Fillmore (film)

Fillmore
Fillmore DVD cover
Directed byRichard T. Heffron
Eli F. Bleich
Produced byHerbert F. Decker[1]
StarringBill Graham
Santana
Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
Hot Tuna
Quicksilver Messenger Service
CinematographyAlan Capps
Albert Kihn
Paul Lohmann
Eric Saarinen
Edited byEli F. Bleich
Richard Clarke
Daniel Halas
Charles Tetoni
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 14, 1972 (1972-06-14)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Fillmore — also known as Fillmore: The Last Days, and as Last Days of the Fillmore — is a music documentary film, primarily shot at the Fillmore West auditorium in San Francisco, California, from June 29 through July 4, 1971.[2] It was released on June 14, 1972.[3][4]

Fillmore documents the final run of concerts at the Fillmore West, which closed after these shows. It features performances by several rock bands that emerged from the San Francisco music scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Santana, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The film also contains extensive footage of concert promoter Bill Graham, who organized the concerts and ran the Fillmore West. Additionally, the film includes documentary footage shot several years earlier in and around San Francisco, showing the emergence of the music scene there amid the counterculture of the 1960s and the hippie movement.[5]

Fillmore was shot on 16 mm film and was released in a widescreen format with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. It makes frequent use of split-screen images.

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