Festival folk music at Newport, 1963-1966

9781681433530

Director-approved blu-ray special edition

1 Blu-ray disc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages)
digital optical Monaural
video file Blu-Ray region A
polychrome

CHVR: Not rated
MPAA: Not rated

Originally released as a motion picture in 1967
Aspect ratio, 1.33:1
Supplements: Making festival, "When we played Newport, " featuring interview outtakes, a 2007 interview with Murray Lerner, and interviews recorded by Lerner between 2006 and 2010 with music festival producer George Wein and musicians Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Buffy Saint-Marie, Pete Seeger, and Peter Yarrow (approximately 30 min.); unreleased perormances, a selection of complete outtake performances, recorded 1963 and 1964, by Johnny Cash, Odetta, Clarence Ashley, Elizabeth Cotten, John Lee Hooker, and Tom Paxton (approximately 21 min.)
Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Theodore Bikel, Mike Bloomfield, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Cousin Emmy, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Mimi and Dick Fariña, the Freedom Singers, the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Spider John Koerner, Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, Tex Logan, Johannes "Spokes" Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Odetta, the Osborne Brothers, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Alexander "Eck" Robertson, the Sacred Harp Singers, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, the Staple Singers, the Swan Silvertones, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, the Ed and Lonnie Young Fife and Drum Corps, and others
Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player; Aspect ratio, 1.33:1 presentation; Monaural

2276000

715515203715

Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, performer
Aldin, Mary Katherine, writer of supplementary textual content
Alk, Howard, editor of moving image work
Baez, Joan, performer, interviewee
Barker, Horton, 1889-1973, performer
Beers, Bob, 1920-1972, performer
Bloomfield, Michael, performer
Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, performer
Cash, Johnny, performer
Collins, Judy, 1939- performer, interviewee
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Donovan, 1946- performer
Dylan, Bob, 1941- performer
Emmy, Cousin, 1903-1980, performer
Fariña, Mimi, performer
Fariña, Richard, performer
Freedom Singers (SNCC), performer
Hamer, Fannie Lou, performer
House, Son, performer
Howlin' Wolf, 1910-1976, performer
Hurt, Mississippi John, 1892-1966, performer
Janus Films, production company
Jug Band, performer
Koerner, John, performer
Kweskin, Jim, performer
Lerner, Murray, film director, film producer
Logan, Tex, performer
Mashiyane, Spokes, performer
McDowell, Fred, performer
McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996, performer
Newport Folk Festival
Odetta, 1930-2008, performer, interviewee
Osborne Brothers, performer
Patchke Productions, production company
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, performer
Peter, Paul, and Mary (Musical group), performer
Petrusich, Amanda, writer of supplementary textual content
Robertson, Eck, 1887-1975, performer
Sainte-Marie, Buffy, performer, interviewee
Sea Island Singers, performer
Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, performer, interviewee
Staple Singers, performer
Swan Silvertones, performer
Terry, Sonny, performer