By Jack Brummet, Film Ed. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) is a cartoon created entirely by Marv Newland. Less than two minutes long, the film is a classic of animation—#38 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons (1994) [1]. It's wonderful. I remember seeing it around the time it was released. I haven't seen it since then...
[1] Jerry Beck (ed.) (1994). The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals. Atlanta: Turner Publishing.
[click to enlarge photograph - courtesy of the Wash. State Digital Archives]
In this photo (courtesy of the Washington State Digital Archives), you see armed members of the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party on the steps of the Legislative Building.
The Seattle Black Panthers, led by Elmer Dixon gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Olympia in February 1969 to protest a bill that would make it a crime to exhibit firearms “in a manner manifesting an intent to intimidate others.”
No one was arrested, apparently there were no confrontations, and they left under their own power when they were finished. It kind of makes you wonder what would happen if someone did this today, forty years later. I get the feeling it might not have turned out so well. . .I mean, you can hardly even build a mosque these days. . . ---o0o---
I just finished reading Back To The Garden, a great history of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. So, of course, I had to watch the movie. There are a lot of standout and falldown performances from the festival. His is just amazing. He was pressed into service because he was there. He had been scheduled to go on much later, but people couldn't get to the festival (including the performers). So people like Havens, John Sebastian, Country Joe, and others were pressed into performing.
Richie was the first performer, and ended up having to play several hours, instead of the expected 45 minutes,as tghey anxiously awaited the arrival of the other scheduled performers. He played this song, Freedom, completely off the cuff. It was all improv (because he'd run out of songs). He folded in the old blues tune Motherless Child, and knocked it out of the park. It made it into the movie, and gave Richie a life of gigs into the far future (up to Right Now!).
CSN perform the great song by Stephen Stills, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (aka Judy Collins) at Woodstock in 1969. It was one of their very first public appearances, and as Stephen Stills said "We're scared shitless."
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Stephen Stills, performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young At Woodstock, 1969.
It's getting to the point Where I'm no fun any more I am sorry Sometimes it hurts So badly I must cry out loud I am lonely
{Refrain} I am yours You are mine You are what you are You make it hard
Remember what we've said, and done And felt about each other Oh, babe, have mercy Don't let the past remind us Of what we are not now I am not dreaming
{Refrain}
Tearing yourself Away from me now, you are free And I am crying This does not mean I don't love you, I do, that's forever Yes, and for always
{Refrain}
Something inside Is telling me that I've got your secret Are you still listening? Fear is the lock And laughter the key to your heart And I love you
{Refrain} And you make it hard And you make it hard And you make it hard
Friday evening Sunday in the afternoon What have you got to lose Tuesday morning Please be gone, I'm tired of you What have you got to lose
Can I tell it like it is Catch me I'm falling Listen to me baby It's my heart that's suffering Catch me I'm dying It's dyin' and that's what I have to lose
I've got an answer I'm going to fly away What have I got to lose? Will you come see me Thursdays and Saturdays What have you got to lose
Chestnut brown canary Ruby throated sparrow Sing a song, don't be long Thrill me to the marrow
Voices of the angels Ring around the moonlight Asking me, said she so free How can you catch the sparrow
Lacy lilting lady Losing love lamenting Change my life, make it right Be my lady
Do do do do do, do do do do do do Do do do do do, do do do do ---o0o---
