Hollywood’s LSD films emerged from direct contact with the underground scene

Evidence

Then very much on the scene, attending underground movies, Preminger had a professional and perhaps personal interest in LSD. His 1969 comedy Skidoo, arguably the strangest Hollywood film of the late ’60s, has a long sequence detailing Jackie Gleason’s acid trip. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1966

Categorization

• CANDY: Otto Preminger — director of Skidoo, which features a Jackie Gleason acid trip — was personally attending underground movies and had an interest in LSD; a fun trivia piece on the strange overlap between the arthouse scene and Hollywood.