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| A different episode, with Andrea Mitchell, who's absent here. |
NBC
August 1984
Documentary
VHS
B-
This was repackaged in 1989 as Woodstock Remembered, but there seems to have been no effort to update the content, and towards the end we see such 1984 faces as Geraldine Ferraro and the (original) Ghostbusters. Summer Sunday, according to Ellerbee's And So It Goes was mostly a mess, and this is somewhat unfocused, but it does have some interesting moments. (Including with John Kerry and Julian Bond.) I do wish the program had focused more on the music. It's all well and good to offer background, especially on the Vietnam War and protests, and to show what people, including twentysomethings, thought fifteen years later, but the music is what brought folks to the event and is what the word "Woodstock" is mostly synonymous with. The moment of Crosby, Stills, and Nash harmonizing is lovely, but it is just one moment. Still, this is worth watching, partly to see how the somewhat arrogant certainty of the mid-'80s has dated as much as that of the late '60s.
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