Dance Festival
Join distracted onlookers at a protest “be-in” at Camden's Roundhouse –alongside portraits of Lenin and a giant inflatable phallus.
Is it possible to summarise the good and bad of late-60s counter-culture in one film? One that arrived anonymously at the BFI, without sound, labelled "a group playing, people dancing, people watching, kids, huge penis imitation"? Like the leaflet held up in front of the camera that might just explain everything, the purpose of the gathering remains enigmatically out of focus.
Film of an unidentified protest in the Round House, Camden, London. This
footage is best summarised by the can label, 'a group playing, people dancing,
people watching, kids, huge penis imitation'.
The film was found in the Cinema Action collection, but the connection between
the group and the footage is not clear.