California Audiovisual Preservation Project

  • Rapid transit : when, where, and how? (Episode 1 of 2)

    Barry Siegel, Los Angeles Urban Coalition Transportation Consultant; Margot Feuer, member of the South Coast Regional Commission and Land Use Planning Advocate for Los Angeles County; and Tad Widby, Transportation and Land Use Planner for the Southern California Association of Governments talk about land use and transportation in Southern California. Moderated by Ellen Stern Harris.

  • The San Francisco mime troupe (Part 1 of 2)

    The first of two programs presenting the history of the San Francisco Mime Troupe during its first ten years. The programs document the new publication on the troupe’s history by its founder, R.G. Davis. The first program covers the period from 1959 to 1966 and deals with the transition from the San Francisco Actors Workshop…

  • The Christo kid

    Marilyn Hagberg interviews the controversial artist Christo (1935 – ) on the occasion of his Oakland Museum exhibition. Called the Cecil B. DeMille of conceptual art, Christo created “the most publicized work of art in the last decade,” a 1300-foot nylon curtain stretched across a Rocky Mountain valley in Colorado. Trained in the Soviet school…

  • No appointment necessary

    On this episode of No Appointment Necessary, lawyer David Finkel interviews California Superior Court Judge Jerry Pacht about due process in the criminal courts of the predominantly Chicano neighborhood of East Los Angeles.

  • Black reporters question the police version of the S.L.A. shootout / produced by Earl Ofari.

    Repoters challenge the police about their discription of the killing of several Symbionese Liberation Army members in Los Angeles.|BLACK REPORTERS QUESTION THE POLICE VERSION OF THE S.L.A. SHOOTOUT / produced by Earl Ofari. – Reporters challenge the police about their discription of the killing of several Symbionese Liberation Army members in Los Angeles. – BROADCAST:…

  • Will we kill San Francisco Bay?

    KPFA’s Bill Schechner interviews marine biologist Fred Tarp of Contra Costa College about the effects of marine pollution on the environment.

  • Brecht in Hollywood / produced by David Ossman.

    Biography of Bertolt Brecht from 1941-1947. Includes statements by Elsa Lanchester and John Houseman and actuality of Brecht’s testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

  • The wall (Episode 4 of 5)

    In 1964, Leonard Brown and a team of volunteers created this five-part “audiomosaic” documentary series on the lives of African Americans in the ghettos of Los Angeles. This fourth part “The wall,” focuses on the social barriers between Blacks and Whites in America. Blacks talk about their distrust of Whites, recount stories of racial discrimination…

  • The battle of Santa Barbara

    The small suburb of Isla Vista that borders the University of California, Santa Barbara was the site of a significant anti-Vietnam War protest in early 1970. This is a description of the Santa Barbara demonstration as seen by Michel Barton, who was in Isla Vista where the Bank of America branch was burned. Mr. Barton…

  • Live animal room / produced by Erik Bauersfeld and Clay Grillo.

    A visit to the Josephine D. Randall Junior Museum in San Francisco. The children play tree to a boa constrictor and are led on a sawdust safari by Assistant Life-Science Curator Juanita Richardson. Director A. Kirk Conragan discusses some of the other activities at this busy institution on top of Corona Heights. Produced by Erik…