John Lennon October 1971

Title: Private Birthday/Exhibition
Type: Avant-Garde Film
Filming Location: Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
Filming Date: October 9th 1971
Broadcast Date: October 1971
Country Of Broadcast: USA
Duration: 57:14 Minutes
Quality: C
Source: "John Lennon Miscellaneous Collection Vol 2 1971-1972" (BedHead Productions)
Other Sources: "John Lennon Remastered Archives 1971 Vol 4" (FAB Productions)

Notes: Another typical Jonas Mekas "home movie" of John`s birthday party held in a hotel room in Syracuse during Yoko`s art
"happening".Attending the party, amongst many others, are Phil Spector and Ringo & Maureen. In the usual Jonas tradition this film is made up of three separate bits of film footage.

The first part was filmed earlier the same day, Oct 9 at the art exhibition and during a press conference (4:56).Then follows
the actual birthday party in the hotel room (2:17) and to finish it all off we have 53 seconds of undated footage of John &
Yoko being frisked against a wall which was no doubt filmed around the same time.

This film was later combined with other Jonas filmed Lennon events from December 1972 and August 1972 to make a much longer film
he entitled "Happy Birthday To John" which he "released" in 1995.