"The T.A.M.I. Show" Screening

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"The T.A.M.I. Show" features a cavalcade of live performances from the most iconic acts of 1964: The Supremes, Lesley Gore, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Smokey Robinson, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, Jan and Dean, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Merseybeat chart-topper Billy J. Kramer, garage rockers The Barbarians, and a notorious set by James Brown and his Famous Flames. Television director Steve Binder (later responsible for Elvis’s 1968 Comeback Special and the music show Hullabaloo) teamed up with Hollywood producer Bill Sargent to stage a two-day Teen-Age Music International Show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, packing the venue by giving away free tickets to 5,000 local high school students, and filling the stage with gyrating go-go girls (among them young Teri Garr and Toni Basil). Binder shot the event on TV cameras in “Electronovision”—an early higher-definition video system—then transferred it via kinescope to 35mm film for distribution by Roger Corman’s American International Pictures. Binder later remarked that “I wanted the audience to be there, see the talent on the stage, the sweat on their faces, the guts of it,” and his up-close approach forever influenced the way music shows and concert documentaries were shot. Despite its seminal status and legendary reputation (James Brown said his set was one of the best he ever recorded), "The T.A.M.I. Show" has never been released on video or DVD, making it one of music history’s most sought-after holy grails. This rare screening presents one of the few prints available: don’t miss the chance to see what its distributors dubbed “the excitement, entertainment and music of teenage America!”

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Schedule

July 21, 2009 from 19:30

Artist(s)

Steve Binder et al.

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