Woodstock original 1970 movie on DVD?

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(I think this belongs in this forum, since it deals with a factual question. If not, mods please move.)

Mr. Middon is a big fan of Woodstock. Years ago, we had the VHS edition of the movie as it was played in theaters in 1970. Now we have two DVD versions – The Director’s Cut and The Ultimate Collector’s Edition.

Neither, he says, is the same as the original movie. I’d like to buy him a DVD (or better yet, Blu-ray) copy of the original, but can’t seem to find it.

Has the original movie ever been released on DVD? If so, where might I find a copy to purchase?

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It’s a factual question, but it’s about the arts (in fact, about art that’s about other art). As such, it’ll probably do better in CS.

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According to some folks over on the Steve Hoffman forums, the original film is not available on DVD or Blu-Ray, only VHS and Laserdisc.

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Thanks. I wa afraid that was the case.

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What are the differences between the theatrical and the standard DVD version? Big changes or small tweaks?

I have the 225 minute director’s cut version. How different is it? Just more music, or a restructuring of the whole film?

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I’m interested in the same question. I watched “the” Woodstock movie on Arte TV the other day, don’t ask me which version they broadcast, but because of the good visuals and sound quality and the long runtime I guess it was a recent edition. I suspect that I first saw “a” Woodstock movie sometimes in the eighties on TV, then I think for the 25th anniversary there was a rerun in the theaters which I saw, and maybe then sometimes later in the 90s or 2000s on TV. But I swear that in one of these versions, Joan Baez was singing Gram Parson’s “Drug Store Truck Driving Man”, but it didn’t appear in the version I watched last Friday on Arte. Strange…

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The Wikipedia page appears to have a good explanation of the differences between the various versions of the film. I can’t speak to its accuracy, though.

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Well thanks, but I’ll be damned! Of all the additional songs in later cuts, several by Joan Baez, “Drug Store Truck Driving Man” is still not mentioned. I have to solve that mystery this very night, it’s driving me crazy :D.

Here’s the audio! But I swear I also saw the picture.

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Too late to edit: I also found the video, with Spanish voice-over! Someone commented that it’s from something called “The Lost Woodstock Tapes” which was broadcast on TV. I still don’t know where I saw it, but I’m glad that I didn’t hallucinate it. :slight_smile: