Acclaimed science fiction writer, William Gibson, “stars” in a CBC documentary archive from 1967 entitled Yorkville: hippie haven here. It is an amusing piece of television documentary from that period – have television documentaries changed much since?

Gibson comments here:

Yep, that is indeed me, though nothing I’m saying there, at such painful length, is even remotely genuine. They were offering $500 for someone to monologue about the summer of lurve, etc., and I was (1) somewhat articulate, and (2) wanted desperately to get my ass out of Yorkville…