Vito Paulekas
Biography: Vitautus Alphonsus "Vito" Paulekas (20 May 1913 – 25 October 1992) was an American artist and bohemian, who was most notable for his leading role in the Southern California "freak scene" of the 1960s, and his influence on musicians including The Byrds, Love and Frank Zappa.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 20, 1913
Deathday: October 25, 1992
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Mondo Bizarro
1966-08-25
Mondo Bizarro
Overview: A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women's dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Frederick's of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and eats glass, checks out the art and peace scene in Los Angeles, takes in Easter week with vacationing college students on Balboa Island, observes a German audience enjoying a play about Nazi sadism, and, with the help of powerful military lenses, spies on a Lebanese white-slavery auction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-25
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
2016-03-13
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
Overview: A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-13
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LSD-25
1967-01-01
LSD-25
Overview: The dangers of LSD are driven home to teenagers in this classroom training film, which is "narrated" by an LSD tab. The "tab" tells kids that he is "a depth charge in the mind!" and various teenagers are shwn babbling about their LSD experiences. "Experts" are presented who warn that LSD makes kids "paint themselves green" and has various other horrible side effects, the most serious of which is that it gives users a police record, and that there is "no known way of getting your fingerprints out of a police file once they're in there."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Mondo Hollywood
1967-06-30
Mondo Hollywood
Overview: Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount, hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe. An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film, where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing, but also narrated their own scenes. The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan - desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the 'Hollywood' sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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Something's Happening
1967-12-19
Something's Happening
Overview: A documentary chronicling the "youth movement" of the late '60s on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-19
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The White Horse Gang
1972-01-01
The White Horse Gang
Overview: To raise money for drugs and other lush two boys and a girl, decide to kidnap a kid, but reality proves very different from what they seen on television.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Trip
1967-08-23
The Trip
Overview: After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-23
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