Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)

Directed by

Peter Whitehead

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary captures the music, fashion, and counterculture of 1960s London. It shows concerts, interviews, nightclubs, street scenes, and a protest march.

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What happens

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London is a 1967 British documentary film directed, written and produced by Peter Whitehead. It includes sequences of "Swinging London" with accompanying contemporary pop music, concert and studio performances by musicians including the Rolling Stones and the first professional footage filmed of Pink Floyd, and several interviews. It is notable for showing footage shot inside the short-lived UFO Club, the British counter-culture night club in the basement of 31 Tottenham Court Road, and at The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream multi-artist event held in the Great Hall of the Alexandra Palace, including John Lennon. The film also shows scenes of soldiers parading in scarlet jackets and bearskins, London street scenes, a protest march, psychedelic patterns being painted on a semi-naked girl, the arrival of Playboy Bunny girls by plane, and guests including Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, Terence Stamp, and Jim Brown arriving at the premiere of Polanski's film Cul-de-sac (1966). The film has been described as "what for many critics was the definitive document of swinging London, a white-hot crucible of music, fashion and film." The title is taken from a line in Allen Ginsberg's poem "Who Be Kind To". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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