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"My Hippies"
A Documentary Film Treatment
© 2005 By Caleb John Clark
www.plocktau.com

Contents
OVERVIEW.......................................................................................................................2
OUTLINE...........................................................................................................................2
LOGLINE...........................................................................................................................2
SCOPE OF FILM................................................................................................................3
LENGTH, DISTRIBUTION AND MEDIA ........................................................................3
PRODUCTION ELEMENTS..............................................................................................3
SUBJECTS .........................................................................................................................4
OVERVIEW
My Hippies explores the hippie revolution from the personal
perspective of a hippie kid who's mother, step father, aunt
and uncle all met on San Francisco's Haight Street in 1969.
Now, living in the same city and facing old age together,
they share their art, films, unreleased music, and thoughts
about their wild trip.
OUTLINE
1. Beginning: Who where these people before the dropped out?.
What world did they grow up in?
2. Middle: What did they do during the hippie times?
3. End: Looking back, what thoughts do they have about the
times and about dropping back in?
LOGLINE
The hippies grew up during WWII and the Cold War. As young
adults they experienced the Korean war, the civil rights
fight and Vietnam. Their America was war torn, conservative
and in a lot of ways, rife with fear.
Then in the late 1960s thousands of them spontaneously
dropped out of that America and somehow found each other in
places like San Francisco. Fear became fun, nuclear
mushroom clouds became mushroom trips, work became welfare,
and repression became revolution. But by the mid-1970s the

energy was fading and they started to drop back in. Or did
they?
Who were the hippies? Was it all peace and love? Did their
ideology survive? What was it like on Haight Street in
1969? Or on a commune deep in the redwoods? Did they change
anything? Did they learn anything?
My Hippies explores the hippie revolution from the personal
perspective of a hippie kid whose mother, step father, aunt
and uncle all met on San Francisco's Haight Street in 1969.
Still close friends and living in the same town, they share
their experiences, pictures, 8mm films, unreleased
psychedelic rock music, and thoughts about their wild trip
as they face retirement and old age.
SCOPE OF FILM
1. Show four different examples of who dropped out during the
hippie revolution.
2. Illustrate the difference between country and city hippies
and the difference in the party in the city and the more
back to the earth life of the country hippies.
3. Find out their thoughts, concerns, lessons learned, and
stories as they face retirement.
LENGTH, DISTRIBUTION AND MEDIA
1. Target length: 47 minute target length on DVD
2. Distribution: Santa Fe and Slamdance film festivals with CD
of music. Compressed Web version and Music with URL.
3. Video: MiniDV, 8mm telecine to MiniDV, digital shots of
stills. Edited in FinalCut Pro.
4. Music: Re-mastered unreleased rock album as 42 Bit AIFFs.
5. Script: Final Draft AV.
6. Treatment: Word.
PRODUCTION ELEMENTS
4. All elements will come from the four subjects themselves,
their pictures, films, and memorabilia from the time.

5. No stock footage will be used (famous musicians, poets,
writers, stars, large gatherings, and classic stock footage
of hippie chicks dancing high.)
1. Interviews: 4 hours.
2. 8MM film: clips from the time, 45-minute movie by Cove.
3. Psychedelic Rock: 1967 unreleased album by NGC 4594, a band
managed by Cove and known by subjects. Released 45, songs
of which are on two psychedelic compilations in the 1990s.
Re-mastered from 7" reels to digital files that make one
CD.
4. Stills: 400-+ from the time including yearbooks, and
psychedelic texture from fliers and posters kept by the
subjects.
SUBJECTS
Name Currently Hippie Involvement
Molly
(Formerly Judy Gordon)
65, Public school special
ed. teacher. Mother of
Caleb, Married to Jack,
older sister of Maya.
Haight Street and
Rivendale commune
resident. At Altemont and
first rainbow gathering.
Moved to Maine for
alternative school for Caleb
after 1973.
Jack 64, painter, communist.
Brain liaison causes slow
talk. Married to Molly after
being married to Alexis
America during hippie time.
Coventry Lake, CT. and
Haight Street resident. Got
together with Molly in
Maine after knowing her on
Haight Street. Carpenter,
teacher.
Maya
(Formerly Jane Gordon)
60, small business owner,
younger sister to Molly.
Married to and with Cove
since the hippie time.
Haight Street, Rivenale
Commune, Mexico, and
Berkeley resident. Cafe
worker, clothes seller.
Cove (formerly Donato
Coviello)
62, artist, small
businessman, writer.
Married to Maya.
Coventry Lake, CT, NYC,
Haight Street and
Berkeley. Draft dodger.
Performer, and marbling
artiStreet
END OF TREATMENT.

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