Special Screening of "Easy Rider"

Special screening of Easy Rider (1969) with special guests: Associate Producer Cliff Vaughs and Sound Engineer Larry Marcus – the ‘lost’ film crew who built the Easy Rider choppers. Hosted by Paul d’Orleans, The Vintagent.

Larry Marcus was a professional mechanic in LA in the late 1960s, who befriended and lived with Cliff Vaughs. Larry built the stunt versions of the 'Captain America' and 'Billy' choppers used for 'Easy Rider', and worked as a sound technician on the film with Les Blank. He currently lives in Oregon.

Cliff 'Soney' Vaughs was an SNCC civil rights protester in the early 1960s, then worked as a journalist and filmmaker in LA. His civil rights documentary 'What Will the Harvest Be?' was aired on ABC-TV in 1966, featuring interviews with Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young, etc. Cliff worked with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper developing 'Easy Rider', and created the infamous choppers used in the film (with Benny Hardy and Larry Marcus). His contribution to 'Easy Rider' has never been publicly acknowledged. He later filmed 'Not So Easy' (1973), a motorcycle safety film with Evel Knievel and Peter Fonda, before leaving the USA to live on a boat in Central America (1974). He has never seen the film 'Easy Rider'.