Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1954 • United States
D. A. Pennebaker credits this 1954 film with clarifying his focus. He took his daughter, Stacy, to the zoo with a short film scenario in mind: shots of Stacy running intercut with shots of the animals responding to her. But Stacy was more interested in the carousel, and when her father observed her joy as she rode it, he knew he had found his film.
A longtime fan of American jazz vocalist Dave Lambert, D. A. Pennebaker jumped at the chance to film him auditioning a new group of singers at RCA in 1964. The resulting film helped the director understand his artistic mission—as he put it, “Recording people and music as a kind of popular history...
D. A. Pennebaker first met Bob Neuwirth, Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour manager, at New York City’s Cedar Tavern before the tour began. After DONT LOOK BACK, in which he is often seen, Neuwirth became a fixture at Leacock-Pennebaker, Inc., and he worked on various projects with Pennebaker around that time...
The following 25 minutes of never-before-seen outtakes from DONT LOOK BACK offer further glimpses into Bob Dylan’s historic 1965 tour.
