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The Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation
Directed by: D.A. Pennebaker
On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast that included Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his characteristic vérité style, D. A. Pennebaker captured it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend: Pete Townshend destroying his guitar; Hendrix burning his. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive document of the Monterey International Pop Festival ever produced, featuring the films Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey, and Shake! Otis at Monterey, along with every available complete performance filmed by Pennebaker and his crew.
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Monterey Pop
Year: 1967
Time: 78
Aspect Ratios
1.33:1
Audio
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Streaming Options
29562.
+25108
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Jimi Plays Monterey
Year: 1986
Time: 49
Aspect Ratios
1.33:1
Audio
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Streaming Options
18502.
+9053
Shake! Otis at Monterey
Year: 1989
Time: 19
Aspect Ratios
1.33:1
Audio
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Streaming Options
Monterey Pop
On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast that included Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his characteristic vérité style, D. A. Pennebaker captured it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend: Pete Townshend destroying his guitar, Jimi Hendrix burning his. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this timeless document of a landmark event.
Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey
Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding arrived in California virtually unknown. Returning stateside from London, where he had moved to launch his musical career, Hendrix exploded at Monterey, flooring an unsuspecting audience with his maniacal six-string pyrotechnics. Redding, a venerable star of Memphis’s Stax record label, seduced the “love crowd” in one of his best—and last—performances. Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey, feature the entire sets of these legendary musicians, performances that have entered rock-and-roll mythology.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Discs:
BD-50 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included:
- Audio commentary by Festival producer Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker
- Audio commentary by music critic and historian Charles Shaar Murray
- Video interview with Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker from 2002
- Theatrical trailer for Jimi Plays Monterey
- Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby
- Video excerpt of Pete Townshend discussing Jimi Hendrix
- Photo-essay by photographer Elaine Mayes
- Two audio commentaries by music critic and historian Peter Guralnick: the first on Otis Redding's Monterey performance, song by song, and on Redding before and after Monterey
- Original theatrical trailer
- Interview with Phil Walden, Redding's manager
- Radio spots
- A booklet featuring a new essay by music critic David Fricke
- Monterey Pop Festival scrapbook
- Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who
- Booklet featuring essays by critics Michael Lydon, Barney Hoskyns, and Armond White
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Monterey Pop
Monterey Pop is presented in it original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Supervised by director D.A. Pennebaker, this high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit Datacine from the original 16mm A/B camera reversal and the 35mm duplicate negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter, and flicker were manually removed using MTI's DRS system and Pixel Farm's PFClean system, while Digital Vision's DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The soundtrack was remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original analog 8-track tapes made at the concerts by Wally Heider, and conformed to picture by Ted Hall at POP Sound, Santa Monica. The soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD.
The soundtrack was remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original analog 8-track tapes made at the concerts by Wally Heider, and conformed to picture by Ted Hall at POP Sound, Santa Monica. The soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD.
Jimi Plays Monterey
Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey are presented in their original theatrical aspect ratios of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Supervised by director D.A. Pennebaker, thesehigh-definition digital transfer were created on a Spirit Datacine from the 35mm duplicate negatives. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter, and flicker were manually removed using MTI's DRS system and Pixel Farm's PFClean system, while Digital Vision's DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The soundtracks were remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original analog 8-track tapes made at the concerts by Wally Heider, and conformed to picture by Ted Hall at POP Sound, Santa Monica. The soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD.
The soundtracks were remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original analog 8-track tapes made at the concerts by Wally Heider, and conformed to picture by Ted Hall at POP Sound, Santa Monica. The soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD.
Shake! Otis at Monterey
Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey are presented in their original theatrical aspect ratios of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Supervised by director D.A. Pennebaker, thesehigh-definition digital transfer were created on a Spirit Datacine from the 35mm duplicate negatives. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter, and flicker were manually removed using MTI's DRS system and Pixel Farm's PFClean system, while Digital Vision's DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The soundtracks were remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original analog 8-track tapes made at the concerts by Wally Heider, and conformed to picture by Ted Hall at POP Sound, Santa Monica. The soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD.
The soundtracks were remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original analog 8-track tapes made at the concerts by Wally Heider, and conformed to picture by Ted Hall at POP Sound, Santa Monica. The soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD.