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By Caleb John Clark, 2005. Key PointsRun Time = 48:00 MinutesTagline: Dropping out was one thing. Dropping in is anotherProduction Notes and Lessons Learned http://noendpress.com/caleb/documentary_film/Story: Interviews, personal photos and films from four friends who met in San Francisco in 1969 and dropped out together. Today live in the same town and are retiring together. 100% Organic. No stock film or classic rock. All media rights cleared. Uses subject's stills and 8mm films with a soundtrack from an unreleased album by psychedelic rock band NGC 4594, who released one 45 in 1960s before disbanding.Synopsis The hippies grew up during WWII and the Cold War. As young adults they experienced the Korean war, the civil rights fight and Vietnam. Their Ameripca was war torn, conservative and in a lot of ways, rife with fear. Then in the late 1960s thousands of them spontaneously dropped out of that America and somehow found each other in places like San Francisco. Fear became fun, nuclear mushroom clouds became mushroom trips, work became welfare, and repression became revolution. But by the mid-1970s the energy was fading and they started to drop back in. Or did they? Who were the hippies? Was it all peace and love? Did their ideology survive? What was it like on Haight Street in 1969? Or on a commune deep in the redwoods? Did they change anything? Did they learn anything? My Hippies explores the hippie revolution from the personal perspective of a hippie kid whose mother, step father, aunt and uncle all met on San Francisco's Haight Street in 1969. Still close friends and living in the same town, they share their experiences, pictures, 8mm films, unreleased psychedelic rock music, and thoughts about their wild trip as they face retirement and old age.

• Category

  Talk & Interview

• Release Date

  Oct 14, 2006

• Runtime

  47:40