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Voor de liefhebber van pop films uit de sixties!
Ooit zelf overgezet van VHS-tape  naar DVD. Volgens mij niet eerder gespot. 

Celebration at Big Sur
1971.
88 minutes.
20th Century Fox
Produced by Carl Gottlieb
Directed by Baird Bryant and Johanna Dematrakas
Filmed by Baird Bryant, Joan Churchill, Bill Kaplan, Peter Smokler, and Gary Weis.
Music by Kit Kallonzes.

Starring: Joan Baez, Carol Ann Cisneros, the Comb Sisters, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Chris Ethridge, Mimi Farina, Flying Burrito Brothers, Joni Mitchell, Dorothy Morrison, Julie Payne, Greg Reeves, John Sebastian, Struggle Mountain Resistance Band, and Dallas Taylor.


A musical documentary of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival. Producer Carl Gottlieb explained the film's aesthetic by saying Woodstock is like Ben Hur while Celebration at Big Sur is like Shoot the Piano Player. The former are spectacles, the latter are warmer and more intimate.