Monterey Pop

Monterey Pop
Theatrical release poster by Tomi Ungerer
Directed by	D. A. Pennebaker
Produced by	John Phillips Lou Adler
Starring	The Mamas & the Papas Canned Heat Simon & Garfunkel Hugh Masekela Jefferson Airplane Big Brother and the Holding Company The Animals The Who Country Joe and the Fish Otis Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience Ravi Shankar
Edited by	Nina Schulman
Distributed by	Leacock Pennebaker
Release date	December 26, 1968 (1968-12-26)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Monterey Pop is a 1968 American concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey International Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles. The painter Brice Marden has an "assistant camera" credit. Titles for the film were by the illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, the Mamas & the Papas, the Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, whose namesake set his guitar on fire, broke it on the stage, then threw the neck of his guitar in the crowd at the end of "Wild Thing".

In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[1]