culture, seen through the eyes of the people leading it. MICK JAGGER, MICHAEL CAINE, VANESSA REDGRAVE, LEE MARVIN, EDNA O'BRIEN, ALLEN GINSBERG, and JULIE CHRISTIE are all here, alongside counter-culture artists and other musicians who helped shape their generation, and future ones to come.

Most of the musical content comes in the form of extremely rare concert footage and inside-studio recording sessions, while other segments include candid interviews, strange political demonstration footage, and even a segment on the radical art of body painting! Yes, politics and sex are on the palette here as the psychedelic soundtrack from a very young Pink Floyd, swirls and pushes the film on towards the climax of it's brisk 70 minute running time.

Languishing in distribution-limbo for too long, TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON is a fitting testimonial to the changing times in the mid-60's and one that should be able to live on in the years to come for the young and old to look back on and enjoy.

Prod Co: Lorrimer Films Ltd. Producer, director, photograher, editor, Peter Whitehead. 69 mins. NFVLS.