Festival Of 1969

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The Festival of 1969 Woodstock attendee Joni Mitchell said “Woodstock was a spark of beauty where half-a-million kids saw that they were part of a greater organism” (“About Woodstock 1969”). Director Ang Lee wanted to put this beauty into a film and did so by portraying one man’s experience of Woodstock. The film Taking Woodstock is based off of Elliot Tiber’s role and experience at Woodstock. The main people responsible for putting on Woodstock are John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang. The oldest of these four men was only 27 years old (Rosenberg 1). Although Taking Woodstock did not demonstrate much of the concert it illustrates how much work it took to put on the concert, while staying true to the real festival. The movie Shows a lot about Woodstock, the music festival, and is backed up by historical facts. There are many comparisons in this movie to the real music festival in 1969. The beginning of the movie shows how Elliot Tiber brings the creators of Woodstock to their town, to check if they can have the concert there. When the news hits that it will be in his town on Max Yasgur’s farm the hippies start to flock in the area. On Wednesday, August 13, 1969 there were 60,000 people that showed up on the big open farm in front of the 75-foot stage. Then on Friday the streets and nearest highway were blocked by people parking their cars and walking to the concert. At this point there were 500,000 people at the concert and bands had to be flown in by helicopter (About Woodstock 1969). In the movie it shows how much they had to do for the concert to be ready for the public. It shows construction of the stage and also shows how much it was problems for running water and toilets for the amount of people that showed up. They found out a month ahead so they had a lot of work to get done in a short period of time. They had the
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