Monterey Pop was a little short for theaters, so Pennebaker added an 18 minute film I had made with Noel Parmentel for a mini-series sponsored by Public Television. They had invited six of us to make films of less than 20 minutes duration that were to express our cinematic and political view of where America was at. Their only stipulation being that the first shot had to be of the Capital Dome in Washington. I happened to have had lunch with a Time correspondent who was on his way to report on a convention of 1,500 American Police Chiefs and their wives at Waikiki Beach. Wow! So I called Noel Parmentel and off we went.

Our friends the Chiefs approved of this film, The New York Times thought it was trivial, and the audiences of Monterey Pop loved it.