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Woodstock: An Inside Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and Defined a Generation
Woodstock: An Inside Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and Defined a Generation
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Author: Edited by Dale Bell Foreword by: Martin Scorsese Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Format: Softcover # of Pages: 300 Pub. Date: 1999 ISBN-10: 094118871X ISBN-13: 9780941188715
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About
the Book:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited
number of copies are still available.
It was the event that defined a generation. During the Summer of
1969, the Vietnam War was raging, Muhammad Ali had been stripped of
his boxing crown, and more than 400,000 people descended on an
obscure patch of earth in upstate New York, where an event called
Woodstock would change the world: three days of peace and music. This unique book is a collection of remembrances and
perceptions from the filmmakers, performers and festival producers
who created the 1971 Academy Award-winning documentary film, Woodstock: The Movie, the country's top-grossing documentary. Like the concert it chronicled, the film, with its
footage taken among the massive crowd, captured the spirit of the
music love-in in all its muddy glory. Featuring some of the greatest
musicians of the era; over three days, 32 acts performed onstage, among them Joan Baez, Santana, the Grateful
Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family
Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, The Band, Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young, and Jimi Hendrix.
Dale Bell was at Woodstock. His purpose was not to
listen to some of the greatest names of American music. His job was
to make a movie. Bell was 31 years old and a multifaceted producer
for New York's National Educational Television. He was in Woodstock
because the film's director asked him to be "the guy to organize the
shoot". He rallied the fifteen camera crews in less than a week including a young Martin Scorsese, who went on to make Raging Bull, Taxi
Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Kundun, as an assistant director. They
shot 175 hours of film, which would have to be cut to four hours or
less. Bell was one of the reasons the documentary did not look like a
documentary. Dale Bell is also author of a book about the
film's making and the four days he believes changed the world.
The filmmakers who worked on this documentary, a "group of
long-haired freaks clad in bell-bottom jeans," as the author
puts it, set out to record the performances using the largest, most
sophisticated film unit ever assembled at the time. What they came up
with influenced the future of music documentaries and videos, and
turned what was a US phenomenon into a worldwide event.
This unique book is a collection of remembrances and insights,
Rashomon-style, from the people who made it happen. Includes
contributions from crew members such as director Mike Wadleigh
and acclaimed editor Thelma Schoonmaker (best known for her
work with Martin Scorsese), who garnered her first Academy
Award nomination for her work on the film. Other contributors
include: Country Joe McDonald, Joe Cocker, Arlo
Guthrie, Santana drummer Mike Shrieve, TV czar Merv
Griffin (credited as "the Godfather of Woodstock"), and
many others.
What people say:
"When I look back at the
second half of the '60s, I realize it is the only time I have ever
heard people talk about love in serious terms, as a force to combat
greed, hate, and violence." — Martin Scorsese from
the Forward
About the Author:
Dale Bell served as associate producer of the Woodstock
film crew, and is credited with heroic efforts in getting film stock
and related supplies to the festival site. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he managed, produced, and directed 24 plays over three seasons of summer stock. His film production career in public television began in early 1964, prior to the formation of PBS. An Oscar-winning filmmaker
who has produced documentaries and cable programs throughout the
world, his diverse broadcast and film projects have won the Academy Award (Woodstock), the Peabody, 2 Emmys, 4 BAFTAs, and two Christophers. His work has been seen on NET, PBS, BBC, A&E, Discovery, TBS, ABC, NBC, and the History Channel.
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