Some 1970s psychedelia for the weekend. Sun Ra’s classic afrofuturist feature Space is the Place!
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Intro to Der Phantastische Film by Heinz Edelmann (1970)
14 AugDer Phantastische Film was a feature film series broadcasted on the German channel ZDF. The art director and character designer of Yellow Submarine, Heinz Edelmann, created this title animation for the programme.
Levi’s commercials from the 1970s
5 JunTrippy polyester jeans commercials with voice-overs from Ken Nordine, who we have featured previously: https://dailypsychedelicvideo.com/2016/09/26/ken-nordine-yellow/
Sly and the Family Stone visit the Ed Sullivan show (Dance to the music) (1969)
10 MarSly and the family stone performing to the buttoned-up Ed Sullivan crowd in 1969. Just watch the looks on people’s faces as the group descends to the crowd.
And here’s another one by the family. Boy, these guys had style,.
Boney M Daddy cool
27 JanSome grooving psychedelic disco from the 1970s, in what appears to be a video taken in the best of all possible worlds
“The Kingdom Of Could Be You” (1973)-animation for the old Captain Kangaroo kids TV show directed by John Sutherland
25 Aug‘Oh man, I used to LOVE the “Captain Kangaroo” show. I remember crying when Mr.Green Jeans did a sweet little dance to “Mr. Bojangles”. This was one of the interstitials shown during the program. The animation was funded in part by the US Department of Education.
The B-52’s – “Rock Lobster”
17 Julhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkzvM7Skxg
Hit song from The B-52’s and the album of the same name, “Rock Lobster”, released in 1979. This version in particular is the shortened version for radio use.
This music video really shows want it means to be a good New Wave band back in the day.
Tangerine Dream – “Origin of Supernatural Probabilities”
8 MayFrom 1967 German electronic space/cosmic band Tangerine Dream, off there album “Zeit”
Expo 1967 and 1970 videos
21 JanAs Donald Drumpf enters the white house and we enter deeper into the historical abyss of late-capitalism it might be worth to remember just how cheerful things seemed some 50 years ago, the 1967 Montreal World Expo and in the Osaka 1970 Expo.
World exhibitions are a genre that has kind of passed on from the world, which is a shame. In the past they were used to offer a vision of the future, and though those futures seem kind of naive today, I kind of miss those people who tried giving us a universalisitc and hopeful vision for the planet and mankind. This might be a time to revive the world Expo (there’s one scheduled to happen in Dubai in 2020).
Watch the last two minutes of the clip from the Osaka 1970 expo and you are in for a treat with all those Japanese dancers waving the flags of all the nations of the earth. Oh the camaraderie!
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