Historic Films of New York has a deal to represent the 1960s collection of San Francisco experimental filmmaker Ben van Meter, the first film artist whose work conveyed the psychedelic experience. Van Meter covered the pre-summer of love San Francisco music and hippie scene filming such happenings as the first "trips festival" in 1965, and legendary promoter Bill Graham's first ever concert at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium in the same year. Other new Historic offerings include 1976 color concert footage of Iggy Pop, Patty Smith, Bruce Springsteen and others, filmed in 8mm by a fan sitting in the Orchestra Center audience. In association with the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee, Historic is newly representing the work of Revenend l.O. Taylor whose collection of 1936-54 southern African American lifestyles. Talyor's footage covered all aspects of the southern African-American experience in well-shot 16mm Kodachrome color and black and white film. He filmed an annual record of the regional National Baptist conventions from 1936-54 as well as creating films on such topics as black businesses in Memphis, black social clubs and fraternal organizations, black high schools, black trade schools, and black municipal institutions. Web: www.historicfilms.com Email: info@historicfilms.comStory: FOOTAGE.info NEWS SERVICE