Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene

Creator: Airlie Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Narrator: Robert Mitchum.; 0:49:17 VS Chicago cityscapes: tracking shot along highway, tracking; shot from street, corn-cob apartment buildings; 0:49:31 VS tracking shot of suburban street; 0:49:35 LS great aerial of San Francisco; 0:49:41 MS San Francisco street car (with Tanqueray ad on side) goes; down hill; 0:49:52 CU street sign on corner of Haight and Ashbury; 0:49:54 CU stern cop wearing sunglasses; 0:49:57 CU blond hippie makes strange hand gesture, looks like he's; tripping, friend adjusts his shirt; 0:50:04 VS hippie montage: three hippies with long hair, man with; goatee, bearded hippie chewing, man with long hair and; painter's cap, bearded man yawning, man wearing Afghan, man; wearing headband, girl leaning against lamppost; 0:50:35 CU pan across wall of pictures of runaway teenagers / missing; persons; 0:50:51 CU hippie girl exhaling (marijuana); 0:50:53 CU boy (looks like Ron Howard!) exhales smoke through his nose; 0:51:02 CU hippie with curly hair and sleeveless shirt holding up; marijuana paraphernalia; 0:51:11 VS int, man passes corncob pipe, man rolls joint, three people; put something in their mouth (LSD tabs?), man passes; cigarette lighter toward cam, man smokes joint; 0:51:36 VS Tapia Park Love-In, 1968: large crowd, God's Eye on long; stick, hippie with baby in papoose, loudspeaker megaphones; bearded man talking psychedelic psychobabble into microphone; on stage, two men do very bizarre conceptual dance, people; sitting on hill, man and woman walking (green ankh in bg); drum circle, black man dancing with white woman, rock band; on stage (lead singer has no shirt), crowd dancing, bongo; players; 0:52:56 VS psychedelic discotheque (ballroom): flashing lights; dancing, sandals, light show, rock band on stage, people; dancing in front of strobe light, movie projected onto wall; behind band; 0:53:28 VS college campus (probably UCLA): ext buildings, students; talking, hip and square students; 0:53:43 VS Love-In: hippie girls, man combs woman's long hair, LA; feral man (star painted on forehead) doing strange dance; 0:54:19 CU flame under spoon (heating methedrine / methamphetamine); 0:54:24 CU boy looks anxious, pants; 0:54:26 CU syringe; marijuana paraphernalia; 0:54:29 ECU eyes, boy nods; 0:54:31 VS syringe fills with methedrine from spoon, boy nods, needle; into arm (yow!!!), woman taps pacifier at end of syringe; (this is easily the longest and most horrifying injection; sequence in the collection, although she's doing; methedrine, it could easily pass for heroin); 0:55:21 MS hippie girl discusses her suicide attempts, going to a; psychiatrist, being shunned by her parents and going cold; turkey at a clinic, several cutaways to boy blowing smoke; 0:56:26 VS strange angles of boy and girl on methedrine; 0:56:35 MS tracking shot of generic high school; 0:56:45 MS two school buses drive by; 0:56:52 CU high school boy sitting on grass, talks about marijuana use; in high school; 0:57:14 VS Love-In: nodding hippies, man on ground lifted by police; police hodling up shirtless man (Barry McGuire?), man on; stage talks about arrest of Barry McGuire (who had a #1; with "Eve of Destruction"), crowd listening, man led away; by police; 0:57:55 CU man with headband and missing tooth talks about police; planting drugs on hippies; 0:58:10 CU seated man combs woman's hair; 0:58:12 CU headband man with tall black man in green turtleneck; 0:58:22 CU incense holder necklace (?); 0:58:24 CU wall of pharmaceutical products (including Nervine); 0:58:30 CU sign montage: "Liquor" (neon), "Package Goods" (neon); Dixieland Hall - The Bourbon Gallery; 0:58:35 CU int New Orleans jazz club, band plays dixieland jazz; dancers on stage; 0:58:45 VS motorcycle gang, Comencheros Manhattan (could easily pass; for Hell's Angels): man shows off back of jacket, man with; sunglasses and headband holds up chain, gang plays with; chains, man shows off badges on jacket, belt buckle; several swastika pins, they walk away with fists up, one; turns a cartwheel, VO narration discusses how gang; disapproves of drugs other than marijuana and that their; attire is a symbol of their "unconformancy; 0:59:41 VS NYC streets at night, POV from car, storefronts, young; people in front of store; 0:59:53 VS London: Trafalgar Square (lion statues, fountains), street; lined with British flags from window, Big Ben in bg; British hippies; 1:00:15 CU Russian (?) man in leather jacket talks about the; tribulations of living like a beatnik; 1:00:27 VS London: double decker buses, POV from car down street; (marquee for "How I Won the War", Coca-Cola and Guinness; signs, young people (students?); 1:00:50 VS Rome, the Spanish Steps: man sets up display of artwork; groups of young people talking on steps, view of Rome from; steps; 1:01:28 MS house and rubble, Istanbul; 1:01:30 CU sign: "Welcome to Yener's; 1:01:34 VS int Istanbul hippie restaurant / cafe: bearded man smokes; cigarette, woman pets white cat, people looking at; postcards at table, women eating; 1:01:56 CU man talks about scene in Istanbul; 1:02:04 VS Istanbul: men talking in cafe, hotel (it's an expat; flophouse), four women (one holding a guitar) enter black; car, man talking in cafe, hippies and locals dance in cafe; CU of young people; 1:02:55 VS Crete: man walks along verdant street, old tower; waterfront, group of hippies talking, man walks down; brick-paved street; 1:03:16 CU neon sign: "Hippies Club; 1:03:19 VS int dance club: group of people dancing; 1:03:30 VS Katmandu, Nepal: two robed hippies walk up steps toward; temple, group of hippies sitting in circle engagin in; intellectual debate, monkey sitting under carving of Kali?; woman plays talking drum, HA view down steps to temple; monkey (baboon?) walks around temple grounds, man smokes; from large pipe and prays, CU girl playing drum; 1:04:43 CU reverend discusses drug addicts; 1:04:58 MS hippies stand on street corner, hold pamphlets; 1:05:03 CU lead singer of rock band with shirt off; 1:05:07 MCU HA people dancing at Love-In; 1:05:12 VS Katmandu: hippies talking, woman making strange gestures; 1:05:30 MS hippie couple walk down street; 1:05:39 CU UCLA doctor discusses danger of LSD; 1:05:55 MS POV from front of ambulance, siren; 1:06:02 CU ambulance drive through gate; 1:06:09 CU ext building, sign: "Bellevue Hospital; 1:06:12 MCU fat black cop opens ambulance door; 1:06:16 ECU red siren; 1:06:19 CU Bellevue psychiatrist discusses increase of psychiatric; hospital admissions due to drug use; 1:06:47 VS psychiatric patient talks to doctor: smoking cigarette; nervous gestures, discusses "speed freaks and meth heads; 1:07:07 ECU sweaty upper lip, man holds cigarette; 1:07:10 ECU hand clenched nervously; 1:07:13 CU man leans in; 1:07:17 ECU sweaty chest; 1:07:19 ECU hands hold cigarette in lap; 1:07:22 MS doctor speaks to patient; 1:07:28 MS women exit building, TU to sign: "Psychiatric Hospital; 1:07:34 VS "adult" pot party: man in suit smokes joint, host passes; joint to woman on couch, host offers joint to woman in; black dress with flower lapel, she turns it down but he is; insistent, she pushes his hand away; 1:08:01 CU British man tells how his son overdosed on heroin; 1:09:07 MCU doctor discusses the inevitability of drug experimentation; 1:09:24 MS hippies smoking pot; 1:09:27 CU woman dancing wildly; 1:09:29 ECU man crumbling pot in hand; 1:09:32 CU Katmandu: man smoking from pipe; 1:09:37 CU doctor proposes to invite young people to join adult world; 1:09:59 MS NY: extremely LA office building, tilt to ext Grand Central; (the Helmsley Building); 1:10:04 LS San Francisco (bridge in bg); 1:10:08 MS Kathmandu (Katmandu): hippies sit in circle, smoke pot; 1:10:13 MCU dancing at Love-In; 1:10:16 VS two men hitchhiking; 1:10:19 ELS ext college campus; 1:10:22 MS students on campus; 1:10:24 VS hippie montage: boy and girl talk in front of clothing; store, various hippies on street, man using tongue to roll; joint, man crossing street, methadrine addicts, CU of girl; on meth, she closes her eyes; 1:10:42 VS credits roll over final images in film: display of; psychedelic artwork, San Francisco streetcar, men in cafe; NYC at night, ambulance drives through gate, siren spins; cloudy sky; 1:11:32 end