Focus on the 60s - Entertainment. Movie premieres, Beatles, Elvis Presley, actors, commercials, folk singers, television violence, etc.
DO NOT USE Opening title & Stills
TLS Moulin Rouge theater with neon windmill, night; MS actors WARREN BEATTY and FAYE DUNAWAY arriving at premiere of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde"; MS still photographers taking pix.
B&W newsreel of premiere of Charlie Chaplin's "A Countess from Hong Kong": MS Sutton theater marquee advertising film; MCU actor HENRY FONDA talking with man; MS comedian RED BUTTONS: CU actress ANGIE DICKINSON; BOBBY DARIN; others unidentified.
(B&W) Great CU/MSs screaming teenage Beatles fans, mostly white girls; Beatlemania zealousness at its finest. CU Beatle JOHN LENNON explaining to the press the reasoning behind his infamous "more popular than Jesus" quote, saying that the quote was taken wrong, that he would have gotten away with it if he had said television was more popular than Jesus.
MSs wedding reception of PRESCILLA BEAULIEU and ELVIS PRESLEY.
MSs entertainer BOB HOPE dancing with JOEY HEATHERTON at a USO function in Vietnam; TLS/MSs crowds of GIs watching, cheering; MS three Vietnamese women in slinky matching outfits dancing like go-go girls.
MS/CUs NANCY REAGAN and RONALD REAGAN arriving at polling place, voting in the 1966 California gubernatorial election.
(Color) Sideview MS folk singer JOAN BAEZ performing, night.
TLSs anti-war protesters marching with banners, placards. MCU folk singer PHIL OCHS performing for protesters in park.
Outdoor festival rock concert: MS drummer & guitarist performing; great MSs hippies & yippies & countercultural freaks dancing, having a good time, letting their hair hang.
DO NOT USE CU details of psychedelic rock poster artwork, some with artists Donovan, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin.
MS go-go girl dancing on stage in a nightclub, oil projector showing trippy, psychedelic lights on her body.
(Color) Bisodol antacid TV commercial.
Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in a funny TV PSA for seatbelts.
Comical MSs President RICHARD M. NIXON between takes for a campaign ad (slate in face).
MSs of the U.S.S. Pueblo Crew held captive by the North Koreans; TLS Pueblo crew playing basketball. Cut to montage of international violence broadcast on network news: TLS Chicago police beating protesters during Democratic National Convention; TLS A-1 Skyraider planes dropping napalm bombs in Vietnam; MS infantry soldier firing M-60 machine gun; etc. MS ABC network news chief testifying to a Senate Sub-Committee in 1969 about violence on TV: "We have a continuing obligation to reflect accurately & impartially the the world around us. We can do no less. We must tell it and we must show it... To close our eyes to the realities of our time & attempt to substitute a bland & polyanna view in our news would bethe greatest disservice we coul render to the American public."