Program 11 Aquarius Ends Here
Gimme Shelter
- 1970 / Color / Digital File (Original: 16mm) / 91 min
Filmmaking: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Directors: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Editor: Charlotte Zwerin
Contributing Editors: Ellen Giffard (Hovde), Robert Farren, Joanne Burke, Kent McKinney
Associate Producer: Porter Bibb
Additional Photography: Peter Adair, Baird Bryant, Joan Churchill, Ron Dorfman, Robert Elfstrom, Elliott Erwitt, Bob Fiori, Adam Giffard, William Kaplan, Kevin Keating, Stephen Lighthill, George Lucas, Jim Moody, Jack Newman, Pekke Niemala, Robert Primes, Eric Saarinen, Peter Smokler, Paul Ryan, Coulter Watt, Gary Weiss, Bill Yarrus
Sound: Michael Becker, John Brumbaugh, Howard Chesley, Pepper Crawford, Stanley Cronquist, Paul Deason, Tom Goodwin, Peter Pilafin, Orly Lindgren, Walter Murch, Art Rochester, Nelson Stoll, David Thompson, Alvin Tokunow
Source: Maysles Films Inc.
Gimme Shelter chronicles the Rolling Stones’ 1969 US tour. It culminates in the disastrous concert at Altamont, when the Age of Aquarius went haywire with the murder of an audience member on camera.