I’m so glad this exists: a “lost” slice of documentary footage by a French filmmaker, 11 minutes long, of people arriving at, and then being at, the 2nd Isle of Wight Festival of Music, in 1969: the year the performers included The Who, Richie Havens, The Band and Bob Dylan. There’s hardly a moment of The Who or Dylan, but that’s not the point. As so often with documents of the past, it’s the footage of ordinary life that fascinates: plus, in this case, the way it catches that moment when there was, or appeared to be, a cultural gulf between “straights” and “underground” people:
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QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO. 11
