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You Are What You Eat

Dir. Barry Feinstein US 1968
Shot in both Los Angeles and San Francisco during 1966, this non-narrative documentary (carried only by folk rock and psychedelic sounds) features color footage of The Teen Age Fair at Hollywood Palladium, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention playing the September 1966 Freak Out at Shrine Auditorium, the body painting session that went on beforehand at Vito's Studio (Von Dutch paints one of the bodies), David Crosby looking like he just stepped off the cover of Younger Than Yesterday at a Love In, The Beatles driving away from their final concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, and shots of their screaming audience "reacting" to Tiny Tim and Eleanor Baruchian (from The Cake) singing "I Got You Babe". Hot Rods cruise Sunset Strip, early psychedelic happenings are filmed in San Francisco's Haight- Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park -- You Are What You Eat really captures the West Coast scene before anything crashed and burned. (75m)

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