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San Francisco (1968)
 

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Lights flash and faces and streets rush by while a parade moves in syncopated rhythm to pulsing music. Parks, trees, skaters and flashing car headlights all join the rush. Day and night then alternate and cars drive out of the city centre. Street musicians and young men and women play in the park. Musicians play in a house. Chinatown, restaurants and barbers flicker and flash, supermarkets and then more steady, the music calms, and a naked woman drinks water in a house of counter-culture. Sparklers are light in this house and the woman is wrapped in tinfoil by robed-men. Deers in parks, fish in tanks and then, finally, the naked woman and a cat.