Break on Through
1972 Bob Carmichael made his first film on the obscure sport of rock climbing. Carmichael began climbing in 1968 after an injury short cut his college football career at the University of Colorado. Bob fell in with the climbing community and given his background in photography and summer internships at KGO-TV in San Francisco, he created one of the first films to be televised on climbing. He hitchhiked to NYC to sell the film and CBS Sports immediately purchased it. The film is considered the godfather of adventure filmmaking in the USA. The late, great brilliant Tommy Bolin, soon to be the lead guitarist for the James Gang and Deep Purple scored the film. Roger Briggs and Duncan Ferguson, two of the top climbers in America are featured. Len Aitken was the cinematographer and editor. Bob Carmichael directed this film.