Magic trip : Ken Kesey's search for a kool place
(DVD) 

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Published
New York, NY : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2011].
Format
DVD
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Clallam Bay - Digital Video Disc
DVD 306.1097 MAGIC_T
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Sequim - Digital Video Disc
DVD 306.1097 MAGIC_T
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Published
New York, NY : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2011].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
876964004237

Notes

General Note
Based on the words and recordings of Ken Kesey.
General Note
Special features: Commentary with directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood [optional audio feature]; Deleted scenes (18 min.); Ken Kesey's first 'trip' [audio feature] (51 min.); HDNet: A look at Magic trip (5 min.); Also from Magnolia [previews] (10 min.).
General Note
Wide screen (1.78:1)
Creation/Production Credits
Editor, Alison Ellwood ; original music, David Kahne ; audio restoration, Don Fleming ; design and animated sequences by Imaginary Forces ; research, Salimah El-Amin ; transcripts, Richard Dworkin.
Participants/Performers
Ken Kesey (Swashbuckler), the Merry Bank of Pranksters including Ken Babbs (Intrepid Traveler), Neal Cassady (Sir Speed limit), Paula Sundsten (Slime Queen AKA Gretchen Fetchen), Jane Burton (Generally Famished), Kathy Casamo (Stark Naked), George Walker (Hardly Visible), Steve Lambrecht (Zonker), and Further (as the Bus); with appearances by Mike Hagen, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, Chloe Scott, Faye Kesey, Roy Seburn, Zane Kesey, Jerry Garcia; interviewer, Stanley Tucci; original Prankster audio transcripts performed by Jim Meskimen, Andrea Cirie, Karen Gilliam, Kathleen McInerney.
Description
In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of the time and lots of LSD--that became legend. The participants were not beatniks, not-yet-hippies, but a group of preppy-looking partygoers, outfitted in red, white, and blue, whose traveling bacchanal zigzagged across the country. In those more relaxed times, the Pranksters encountered only sporadic harassment, as they spread low-key mayhem in Phoenix, New Orleans, Houston, and the Millbrook, N.Y. estate where Timothy Leary held court. The film record of this famous bohemian lark is uneven, befitting an unsteady (if borderline revolutionary) group in a time of widespread cultural upheaval.
Target Audience
Rating: Rated R for drug content, language, and some nudity.
System Details
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1; widescreen presentation, 1.78:1 aspect ratio.
Language
In English with optional subtitles in Spanish; closed-captioned in English.