SUNSET BLVD. 1968
Interviewer: Dick Clark
Film by Bacon & Bender
Great Steam & Electric Film Company
Ron Bacon
Michael Leslie Bender (AKA Ayre Bender)
Film by Bacon & Bender
Great Steam & Electric Film Company
Ron Bacon
Michael Leslie Bender (AKA Ayre Bender)
SUNSET 68
In 1968, in a strong reaction to the Vietnam War, many young people tried to “drop out” of society. They sought a more perfect world. They refused to go to war and many of them served jail terms or fled to Canada. They called themselves “Hippies”. Some called “Flower Children’ carried flowers instead of guns. They left home and lived on the streets.
Countless “Hippies” and “Flower Children” swarmed right in front of the “DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS” office on Hollywood’s famous Sunset Boulevard. Most of them were unemployed and came from out of town. It was a madhouse circus that went all the way to San Francisco. They camped in Griffith Park or anyplace they could find a patch of grass.
My friend and partner Les Bender and I formed the “BACON and BENDER GREAT STEAM and ELECTRIC FILM COMPANY”, and working with Dick Clark we did 19 short interviews with hippies and flower children for Mr. Clark. These aired on a Dick Clark production called “IT’S HAPPENING”.
This rare film is a composite of some of these interviews which we edited into a news documentary we called “SUNSET 68”, but which never aired.
In 1968, in a strong reaction to the Vietnam War, many young people tried to “drop out” of society. They sought a more perfect world. They refused to go to war and many of them served jail terms or fled to Canada. They called themselves “Hippies”. Some called “Flower Children’ carried flowers instead of guns. They left home and lived on the streets.
Countless “Hippies” and “Flower Children” swarmed right in front of the “DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS” office on Hollywood’s famous Sunset Boulevard. Most of them were unemployed and came from out of town. It was a madhouse circus that went all the way to San Francisco. They camped in Griffith Park or anyplace they could find a patch of grass.
My friend and partner Les Bender and I formed the “BACON and BENDER GREAT STEAM and ELECTRIC FILM COMPANY”, and working with Dick Clark we did 19 short interviews with hippies and flower children for Mr. Clark. These aired on a Dick Clark production called “IT’S HAPPENING”.
This rare film is a composite of some of these interviews which we edited into a news documentary we called “SUNSET 68”, but which never aired.