Documentary Notes: Monterey Pop

Synopsis from Wikipedia:
Monterey Pop is a 1968 concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles. The painter Brice Marden has an "assistant camera" credit, and Bob Neuwirth, who figured prominently in Pennebaker's Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back, acted as stage manager. Titles for the film were by the illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin,Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, The Mamas & the Papas, The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, whose namesake set his guitar on fire, broke it on the stage, then threw the neck of his guitar in the crowd at the end of "Wild Thing".

Interesting article: https://www.scribd.com/doc/149392592/Monterey-Pop-home-video-D-A-Pennebaker-interview

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I watched this on the way to STL with the MFAs. It was something that kept everyone quiet on the 2 hours.  ... 

Notes from the documentary. 
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The colors are gorgeous. Lots of load in to the festival.
Long shots of the people coming into the festival. It's a great slice of history because it was one of the first large festivals of music in the US. The clothes. . .the performers...
How many cameras did they have for each performance? The Mamas and the Papas.
Was this filmed in 16mm?

They definitely captured the intensity of the concert.
Long shots of the crowd enjoying the music.
I like the different sequence of edits... the different crowd shots... heads bopping... feet tapping.

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Afterwards

I really appreciate the way that Pennebaker produced this documentary. It is truly a moment in time. I feel that this concert film/documentary is one that many people have looked towards in regards to concert films. I think about one of the first music docs that I ever watched was Truth or Dare when I was younger. It was a "behind the scenes" look at Madonna and her world tour. In that film she provided a behind the scenes look at her tour and the way that she relates with her dancers and others in her world.  While Pennebaker's doc wasn't quite the same, it feels that it could have been an influence to this film.