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UC Berkeley: Lectures, Events, History:
- 1915: Panama Pacific Fair
- Celebrating the completion of the Panama Canal the year before, the Panama Pacific International Exposition opened in San Francisco on February 20, 1915. Covering 635 acres, it ran for nine and a half months. This documentary tells its story along with footage of other world's fairs, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and a short film made to publicize the 1915 fair. 1984. 28 min. Video/C 4750
- Alcatraz Is Not an Island
- This program tells the story of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay which began in 1969 and lasted 19 months. The documentary interweaves archival footage and contemporary commentary to examine how this historic event altered American government Indian policy and programs, and how it forever changed the way Native Americans viewed themselves, their culture and their sovereign rights. c2002. 58 min. Video/C 9394
- Alcatraz, 30th Anniversary Celebration
- Introduction / Adam Fortunate Eagle -- Pomo Dancers and singers / Pat Lincoln, Doug Duncan, Lanny Pinola -- Opening commentary / Millie Ketchesawno, Richard Moves Camp -- Honor song for Alcatraz warriors / All Nations Northern Drum -- Guest speakers and speeches by veterans of the Alcatraz occupation / Dennis Banks, Dennis Jennings, Arigon Starr, John Whitefox, Tolo, Shashine Little Feather, Charlie Hill, Floyd Red Crow Westerman -- Music by Ulali.
Coverage of a 30th anniversary celebration of the occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indian political activists, with commentary by participants who took part in the occupation in 1969 and current American Indian activists. Held on Alcatraz Island, California on October 23, 1999. 153 min. Video/C 6743
- Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West, an American Story.
- A film by Loni Ding. Chronicles the arrival of the Chinese during the 1850s to 1880s in California during the Gold Rush period and their subsequent settlement in the Western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Includes the history of their labor, community building and activism for justice and equality in the courts of mid-19th century America. 1998. 60 min. Video/C 5573
- Ancestors in the Americas: Coolies, Sailors, Settlers
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A film by Loni Ding. The untold story of how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, Asian Indian--first arrived in the Americas. Film crosses centuries and oceans from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean. 2001. 64 min. Video/C 9659
- Arsenal of Democracy(The Great Depression; 7)
- By 1939 Americans were still struggling to end the Great Depression. Their dreams of peace and prosperity were celebrated at World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco, but prosperity did not come in peacetime. Millions fled the "dust bowl" states to finally find work in new defense industries. While the New Deal changed America forever, it was war that ended the Great Depression. 1993. 60 min. Video/C 3177
- As Long as the Rivers Run
- Traces the struggle of the American Indians of the Northwest to maintain their fishing rights and way of life, with particular reference to the Nisqually Indians of Frank's Landing in Washington. Points out that this struggle is part of a larger movement for Indian self-determination in California and the Northwest, including the formation of fishing cooperatives to gain economic independence. Also includes footage of the takeover of Alcatraz. Originally released as 16mm. motion picture by American Documentary Films in 1971. Filmed between autumn 1968 and winter 1970. 62 min. Video/C 8832
- The Battle of Westlands
- This program provides a look at the future of American farming, especially the central valley of California. 1980. 59 min. Video/C 288 NRLF #: B 4 175 154
- Bayou by the Bay
- Documentary on the San Francisco Bay Area's Cajun community. Features music performances by Cajun artists. Produced by Glenn Switkes and Hal Rowland. 1980. 12 min. Video/C 660
- The Beach
- This exceptional documentary portrays the history of San Francisco's North Beach in the 1950s, focusing on the artists, writers, and "Beat" hipsters who made "The Beach" legendary. The artists who came to The Beach rejected conformity, complacency, and mainstream morality. "The Place", Vesuvio's, and a galaxy of bars, coffee houses, and studios were their hangouts. They loved poetry, jazz, and jug wine, and they presaged a profound change in American cultural attitudes. 57 min. Video/C 4665
- Ben Bagdikian Reads San Francisco Bay Area Dailies
- Bagdikian critiques newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area. 1985? Video/C 2576
- Berkeley, California Fire, 1923
- 6 min. DVD 4520
- Berkeley in the Sixties.
- Contents: Pt. 1 Confronting the university: the Free Speech Movement-- pt. 2. Confronting America: the anti-war movement (32 min.) -- pt. 3. Confronting history: the counter-culture movement(45 min.). Through interviews with participants and archival footage, presents a history of Berkeley, California in the 1960s. A film by Mark Kitechell. 1990. 117 min. DVD 1460; also VHS Video/C 1761
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- Birth of an Icon: Frank Gehry's Disney Hall.
- Construction of Disney Hall, the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra is finally completed. Architect Frank Gehry comments on how he designed the concert hall using 3-D computer modeling, while the Philharmonic's executive director and two musicians extol the virtures of master acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota's efforts. Sounding a dissonant note is urban planning critic, Sam Hall Kaplan, who calls L.A.'s new signature civic icon an elitist misuse of money better spent on numerous smaller renewal projects. c2004. 11 min. DVD 2937
- Blood, Sweat & Lace.
- Examination of the working conditions of Asian American women garment workers who sew piece work in Oakland, California. Focuses on attempts by the workers to extract back wages from Jessica McClintoch Corporation, designer/distributor of the fashions they sew, after their subcontractor declared bankruptcy. 1994. 18 min. DVD 1329; also VHS Video/C 3601
- Bombing L.A.
- Film surveys different viewpoints on graffiti in Los Angeles through interviews with grafitti/street artists, property owners, police and citizens of Los Angeles. The question of graffiti as a public art form or a disfigurement of public property is investigated. Film also examines the role graffiti plays in Los Angeles youth gangs. 1988. 35 min. Video/C 2954
- Boom: The Sound of Eviction
- Explores the relationships between the dot-com boom and bust and community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area. Features interviews with dot-com workers, developers, the Mayor, and the community that challenged their new economic order. 2001. 96 min. Video/C 8697
- The Bridge
- Director Eric Steel and his crew spent an entire year looking very carefully at the Golden Gate Bridge. Running cameras for almost every daylight minute, he documented nearly two dozen fatal moments as well as others where suicide was avoided. 2007. 94 min. DVD 8187
- Bum's Paradise
- Tells the stories and shows the extraordinary creativity of a group of homeless men and women, before and after their eviction from the community they built in the Albany Landfill in the San Francisco Bay. The film emphasizes their concepts of community as well as the amazing art they created. A film by Tomas McCabe; directed by Tomas McCabe and Andrei Rozen. 2003. 53 min. DVD 1988
- Cadillac Desert.
- Cadillac Desert relates the story of the epic quest for water and the role it has played in the transformation of the American West. 1997.
Mulholland's Dream. Tells of William Mulholland's search for water for the people of Los Angeles. Superintendent of the L.A. water system in 1913, he found a solution to the problem in a remote valley 250 miles to the north. After the city secured water rights to the valley's Owens River, he spent 6 years building an aqueduct across the Mojave Desert. The program also recalls the shady land speculations behind the deal, how northern ranchers fought back, and the great disaster that destroyed his dream. 1997. 85 min. DVD 8700 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 5053
An American Nile. Charts the dramatic transformation of the Colorado River from a wild desert waterway into the most controlled, litigated, regulated and over-allocated river in history. From the heroic construction of the Hoover Dam during the Great Depression to the bitter political and environmental battles over the potential damming of the Grand Canyon, this program illustrates how the Colorado became so impounded and diverted that by 1969 it no longer reached the ocean. 1997. 55 min. DVD 8701 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 5054
The Mercy of nature Traces the fierce political and environmental battles that raged around the transformation of California's Central Valley from semiarid desert into the most productive and environmentally altered agricultural region in global history. It illustrates the role that presidents, governor, and giant agri-business companies have played in the ebb and flow of water. The program then follows the recent trend in which water is diverted away from agriculture and toward cities and wildlife. 55 min. DVD 8702 [preservation copy]; Video/C 5055
Last Oasis. Opens with the story of how America's large dams became examples for water projects abroad, particularly in developing countries. The film goes to India and China, where big dam building continues in full force, and to Mexico, the Middle East, and back to the American West to explore how, in the face of rising water needs conservation may be humanity's last oasis. 55 min. DVD 8703 [preservation copy]; Video/C 5056
- California Burning
- Four dramatic films celebrating the contributions of firemen in California. Includes coverage of the 1923 Berkeley citywide conflagration, the Chatsworth fire of 1947 in the San Fernando Valley, and the Goodman Lumber fire in San Francisco in 1955. "Your fire department," presents a detailed treatment of the activities of the Los Angeles Fire Department in 1949. Berkeley, California fire (1923, 6 min.) -- Your fire department (Parts 1 & 2) / Los Angeles Fire Department (1949, 32 min.) -- Fire! Patty learns what to do [1947 Chatsworth fire] / Frith Films (1951, 17 min.) -- Goodman Lumber fire / Warner Pathe News (1955, 6 min.) DVD 4520
- The California Condor
- Illustrates the behavior and natural habitat of the extremely endangered California condor and shows the work of the Los Angeles Zoo in rearing these birds in captivity for future release into the wild. 1984. 13 min. Video/C MM813
- California's Coastline (California Journal Report; 2).
- This program takes a look at the on going battle between environmentalists and developers in California. The issues of public access to wetlands are reviewed in detail. 1981. 29 min. Video/C 2099
- The California Earthquake: January 17, 1994 (Nightline)
- Televised news coverage of the damage caused by the Northridge earthquake and the human response to the disaster. Includes interviews with survivors, rescuers and Los Angeles Mayor, Richard Riordan. 33 min. Video/C 5775
- California Since the Sixties: Revolutions and Counterrevolutions. (California Studies Conference. [11th: 1999: University of California, Berkeley]). Videographer: Harold Adler
- Popular Organizing and People's Movements, 2/4/99 Contents: Breaking with union centrism: some thoughts for revitalizing the U.S. labor movement / Peter Olney (23 min.) -- Regional racial formations in political culture / Laura Pulido (25 min.) -- Trends in youth organizing / Julie Brown (10 min.). A panel of political and labor organizers comments on the history and current directions in American labor and political movements with particular reference to minorities and youth. Concludes with questions from the audience. Presented at a conference held on February 4-6, 1999 at the University of California, Berkeley. © UC Regents. 100 min. Video/C 5973 View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac After Alcatraz: American Indian Uprisings, 2/4/99. American Indian population in the Bay Area / Susan Lobo (11 min.) -- Participation in the "outcast" of Alcatraz / Millie Ketchano, Edward Castillo (30 min.) -- The occupation of Alcatraz Island / Troy Johnson (24 min.) -- The filming of the documentary: The Indian occupation of Alcatraz / John Plutte (26 min.) -- Closing commentary by panel (8 min.) -- Reception honoring Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, 2/4/99 at the Bancroft Library (9 min.). A panel of American Indians comments on their personal experiences in the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the "relocation program" and urban Indians, the preservation of American Indian history through film and other means and the current situation of American Indians in California. 107 min. Video/C 5974
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Angela Davis, Keynote Address, 2/4/99. Angela Davis comments on the social forces that cause so many Afro-Americans to spend time in prison and on the "anti-prison movement" which works for the reform of California prisons by bringing together political activists on the outside with prison inmates. © UC Regents. 89 min. Video/C 5975
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Documenting the Counterrevolution: Photography in the 60's and 70's, 2/5/99. A panel of three photographers from the 60's comments on their experiences. Joe Samburg's photographs focus on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Helen Nestor photographed the Free Speech Movement, the beginning of busing of school children in the South and the origins of the women's movement. Nacio Brown comments on his life as a photographer for the underground press in Berkeley in the 60s. 86 min. Video/C 5976
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac David Harris Lecture, 2/5/99. A lecture by David Harris, journalist, writer, civil system to the Vietnam War. Here he expounds upon his personal experiences in the political turmoil in California and the South during the 1960's. 66 min. Video/C 5977
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Beyond the Boomers, 2/5/99. Contents: Introduction / Louise Nelson (5 min.) -- If you were a member of the 60s: towards a radical historiography / Lauren Coodley (20 min.) -- Is there a generation X? / Eric Rice (19 min.) -- You can't really believe the magazines: prescriptions and reality in the middle class bedroom / Jessica Weiss (21 min.) -- Asian American youth gangs, model minorities and post 60s political poverty / Mike Murashige (22 min.) -- The Quiet after the boom: generation X reconsidered / Tomas Sandoval (18 min.) -- Audience questions (10 min.). A panel of "post-boomers" (often described as cynical and nihilistic) examine the "baby boomer" generation and American culture, politics and social groups as they have been influenced by generational identities. 115 min. Video/C 5978
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Musical Innovators, 2/5/99. Contents: [Political protest songs of the 60s] / Country Joe McDonald (19 min.) -- [The history and development of country music] / Gerald Haslam (22 min.) -- [African-American styles in California music] / (Linda ?) (26 min.) -- [Influence and creation of Latino music and protest music] / Jose Cuellar (43 min.). Four musicians talk about the development of various types of protest music in the sixties and play some of the songs that were created during the era. 120 min. Video/C 5979 View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Readings by Maxine Hong Kingston's Veterans Writing Workshop and Robert Hass, 2/5/99. Contents: Robert Hass (30 min.) -- Boy and the buffalo / Jim Jenko (sp?) (6 min.) -- The hunt / Keith Maker (?) (8 min.) -- Ish / Niki Cashton (?) (7 min.) -- Prologue to Grief denied: a Vietnam widow's story / Pauline Lorentz (?) (9 min.) -- The visit / Lee Swenson (?) (8 min.) -- Muhammad Ali. Live body. One more / Jeremiah Kelvio-Swazaw (?) (6 min.) -- Untitled piece / Katherine Beckwith (?) (6 min.) -- The well by the trail. Ambivalent nature of healing / Ted Sexhauer (?) (9 min.). Poetry readings led off by California poet laureate, Robert Hass, reading from his own works followed by poetry and prose written and presented by members of the Veterans Writing Workshop which was originally developed by Maxine Hong Kingston to provide a literary voice for Vietnam War veterans. 102 min. Video/C 5980
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4MacChallenge of Multiracial Democracy, 2/6/99 Moderator: Carlos Muñoz. Panel: Elizabeth Martinez, Phil Hutchings, Ramona Wilson, Helen Zia, David Bacon.
A panel of Mexican-American, Native American and Asian American leaders, authors and journalists examine, through analyses of minority history, future challenges for American minorities and American democracy in the 21st century. Introduction / Carlos Muñoz (9 min.) -- [Racism in 1960s and political movements] / Elizabeth Martinez (21 min.) -- [Contrasting social movements from the 60s to the 90s] / Phil Hutchings (17 min.) -- [Human values for the 21st century] / Ramona Wilson (20 min.) -- [Asian in America: the perpetual foreigners] / Helen Zia (26 min.) -- [Multiracial democracy and the labor movement] / David Bacon (15 min.) 108 min. Video/C 5983
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Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac Gerald Haslam Lecture, 2/6/99. Author and historian, Gerald Haslam provides reminiscences and perceptions of California and Central Valley culture as it has developed from the 60s to the 90s. 72 min. Video/C 5982View this video online
Requires Windows Media Player or Flip4Mac - California: West Meets East
- In San Francisco Eyre examines counterculture practices that have been influened by Taoism, Hinduism, and other Eastern religions. Biofeedback, meditation, Yoga, and self-help groups are some of the concepts considered. 1978. 52 min. Video/C 201
- California's Lost Tribes.
- Explores the conflicts over Indian gaming and places them in the context of both California and Native American history. Examining the historical underpinnings of tribal sovereignty and the evolution of tribal gaming rights over the last 30 years, the film investigates the impact of gaming on Indian self-determination, and the challenges that Native people face in defining the identity of their people for the future. Produced by Jack Kohler and Jed Riffe. c2005. 1978. 56 min. DVD 4781
- Can I Drink the Water?
- Focuses on three California communities with different sources of water and different water problems, and shows how and why water is treated and tested for various kinds of contamination. c1986. 27 min. Video/C MM876
- Carved in Silence.
- A documentary about Chinese immigration to the U.S. and the discriminatory U.S. immigration policy toward Asians. Parts filmed in the Angel Island State Park. Video/C 1170
- The Castro. (Neighborhoods, The Hidden Cities of San Francisco)
- Chronicles the history of the Castro district from a working class neighborhood to the center of gay and lesbian life in San Francisco. 1997. Video/C 5004
- Central City. (Geography Today.)
- This program provides an overview of the unique characteristics and complexities of the central city and the central business district. A comparison is made between Los Angeles, California and Manchester, England which, despite their differences, share important basic features in common. c1992. 20 min. Video/C 7071
- Chavez Ravine.
- This documentary captures how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone astray. Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build an enormous low-income housing project. Instead, the federally purchased land was used for Dodger Stadium. Directed by Jordan Mechner. 2004. 24 min. DVD 4003
- Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.
- A four part series chronicling various aspects of the struggles for equal rights by Mexican Americans. 57 min. each installment
Episode 1: Quest for a Homeland. Examines the events at Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, that sparked a national movement for social justice. It focuses on the 1967 struggle by Mexican Americans to regain ownership of New Mexico lands guaranteed them by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and then visits the landmark Denver Youth Conference in 1969. The program concludes with the Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War, held in East Los Angeles in 1970...an event that turned into a tragic riot resulting in the death of renowned journalist Ruben Salazar. Video/C 4308
Episode 2: The Struggle in the Field. Examines the efforts of farmworkers to form a national labor union. Under the leadership of nonviolence advocate Cesar Chavez, farmworkers launched a strike against California grape growers in 1965, demanding better working conditions and fair wages. In 1970, they undertook a national table grape boycott that eventually led to the first union contracts in farm labor history. An important milestone in the struggle was the passage of the California Labor Relations Act. Video/C 4309
Episode 3: Taking Back the Schools. Documents the Mexican-American struggle to reform an educational system that failed to properly educate Chicano students, resulting in a more than 50% drop out rate, and leaving many others illiterate and unskilled. It focuses on the 1968 walkout by thousands of Mexican-American high school students in East Los Angeles, which resulted in conspiracy indictments against 13 community leaders. Video/C 4310
Episode 4: Fighting for Political Power.Focuses on the emergence in Texas of Mexican-American political power and the creation of a third political party, La Raza Unida. Although the idea of a third party eventually proved ineffectual, La Raza Unida inspired a generation of political activists and pioneered voter registration strategies that eventually led to the election of thousands of Chicanos to political office. Video/C 4311
- Goodman, Walter. "Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement." television program reviews) New York Times v145 (Fri, April 12, 1996):B8(N), D18(L), col 4, 8 col in.
- Chicken Ranch: A Legal Brothel in Nevada.
- Documentary about the prostitutes employed on the Chicken Ranch, one of the 38 legal brothels in Nevada. 1984. 84 min. Video/C 585
- Chinatown (Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco)
- Journey inside Chinatown's tumultuous and inspiring history to witness how the past and present live together in one of San Francisco's oldest communities. Through a vivid mixture of personal recollections, archival photos, poetry and narration, film recalls the days when the neighborhood was shut out from society, a distinct ghetto and a refuge for new immigrants. Visit the offices of the Chinese Times, published daily since 1884. Poignant documentary footage reveals the stories of how residents made a life and thrived despite discriminatory legislation--starting with local ordinances and culminating with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. Producer & director, Felicia Lowe, 1996. 60 min. Video/C 4379
- Chinese Gold: the Chinese of the Monterey Bay.
- Based on the book by Sandy Lydon. Includes historic footage and photographs, and interviews with Chinese emigrants and Chinese Americans. 42 min. Video/C 2184
- Chrysanthemums and Salt.
- Profiles the immigration experience and lives of Japanese Americans in San Mateo, California, focusing in particular on their contributions to the Floriculture industry, the mining of salt and the development of California agriculture.
- The Chumash.
- A survey through interviews and archival footage of the history and mythology of the Chumash tribe of Southern California up to the present day, including current efforts to preserve Chumash ways and culture. 1991. 29 min. Video/C 5310
- City Parks.
- Uncovers the surprising stories behind the most famous city parks in the nation. Looks at designers like Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park and Griffith J. Griffith who designed Griffith Park in L.A., and builders of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to fashion oases of beauty in the most unlikely of places. Period photos document their creation, while people like the founder of the Central Park Conservancy and the General Manager of San Francisco's Parks & Recreation Department talk of the challenges they face in preserving and maintaining these invaluable urban escapes. c1999. 50 min. Video/C MM13
- The City That Waits to Die
- An alert from scientists concerned with a catastrophic fate for San Francisco based on earthquake conditions presented by the San Andreas fault. Film contains scenes of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and earthquakes in Japan, in Caracas, Venezuela, and in Anchorage, Alaska. Seismologists explain current efforts to predict, control and prevent earthquakes. 1971. 47 min. DVD 7177; vhs Video/7
- The Cockettes.
- This engaging tribute looks at the rise and fall of a San Francisco theatrical troupe called The Cockettes between the years 1969 and 1972. The sensation of the hippie movement in San Francisco, they were described as "hippie and freak drag queens," people who were allowed to live at the end of their imaginations. Uses interviews and vintage footage to revisit this lost corner of recent cultural history. A film by David Weissman & Bill Weber. 2001. 100 min. DVD 222
- Confrontation: An Analysis of the San Francisco State Strike, 1968-69.
- The strike at San Francisco State College is seen as a microcosm of the fragmentation of American cities. Examines the strike as a reflection of the "sickness in American cities". NBC documentary, 1969. 90 min, DVD 8273 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 2308
- A Cowhand's Song: Crisis on the Range
- A documentary on the lives of cattle ranchers in California and Nevada who graze cattle on publicly owned lands. Also details the threat posed by government agencies and environmental and recreational groups to the ranchers' continuing use of the land. 1983. 29 min. Video/C 420 NRLF #: B 3 969 300
- Crossroads: Boyle Heights
- Documentary compiled from life histories with residents and former residents of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles County, which included immigrants from Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Japan, as well as African-Americans and whites. While many of the Japanese American residents were sent to relocation camps during World War II, deportation was a common fate of Mexican Americans during the 1930s. 2002. 28 min. Video/C MM373
- A Day on the Bay.
- Documentary on Italian fishermen immigrants from Riva Trigoso, Italy and their descendants in Santa Cruz, Calif. 1987. 27 min. Video/C 2186
- The Departure.
- Fictional story about Haru, a young Japanese American girl growing up in California's Central Valley during the 30's. 13 min. Video/C 1971
- The Developing City.
- Examines the growth of a town into a city; the center city, housing, suburbia and exurbia; the relocation of business, industry and people, and the relationship between jobs, housing and transportation. As an example of city development compares the growth of Manchester, England with that of Los Angeles, California. c1992. 20 min. Video/C 7069
- The Diggers of San Francisco (Les Diggers de San Francisco).
- In 1965, while thousands of young people converged on San Francisco to protest the American way of life, the theater group The Diggers set up the Haight Ashbury free commune by means of guerrilla theater and street performances. Through interviews with members of the group and others this film looks at the evolution and experiences of the Diggers Theater Group, their eventual migration to a commune in Marin County and the impact of their performances. 1998. 84 min. Video/C 7270
- Dupont Guy: The Schiz of Grant Avenue
- Through a montage of images and interviews, the film explores the Chinese American social and economic conditions in San Francisco's Chinatown. A film essay by Curtis Choy. 1976. 35 min. DVD 4161
- Earthquake Video (FEMA Video Network).
- San Francisco Earthquake from "Ready for the worst" -- New Madrid earthquake area. (7 min.) -- Alaska earthquake from "Though the earth be moved" (3 min.) -- California earthquake from "Our active earth" (3:20 min.) -- Earthquake, California, 1971 (3 min.) -- Living with Quakes (4 min.) -- Japan quake '84 (5 min.). Video/C 1037
- Factory Farms.
- 1959 documentary by Harvey Richards. Tells the story of California agriculture, a highly capitalized, sophisticated industry with substandard wage rates that keep its workers in poverty. Documents 1959 labor conditions for farm workers. Produced by the United Packinghouse Workers Union. 1959. 32 min. DVD 4248; also VHS Video/C 2794
- The Fall of the I Hotel.
- After the Manongs labored to build America, their San Francisco Manilatown community is wiped out by urban renewal, and 50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International Hotel by 300 cops in the dead of night. Documents destruction of the last block of Manilatown on Kearny Street. 57 min. Video/C 1960
- Fated to Be Queer.
- Four charming Filipino men illuminate some of their issues and concerns as gay people of color in the San Francisco Bay Area.1992. 25 min. Video/C 3256
- Farmworkers' Diary
- In the farmworker's own words, shows the living conditions, hopes and fears of Mexican migrant farmworkers in California. The documentary captures their dreams and anxieties, their longing for their families and their fear of becoming unemployable as farm mechanizaton increases. Produced by Tony Cisneros and Paul Shain. 1990. 10 min. Video/C MM600
- Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary.
- A documentary by Los Angeles teacher Laura Angelica Simon, exploring the impact of California's Proposition 187 on the immigrant community. The subject is Hoover Street Elementary School, where Simon candidly explores the attitudes and emotions of teachers, students and parents, focusing on a ten year old Salvadorian girl. 1997. 53 min. Video/C 5246
American Library Assn. Video Round Table Notable Films for Adults, 1999
- The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle.
- The story of Cesar Chavez, the charismatic founder of the United Farmworkers Union and the history and impact of the movement that he inspired. The heart of the UFW, Chavez remains the most important Latino leader in this country's history. The activities he and his dedicated organizers led inspired the Chicano activism of the 1960's and '70's, helping to create a Latino civil rights movement. Film includes archival footage, newsreels and present-day interviews with activists, politicians and Chavez family members. Produced and directed by Ray Telles, Rick Tejada-Flores. 1997. 115 min. Video/C 4746
- Media Review Digest (UCB Only)
Ferriss, Susan and Ricardo Sandoval. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.
New York: Harcourt Brace, c1997; UCB Bancroft HD6509.C48 F47 1997; UCB Moffitt Ordered for Moffitt
- Gallegos, Aaron. "The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Struggle." (television program reviews) Sojourners v26, n3 (May-June, 1997):59 (3 pages).
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Goodman, Walter. "The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Struggle." (television program reviews) New York Times v146 (Wed, April 16, 1997):B6(N), C18(L), col 5, 2 col in
Harvey, Dennis. "The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Struggle." (movie reviews) Variety v365, n12 (Jan 27, 1997):79 (2 pages).
Weintraub, Irwin. "The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle." (video recording reviews) Library Journal v122, n13 (August, 1997):152 (2 pages).
- The Fillmore (Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco)
- Remembered today mainly for its rock and roll auditorium, San Francisco's Fillmore District is one of the great cautionary tales of American urban life. From the wholesale removal of Japanese Americans during World War II, to the jazz heyday of the 1950s to the bulldozers of urban renewal, the Fillmore District has seen its share of drama. This video explores the many worlds of the neighborhood, past and present, and the bittersweet memories of residents who fought for the survival of one of America's premier black communities. c1999. 84 min. Video/C 7746
- The Fire This Time.
- Through interviews with civic leaders, politicians and Los Angeles city residents film examines social conditions in Watts and other areas of inner city Los Angeles which have led to violence and rioting in the past. Critiques past governmental policies which have failed to correct the problem and makes suggestions for future solutions. 90 min. Video/C 3464
- Forbidden City, U.S.A.
- "The Forbidden City" was a San Francisco nightclub of the 1930's and 40's featuring Chinese American entertainers. This documentary contains rare film clips from the old club acts, new prints from 35 mm. nitrate negatives, music from vintage 78 records and contemporary interviews, with performers and club owner Charlie Low, tracing the history of this era. 56 min. Video/C 1775
- Journal of American History v77, n3 (Dec, 1990):1119 (2 pages).
- Foresaken Fields
- Before World War II, many Japanese-Americans had settled successfully as farmers in California. But when the war came, they were incarcerated under government orders and forced to sell their farms. When the war ended, many did not return to their rural homes, and those who did never recovered from the interruption in their lives. As their children moved away to college or jobs or to be with other families, there was a second forsaking of the fields. Japanese-American farming in California is a mere shadow of what it once was, yet it created the foundation for California agriculture as it is today. 2000. 27 min.Video/C 8895
- 41 Days: An Unfinished Documentary Film
- The title refers to the 41 day "power outage" in Berkeley, California during the time that city's voter approved ban on electroshock was in effect. The film documents the earlier days of the movement for human rights and against psychiatric oppression, and includes interviews with activists and footage from demonstrations. Produced, directed, edited and narrated by Richard Cohen. 1998. 52 min. DVD 4991
- Forty-Seven Cents.
- Documents how officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Claims Commission, and a lawyer representing the Pit River Indian Nation of northern California obtained from the tribe a land settlement that most of its members did not want. 25 min. Video/C 58
- Gabrielino/Tongva Culture.
- A survey of the history, culture and present status of the Gabrielino or Tongva tribe of Southern California, and the current efforts being made to revive the original Gabrielino or Tongva culture. 1991. 29 min. Video/C 5309
- Garbage Stories.
- These 5 features look at various creative ways garbage can be recycled and otherwise diverted from landfills. Examples of innovative recycling are the creation of art objects from garbage, a wildlife sanctuary developed from recycled wastewater, a farmer who feeds his pigs and goats entirely on refuse and a sculpture garden created from the solid wastes of the city of San Francisco. 1993. 27 min. Video/C 3897
- Gendernauts: A Journey Across the Great Gender Divide.
- Written, directed and produced by Monika Treut. Documents the female-to-male (F2M) transgender cyber-community in San Francisco presenting a personal view of people who alter their bodies and minds with new technologies and chemistry, with an amphasis on biological women who use the male hormone Testosterone. 2000. 82 min. DVD 5002; vhs Video/C 9262
- The Gold Rush
- At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier it was just a sleepy little town but the sight of gold in the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling state, and the nation. Drawing heavily on original letters, memoirs and journals, this documentary focuses on five determined adventurers. The film also reveals the rise of legalized discrimination in California and the decimation of the state's Native population. Directed by Randall MacLowry. 115 min. 2006. DVD 7790
- Going Home: The California Indian Library Collections Project.
- Documents the California Indian library collections project of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology which places copies of relevant historic photographs, sound recordings, field notes and personal narratives in county library collections near reservations. 23 min. Video/C 1928
- Golden Cage: A Story of California's Farmworkers.
- The experiences of Mexican farmworkers in California are chronicled. Using historical footage, interviews, newspaper clippings and black-and-white stills, the documentary traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union from the sixties to its current decline. It also examines the impact of the new immigration law. c1989. 29 min. Video/C 1935
- Golden Gate Bridge
- The story of engineer Joseph Strauss' mission to bring the Golden Gate Bridge into existence. He spent thirteen years arguing with politicians and opponents, before he could even break ground. This film explores the building of the spectacular bridge which has since been called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Originally released as a segment of The American experience. 2004. 60 min. DVD 3420
- Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-1940 World's Fair
- Explores the sights of the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-1940. To celebrate the opening of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, San Francisco threw a glorious party on the newly constructed Treasure Island, including a wonderland of buildings in the new art deco style. Young Andy Pagano was on hand to film the fair, also dubbed "The Pageant of the Pacific." 23 min. DVD 3993
- The Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay, 1939-1940.
- Two silent documentary films exploring the sights of the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-1940. The first film is in black and white, with English subtitles and covers hightlights of the fair. The second untitled newsreel is in color and also examines the sights at the fair closing with spectacular photos of the fair at night illuminated by colored lights. 199?. 38 min. Video/C 4183
- Golden Lands, Working Hands.
- A 2-part history of the labor movement in California from the 1860's to the present day. 1999.
Part 1. This first segment examines the Workingmen's Party of the 1870's, Chinese union exclusion, San Francisco as a union town and Los Angeles as open shop at the turn of the century, the plight of migrant labor as in the Beet Workers Strike of 1903 and the Wheatland Hop Riot of 1913, the framing of Tom Mooney, the impact of the Stock market crash and the Great Depression on unionization, Roosevelt's New Deal, militancy in the west coast maritime trades culminating in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934 and the beginning of the CIO, WWII defense industries and the employment of Afro-Americans, "Okie" and women workers which challenged the unions concerning inclusive or exclusive membership policies. Contents: Step by step (6 min.) -- No danger from strikes among them (15 min.) -- Bombs and ballots (24 min.) -- Not so jazzy (10 min.) -- Labor on the march (18 min.) -- Battling for democracy (8 min.). 81 min. Video/C 6254
Part 2. This second segment examines the DiGiorgio strike of 1947-50, the struggle for the Fair Employment Practices Law and the threat of the Right To Work campaign of 1958, the expansion of the labor-civil rights connection in the 1960's, the continued struggle of California's farm labor movement with the advent of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. The PATCO strike of air traffic controllers marked the end of the post-WWII social compact between labor and capital. A new corporate regime replaces full-time union jobs with part-time, temporary, disposable employment, as millions sink into unemployment and underemployment. In response, a new organizing mood emerges among California working people grappling with the effects of the global economy. Contents: We Called It a Work Holiday (17 min.) -- Building the house they lived in (28 min.) -- Against the tide (21 min.) -- Golden lands, new demands (22 min.). 91 min. Video/C 6255
- Good as Gold (Water Wars;1).
- Focuses on the dispute over water rights between the city of Los Angeles and Arizona Indians. Water rights is one of the most powerful resources in the West. 49 min. Video/C 2933
- The Good Society. Part Two
- This program focuses on Los Angeles, portraying the people who have recognized that cooperative action is the only solution to help benefit the community as a whole. The need is even clearer now in light of recent riots. This program features interviews with) individuals and organizations who put forth their ideas in support of building community in economically devastated urban areas. Presenter: Bill Moyers. Based on the book by Robert Bellah, The Good Society (Environ Dsgn E169.12.G645 1991; Main Stack; E169.12.G645 1991; Soc Welfare E169.12.G645 1991). Originally broadcast on the television series Listening to America. 1994. 60 min. Video/C 7211
- Good Work, Sister: Women Shipyard Workers of World War II, An Oral History.
- Women tell of their personal experiences in the shipyards at Portland, Or. and Vancouver, Wash., and the difficulties confronting them when they took over jobs during World War II which had traditionally been considered men's work in addition to their continuing responsibility for child-raising and housework. 1982. 20 min. Video/C 4065
- The Great San Francisco Earthquake.
- The amazing resources of the human spirit in the face of adversity were demonstrated by the diverse population of San Francisco during and after the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire which struck with 12,000 times the force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Although 3000 lives were lost and 6 1/2 billion bricks were dumped after the earthquake, the indomitable pioneer spirit prevailed as the city was rebuilt in three years. Four years later San Francisco hosted the 1915 World's Fair with a sense of triumph and invincibility. c1988. 58 min. Video/C 1526
- Green Dreams.
- Describes activities of the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG) as they organize and supervise gardening projects in troubled urban neighborhoods. Film documents how these gardening projects are offering real job skills and a sense of accomplishment to low-income youth, ex-convicts and people recovering from drugs. Looks at a variety of gardening projects including the Alemany housing project where a former trash-filled back lot is transformed into a small farm providing organic vegetables for residents and Hunter's Point where teens turn their lives around in an after school gardening program. c1995. 29 min. Video/C 4433
- Hands on the Verdict: The 1992 L.A. Uprising.
- Film probes the issues surrounding the civil unrest following the Simi Valley, Calif. verdict in the Rodney King police brutality trial. Examines also the South Central Los Angeles community of Watts, the truce between street gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, and the persistence of racism and police brutality in the L.A. Police Dept. 54 min. Video/C 3394
- Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union.
- Sympathetic biographical overview of the life of the union organizer, Harry Bridges and his struggles to organize stevedores on West Coast American ports. Includes the unsuccessful attempt to deport him by industry mogels and politicians hostile to his labor movement and the current impact of mechanization and containerization on Stevedores and other dock laborers. 1992. 60 min. Video/C 2550
- The Harvesters.
- Documents the late 1950's farm labor conditions in California's fields when 14- to 16- hour days paid workers at eighty-five cents to a dollar per hour. It also exposes how the bracero program imported Mexican nationals to work at wages lower than the subminimum rates available to American workers. This film was used the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the United Packinghouse Workers Union as an organizing film. A film by Harvey Richards. 1960. DVD 4249
- Hazardous Waste: Are We Poisoning the Golden State?
- UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies. "The California forum, September 8, 1983." Debate about the problem of regulating production as well as disposal of hazardous waste in California. 1983. 59 min. Video/C 672
- Hi Tech Families
- Presents a look at the impact of technology in the late 20th century on representative families who live and work in the Silicon Valley of California where computers and scientific technology are the main product. 1971. 29 min. Video/C 2627
- Hip Hop By Da Bay.
- Performers: Jahi, Attik, Krushadelic, Zion 1, Ise Lyfe, Pro. Presents a chronicle of the hip hop music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area including hip hop performances in San Francisco, Oakland, Vallejo, East Palo Alto, Richmond and Sacramento. 2005. 92 min. DVD 4174
- Historic Travel U.S.: Learning to Live in California.
- With a focus on life in post-WWII California, provides a rare opportunity to examine some of the films that were produced in an effort to guide, motivate and educate people on a wide range of subjects from road safety to social issues. Includes a 1931 tour of Oakland, a look at the local transit Key System, the conditions of African Americans in Los Angeles in 1971, films on the Bracero farm labor program, an educational film against exposure of young boys to homosexuals and more. See America first [Oakland] / host, Kay Gordon (1931, 16 min.) -- March of progress [Key System] / Key System Transit Company (1945, 21 min.) -- When you are a pedestrian [Oakland] / produced by Progressive Pictures (1948, 10 min.) -- Teddy / National Institute of Mental Health (1971, 16 min.) -- Freedom of the American road / with Henry Ford II ; sponsored by Ford Motor Company (1955, 16 min.) -- Why Braceros? / Council of California Growers (1959, 19 min.) -- Boys beware / produced by Sid Davis (1961, 10 min.) DVD 4845
- Historic Travel U.S.: Many Faces of California.
- A selection of nine rare and historic films of life in California between 1917 and 1957. Includes coverage of aviator Kay Stinson in her flight from San Diego to Los Angeles with footage of car races (1917), The Dole Air Race of 1927, glider flights in 1929, a 1948 bicycle safety film and the National Roller Skating Championships of 1950. Also includes a 1950s baby contest and coverage of artist Simon Rodia constructing the Watts Towers in Los Angeles in 1957. Kay Stinson, Aviator (1917, 3 min.) -- Tribune: American dream picture / Oakland Tribune-American (1924, 8 min.) -- Dole Air Race / Kinograms (1927, 10 min.) -- Norman Goddard and his glider (1929, 6 min.) -- Bohemian grove (amateur film) (1938, 2 min.) -- You and your bicycle / Progressive Pictures (1948, 9 min.) -- Amateur skating champs / Universal-International Newsreel (1950, 2 min.) -- Babies on parade / Universal-International Newsreel (1950, 2 min.) -- The Towers / Rembrandt Films ; producer, Antonio M. Vellani (1957, col., 12 min.) DVD 5288
- Historic San Francisco Worlds Fair, 1915.
- Films packed with footage from the Worlds Fair, San Francisco 1915, including architecture, music, dancing, aerials, parades, speeches, water works, night footage, an early airplane flight, a hot air balloon ride and landing, and more. Contents: Panama Pacific International Exhibition footage (1915, 5 min.) -- Panama Pacific International Exhibition footage (1915, 8 min.) -- The story of Jewel City (1915, 9 min.) -- Panama Pacific International Exhibition footage (1915, 10 min.) -- San Francisco Worlds Fair (1915, 10 min.) DVD 8291
- Historical World Fairs. San Francisco.
- Amazingly, just nine years after the devastating earthquake of 1906, San Francisco staged the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. The city went on to host another fair in 1939, the Golden Gate International Exposition, this time to celebrate the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge. Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915, 13 min.) -- Opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915, 9 min.) -- Golden Gate Bridge (amateur film, 1939, 30 min.) -- Dead fair / produced by Telenews (1940, 2 min.) -- Farewell to Treasure Island / produced by Ken Allen (1940, 3 min.) -- Story of Jewel City [1906 earthquake] / produced by Exposition Players Corporation (1915, 9 min.) -- Treasure Island / produced by Arthur E. Howard (1939, 10 min.) -- Frisco Fair/Pacific Northwest (amateur film, 1939, 17 min.) -- California: Golden Gate International Exposition (1939, 8 min.) -- Panama Pacific International Exposition / produced by Frank W. Vail (1940, 10 min.) 119 min. DVD 4844
- Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia
- Documents the American dream of home ownership via portraits and landscapes from a Los Angeles suburb. Three women and a teenage girl speak of their struggles to sustain family and community connections amid current socio-economic conditions. Their stories reveal a sad irony--home ownership is often achieved at the expense of the very values a home is said to represent. 1994. 47 min. Video/C 6116
- A Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma.
- This quintessentially American story of immigrants tells how a group of Eastern European Jews founded the chicken industry in Petaluma, California. Meet this idealistic and intrepid group through the reminiscences of their descendants, as they confronted obstacles of language and culture in their journey towards becoming Americans. Produced, directed and edited by Bonnie Burt and Judy Montell. 52 min. Video/C 9589
- Homeboys.
- Documentary portrait of a Chicano youth gang. Depicts life in Cuatro flats, a housing project in East Los Angeles, as seen through the eyes of gang members. Video/C 1934
- Homeless in Paradise
- Filmed over two years, follows the journeys of four people who are homeless and suffering with addictions and mental illness on the streets of Santa Monica, California. We experience homelessness through their eyes and come to better understand the complex political and social realities of a city that tries to be compassionate as it faces criticism and a seemingly intractable social problem. Directed by Marilyn Braverman.2005. 50 min. DVD 5029
- Hometown Blues the Struggle Over Growth in the Bay Area.
- A documentary addressing the San Francisco Bay Area's housing and growth crisis. Explores quality of life issues -- affordable housing, transportation, the environment -- and poses possible solutions. Elected officials and citizens as well as community, environmental and business leaders weigh in on these topics. 1999. 29 min. Video/C 7417
- Images of Mexican Los Angeles: Views of the Social and Cultural History of the Mexican Community of Los Angeles, 1781-1990s.
- Presents the history of the Mexican community in Los Angeles from 1781 through the 1990's. 1991. 28 min. Video/C 5144
- In Her Own Time
- Focuses on cultural anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's study of the community of Hasidic Jews in Los Angeles's Fairfax neighborhood. Also relates how, after exhausting medical treatment for cancer, she found strength among the traditions, faith, and caring of these Orthodox Jews. Directed by Lynne Littman. 1985. Dist.: Direct Cinema. 60 min. DVD 9287; vhs Video/C 9591
- Inside the Golden Gate
- A study of the ecology of San Francisco Bay, a huge estuary where fresh and salt water meet. 1974. 59 min. Video/40
- Invisible Indians: Mixtec Farmworkers in California
- This presentation examines the distinct culture of Mixtec Indians from Oaxaca, Mexico, who started to migrate to California in the early 1970's to work in the produce fields. This program focuses on the special skills and values that these people bring to California agriculture jobs and their continuing connection to their communities in Mexico. Also examined are their living conditions in California. 1993. 35 min. Video/C MM684
- Interdependency, Quake '89
- In the California earthquake of 1989 meeting the needs of disaster victims reached far beyond immediately available resources to dependency upon other cities, the county, regional and state government and private citizens. Film includes interviews with emergency assistance providers and city, county and state officials to determine how pre-planned interdependence between various layers of government and private citizens can facilitate future disaster relief efforts. 1089. 15 min. Video/C 284
- Ishi in Two Worlds: An Interview with Theodora Kroeber
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- Ishi, The Last of the Yahi.
- When Ishi suddenly appeared in rural Northern California in 1911, the country was stunned. His tribe as considered extinct; Ishi had lived in hiding for forty years . As the sole survivor, he had refused to surrender. His story embodies the strength and resilience of California's indigenous people. 57 min. Video/C 2861
- Ishi of Fire Mountain (Ishi in Two Worlds).
- A new edition of the film Ishi in two worlds by Richard C. Tomkins. Based upon the book Ishi in two worlds by Theodora Kroeber. Documentary of the life of Ishi, the sole survivor of a small band of Yahi Indians, who was found in 1911 in Oroville, California. Dramatizes the enormous contrast between his former primitive existence and his life in early twentieth-century San Francisco. 19 min. c1999. Video/C MM663
- Island of Secret Memories
- Examines the experiences of early Chinese American immigrants who were detained at the Angel Island Immigrant Station in the San Francisco Bay through the eyes of young immigrant children on a tour of the now restored facility located in Angel Island State Park. A film by Loni Ding. 1987. 20 min. Video/C 3846
- Jews and the Gold Rush
- This program relates the history of Jewish pioneers to California during the Gold Rush, outlining their reasons for coming, and their way of life once they arrived. The history of early Jewish settlements in San Francisco and Sacramento, and in Gold Rush mining communities is explored. 1994. 40 min. Video/C 7621
- Khush Refugees
- The film focuses on San Francisco's gay community where two exiles, Rahul, an immigrant from India, and Dante, an ex-marine from suburban Ohio, try to assimilate in this new foreign culture. 1991. 32 min. Video/C 3822
- L.A. Is Burning: Five Reports from a Divided City.
- One year after the Los Angeles riots, Frontline revisits the city. Tracing the chronology of events from the moment the Rodney King verdict was announced, through the next 72 hours of riots, to present day L.A. 87 min. Video/C 3068 Media Review Digest (UCB users only)
- The Land is Rich.
- Documents the United Farm Workers struggle to organize California farm workers in the early 1960's. Film contrasts the economic strength of California agribusiness and migrant workers poverty and the the effect of extensive exposure to agricultural chemicals on them. The film was used by the United Farm Workers Union. A film by Harvey Richards. 1966. 27 min. DVD 4246; also VHS Video/C 2800
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Tino's barbersop quartet: Shows a Filipino American barbershop quartet performing in San Francisco's Manilatown. Manongs: Tenants of the I-Hotel: An atmospheric short showing Manilatown life and loss with the I-Hotel evictions with footage not see in "The fall of the I-Hotel." Manilatown lives! The denizens of Manilatown are down but not out as they celebrate the opening of another temporary, permanent Manilatown Senior Center, and pay homage at the vacant I-Hotel site. Rise of the I-Hotel: In the mid-70's senior filipino residents of the I-Hotel in San Francisco were forcibly evicted to make way for an urban renewal project. The fight to save the I-Hotel became a landmark event of Asian American activism. This film presents historical footage juxtaposed with the opening of a new Filipino senior citizens' center built on the same sight nearly 30 years later. Produced by Curtis Choy. 52 min. DVD 4162
Financing the American family: Household Finance sponsored this film to educate struggling families on how obtaining a low-cost loan from their corporation to help families get out of debt. Frontiers of the future: Narrated by Lowell Thomas, traces the pattern of modern industrial growth from 1844. Proceeds with a brief outline of the many inventions and discoveries since that time. The value of research in bringing new products is emphasized, concluding with the statement that new frontiers of progress lie in the laboratory. Griffith Park relief workers demonstration: Brief newsreel of a demonstration held against the city and officials of Los Angeles to protest the death of about 100 relief workers at the Griffith Park Fire of 1933. San Francisco General Strike: Brief newsreel of a city-wide general strike held to support striking San Francisco longshoremen during the 1934 San Francisco Maritime Strike. Valley town: Documents how new technology was destabilizing the economic and social underpinnings of many steel towns of the 1930s through the story of one Pennsylvania town. This unique film presages the outcry against automation a generation later, while documenting both the boomtown phenomenon and the technological progress of this bleak industrial age. 52 min. DVD 2651
A symposium on American Indian activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Panel discussions focus on the social, cultural and political events that led to the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the pivotal role of the urban American Indian community in the Bay Area, and the work of American Indian student activists in creating the Department of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. Held in the Nob Hill Room, Seven Hills Conference Center, San Francisco State University on November 19, 1999. 7 hrs., 15 min.Video/C 6744
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Part I. Artists interviewed: Carlos Villa, Glenn Grafelman, Keith Haring, John Okulick, Daniel Phill, Nam June Paik, Richard Herman, Tad Savinar, Edgar Heap of Birds, Manuel Neri, Allan Shepp, Roy DeForest. Gallery directors: William Sawyer, Bruce Velick, Louise Allrich, Kathan Brown, Gary Lichtenstein, Diana Fuller, Michele Mincher, Hank Baum, Mark Rennie, Ev Thomas, Ardys Allport, Ken Rackow. c1986. Video/C 6379
Part II. Artists interviewed: Manual Neri, Keith Haring, Allen Shepp, Roy DeForest, Nam June Paik, Richard Herman, John Okulick, Glenn Grafelman, Poison Gas Research, Carlos Villa, Daniel Phill, Edgar Heap of Birds, Tad Savinar. Gallery directors: Kathan Brown, Bruce Velick, Dorothy Goldeen, John Martin, Marshall Weber, Diana Fuller, William Sawyer, Hank Baum, Gary Lichtenstein, Ardys Allport, Ken Rackow, Mark Rennie, Louise Allrich, Michele Mincher, Ruth Braunstein, Charles Fiske, Ev Thomas. c1986. Video/C 6380
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Part I. Artists interviewed: Carlos Villa, Glenn Grafelman, Keith Haring, John Okulick, Daniel Phill, Nam June Paik, Richard Herman, Tad Savinar, Edgar Heap of Birds, Manuel Neri, Allan Shepp, Roy DeForest. Gallery directors: William Sawyer, Bruce Velick, Louise Allrich, Kathan Brown, Gary Lichtenstein, Diana Fuller, Michele Mincher, Hank Baum, Mark Rennie, Ev Thomas, Ardys Allport, Ken Rackow. c1986. Video/C 6379
Part II. Artists interviewed: Manual Neri, Keith Haring, Allen Shepp, Roy DeForest, Nam June Paik, Richard Herman, John Okulick, Glenn Grafelman, Poison Gas Research, Carlos Villa, Daniel Phill, Edgar Heap of Birds, Tad Savinar. Gallery directors: Kathan Brown, Bruce Velick, Dorothy Goldeen, John Martin, Marshall Weber, Diana Fuller, William Sawyer, Hank Baum, Gary Lichtenstein, Ardys Allport, Ken Rackow, Mark Rennie, Louise Allrich, Michele Mincher, Ruth Braunstein, Charles Fiske, Ev Thomas. c1986. Video/C 6380
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