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Circuit Earth

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The Sixties • 43m

Directed by John Abrahall, Christopher Bamford, Robert Feldman, Michael Katz, Peter Krotoczynski • Documentary • 1971 • 43 minutes

CIRCUIT EARTH was produced in honor of the first Earth Day in 1970. Shot throughout Philadelphia during Earth Week in the lead up to festival, and at the festival itself, the film features community groups, citizens, and celebrities-all reflecting on the crisis facing the planet at the end of the 60s. The structure of the film reflects the thinking of anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist and systems theorist, Gregory Bateson (An Ecology Of Mind).

Amongst those appearing are Allen Ginsberg, Senator Ed Muskie, Paul Ehrlich, George Wald, the Broadway cast of HAIR, Jerry Rubin, Alan Watts, Ralph Nader, Redbone and Ed Sanders of The Fugs.

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alan watts, allen ginsberg, american (u.s.) studies, anthropology and archaeology, area studies, art and architecture, artists, authors, bullfrog films, circuit earth, citizenship, communication and media studies, cultural anthropology, documentary films, earth day, earthday2020, ed sanders, environment, environmental history, environmental justice, environmentalists, expository, film and video studies, george wald, historical anthropology, historical sociology, history, jerry rubin, languages and literature, musicians, north american studies, ovid, ovid_ca, paul ehrlich, performing arts, ralph nader, redbone, s_0041, s_0065, s_0074, s_0096, s_0136, s_0217, s_0270, s_0423, s_0488, s_0506, s_0642, s_0659, s_0667, senator ed muskie, social issues, social movements and activism, sociology, the 1960s and vietnam era, the broadway cast of hair, title_c, u.s. history

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