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5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16<br />
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Format: PAL<br />
Ratio: 4:3<br />
Video: 4600 kbps (average bitrate)<br />
Audio: AC3<br />
Length: 47 min.<br />
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Lineage: mpg from the original digital DVB-S stream, NO re-encoding (snatched from yeeshkul tracker) > adding of chapters and a simple menu with DVD-lab Pro 2 > you<br />
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This is what you get:<br />
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1. "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min.<br />
Director and writer: Jerry Abrams; music: Blue Cheer (unreleased track)<br />
Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued with peace, love and euphoria. Set to hard rock such as only San Francisco blues can produce. "Be-In" features footage of Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, Michael McClure, Lenore Kandel and The Grateful Dead.<br />
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2. "Beatles Electronique" USA 1966-69, 3 min.<br />
Directors and writers: Nam June Paik, Jud Yalkut; music: Kenneth Lerner (unreleased)<br />
"Beatles Electronique" is a mesmerizing improvisation that reveals Paik's early engagement with the manipulation of pop cultural material. <br />
3. "San Francisco" Great Britain 1967/68, 15 min.<br />
Director and writer: Anthony Stern; music: Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (unreleased version, recorded at Thompson<br />
Private Recording Studios on 31 October 1966 (or there about))<br />
Anthony Stern's "San Francisco" could be described as a city film and allied with Jean Vigo's "A Propos de Nice" (France, 1930) and Walther Ruttman's "Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt" (Berlin: Symphony of a City, Germany, 1927). (...) <br />
4. "Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable" USA/Great Britain 1967, 12 min.<br />
Director and writer: Ronald Nameth; music: The Velvet Underground (unreleased live versions)<br />
5. "Eyetoon" USA 1967/68, 8 min.<br />
Director and writer: Jerry Abrams; music: David Litwin, Different Fur Trading Co (unreleased)<br />
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Authored & seeded by surfling on PLG august 2007.<br />
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