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Woodstock
makes it
better
REVIEW
by KELLEY BAKER
"Woodstock," with a cast of
over half a million is a crowd
scene that Cecil B. DeMilla
never even imagined not in
his wildest dreams. It is also a
far better film and piece of
artwork than anything of mog-ul-DeMille's
I've ever seen.
Director Michael Wedleigh
collected about three dozen
photographers and soundmen
and a half a million dollars
worth of equipment for the
three day affair in Bethel, New
York. His crew shot over
300,000 feet of film and record
ed over 80 hours of music and
interviews.
Wadleigh had made his name
in documentaries before
"Woodstock" "No Viet
namese Ever Called Me Nig
ger," "The Vanishing
American Newspaper ',
television documentaries and
photography of such musical
stars as Dionne Warwick,
Aretha Franklin and James
Brown. But "Woodstock" is far
more interesting and exciting
for its musical performances
than it is for the more
documentary aspects of the
rock festival.
Pictures of a mud-sliding
contest, interviews with a
young girl who lost her sister in
the crowd (and wouldn't really
mind except that she had to
show up in court the next
Monday), talks with the
townfolk and shots of skinny
dippers are mildly interesting
and pace the more frenzied
action. But the life force of the
film is generated by the
musical performers and their
names read like the "Who's
Who" of folk and acid rock.
At the end oHhe three days,
Wedleigh and his. camera crews
had shot over 120 hours of film
that had to be trimmed and
edited to feature length size. In
doing it. he made effective use
of a split screen to show dif
ferent shots (performer and
audience reaction; an interview
and a couple in the bushes) or
he blended fronj and side shots
of the same group to heighten
their performance.
Few of the musicians needed
any such help,' however, and
some of them, (Richie Havens,
Santana, Sly and the Family
Stone and others) generated
excited audience participation
from the movie audienct as
well as the people at
Woodstock.
I'll be interested next year to
see if members of the Motion
Picture Academy nominate
Woodstock" for one of their
gold-plated, bald-pated
awards ... as a documentary
or whatever Right now it
seems inevitable. But I think
it's ironic that many of the
young people wlw went to
Bethel will have to take their
parents if they want to see
themselves on film.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1970