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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh in his directional debut.
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts. [21] [22] Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. [21]Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event.
In August 1994, twenty-four years after its original showing, a 228-minute "director's cut" of Woodstock was released, and in 1999, another Woodstock-based documentary, Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock, gave Wadleigh another archive footage credit for cinematography.
Today (July 23) marks the 22nd anniversary of Woodstock ‘99 festival, and a new HBO documentary fittingly titled “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” takes audiences back to the violence ...
Classic Cinemas is the largest Illinois based movie theatre chain. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois , it operates 16 locations with 141 screens in Illinois and Wisconsin under Tivoli Enterprises ownership. [ 1 ]
Michael Scott Lang (December 11, 1944 – January 8, 2022) [1] was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969. [2]
Original Cinerama screen in the Bellevue Cinerama, Amsterdam (1965–2005) 17-meter curved screen removed in 1978 for 15-meter normal screen. [1]Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146-degrees of arc.
Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first act to sign a contract for August's Woodstock festival in April 1969, for $10,000 (equivalent to $86,000 today). Given their late start time and omission from the Woodstock film (at John Fogerty's insistence), Creedence members have expressed bitterness over their experiences regarding the festival.