Search Results for "haight ashbury"

In a brief four year span in the late 1960's, in a quaint San Francisco neighborhood less than a mile square, a creative movement emerged that would ignite a musical genre. What would come to be coined "the San Francisco Sound" served as the soundtrack for a counter- culture revolution that would forever challenge the perception of the American ideal. This movement climaxed in a single California season known as the Summer of Love, in a neighborhood that provided a canvas for this artistic burst of imagination: Haight-Ashbury.

Made by Film Associates, this is a 1960s era, color film about amphetamine abuse. It begins with an addict talking about how he got into drug abuse. Discusses the speed scene and the high associated with amphetamine abuse.

CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!

This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area.

Brief portraits of disabled individuals living independently by Mark Freeman. They discuss their everyday lives and the mistaken assumptions that able-bodied people make about how they live. From Mark Freeman: "Made for the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, CA. This film was one of the first to present positive images of people with disabilities living independently. The film includes portraits of disability rights activists Mary Lou Breslin, Michael Williams, and Peter Leech."