Documentary
How it was recorded and sold. Michael Wadleigh's film and its Oscar, Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker in the edit, the split-screen, the soundtrack albums, the bootlegs, and the footage still being released fifty years on.
Part of Woodstock
53 moments in this segment.
- - Original 1970 theatrical trailer. Warner Bros. theatrical trailer for Michael Wadleigh's 'Woodstock', released in March 1970.
- - Woodstock (1970) trailer, restored. Restored theatrical trailer for the 1970 film, credited to Wadleigh with Joan Baez, Richie Havens and Roger Daltrey.
- - Matthews Southern Comfort, Woodstock (1970). The Matthews Southern Comfort recording of Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock', which reached number one in the UK in 1970.
- - The 1970 trailer in full. The original trailer for Michael Wadleigh's documentary, presented at length.
- - Drive-in advertisement for the Woodstock film, 1970. A newspaper advertisement of 13 July 1970 for a Santa Cruz drive-in screening of Michael Wadleigh's documentary 'Woodstock', released by Warner Bros. that spring.
- - Woodstock wins Best Documentary, 1971. Bob Maurice accepts the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for 'Woodstock' at the 43rd Academy Awards, presented by Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss.
- - Wadleigh after Woodstock. Michael Wadleigh, encountered at a UNESCO conference in Bonn, speaks about the documentary and the work that followed it.
- - How a concert became a political symbol. VOA goes to Bethel for the fortieth anniversary to ask how three days of music came to stand for the protest movement of the era.
- - Michael Wadleigh at Dubai Film Festival. Interview with Michael Wadleigh, director of the 1970 documentary, at the Dubai International Film Festival.
- - How split screen won the argument. Producer Fred Weintraub recalls Wadleigh persuading him that split screen was the right way to cut the concert footage.
- - 40th anniversary director's cut trailer. Warner Bros. trailer for the 40th anniversary director's cut of 'Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music'.
- - Scorsese was on the crew. Short note on Martin Scorsese's work as assistant director and editor on the 1970 documentary.
- - Rock Docs: Woodstock (1970). Critical appraisal of Wadleigh's Academy Award-winning documentary as a work of film-making.
- - Dale Bell on making the movie. Producer Dale Bell gives a long account of how the film crew worked at the festival and how the picture was cut afterwards.
- - Trailer: Three Days That Defined a Generation. Trailer for the 2019 PBS American Experience documentary on the festival, built largely from unseen footage.
- - A 38-disc set announced. Report on the announcement of the complete 38-disc Woodstock archive for the 50th anniversary, containing every act on the bill.
- - Trailer: Creating Woodstock. Trailer for the 2019 documentary that interviews the key figures behind the festival's organisation to correct fifty years of myth.
- - Dutch reissue trailer, 2019. Warner Bros. Netherlands trailer for the one-night 2019 cinema screening of the restored film.
- - Back To The Garden, official trailer. Rhino's trailer for the 50th anniversary archival box sets drawn from the restored festival tapes.
- - An academic conference on 1969. Opening session of the Marist College conference '1969: When Woodstock Changed the World', with historians on the Vietnam War and the peace movement.
- - 50th anniversary director's cut in cinemas. Fathom Events spot for the 2019 theatrical return of the director's cut, marking fifty years since the festival.
- - Unboxing the definitive anniversary archive. Rhino walks through the 50th anniversary releases, including the 10CD 'Experience' set, the first to include every act that performed.
- - Designing the anniversary box set. Rhino's package design film on how the 50th anniversary archive was physically built and illustrated.
- - The Rhino Podcast on Woodstock, part one. Rhino's label podcast on the festival and the 50th anniversary reissue programme, with rarely heard archival audio.
- - Inside the Warner Music Vault. CBS Sunday Morning visits the Warner Music Vault with Andy Zax to hear the near-complete festival tapes, including P.A. announcements and crowd audio.
- - Not a summation but a harbinger. Bill Flanagan argues on CBS Sunday Morning that the festival was not the culmination of the counterculture but a sign of what was coming.
- - Woodstock by the numbers. Jane Pauley presents the recorded figures behind the 1969 festival for CBS Sunday Morning.
- - The ten-disc set examined. Goldmine compares the 10CD anniversary set against the 3CD, 5LP and 38-disc editions of the archive.
- - Fogerty, Crosby and Browne on the legacy. John Fogerty, David Crosby and Rolling Stone's David Browne assess the festival's legacy as its fiftieth anniversary approached.
- - Historian David Farber on C-SPAN. C-SPAN's American History TV marks the fiftieth anniversary with historian David Farber on the social movements surrounding the festival.
- - Hunting the missing master tapes. Part two of Rhino's podcast, on the search for lost Woodstock master tapes and how the anniversary collections were assembled.
- - Joni Mitchell's Woodstock. Video essay on the song Joni Mitchell wrote about a festival she never attended, and how CSNY's version displaced her own.
- - The stage announcements, restored. Rhino episode on the between-song stage announcements preserved on the festival tapes and included in the anniversary set.
- - Andy Zax on restoring the audio. Interview with producer Andy Zax, who restored the festival's audio for the 'Back to the Garden' box set.
- - Capturing Woodstock on tape and film. Rhino episode on how the festival's audio and images were recorded in 1969 and what survived to be restored.
- - PBS Distribution trailer for the 2019 film. Distribution trailer for 'Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation', using never-before-seen footage of the crowd and organisers.
- - Joel Selvin: Altamont and the end of the sixties. Author Joel Selvin at the Commonwealth Club on the fiftieth anniversary of Altamont and whether it really closed the decade Woodstock opened.
- - The director's cut on Blu-ray. Review of the 40th Anniversary Revisited Blu-ray edition of the director's cut, covering what the extended version restores.
- - Fathom Events trailer for the reissue. Trailer for the Fathom Events cinema reissue of the Oscar-winning documentary.
- - Altamont, four months later. Documentary account of the free concert at the Altamont Raceway on 6 December 1969, the event routinely set against Woodstock as its counterpoint.
- - Every version of the song Woodstock. Musicologists compare Joni Mitchell's original with the CSNY reading and the Matthews Southern Comfort hit.
- - The 43rd Academy Awards recap. Recap of the 1971 ceremony where 'Patton' swept the night and 'Woodstock' took Documentary Feature, with Thelma Schoonmaker nominated for editing.
- - The famous one and the forgotten ones. A history covering the 1969 festival alongside the far smaller 1979 and 1989 gatherings held on the same ground.
- - Dr Kevin Schattenkirk on the festival. A university lecture placing the 1969 festival in its historical context and examining its claimed cultural significance.
- - The anniversary vinyl box. A look at the vinyl edition of the 50th anniversary archive and the sound quality of the restored source tapes.
- - Qwest TV on the festival's legacy. Qwest TV's documentary excerpt on the festival, its performers and its aftermath.
- - Wadleigh on making the film. Extended interview with director Michael Wadleigh about shooting and assembling 'Woodstock'.
- - Joni Mitchell's song at the anniversary. A performance of 'Woodstock' in the museum's special events room at the 56th anniversary, exactly fifty-six years after Bert Sommer sang it on the original stage.
- - Creating Woodstock, full documentary. Feature documentary on how the festival was built, told through interviews with organisers and archival footage of the site preparation.
- - Dale Bell's Interviews and Recollections. Audiobook sample of Dale Bell's oral history of the film crew, drawn from interviews with the people who shot and cut 'Woodstock'.
- - Three days that changed everything. Feature documentary hosted by Mark Goodman with Richie Havens and Artie Kornfeld among the interviewees, on the festival and what followed.
- - How it became the defining moment. An account of how a three-day festival in upstate New York came to be treated as the symbol of an entire generation.
- - The 1994 director's cut on DVD. A look at the 1997 DVD of the 1994 director's cut, the near-four-hour extended edition of Wadleigh's film.
