Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
Focus on 60s - Lifestyles. Sixties youth culture, countercultural movement, Haight-Ashbury, illicit drug intake, massacre at University of Texas, women's fashion and the rise of the political women's liberation movement. Ah yes, the late 60s.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
DO NOT USE opening Titles
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
B&W MS/TLSs numerous college students having a big snowball fight on campus quad.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
B&W newsreel of CHARLES WHITMAN sniping at students from observation tower of University of Texas-Austin, 1965.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
COLOR montage of college students recreating on an unspecified college campus: MS white college in snazzy outfits walking along campus; TLS/MSs students relaxing. MSs white college students smoking marijuana in a dorm room, hippies. Cut to fast motion subjective POV tracking shot through streets of San Francisco (shots are masked so as to mimic a bad acid trip-- far out, dude). CU police siren flashing, spinning. MS of a male countercultural drop-out walking along Haight-Ashbury, his belongings in an American flag slung over his shoulder. MSs hippies & dropouts congregating, walking along Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, California. MSs of the MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI receiving accolades from followers.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
DO NOT USE 1969 newsreel of Woodstock.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
TLS cluster of roadside gas station signs advertising gas prices along urbanized strip. MSs weekend traffic jams. TLS/MSs people playing, recreating, sunbathing on beach, people swimming in water; panning MS blond beach beauty in white bikini waving to cam.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
MS JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS getting into a car in foreign country.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
MS montage of young white women wearing mini-skirts (miniskirts), walking along city streets, sitting on buses; some wear knee-high boots, others heels.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
DO NOT USE Amazing TV commercial for Neet spray-on hair remover for women, pitchwoman using product, washing unwanted hair in shower.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
DO NOT USE Odd TV commercial for Pamprin in which a "modern" American blond woman skulks through an unspecified Central Asia country, taking pictures of Muslim culture.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
The active birth of the Women's Liberation movement: MS women protesting outside 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, carrying signs that read, "I Am A Woman, Not A Pet, Toy or Mascot" (one protester has a lamb on a leash); MSs women tossing bras into barrel, shouting, laughing. (bra burning)
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
Cut to shaky home movie of people gathered in Washington Mall for 1963 March on Washington (civil rights). Cut to MS Mexican-Americans & some young white men protesting, carrying placards: "Build Factories in Southwest Texas"; "Viva La Causa"; "Don't Want No More Gringos"; "Leave Our Land, Texas Rangers." Cut to montage of peaceful anti-war protests.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
DO NOT USE End Credits