All language subtitles for WOODSTOCK -05 - Bonus - Documentary

I think the two seminal events from 1 969

were the moon landing and Woodstock,
one could say.

And they were both
such romantic, improbable,

glorious, innocent events in some sense.

We were in Bethel .

By that point,
we took over a small motel for a while.

I got us a television
so we could watch the moon landing.

WADLEIGH: I certainly remember
where I was.

I was making a mountain-climbing film
at the time, way out in the mountains,

and I came out of the mountains

just in time to see
the guys landing on the moon .

And we were in a bar
in Jackson Hole, Wyoming .

And , God ! We'd go out
and look up at the real moon

and look at the TV and think,
"Oh , my God !

"Isn't this just remarkable?"

NEIL ARMSTRONG ON RADIO:
That's one small step for man,

one giant leap for mankind.

BUZZ ALDRIN ON RADIO:
That looks beautiful from here, Neil.

STALLINGS: Being this group
of conspiracy-theory,

counterculture,
nothing-is-what-you-see people,

no one believed it was happening.

And I had gotten them the television
to watch a thing that

they felt was being done in a sound studio.

But that was kind of wonderful , too.

WADLEIGH:
And then just a little while later,

there I was,
standing on the stage at Woodstock.

And I remember when each day
the New York Times banner came in ,

and we got the biggest...

We got as much width
as the moon landing got, right.

And of course, it's a famous story
that the New York Times

carefully analyzes whether
you're worth the whole width or not.

Well , we got the whole width .

And I just remember,

for me, standing there looking
at the moon and so on

and standing there looking
at all those people

and those incredible musicians.

And isn 't it interesting that, equally,
we have not had another Woodstock

and we have not had
another moon landing.

And maybe, again, the economics of it all
and the dream

and the idealism and so on
that drove both events, I would say,

maybe now with money
being so much tighter

and with calculation
being so much tighter,

it's harder to launch those kind of
idealistic endeavors.

But, boy, were they great.