Popcorn

Popcorn - An Audio/Visual Rock Thing

Directed by: Peter Clifton/ Peter Ryan

Running Time: 85 min   Color   Date: 1969

This documentary consists a montage of promos, interviews and news footage, which moves from Katmandu to London's Royal Albert Hall; includes two interviews with Mick Jagger in 1967 and 1968, a preview of Arthur Lee plus Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Otis Redding, The Small Faces, The Bee Gees, Vanilla Fudge, Traffic along with other features as a Twiggy fashion show, Vietnam war pictures, surfers and Beach Boys music

Clifton was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his career filming clips for Top of the Pops and working with Andrew Oldham´s Immediate Records. One of his first experience in film production was What´s On The Flip Side?, a 45 minute 16mm b&w documentary on the Rolling Stones 1966 Australian tour, featuring a live performance of "I´m Movin´ On". He also directed and produced Now Time, a TV series broadcast in 1968, with 13 half-hour episodes about the swinging London scene, featuring The Rolling Stones, Procol Harum, Cream, Vanilla Fudge and more. Between 1967 and 1969, Clifton began assembling his first feature film, an experiment in music, colour and effects with performances by the Rolling Stones (actually the promos for "Jumping Jack Flash" and "2000 Light Years From Home"), Vanilla Fudge, the Bee Gees, Joe Cocker, Traffic, the Animals and others. Popcorn established Clifton as one of the leading live music film directors of the period. In 1971 he directed Superstars in Film Concert, shot in 16mm b&w featuring John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, and Ike and Tina Turner along with many of the same artists that appear in Popcorn. The same format was used again in Rock City (aka. Sounds Of The City) in 1973, with lot of the same material as before.