Flower Power – New York 'love-in': 1969

More than 1,000 hippies celebrate the coming of spring in New York's Central Park with music, dancing and flowers.

Long hair, multi-coloured and ethnic clothing, beads and bells, rock music and drugs are symbols of the youth rebellion of the 1960s and the baby-boomers' rejection of the values of the older generation. Huge music festivals, 'love-ins', 'dropping out' and flower power are part of an international counterculture, which embraces anti-war, anti-discrimination and civil rights protests.

Reuters: news footage with natural sound recorded at the time.

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