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| Directed by | Richard T. Heffron |
| Produced by | Herbert F. Drecker |
| Starring | Bill Graham Santana Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane Hot Tuna Quicksilver Messenger Service |
| Cinematography | Alan Capps Albert Kihn Paul Lohmann Eric Saarinen |
| Editing by | Richard Clarke Daniel Halas Charles Tetoni |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
| Release date(s) | June 14, 1972 |
| Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Fillmore — also known as Fillmore: The Last Days, and as Last Days of the Fillmore — is a music documentary film, primarily shot at the Fillmore West auditorium in San Francisco, California, from June 29 through July 4, 1971.[1] It was released on June 14, 1972.[2][3][4]
Fillmore documents the final run of concerts at the Fillmore West, which closed after these shows. It features performances by a number of rock bands that emerged from the San Francisco music scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Santana, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The film also contains extensive footage of concert promoter Bill Graham, who organized the concerts and ran the Fillmore West. Additionally, the film includes documentary footage shot several years earlier in and around San Francisco, showing the emergence of the music scene there amid the counterculture of the 1960s and the hippie movement.[5]
Fillmore was shot on 16 mm film and was released in a widescreen format with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. It makes frequent use of split screen images.
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Fillmore was released on DVD by Rhino Records on June 2, 2009.[5][6][7][8] At 94 minutes, the DVD version of the film differs from the original theatrical release, and omits a performance by Boz Scaggs.
Fillmore: The Last Days, a live album of music selected from the same run of concerts, was released as a vinyl LP in 1972.[1][9] It was released on CD in 1991.
The DVD version of Fillmore includes full or partial performances by these bands, in order of appearance:[10]
*Jefferson Airplane did not perform at the final series of concerts at the Fillmore West. The band's footage in the film is from another show.
The last concerts to take place at the Fillmore West, in 1971, were:[1]
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