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- Rogosin took the fight for equality to his homeland with his astonishing and powerful fourth feature Black Roots. The film, which is ripe for rediscovery, featured an extraordinary cast, including Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick; attorney and feminist activist Florynce ""Flo"" Kennedy; and musicians Jim Collier, Wende Smith, Larry Johnson and Reverend Gary Davis. All tell stories of heartbreak and despair while their songs blow the roof off the rafters. In an extension of the famed shebeen scenes in Come Back, Africa, the participants in Black Roots spoke openly about politics and race in a way that is still rarely seen on screen. In 1970, it was a radical and daring move by a great director. A deeply humanist film, Black Roots combines tales of oppression with hauntingly beautiful images of the faces of black men, women and children.
- Festival of the Midnight Sun, a.k.a. the Mantorp Festival became the biggest fiasco in Swedish pop festival history. The festival was presented the midsummer weekend 19-21 June 1970 at Mantorp Raceway. A local band, Magazine Story, from Linköping, had the honor of opening the festival with Clabbe af Geijerstam as MC. The raceway and surroundings were almost empty. Clabbe's welcome speech explained that the sun was the guest of honor at the festival, which was dedicated to "peace, friendship, love, community and everything that can be thought of as beautiful".
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform live at Stockholm Concert Hall Jan. 9, 1969, in a showcase with Jethro Tull. This is the first performance of two featuring "Killing Floor", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Fire", "Hey Joe", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", "Red House" and "Sunshine Of Your Love". During this visit to Stockholm, Jimi Hendrix granted two interviews - one with Ulla Lundström and the other with Lennart Wretlind. The performance was video-taped by Sveriges Radio TV.
- The Liberian American Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) was a mining company that mined iron-ore in northern Liberia at the Nimba massif. About 15,000 Swedes worked for Lamco and the project was cited as a successful example of international cooperation. But in this film the Swedish TV viewers were presented a very different picture. The film broke with the conventional African portrayal and the Swedes in Liberia were portrayed as colonial-era heirs. The film was supplemented with a debate.
- Maranatha is a two-word Aramaic formula that means "our Lord is coming". The revival movement arrived in Sweden in 1959. It became an instant success among Pentecostal members. And was soon consider a threat to the Pentecostal movement. This film is a summary of a five hour meeting in Stockholm 1963, including sermons, healing as well as lots of song and music.
