From Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976) by Faith and John Hubley, featuring the voice of Meryl Streep. The Hubleys are often considered the most important figures in American independent animation. John Hubley started his career at Disney, art directing Fantasia among others, and then quit and created Mr. Magoo at UPA. In the 50s he [ ]
Candid shots from the streets of Cambridge, MA circa 1971, by Nick DeWolf. DeWolf went to MIT and co-founded Teradyne (Nasdaq: TER), a maker of automatic test equipment with customers like Samsung, Intel and Qualcomm. He left Teradyne in 1971 after it went public and moved to Aspen, where he collaborated with artist Travis Fulton [ ]
Cult Time, featuring the role of hand embroidery in the Manson Family 🧵🪡 Footage from Manson (1973) by Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick. Music by former Manson Family members Paul Watkins and Brooks Poston. Hendrickson shot most of the remarkable observational footage in Manson and had basically unlimited direct access to the Manson Family for [ ]
‘70s shots from Taylor Camp on the remote island of Kaua i, Hawaii, by photographer John Weirheim. You can purchase prints and a book of Taylor Camp photographs on his website. Taylor Camp was a 7-acre hippie treehouse village on the North Shore of Kaua’i with about 120 residents at its peak. It began with 13 [ ]
From The Model Couple (1977) by William Klein (music by Michel Colombier). It’s a French-Swiss film that follows the events of a national experiment in which a couple representing the typical French pair are recruited by the Ministry of the Future to live in a “happiness capsule,” where they are subjected to constant surveillance as [ ]
More 1967 promo footage of Donovan 🌼 Shot in Cornwall by Karl Ferris, who designed three album covers for Donovan that year. Features Jenny Boyd, sister of photographer Pattie Boyd, who worked as a model until she discovered Transcendental Meditation on a trip to India with Pattie and Pattie’s husband George Harrison. Donovan allegedly wrote [ ]
Felix Dennis, legendary magazine publisher who got his start editing the underground icon Oz, was interviewed by the BBC in 1978. After Oz, Dennis’s company Dennis Publishing pioneered hobbyist and computer magazine publishing in the UK. He grew up poor in Surrey, and by the ‘90s he was publishing the world’s biggest-selling men’s lifestyle magazine [ ]
A follow-up to last week’s post about Vashti Bunyan’s multi-year horse-and-cart journey across Britain.. In 1977 the BBC caught up with Vashti and her partner Robert Lewis after they had settled down into family life with their children and horse Bess in Scotland.
Donovan presents Father Yod and the Brotherhood of the Source in the 1977 documentary ‘Aliens from Spaceship Earth.’ The Source Family was among the most influential spiritual communes to emerge from Los Angeles. Their restaurant The Source was arguably America’s first celebrity health-food restaurant (other than H.E.L.P.) and was featured early on in ‘Alex in [ ]
Scenes from Big Sur circa 1972, from ‘Big Sur: The Way It Was’ by Robert Blaisdell.