| Youth. For the first time in history, that was what it was all about. And there were enough of us and we were vocal enough to stop wars. There is more 8mm and Super 8 footage in my boxes from this time than stills, so this isn't a great coverage. Maybe you'll consider it of passing interest. The Moratoriums were important to me as I had 'conscientiously objected' to conscription and watched my school friends go to Vietnam thinking it was some teenage lark. One came back without feet, having stepped on a mine while getting water for tea. There were all ages in those marches but the faces seem all young in these images. "The Odyssey" Festival at Wallacia (1971) in NSW was the first pop festival I attended,
and sometime I'll transfer the Super 8 movie. There was more of the
people than the bands, these were social occasions, tribal reinforcement
but it shows Tully waking the crowd at dawn. Since I was student poor
and couldn't afford the film, it is mostly single
frame streams with bursts of live action. The still pictures here include a tent
sign that I photographed over the days, and it seems I was interested a
lot in the girls. |