‘Daytime Revolution’ Doc Trailer on John & Yoko’s 1972 TV Appearance
by Alex Billington August 26, 2024Source: YouTube
“People tend to think that somebody will save them. There’s only – people can save us. Only us all deciding to do something about it.” Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for a documentary known as Daytime Revolution, a glance again at a significant cultural second within the 70s. This fascinating movie, Daytime Revolution, will take a look at all that went into John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s legendary weeklong 1972 residency as friends on The Mike Douglas Present — the most-watched daytime speak present on the time — and their impression. That is similar to one other doc premiering on the 2024 Venice Movie Competition known as One to One: John & Yoko – which can also be a time capsule movie about John & Yoko in 1972. Daytime Revolution is extra particular, focusing on this very second and their TV appearances. A doc of the previous that speaks to our turbulent current, Daytime Revolution is a time capsule reminding us of artwork’s energy to interrupt down obstacles, and the bravery of two artists who by no means took the simple approach out as they fought for his or her imaginative and prescient of a greater world. This seems like a compelling and provoking look again at a significant second in US historical past and the way tradition could make a distinction.
Here is the official trailer (+ poster) for Erik Nelson’s doc Daytime Revolution, direct from YouTube:
For one extraordinary week starting on February 14th, 1972, the revolution was televised. The movie takes us again in time to the week that John Lennon & Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the long-lasting Mike Douglas Present, on the time the preferred present on daytime tv with an viewers of 40 million viewers per week. What adopted was 5 unforgettable episodes of TV, with Lennon & Ono on the helm and Douglas bravely maintaining the present on observe. Appearing as each producers and hosts, Lennon and Ono handpicked their friends, together with controversial decisions like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, in addition to political activist Ralph Nader and comedian fact teller George Carlin. Their model of daytime tv was a radical take on the standard format, incorporating candid Q&A classes with their transfixed viewers, conversations about present points like police violence and girls’s liberation, conceptual artwork occasions, and one-of-a-kind musical performances, together with a novel duet with Lennon and Chuck Berry – and a poignant rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine.”
Daytime Revolution is directed by award-winning doc producer / filmmaker Erik Nelson, director of the movies Goals with Sharp Enamel, Dinotasia, A Grey State, The Chilly Blue, and Apocalypse ’45 beforehand, in addition to tons of different doc credit and extra tasks. It is produced by Amy Briamonte. This hasn’t premiered at any festivals or elsewhere, so far as we all know. Kino Lorber will debut Nelson’s doc Daytime Revolution in choose US theaters beginning on October ninth, 2024 this fall. For more information, go to the official website. Look good?
