---
title: 'Monterey Pop (1968)'
type: 'film'
director: 'D. A. Pennebaker'
released: '1968-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 79
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
countries:
  - 'Denmark'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/monterey-pop-1968'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064689/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Monterey Pop (1968)

1968 · 79 min · Documentary · Denmark, United States


## Synopsis

Monterey Pop is a 1968 American concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey International Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles. The painter Brice Marden has an "assistant camera" credit. Titles for the film were by the illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, the Mamas & the Papas, the Who, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, whose namesake set his guitar on fire, broke it on the stage, then threw the neck of his guitar in the crowd at the end of "Wild Thing".

## Credits

- **Director:** [D. A. Pennebaker](https://cinepixo.com/people/d-a-pennebaker)
- **Producer:** [John Phillips](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-phillips-2), [Lou Adler](https://cinepixo.com/people/lou-adler)

## Cast

- [The Animals](https://cinepixo.com/people/the-animals)
- [Hugh Masekela](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-masekela)
- [The Who](https://cinepixo.com/people/the-who)
- [Otis Redding](https://cinepixo.com/people/otis-redding)
- [The Mamas & the Papas](https://cinepixo.com/people/the-mamas-the-papas)
- [Canned Heat](https://cinepixo.com/people/canned-heat)
- [Ravi Shankar](https://cinepixo.com/people/ravi-shankar)
- [Scott McKenzie](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-mckenzie)

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