The Summer of '67

This feature documentary follows up on 2 important NFB documentaries that captured the turbulent year of 1967, a time when social and cultural revolution, as well as generational change, were on everyone’s mind. The first, Christopher’s Movie Matinée, followed the travels of 14 Toronto teenagers over the course of the summer, while the second, Flowers on a One-way Street, documented the conflict between the hippies of the day and Toronto City Council, over the future of the Yorkville neighbourhood, then Canada's counter-culture capital. More than 2 decades later, the filmmakers have sought out some of the films' participants, not as an exercise in nostalgia but to discover what traces remain in the lives of those who most deeply felt the impact of the '60s
Directed by Albert Kish and Donald Winkler - 1994 | 57 min
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[@XRPSwan]

The summer of 67 in the summer of 2020: This is now the perfect time to make the third and probably part to this film, with those boomers reflecting on that period in Yorkville, through the lens of what society is being put through now.

[@edwardbliss8931]

Should do a follow-up documentary 30 years later with all these people as grandparents. Having said that, unfortunately Jan Moss sadly passed away in 2017

[@annikadson]

I remember the summer of 1967 with a little joy it was my first summer holiday because I started school in 1966. Seemed so fun to be a youth then not a 7 year old in Sweden. What a great movie this is. Thank you for showing this. Love these old historical documentary films that show how it really was then.

[@loldie9506]

Well this is interesting

[@markdemell3717]

Now pot is legal .

[@junkboxxxxxx]

This isn't so much a 60s/90s thing as it is a young & old thing, the classic conflict between parents and children. The parent says "it's gotta be done" and the child says "I don't wanna"

[@markdemell3717]

Many of them just conformed and souled out ! sad!

[@glen6945]

well this movie stunk bad

[@uel786786]

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[@brettfavreify]

Interesting to hear these people reflect on their younger selves and how fulla crap they were.

[@re_lre_l]

yay? i am second.

[@jamesm.3967]

There were hippies in 🇨🇦...? ok. Yeah I guess. Toronto gets forgotten.

[@re_lre_l]

I am first? really?