Keith richards photo theater 1960s5/6/2023 ![]() Or, possibly, there was much more footage shot for this client, by multiple filmmakers, and said client picked up all of it … except for our two orphan reels, which had gotten separated from the rest of the footage. The client, in this scenario, is the one who never picked it up. Now, as some of you have theorized, it’s possible that the two reels were shot by different people – say, two or more guys on assignment for an as-yet-unknown client – and turned their film into Palmer for processing. Collector Rick Prelinger bought all of Palmer’s stock when they went out of business and eventually donated it to the Library as part of his vast collection. It was dropped off at Palmer Films in Los Angeles and never picked up. This is a different position from where the daytime footage was shot, but it roughly matches our nighttime footage. He’s at center stage, just in front of Stones guitarist Keith Richards. This guy, with the beard and blue shirt at the bottom left, appears in this, another shot from “Gimme Shelter.” He’s shooting with a Super 8 camera, a Technicolor Super V, which could have shot our footage. Screen image from “Gimme Shelter.”įilmmaker #4: Night Shooter. There may be images of one of these men on the home footage itself - we haven’t verified that yet - which would rule that person out as our filmmaker. The images of the filmmakers are not entirely clear, and in one instance is just the back of the guy’s head. Here are our limitations: We have yet to come across an image or footage that show all of them at once, which might us identify the filmmaker by matching his position with the home footage. The images we have reveal four primary contenders, all appearing to be young white men. Despite all that, there is no wide-shot film of the stage for the entire concert. There was news coverage, too, and lots of the young fans took their cameras, so there is plenty of documentation of who was on and near the stage. The concert was the subject of “Gimme Shelter,” the Maysles brothers 1970 documentary. ![]() Ready?įirst, more than 300,000 people showed up for the free, day-long show, featuring Carlos Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers and, of course, the Rolling Stones. That story, picked up by several national media outlets, has triggered an international mystery: Who was the heroic filmmaker? Who shot this remarkable 26 minutes of footage, from right at the stage, dropped it off for processing but never picked it up? Is it possible, more than half a century later, to identify that person? We’ve been gratified by the international reaction to our having discovered a never-before-seen home movie of the 1969 Altamont concert, one of the darker hallmarks of the 1960s.
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