| WOBURN LOVE-IN Fabulous hippy love-in at Woburn Park - flowers fall from the sky, man! | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6080 |
| Catalog #: | 172001 | |
| Clip Number: | 172001-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 669 | |
| Timecode: | 01:20:13 - 01:24:04 | |
| Location: | Woburn Park, Bedfordshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | FADS AND TRENDS: Hippies FASHION: Misc. LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Bedfordshire RECREATION: Camping | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 312881 WOBURN LOVE-IN Fabulous hippy love-in at Woburn Park - flowers fall from the sky, man! Woburn Park, Bedfordshire. Various shots shows hippies (Flower People) emerging from a psychedelic van, tents and a double-decker bus in the grounds of Woburn Park. Hippies in colorful flower-power clothes with flowers in their hair walk past the stately home at Woburn; one man wears a Union Jack Flag as a cloak over his shoulders. Several shots show people buying beads and paper flowers from sellers at this 'Love-in'. CU Flower seller's face flower behind her ear joss stick in her mouth pan to show lapel buttons down they read 'Try Me' and 'Help'. Painted signs, some on the sides of cars, read 'Psychedelic Happening', 'Flower Power' and 'Free Love'. Scenes of hippy couples; tracking shot past numerous people lying on the grass, tapping their feet to music and smoking. People crowd around the back of a van, where real flowers (man!) are being handed out; a woman attaches carnations to Don Piccard's crash helmet; we then see Don, preparing to take off in a hot air balloon. Commentator says he is the son of the great balloonist pioneer. MS Man shaking air into big balloon. CU The hot-air making machine being blown into balloon and shaken pan L. to show balloon getting bigger. MS Hot-air machine in action as balloon gets bigger. CU Man in crash helmet operating machine. LS Balloon getting bigger. MS Man in crash helmet in balloon basket hippies come and put flowers in basket. MS Hippy looking up holding boxes of carnations. MS Hippies crowded round basket putting flowers in pan up to show the balloon. LS Balloon slowly ascending. MS Hippies watching. LS Balloon well on its way many hippies watching. Various shots of the hot air balloon flying over the Love-in and dropping hundreds of flowers on the crowds of beautiful people below - far out! CU Prone flower person. LAS Balloon flowers dropped pan down hippies run like made for flowers. LS Panning down with falling carnations crowd milling for flowers. LAS Balloon almost overhead flowers cascade down and pan with them to show crowds. The hippies eagerly attach their flowers to their clothes and hats. M/S of a crazy, high hippy clapping in a frenetic manner; pan right to show the rest of the crowd sitting and/or dancing before a band on a small outdoor stage. MS Clapping hippies enjoying the music pan across rows and rows of them to stage in far b.g. LS Rows and rows of hippies dancing in b.g. stage in far b.g. Other hippies enjoy themselves on a vintage car fairground ride. Tracking shot of hippies fooling about on crazy railway man pulls brake puts hand out at end of shot. Several shots of hippies dancing. CU Dancing smiling flower girl bends out of frame to reveal hippies clapping in b.g. Brief shot of the guitar players. Hippy chicks and boys ride horses on a merry-go-round (carousel). | |


