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Paul Ferrara,The Doors official photographer hired friend Harrison Ford to work as a grip for the crew.
Fri. July 5th: Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles, CA (Feast Of Friends) The show is touted as the event of the season and everyone who is anyone comes out to see the show. Mick Jagger and Jimmy Miller have dinner with the band at Mu Ling's Chinese restaurant before the show and are in the audience this night to see the big show. All 18,000 seats are sold out and the stage is tweaked with over 60,000 watts of power. The Doors hire a few additional cameramen to their crew who are filming tonight, one of which turns out to be a young Harrison Ford.
1968-05-19 Santa Clara County Fairgrounds - San Jose, CA
Recently discovered silent home movie footage of The Doors performing at the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival in 1968. The footage opens with clips of The Youngbloods and Country Joe & The Fish. Just before The Doors take the stage, a young Harrison Ford can be spotted loading a camera for the 'Feast Of Friends' film crew in the middle of the crowd.
Harrison: 1:50
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Besides the existing footage of this concert captured by the Feast of Friends crew, there is rumored to be Pro-shot filmwork of the show.
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors’ On PBS – American Masters In May
Harrison Ford: "When it was over I was one step away from joining a Jesuit Monastery. I couldn't keep up with those guys it was too much. I was part of the camera crew...second camera. I don't think any of it was in focus, not a bit of it."
Fri. July 5th: Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles, CA (Feast Of Friends) The show is touted as the event of the season and everyone who is anyone comes out to see the show. Mick Jagger and Jimmy Miller have dinner with the band at Mu Ling's Chinese restaurant before the show and are in the audience this night to see the big show. All 18,000 seats are sold out and the stage is tweaked with over 60,000 watts of power. The Doors hire a few additional cameramen to their crew who are filming tonight, one of which turns out to be a young Harrison Ford.
1968-05-19 Santa Clara County Fairgrounds - San Jose, CA
Recently discovered silent home movie footage of The Doors performing at the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival in 1968. The footage opens with clips of The Youngbloods and Country Joe & The Fish. Just before The Doors take the stage, a young Harrison Ford can be spotted loading a camera for the 'Feast Of Friends' film crew in the middle of the crowd.
Harrison: 1:50
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Besides the existing footage of this concert captured by the Feast of Friends crew, there is rumored to be Pro-shot filmwork of the show.
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors’ On PBS – American Masters In May
JEFF JAMPOL: Remember, Ray and Jim Morrison met in film school at UCLA. Ray got his master’s in film, and Jim got his bachelor’s in film, and they had a couple of classmates — Paul Ferrara and Frank Lisciandro, and they were all very interested in film. So when The Doors went on their first tour, they took Frank and Paul with them to film the whole tour and to film things offstage and in between. So we have this beautiful, visual documentation of that time in ’67, ’68 and ’69, when most bands of that era, there’s very little documentation about.
DENSMORE: Actually, excuse me for interrupting, when we played The [Hollywood] Bowl, Harrison Ford was a grip on our crew. (Laughter.)
Harrison Ford: "When it was over I was one step away from joining a Jesuit Monastery. I couldn't keep up with those guys it was too much. I was part of the camera crew...second camera. I don't think any of it was in focus, not a bit of it."
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