What Was So Wonderful About The 1960s?
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2009
- To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. I am very proud of the television series I made for PBS called Making Sense of the Sixties. I had the chance to spend a year examining my youth and how I became an active member of the 60s generation. If you are from that generation or a child of the 60s, I think you would find the entire series of value. To see my other work visit www.theHoffmancollection.com
The music was what was good about the 60s, and whatever was good about the 60s had music as the base. Without the music the 60s would have been boring and painful.
Maybe that applies to every era. Music being the basis of its identity.It might be hard to conjure up the great hits of 1776 to go along withthe American Rebellion. Get it?
Being a 14 year old, whose grown up in the modern world, it's so amazing to see life 50 years ago. I wish I could get a Delorean and travel back to the 60s.
Oh, finally I've found this series. They were held on RTV Slovenija on mondays, 8 o'clock in the evening, around year 2000.
Splendid, I say. This documentary told us so much about the world of our parent's youth.
Tnank you, David, so much! 😇
Sanda; The series is called Making Sense Of The Sixties. search those words on my CZcams channel to find other sections of the series posted as clips.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker, I already did. Thank you very much!
These series are just awesome!
Talk about timing! I was watching so many of your '60's and 50's documentaries this past week. Incoming!! Riots in Minneapolis and Atlanta..reminded me of the footage of Kent State and the Vietnam riots..some things just don't change after all!! I was born in 1956, so most of my memories of TV were of the Vietnam war.
I was a teenager in the 60s.
I'm 71 now.
3 songs I care about.
For What It's Worth,
Sorrow - Pink Floyd,
Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan.
That has got to be one of the best pieces of intro music ever?
For What It's Worth would be my choice. 🙂
Many of these interviews were conducted about twenty years after the 1960s ended. I wonder what those still alive think today as we near the fifty year mark?
Well, at the 50 year mark: Here I am: The shinny lure was that it sounded so enlightened, so then Felt good, we baby boomers believed we were bringing in a New & Better world. It was 99% Fools Gold, a Toxic Lie. We chose The Wrong Future.. Second thoughts about the '60's The Destructive Generation... Hello 2019 with a gaggle of Academic Radicals making loud empty drum noise.. God Bless Ya'll... MAGA P.S.: Do you know what "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out" meant & who said it? I do.. It was & still is Psychological filth.. How about "We are going to fundamentally transform America." Do you even care what that means? The Idea is MAGA, not a person..
@@mlluke7506 As a woman, I value a lot of what came out of the sixties. Much of what you refer to I think came later ie the eighties. Sometimes it feels to me that a lot of the good work done in the sixties was undermined starting about then. At least in Australia.
@@mlluke7506 I get the feeling you're a Caucasian guy
@@agentj1326 Yes, as so many world wide have benefited from that condition..!!
@@mlluke7506 good thing they're going to have a sperm count of zero by 2050
I could watch Sixties videos all day. That time was the best.
Some of it still lingered till ‘71 in the fall where I lived.
Very excellent documentary. I watched it in its original run on PBS.
I'm enjoying this series so much, Mr. Hoffman! Thank you so much for sharing your work. ❤
I watched the original series, taped them, and then proceeded to wear out the VHS tapes! This is such an important and enlightening documentary. Excellent music and narration.
Thank you. If you search the words "making sense of" on my CZcams channel you will find other large clips from the complete series.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thank you David! I always wondered if there was a DVD made or if it was available in a 'purchase to own' format? This is my favorite documentary - and what got me started into the documentary genre!
There are DVDs available. Contact my office at allinaday@aol.com
David Hoffman filmmaker
As a child growoing up in the fifties what I remember was the fakeness of it all.The TV shows weren't real and sex didn't exist. It was a time of great repression, really very depressing. I wasn't allowed to be myself. Rebellion was the answer to this repressive condition and it had to be done. It was not a happy time even though there were happy moments to be sure...I'm glad I lived through the 50's and I am glad that decade is good and over.
I understand --- and thank you for sharing your thoughts. I admire rebels WITH a cause to make things better as you have done.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
I was there. Yes, I protested the war, and would do it again. But the nagging question in my head, and sometimes shared, during that whole time was "Where are the solutions?" We were protesting against, but except for promoting love - which is always good - we didn't have or promote any down-to-earth solutions. How does one promote peace on a governmental level? Nothing was proposed at the time, that I know of. It was a question that haunted me.
It makes me smile to see George Leonard in your videos, David. I knew him from Aikido training. He taught in Mill Valley, and I trained there about once a week, with Wendy Palmer, and went to seminars there. I have some footage of him from those times.
Clean for Gene
The music, fashion, literature, counter culture, political and socioeconomic climate reveals so much to us now but its great to hear from those who lived and witnessed it first hand.
Previous comment is hugely helpful. I've been trying to replace my aging VHS set of the series. it's a key part of my high school senior seminar. Thanks for a great piece of work.
What's wrong with learning how to cook and clean? I'd rather stay home and take care of kids than going to work. Working is stressful especially if you got a micromanager boss and jealous co-workers. I dread going to work everyday. It's hurting my health. My hair is falling out and I'm losing weight. I hate my job.
It's even hard working if your a single parent.I am and worked all the time while trying to raise a child.shes now 13 and I'm retired now.
This is THE best presentation of the 60's that I have ever seen and is rivaled in my mind only by Theodore Roszak's "Making of a Counterculture." I saw it when it first aired and have cited it innumerable papers as well as in my Master's Thesis. And, I cannot tell you how many people that I have recommended this documentary to as a way of helping them understand not only the 60's as it happened, but also as it shaped the world that our children live in today. You are to be commend. Thank you for making it available...it is very generous of you~
Thank you so much. I agree about Theodore Roszak. These days, I mostly sell DVDs of the entire series to libraries, schools, and collectors. I make the DVDs from my masters. Though made what seems like a century ago, I remain very proud of what I and my team did to “make sense of the 60s.”
David Hoffman-filmmaker.
David Hoffman
As well you and your team should be~ I actually bought the series, lent it to one of my kids and I really don't think I'm ever going to get it back! Thanks again, David~ Namaste
David Hoffman I sent you an email about obtaining the series...did you get it?
namaste2706 I did not get it. I am at allinaday@aol.com. Thank you.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Grew up around Levittown. It’s wild to think that at one point, the sparsely placed single family home or the condo/apartment was the only way suburbanites and externalities lived. Before the subdivision/development era.
Grew up with 7 siblings, born from ‘49 - ‘59 by the UW Madison, we had a front row seat to the 60’s too many things to talk about, I’m enjoying reading other People’s experiences, a Turbulent time
I born in 1949 and my dad was in the service and he was gone a lot to over seas and away from home. When he did come home he treated me like his little private... I am a female and would start crying and that was bad.So in the 60s I was a runaway teenager..... 2020
You can loose part of yourself being in the services
Hi Mr, Hoffman, thanks for sharing the wonderful "Making Sense of the 60s". It took me a while to identify each individual episode since you didn't mention the original episode names anywhere. And it seems there is a still one episode missing, the final episode called "Legacies of the 60s". Just to benefit others, Episode 1 is called "Seeds of the Sixties", which Mr. Hoffman uploaded in 2 parts: part 1 "Song Reveals Women In The 1950s", part 2 "Communists Caused Rock & Roll". Episode 2 is "We Can Change the World", uploaded as "Early 1960s - A Time Of Innocence" and "The Civil Rights Movement was Glorious". Episode 3 is "Breaking Boundaries, Testing Limits", uploaded as "Hippies Remember The Glory Days" and "What The 1960s Did To America". Episode 4 is "In a Dark Time", uploaded as "Vietnam Touched Off A Firestorm" and "Americans Were Angry In 1968". Episode 5 is "Picking Up the Pieces", uploaded as "How The Vietnam War Affected America" and "They Never Forgot The 1960s". Episode 6, as I said, is missing.
Thank you for your interest in my series. I am very proud of it -- its style and insights. 18 months it took to make it. The New York Times had TWO reviews of it - on positive and the other negative.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
David Hoffman
Thanks for replying, Mr. Hoffman. Will you be uploading the final episode "Legacies of the 60s"? If you already have, I couldn't find it.
No. I save that last episode for folks who buy the series from me on 6 DVDs. Thank you for your interest in the series.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
David Hoffman
Hi Mr. Hoffman, I am a history teacher in San Francisco and my colleagues and I love this series; is there any way to purchase it on DVD? I can't find it online. I would be grateful for any direction you could provide.
Jenny Kline
Thank you for your query, Jenny. To answer your question, it is best to e-mail me at allinaday@aol.com.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
Elaine. Did you see both video clips. This is a one hour program and each clip is 30 minutes. You also should look at Show two of the series. It examines some of the questions you are raising. I agree with your basic analysis.
Thank you
David Hoffman -- filmmaker
elaine31347 - Thank you for writing. My research, and my work, and my film, shows that while everybody felt that they were not normal and somebody else was, in fact nobody was normal. The whole time was very repressed for most middle-class kids. I hope you enjoy the view of it that I chose to present in this film.
David Hoffman -- filmmaker
I LOVED this series when it came out 30+ years ago. But BE WARNED... the shows were an HOUR long and these are only half the length. So I'm glad I didn't toss my old VHS tapes!
I made the series. You are correct. Each program, and there are six, is one hour long.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Wonderful!
Thank you for your comment.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
The 1960's was great because I was born in the '60s. And there was the summer of love and Woodstock and the moon landing. I will always love being from the '60s.
i'm glad i found this, thanx 4 uploading. it's an eye-opener. i knew something was up with not only the expectations within the family but also the way i was sheltered. rebelled when i was 21, then i could breathe on my own. family treated me like a black sheep but i didn't care. i made a commitment 2 not become them.
Mr. Hoffman, I am having trouble trying to configurate your show Making Sense of the '60s. I have only found a couple of the full-hour episodes. Others are these episodes split into half-hour videos with different titles. Is episode three, 'Breaking Boundaries, Testing Limits' available? I cannot seem to find it.
22:27 Isn’t that Darrin from ‘Bewitched’? (ie. Dick York)
Sure is! A rather young and young sounding Dick York!
"Nobody wants to be a, Mr. Bungle! " ...memories
"Do what thou wilt"
It is to submit to one's will (mostly sexual will).
To be a slave of unconscious desire, disregarding consequence of actions.
Once one put order and chaos in the same box, peace and suffering in the same box, then there is no order and peace.
It is a soul trap, a soul snare.
Partly what I see (perceived) happened in the 60's is that.
Partly is the fight to free from the bond of enslavement (Civil right movement).
It (60's) is a story of "Freedom and Enslavement".
Very interesting...
Gin,
Film director - Oliver stone. Cool!
I spent June 67 to June 68 in the 2nd Corps Qui-Nhon Vietnam, trust me, it wasn't too enjoyable, lol.
I was born in1963.late end baby boomer. I was born in raised in Oceanside , Cal.I was 10 months old when President Kennedy was shot.I started elementary school in 68.my parents were both children of the depression and young adults during WW2.I was raised upper middle class.my father was ex navy/military.my mother was pretty cool and at times liberal for her generation.My father was just the opposite of her.my mother was born and raised in the south and saw a lot of horrible injust things.my father grew up in North Dakota and California.
The '60s was a wonderful time to grow up. I was 10 in '60 and 20 in '70, so that was pretty much all my really formative years. During that time we were being lied to by politicians, corporations, by religion and on and on. So we began questioning everything to see if it was a lie or not. We started a revolution that is still continuing to this day. We protested against living boring, dull lives working in punch press factories for a gold watch after 50 years. But during the '60s there was a revolution in the way people were thinking and what they were thinking about. I had so many conversations with people during the '60s on really off the wall topics. Especially after LSD people were expanding their minds.
How much are the six DVDs and where can I purchase it?
I make the DVDs from my video masters. You can e-mail me to find out more at allinaday@aol.com.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Wow Young families had it really good now everything is shit how the hell did we get to this point
Well, this was far more education than I expected to receive from a PBS production. I learned a lot in the last half hour. Long after it was made, this film is excellent for the thoughts it provokes about why people rebelled in the 1960s. When I began to understand the extent of social manipulation in America, I came to write off the 1960s as arising from a Psychological Operation. Later, I had pretty well proven to myself that society was also manipulated prior to the 1950s. I developed an impression of competing factions grappling for control over society, which they exerted by gaining acceptance as leadership, so they and their ways could hold authority.
This film reminds me that whatever propaganda or infiltration existed, my Mother and my Aunt weren't making it all up when they said American suburban society was simplistic, conformist, stifling and sexually repressive. I think they correctly complained of the previous generation's leadership, who believed it was their business to teach conformity at an early age. What makes this complaint so valid is the obvious nature of social pressure exerted by schools, government and media. These became the accepted pressures within families and in individual minds because society's leadership socially engineered it.
My impression is that the prevailing leadership group was challenged during the 1960s by an equally manipulative new group. Jane Elliot's insane Blue Eyed, Brown Eyed school experiment is proof of the manipulation and the institutional environment that enabled it. What I like about this documentary is to be reminded that the 1950s society really did not satisfy the youths' needs during their upbringing. I had also forgotten how many people said the parents of the 1960s gave their kids everything, yet recalling the Depression warned their children they must conform and work hard to earn a nice home. I think it's both the interview footage and the snippets of broadcast and schooling footage that makes this documentary so good.
And about NOW? Holy Moly! The place is going berserk. I think that subsequent to the development of broadcast media, and the Industrial Revolution, the groups of people loosely identified as Globalists made a gambit for political and economic control of the world. Communism is only one aspect of their work as Socialism is only one aspect of Communism. Anyway, that effort is largely busted. They had to tank various economies, and to import some populations to subdue others, and have bungled the whole thing by failing to limit its disruptive effects, and to conceal it generally. That's why their vassal, the Democrat Party, now comprises of paid Indoctrinees/Indoctrinators frantically accusing their political competitors of being Russian Agents, and Fascists.
What to do? I'm starting over in life yet again. There came a point when I saw a need to simply shitcan whatever influences have hindered me, and to gain whatever skills and perspective will help me.
Basically, if you removed from the 1960s the drugs and habitually licentious sex, while retaining the previous generation's work ethic and experience of hard times, you'd have a much better result.
PBS has been a propaganda device for as long as I've been alive or longer. Frankly, Joe McCarthy was right. Yet this documentary is an example of what was right about liberal arts education and educational TV for adults. It's also very pleasant to be reminded by this film what I appreciated about the generation or two before mine.
Although there was a violent part of the 60s there was also a love culture going on at the same time. From I'd say 1966 to 1970 and the Kent State student killings by the National Guard. That was the end. But people were exchanging thoughts under the net of the war and we were coming up with all kinds of astounding ideas. People talked a lot in the 60s and ideas were flying left and right on everything from organic farming to signing up people to vote. We showed our love for each other and made love as often as we could. Women were taking the pill and no longer were afraid of getting pregnant. Women liked sex just as much as men. And sex was OK just for sex. It didn't have to be procreating or a nasty affair. People were exchanging all of themselves if you know what I mean. We were very dedicated to the counter culture, making a new world. Now we have gay rights, civil rights, women's rights and on and on. We started that. Much changed. I think we did a pretty good job of shaking things up.
The utter ignorance and lack of respect for the elders is shocking.
We honestly believed that we could bring about real social change. It was a period of hope and determination that had been missing in the 50s. Life in the 50s was an artificial construct that our Parents wanted for us. They didn’t talk about what they had been through, and they had a plan for our lives. It was a plan in which we saw the cracks and flaws, and we didn’t want those lives. We thought that with numbers, commitment, and enough belief and action we could prevail. We missed a lot of important pieces to the puzzle...but we tried.🖤🇨🇦
Seems to be the same way now as then. And we wonder how did our Kids' & Grands turn out. Rebel & change the world..
the 60s make sense to me i just like to learn about the history of the breakdowns of traditional society
It’s like someone hit the pause button in 1975 and released it in 2020
Haha this video just confirms that if we are looking for role models in TV we are practically fucked, no matter which decade it is.
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I wish if you still got up went to work and worked hard things got better...I know so many think that the fifties are possible again I wish it was...but its just not reality in 2019..so we need another real revolution!!
Part One: Seeds of the Sixties
In the 1950s, people were repressed by rules. In 2015, people are repressed by technology
+Edward Bliss There is nothing to rebel against in this day of age. This is what is leading to the future generations of non-repressed individuals who get their way and no one can do anything to stop it.
Technology is just the gateway to infinite freedom.
+Random Ranting ...Which can be taken for granted. Positive, Negative.
I find the opening sequence disorienting due to the subsequent interviewee's voice audio coming in over the present interviewee's video. Very odd choice.
Thank you for pointing out your concern. The title heading is incorrect but the style of filmmaking you are commenting on is one that I created to give a feeling that many voices were going to be in the film. I changed the title. Take a look at more than 5 min. of the clip when you have the time.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
Not sure what you mean by the title heading, but I hear what you are saying with the voices. I could imagine a crossfade of both video and audio working better, but perhaps that wasn't available in the editing technology in the time this was made. I watched the rest of this video on your recommendation. Interesting perspectives and archival footage. Gives me a little more insight into my parents.
Spinntyte: You are correct. At the time, this was a new idea, the audio cross fade, and after we tried it, other documentary filmmakers used the technique as well. For me, (maybe it is my age) the technique still works. I hope that the documentary provides you insights that have meaning for you.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
You had to be there i think and thank god I was. Turmoil superb music great movies. Nam not so great.
Do I see a young Dick York?
Yep
22:55 Dick York😂
dont know what familys they grew up in the 50 and 60 but the bs wasnt my life
For a start ! get rid of the sodding drums, Fathers were too knackered with five and half days work , 8 till 6, and most in manual jobs,, to be bothered with the kids..
Being Tired of being told what to do & not to do. We were Smart enough to know that Nam was wrong. The main thing I like about the 60's was the Girls. They were woman. Smelled Good, Soft.,
The drugs, MAAAAAAAN!!!!!
I WAS A TEENAGER IN MOST OF THE SIXTIES I WAS BORN IN 1948 IN MY HOMETOWN CORK CITY IRELAND 🇮🇪 THE EARLY 60s IN IRELAND WERE NOT THAT GREAT FOR ORDINARY WORKING CLASS PEOPLE AND THE UNEMPLOYED I WORKED IN JONES PAWNBROKERS ON SHANDON STREET CORK CITY AND I NEVER SAW SMILES ON THE REGULAR CUSTOMERS FACES BUT I SAW PREMATURE AGEING ON THEIR FACES AND HOPELESSNESS IN THEIR EYES THERE WAS A CATTLE SHIP LEFT CORK CITY 3 TIMES A WEEK CARRYING IRISH PEOPLE FROM CORK AND OTHER PARTS OF IRELAND TO ALL PARTS OF BRITAIN ESPECIALLY LONDON AND THEY WERE NOT MADE VERY WELCOME THERE SOME LODGING HOUSES HAD SIGNS UP NO IRISH NO BLACKS NO DOGS NEED APPLY FOR ACCOMMODATION I HAD TO LEAVE MYSELF ON THAT SHIP IT WAS CALLED THE INNISFALLEN IN 1965 TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT AS THE WAGES I WAS GETTING IN CORK WERE VERY LOW BUT I WAS O K I HAD RELATIVES IN LONDON SO I GOT A JOB WITHIN A WEEK THROUGH MY COUSINS INFLUENCE IN THE SELMER MUSIC COMPANY IN CLERKENWELL NORTH LONDON I ENJOYED SO CALLED SWINGING LONDON BECAUSE OF THE NIGHTLIFE THE SHOWS AND THE BARS AND THE LADIES DANCE HALLS TOO I CAME BACT TO CORK CITY WHEN THINGS IMPROVED AND AM STILL HERE I NEVER LOOKED AT THE PAST THROUGH ROSE COLOURED GLASSES AND SENTIMENT LIKE SOME PEOPLE WHO SAY AH THEY WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS I AM A REALIST THANK GOD I AM NOT AND NEVER WILL BE A DISNEYLAND DREAMER
Those are amazing images you describe. Tough to see. Tough to be.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker YES A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVED FROM WEEK TO WEEK SOME EVEN DAY TO DAY ESPECIALLY THE POOR PEOPLE WITH LARGE FAMILIES IT WAS THE SAME ALL OVER IRELAND AT THAT TIME
the 9 to 5 thing is nice if u like it, but some of us cant stand that crap, and this country is terrible at serving us. absolutely f*cking terrible. 10:25