FILM: DOYLESTOWN ROCKS...SUMMER 1970...THE FIRST ROCK FESTIVAL

FILM: DOYLESTOWN ROCKS...SUMMER 1970...THE FIRST ROCK FESTIVAL COPYRIGHT 1970 / 2010

RARE FOOTAGE...PHOTOGRAPHS / SCENES FROM THE UPCOMING FILM DOCUMENTARY...
"DOYLESTOWN ROCKS...SUMMER 1970...THE FIRST ROCK FESTIVAL"
A HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY FILM BY JAMES CLINTON CURRAN / Contact Tel: (323) 822-9027
COPYRIGHT 1970 / 2011 MOTION PICTURE AND STILL PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES CLINTON CURRAN
COPYRIGHT 1970 / 2011~ALL RIGHTS RESERVED~
MUSIC SOUNDTRACK BY To-Be-Determined

...DOYLESTOWN HISTORY...AUGUST 21st, 1970 On A HOT AND HUMID SUMMER DAY IN DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA,
AN ENTREPRENEUR NAMED "SCOTT TUTT" WHO HAPPENED TO BE THE SON OF THE POLICE CHIEF OF DOYLESTOWN WAS THE
FIRST PERSON TO EVER SUCCESSFULLY HOLD A ROCK FESTIVAL ON A 22 ACRE FIELD IN THE
NORTHEAST SECTION OFF LIMEKILN ROAD DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA (See Photograph).
AFTER MUCH DELIBERATION BETWEEN THE PROMOTER SCOTT TUTT AND THE PARANOID AND STUFFY ATTITUDE OF THE DOYLESTOWN BOROUGH COUNCIL, SCOTT TUTT WAS
DENIED USE OF THE WAR MEMORIAL FIELD AND THE MERCER MOROVIAN TILE WORKS FOR FEAR OF DAMAGES THAT MAY BE CAUSED BY
"UNCONTOLLABLE OUTSIDERS" (Crazies), THE FESTIVAL FEATURING SUCH ACTS AS "THE AMERICAN DREAM" AND "THE ILLUSION" WAS PULLED OFF WITHOUT A HITCH.
THE ONLY POLICE INCIDENT OCCURED ON THE MOURNING OF AUGUST 21st AT 9:30 AM WHEN A NAKED YOUNG MAN STROLLED
ACROSS THE FIELD AND WAS QUICKLY ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC NUDITY.
DOYLESTOWN HASN'T SEEN THIS MUCH FUN SINCE THAT DAY OF AUGUST 21st, 1970.

...40 YEARS LATER AND VIEWED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THIS IS THE ONLY SHORT FILM AVAILABLE WHICH VISUALLY DOCUMENTS
THE MOST FUN DOYLESTOWN HAS SEEN IN YEARS. / PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES CLINTON CURRRAN.

...SEE IT ALL HERE...THE HIPPIES, MUSICIANS, POLICEMEN, ROCKERS, STONERS AND MOTORCYCLE CLUB GANGS...EVEN CHILDREN AND ANIMALS HUNG OUT
ON THAT HOT SUMMER DAY IN "DOYLESTOWN ROCKS...SUMMER 1970...THE FIRST ROCK FESTIVAL".
A HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY FILM SHORT BY JAMES CLINTON CURRAN
COPYRIGHT 1970 / 2010 MOTION PICTURE AND STILL PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES CLINTON CURRAN
SILENT FILM SHOT IN FULL COLOR USING A BOLEX P2 ZOOM RELEX MOVIE CAMERA
MUSIC SOUNDTRACK BY TBD

NOTES: "F. SCOTT TUTT" WAS THE SON OF THE DOYLESTOWN POLICE CHIEF / GRADUATED CENTRAL BUCKS HIGH SCHOOL WEST IN 1967 / OWNED AND OPERATED
A RECORD-HEAD SHOP ON MAIN STREET IN DOYLESTOWN CALLED "THE PURPLE PORPOISE" / PROMOTED (Networked) MUSICIANS.

RECENTLY TRANSFERRED TO DVD AND SOON ON YouTube...I WAS ONLY 16 YEARS OLD WHEN I SHOT THIS FILM AND THIS WAS THE FIRST FILM I EVER SHOT SO IT'S
NOT PERFECT, HOWEVER IT DOES PORTRAY EXACTLTY THE AMBIENCE OF THE TIMES.

HERE ARE 70 CLIPS FROM THE FILM FOR YOU TO REMEMBER THAT HISTORICAL DAY BY.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2052148&id=1145171450&l=9d98b5e745

THE TOP 10 SONGS OF 1970...
1. Layla - Derek and the Dominos
2. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
3. Let It Be - The Beatles
4. Your Song - Elton John
5. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine - James Brown
6. Lola - The Kinks
7. Who'll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
8. Fire and Rain - James Taylor
9. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
10. All Right Now - Free

STILL PHOTOGRAPHS:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2052148&id=1145171450&l=9d98b5e745

ADDRESS ALL INQUIRIES TO:
jamesclintoncurran@hotmail.com

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[katiebabie218]

Just to help make it historically accurate his name is R. Scott Tutt & he graduated CB in 1964. He was the DJ for all the Sock Hops I went to from '67 to '69 while I was at Unami Junior HIgh.

[katiebabie218]

Actually Scott's record shop was on State St & was called the Music Box. The Purple Porpoise was a clothing boutique that was downstairs of the Music Box. The Music Box later moved to Main across from Gino's. I don't have an account so I'm using my daughter Katie's acct

[katiebabie218]

I was there & had a great time. Later moved to Nashville where I worked w/ Scott on many musical productions including the first Alabama Billboard chart record in 1977. Scott discovered & named Alabama, he's still workin in the music business. I graduated CBW in 1972. Jon D'Amelio

[bwc2151]

Wow it looks like the last one went thru, at last, anyway I was the class of '69 as well back when it wasn't West or East or South or - to come? North and NNE and..... Well I remember Chief Tutt - Scott's dad as my Mom was secretary in the boro office which was in the same building. I could go on (I actually sat on his lap 50 yrs. ago) but.. Brad Cornell look me up in your year book but I may not look familiar. Then again?.. Lost my year book awhile back.

[bwc2151]

I've been trying to post and changing things and anyway I'll try this once more and see if it works. I believe it was Chris Stratton - not Dalton - he was class '68 and fast as lighting as I remember on the track team.

[mariwyl]

I was there!!! I don't see me, but at 7:52 is Chris Dalton(?), class of '68. :-) I was class of '69. Wow! I still remember parts of it. LOL

[mwj18901]

Great job James even though I don't see me. I was part of Scott Tutt productions