Have a Psychedelic Summer 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love Film Festival
Friday - Sunday August 3rd - 5th
Created by Dennis Nyback At the Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton Street 
Portland, Oregon 97202
503 238 8899

It was forty years ago that young people from around the United States flocked to the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco for the Summer of Love. Media coverage took what had been brewing in Haight-Ashbury for a couple of years and exposed Hippies to the national audience.  The Summer of Love lasted  only that one summer, but flower children returning to their homes spread the hippie counterculture across the nation. Two years later Woodstock helped define the generation and Altamont helped end it. 

Friday - Sunday August 3, 4 and 5 at 7:00   THE HIPPIE TEMPTATION  A CBS Special Report with Harry Reasoner. This report took the avuncular Mr. Reasoner to Haight-Ashbury to report to the nation just what was going on and he wasn't happy with what he saw.  The report is filled with wonderful footage of the psychedelic scene with the high point being Mr. Reasoner's visit to the Grateful Dead house.  There he asks the members of the band if they use drugs. They happily admit they do. 

Friday August 3 at 9:00   LSD Flashback Drug Scare Films    The show will open with the Tim Smith Matt Groening film Drugs: Killers of Dillers.  Tim and Matt made this dead on spoof of drug scare films while in high school in Portland in 1972.  It will be followed by the film that inspired it LSD Trip or Trap which was made by the great Sid Davis in 1967.  Also shown will be the astonishing All My Tomorrows, the harrowing The Day I Died and the perplexing and hilarious Beyond LSD.  Saturday August 4 at 9:00  The 1967 Psychedelic and Rock and Roll Film Show.  After watching the Hippie Temptation you will be more prepared than you would have thought possible to experience fabulous acts from the Summer of Love on the big screen.  Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly and the Family Stone, The Animals,  The Rolling Stones,  John and Yoko and more.  Oh, yes the more includes Tiny Tim. Sunday 

August 5 at 9:00  Wild In the Streets  (1968)  American International Pictures got this out as fast as they could, but they couldn't get it out until May of 1968.  This is a one of a kind film and a wonderful time capsule of the era.  It concerns a rock star becoming president and who puts all Americans over the age of thirty in concentration camps and force feeds them LSD.  Christopher Jones plays the rock star prez.  Shelley Winters plays his mom.  What more could you ask for? All programs will be in glorious 16mm except for Wild In the Streets which will be in stunning 35mm. Standard Clinton Street Theater prices apply for this once in a lifetime show The Psychedelic and Rock and Rock and Roll show complete:

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, LOOKING OUT MY BACKDOOR, 1970, 4m.
JANIS, with THE COSMIC BLUES BAND, does TRY ("just a little bit harder") on TV. She is introduced by David Steinberg, host of The Music Scene Show.
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE sing LIFE, a really great music video, color, 1968.
JIMI HENDRIX performs FOXY LADY, an exceptional film by Charlatan Production.
DOORS ON MT. TAM do a 4 or 5m version of LIGHT MY FIRE, color, 1968.
JOHN LENNON, BED-IN FILM shot 6/1/69 with Tim Leary, Smothers Brothers, Murry the K. and Alan Ginsberg watching John and Yoko stay in bed for peace. The music track is COLD TURKEY, Color.
JOHN LENNON, SLIPPING AND SLIDING from Rock and Roll album session, Harry Nillson on piano, color, 5m. INSTANT KARMA, John Lennon and Yoko Ono TV event called People For Peace "lets all shine on..." 1970, color, 4m.
ROLLING STONES GATHER MOSS, Pathe newsreel, 1964, they do Chuck Berry's The Joint was Rocking and another song plus behind the scenes footage. 6m.
ROLLING STONES' LADY JANE, 1966, with footage of young girls attacking a young Mick.
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE at the Fillmore with light show. They sing Its No Secret (Signe Anderson is the singer - before Grace). The co-stars on the program were The Dead. Also shows the Airplane rehearsing at the Matrix. 1968, 4m.
ANIMALS, SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS, 1967, color, 3m.
RICK NELSON as a hippie in striped pants singing DON'T MAKE PROMISES, film produced by Charatan Productions, color. 3m.
1910 FRUIT GUM COMPANY perform TAKE A GIANT STEP and SIMON SAYS, 1968, very silly images, color, Budah Records, Charlatan Productions, 6m.
BILL MEDLEY, formerly of the Righteous Brothers, sings PEACE BROTHER PEACE, 1968, part animated, color, 3m.
BEACH BOYS, TIME TO GET ALONG, a forgotten masterpiece, shows them in recording studio, color, 4m.
SAM THE SHAM, BOOGEY FARMER (Sam is now the Reverend Sam Samudial), color, 3m.
TINY TIM, BE MY BABY ca. 1968, before a crowd of screaming girls, color, 3m.

Dennis Nyback

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