John and Yoko in a Box

  

Just finished a great little stop motion film of one of my flip- box  models.  It was a few years in the making!  It shows the exact moment John and Yoko recorded "Give Peace A Chance" from their bed in Montreal in 1969.  My flip boxes are little boxes that look ordinary, but pop open to reveal surprise dioramas. more to come

Some production shots:

Used Funtak to help with the animation

Matt Barone working the camera

Sara, Chief Editor working hard at Grounded Cafe

Box Peace: My diorama of John and Yoko's Bed-In for Peace

Here's a diorama I made recently.  It depicts John and Yoko's second Bed-in for Peace, held in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal at the end of May 1969.   The first Bed-in was held in March of that year in Amsterdam.   The diorama shows the recording of "Give Peace A Chance" (done on June 1 in that room).   The scene is complete with hare krisnas, and Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor who was known to advocate the use of LSD.  The recording made on this day is the one that was released on record.

The Bed-ins were John and Yoko's publicity stunts (i don't mean that negatively) for the cause of peace (the Vietnam War was ongoing).  The couple knew their honeymoon would be widely covered in the press, so they came up with the idea to hold court in bed where they could talk to journalists about peace.  Some in the media were disappointed when they found out the couple were in bed to talk about peace, not to make love publicly, which would have made for a sensational story.


Below the model you can see a few shots from the actual Bed-in.

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                                           Diorama and photograph by Tom Casesa

Photographs of the event in 1969:

John and Yoko talking to journalists

Timothy Leary clapping hands during the recording