![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Gay Sex before Zippers - Chris Carlsson
Harry Hay describes gay sex when BVD's were still predominant underwear, before zippers in the 1930s... men would meet at Presidio guardhouse and go into the bushes.
Keywords: Presidio; Gay Sex; Harry Hay
Downloads: 41,451
Average rating:  (8 reviews) |  |
| Herb Mills on Containerization - Chris Carlsson
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of Local 10 ILWU, describes the role of containerization in the global economy.
Keywords: containerization; longshoring; globalization
Downloads: 2,203
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Pie Fight 1969 - Christian Bruno and Sam Green
The 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival opens on the steps of City Hall, but is unexpectedly attacked by independent filmmakers with pies. This footage was long-lost and then found and made into a movie in the late 1990s.
Keywords: Film Festival; 1969; Pie Fight
Downloads: 6,332
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Fleet Week - Peace Navy
excerpt from documentary on Fleet Week created by the Peace Navy as part of their campaign against the event.
Keywords: Peace Navy; Fleet Week; anti-militarism
Downloads: 1,163
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco celebrates VE Day 1918
Newsreel footage from the Market Street celebration of the end of WWI in San Francisco, 1918.
Keywords: WWI; San Francisco; 1918
Downloads: 14,548
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Fatty Arbuckle
Fatty Arbuckle and one of his adoring dames, posing for the publicity cameras of the PPIE in 1915.
Keywords: Fatty Arbuckle; PPIE; 1915
Downloads: 3,324
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Harry Hay on 34 Funeral - Chris Carlsson
Harry Hay describes the scene along Market Street on July 9, 1934 as strikers tore hats from bankers and kept their own security.
Keywords: Harry Hay; 1934 Strike; Funeral
Downloads: 950
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Gartland Pit street theater - Craig Baldwin
Street theater held across from Gartland Pit in the mid-1980s. Peter Plate on megaphone.
Keywords: Gartland Pit; Street Theater; Peter Plate
Downloads: 476
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| First Female to swim Golden Gate
Hazel Lagenour, first woman to swim across the Golden Gate, in 1911, provided courtesy Bill Pickelhaupt.
Keywords: First swim; Golden Gate; Hazel Lagenour
Downloads: 1,141
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| General Strike newsreel 1 - Bert Gould
Original Pathe News newsreel footage describing the unfolding General Strike in breathless and fearsome tones.
Keywords: Big Strike; 1934; newsreel
Downloads: 2,354
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Waterfront Strike
silent footage of strikers marching, parading along waterfront, cops on horseback, scenes of the Embarcadero
Keywords: waterfront strike; longshoremen; 1934
Downloads: 1,667
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Gulf War protests - Jesse Drew, Carla Leshne
scenes from demonstrations against the 1991 Gulf War in San Francisco.
Keywords: Gulf War I991; civic center; anti-war protests
Downloads: 2,366
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Pickups at Finocchio's - Chris Carlsson
Harry Hay describes the pickup scene at the North Beach bar Finocchio's in the early 1930s.
Keywords: Harry Hay; Finocchio's; gay dating
Downloads: 2,092
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| I-Hotel Riot - Chunkmoonhunter Productions
Hundreds of police attack the I-Hotel on Kearny in 1977 to evict the remaining tenants.
Keywords: I-Hotel; police; eviction
Downloads: 2,648
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Herb Mills on the Hiring Hall - Chris Carlsson
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the importance of the Hiring Hall to the culture and politics of longshoring.
Keywords: ILWU; hiring hall; longshoremen
Downloads: 1,238
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Herb Mills on the old waterfront - Chris Carlsson
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the lost landscape and culture of the old waterfront in San Francisco.
Keywords: waterfront; ILWU; working class culture
Downloads: 1,042
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Mud People
Mud people descend on downtown San Francisco... the only rules? No walking and no talking! Merry mayhem ensues.
Keywords: mud people; financial district; anarchy
Downloads: 4,786
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Harvey Milk's Last Words
Harvey Milk's last words, delivered posthumously, recorded in case of his assassination... excerpted from The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Keywords: Harvey Milk; last words; Gay
Downloads: 13,171
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Processed World street vending
Lucius Cabins, Helen Highwater and Linda Thomas hawking Processed World magazine at Market and Montgomery in the summer of 1982.
Keywords: Processed World; financial district; dissent
Downloads: 403
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Crowds at Ocean Beach
Turn of the 19th century crowds at Ocean Beach
Keywords: Ocean Beach; Cliff House; 1900
Downloads: 3,342
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Cliff House from Ocean Beach
3 seconds of the Cliff House from Ocean Beach, people milling about on the beach in the foreground.
Keywords: Cliff House; Ocean Beach; 1900
Downloads: 1,632
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Teddy Roosevelt in SF
Difficult to discern, but President Teddy Roosevelt is in a procession heading up Van Ness in this short clip.
Keywords: Teddy Roosevelt; Van Ness; parade
Downloads: 1,201
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Arrests at HUAC in City Hall
scenes of students being washed down rotunda stairs in SF City Hall during mass arrests at HUAC hearings, May 1960.
Keywords: HUAC; protests; City Hall
Downloads: 1,937
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti in his Potrero Hill home in 1965, ruminating on San Francisco
Keywords: Ferlinghetti; Potrero Hill; poetry
Downloads: 1,555
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Mission Creek - Chris Carlsson
canoe ride into Mission Creek before the freeway was reconfigured or Mission Bay was built.
Keywords: Mission Creek; freeways; Mission Bay
Downloads: 863
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Preparedness Day cartoon
Animation dramatizing the choice between "prosperity" and "anarchy, sedition, and lawlessness" in 1916
Keywords: Tom Mooney; Preparedness Day; bomb
Downloads: 2,542
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Tom Mooney in San Quentin - Mooney Defense
Tom Mooney, filmed by his defense team in San Quentin, appeals for a new trial or a death sentence, rather than the endless years in jail... he had already been in jail for 16 years. Excerpt from "The Strange Case of Tom Mooney".
Keywords: Tom Mooney; San Quentin; Preparedness Day
Downloads: 1,042
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Seal Rock Pacific Ocean - Chris Carlsson
Seal Rock off the Cliff House, the ocean roaring around it.
Keywords: Seal Rock; Pacific Ocean; Cliff House view
Downloads: 1,790
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Feast Day Procession Potrero Hill
footage of Catholic Feast Day parade on Potrero Hill, April 25, 1937.
Keywords: Potrero Hill; Parade; Feast Day
Downloads: 721
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Panama-Pacific International Exposition
panoramic view of the PPIE on San Francisco's northern edge, 1915, as broadcast in a 1930s newsreel.
Keywords: PPIE; World's Fairs; Marina District
Downloads: 1,184
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Sea Lions at Pier 39 - Chris Carlsson
Sea Lions cavort on piers facing San Francisco's Pier 39.
Keywords: Sea Lions; Pier 39; Tourism
Downloads: 894
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Mayor Angelo Rossi on Strike
Mayor Angelo Rossi appeals to San Franciscans to allow business to proceed, while most of the city is on strike in July 1934.
Keywords: Mayor Rossi; General Strike; 1934
Downloads: 996
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Post-Quake scenes
Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906.
Keywords: Earthquake; Fire; 1906
Downloads: 7,627
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Ironworkers Strike
A strike begins at the Union Iron Works at the foot of Potrero Hill in 1917.
Keywords: Strike; Potrero Hill; Union Iron Works
Downloads: 2,172
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Soap Box Derby - Chris Carlsson
The San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society conducted races on Bernal Heights for years, and still does at unpredictable times.
Keywords: Soapbox Derby; Bernal Heights; underground culture
Downloads: 1,714
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Farm - Kathy Katz and Mike Kavanaugh
An excerpt from a 45-minute documentary about The Farm, the remarkable rural oasis under the freeways in San Francisco from 1974-1986, an autonomous zone that housed farm animals, rehearsal and performance space, theater and punk rock...
Keywords: Farm; San Francisco; 1970s
Downloads: 6,375
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Under the Piers - Chris Carlsson
canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront.
Keywords: waterfront; Piers; canoe
Downloads: 560
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Union Square
Dedication of Dewey Monument in Union Square, c. 1903. St. Francis Hotel visible behind scene.
Keywords: Union Square; Dewey Monument; 1903
Downloads: 1,141
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Squatter Punx Rock the Vats - Glenn Bachmann
The old Falstaff brewery became a home to punk rockers in the early 1980s before its demolition. Here's a glimpse of an impromptu concert outside.
Keywords: Punk; Vats; Brewery
Downloads: 3,220
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| West Portal
West Portal tunnel under construction, Portola Drive cutting through empty surrounding hillsides.
Keywords: West Portal; Portola Drive; Sutro Forest
Downloads: 926
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| White Night Riot
Riot and destruction at City Hall in the wake of the slap-on-the-wrist manslaughter verdict against Dan White, murderer of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
Keywords: riot; White Night; Harvey Milk
Downloads: 12,529
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| George Will on Islais Creek - Chris Carlsson
Lifelong Bernal Heights resident George Will describes growing up in the marshland near the Old Clam House on Bayshore Blvd. in the 'teens.
Keywords: Islais Creek; wetlands; Bernal Heights
Downloads: 479
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Digger Poem - Chris Carlsson
"Diamond Dave" Whitaker recites his Digger poem
Keywords: Diamond Dave Whitaker; Diggers; counterculture
Downloads: 728
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Japanese Internment
scenes of Japanese-Americans being shipped out of the Fillmore on their way to "internment".
Keywords: Japanese Internment; WWII; war crimes
Downloads: 3,348
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Steam Shovel
Before occupational health and safety, this is how excavation was done. A steam shovel is digging a tunnel for the SF Muni, c. 1917.
Keywords: steam shovel; digging tunnels; excavation
Downloads: 2,159
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Shiva in GG Park - John Fulbright
How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a cement pylon.
Keywords: Shiva; Golden Gate Park; religion
Downloads: 846
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Local 2 Dancing Pickets - Mary Ellen Churchill
Alliance for the Rank and File activists in Local 2 HERE led a strike against Zim's Coffeehouse chain.
Keywords: strike; restaurant workers; Local 2
Downloads: 487
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Sandinistas in SF - Mary Ellen Churchill
Alejandro Murguia, who fought in the 1978 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, describes the role San Francisco played in the uprising.
Keywords: Sandinistas; Nicaragua; Bernal Heights
Downloads: 665
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Willie Brown Pied - Biotic Baking Brigade
Mayor Willie Brown is hit with 3 pies by activists of the Biotic Baking Brigade at a "Clean-up" event in Bayview/Hunter's Point.
Keywords: Willie Brown; Biotic Baking Brigade; pie-throwing
Downloads: 940
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Lands End train ride
Sped-up trip eastward along the old Sutro Steam railroad from Cliff house back towards the then-empty Golden Gate.
Keywords: Golden Gate; Lands End; railroad
Downloads: 3,217
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
