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MAGICAL SUBSTANCES: MUSIC ON FILM
Thailand Moment
Director
Les Blank
Producer
Harrod Blank
Contact
Harrod Blank
Les Blank Films Inc.
10341 San Pablo Ave. El Cerrito CA 94530
Art Car World
450 E. 8th St.
Douglas AZ 85607
[email protected]
1967
United States
10 min
Color
In 1967 Les Blank and Skip Gerson were hired to work in Thailand on a documentary about the B52 bomber and the bombing campaigns to Vietnam. The producer had difficulty getting Thai government permission to board the plane, and weeks went by in limbo while Les & Skip were on payroll with nothing to do so they traveled around and filmed what interested them. They made side trips to Chiang Mai, but otherwise focused in and around Bangkok. Ultimately, permission was never granted to board the bombers and the work for hire was scrapped.
Director
Les Blank, born in 1935 in Tampa, Florida, attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received a B.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in theatre. In 1967, after two years in the Ph.D. film program at the University of Southern California, and five years of freelancing in Los Angeles, he began his first independent films, on Texas blues singer Lightnin Hopkins (The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970)) and the newly forming sub-culture, known as flower children, (God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (1968)).
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