God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance. Les Blank and Skip Gerson, 1968.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray set #737 Les Blank: Always for Pleasure, released 2014. No dialogue track. Runtime approximately 20 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
At the closing of the film, the band Spontaneous Combustion is thanked for providing the music soundtrack. According to clear and authoritative comments made by Les Blank during a 2011 interview at MOMA in coordination with the exhibit Les Blank: Ultimate Insider, the band we see performing at the event is neither Spontaneous Combustion nor the Steve Miller Band, as sometimes proposed. The musicians seen performing are a mix of local talent, possibly including Ray Manzarek. Blank did not record an audio track while filming the video portion. Spontaneous Combustion created the soundtrack specifically for the film soon thereafter.
Indexed after God Respects Us in the Criterion set is the recent making-of documentary Flower Power.
Indexed after God Respects Us in the Criterion set is the recent making-of documentary Flower Power.