Historic Films Now Representing Joshua White Collection

Artist, videomaker and broadcast television director, Joshua White, is perhaps best known as the innovator of the Liquid Lightshow. His "The Joshua Lightshow" was the most important and best known of the 1960s and 1970s liquid light shows. Whites' work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. 

Historic Films is proud to be representing and housing Whites' film work going back to the early 1960s and including previously unseen footage shot in the late 1960s at the legendary FILLMORE EAST music venue in New York City. Also Included is 35mm color footage of White's late 1960s liquid lightshow. White was the "go to guy" to film large venue music festivals and rock concerts and the library includes footage shot at several important early rock festivals. Other highlights of the collection include 30 minutes of color back plate footage shot on the streets of Harlem in the late 1960s and extensive color footage of the 1968 Easter Parade along 5th Avenue. All of Joshua White's footage is currently being scanned in 4k and is available for licensing at Historic Films Archive.