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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Bull Island II
This is another photo from the lamentable Bull Island Rock Festival.
That's the Wabash River the hippies are cavorting in.
1969 was the year Bob Dylan did the Isle of Wight Festival. (The Isle of Wight is an island in the Solent, the straights off the South coast of Hampshire.) Thousands trekked there, filling the ferries - and even a hovercraft service at the time - while others illegally rented river boats. The beaches were full of nude bathers, which was against the law at the time, but the police on the island were told by the Hampshire Constabulary not to make any arrests.The authorities had a hard time coping. It was most newsworthy but the local BBC dispatched a team using videotape which of course could not be censored. Independent Southern TV dispatched a team using film. The BBC videotape was unusable so they had to buy the Southern TV film. I was told years later by someone in the Southampton newsroom that they spent hours cutting full frontal scenes onto the cutting room floor. Apparently, the hippies were so stoned they kept turning round and dancing to the cameras. The end result was some of the most bizarre news coverage of all time, with what is perhaps best described as "chunks" of sound accompanying bottoms, more bottoms and even more bottoms.
Someone should have scooped up the cuttings off the floor and spliced them into a corresponding frontal feature with choppy sound. It would sell today.
1969 was the year Bob Dylan did the Isle of Wight Festival. (The Isle of Wight is an island in the Solent, the straights off the South coast of Hampshire.) Thousands trekked there, filling the ferries - and even a hovercraft service at the time - while others illegally rented river boats. The beaches were full of nude bathers, which was against the law at the time, but the police on the island were told by the Hampshire Constabulary not to make any arrests.The authorities had a hard time coping. It was most newsworthy but the local BBC dispatched a team using videotape which of course could not be censored. Independent Southern TV dispatched a team using film. The BBC videotape was unusable so they had to buy the Southern TV film. I was told years later by someone in the Southampton newsroom that they spent hours cutting full frontal scenes onto the cutting room floor. Apparently, the hippies were so stoned they kept turning round and dancing to the cameras. The end result was some of the most bizarre news coverage of all time, with what is perhaps best described as "chunks" of sound accompanying bottoms, more bottoms and even more bottoms.
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