![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Peter Berg on One Percent Free - Shaping San Francisco
Peter Berg, an original San Francisco Digger, describes how their ubiquitous poster image called "1% Free" came to be, detailing the origin of the photo, the soruce of 1% in the Hells Angels at the time, and the production and distribution of the poster itself.
Keywords: Diggers; Peter Berg; 1% Free; Free; Hells Angels; Chinatown; Arnold Genthe
Downloads: 98 |  |
| Robert Lovato and Hunts Donuts - Chris Carlsson
Roberto Lovato, who grew up on Folsom near 25th Street during the 1970s, describes how his father was involved in the "alternative economy" centered on Hunt's Donuts at 20th and Mission, and how it benefitted his extended Salvadoran families in San Francisco and in El Salvador.
Keywords: Crime; Salvadoran community; Mission District
Downloads: 156
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| The Recyclergy - Jeremy Kaller
For decades the San Francisco Bay Area has been a hub for the recycling movement. Despite the lack of surviving community recycling centers, the Bay Area is still home to a unique community of recyclers who push the envelope of possibilities.
Keywords: Recycling; Ecology; Documentary; Reuse
Downloads: 100 |  |
| naturaldisasters-3
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Keywords: San Francisco
Downloads: 221 |  |
| They Back-Doored Us
It depicts the Art Attack staged on Friday, June 18, 1999 called "Wall Street West is All Tied Up!" which happened on Montgomery Street between California and Pine Streets at apx. 12:25 p.m.
Downloads: 1,575
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Meeting Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera - Chris Carlsson
Artist Pele DeLappe describes her encounter at age 15 with Frieda Rivera (Kahlo), sitting around painting and smoking cigarettes together, while Diego Rivera was painting the San Francisco Stock Exchange mural (c. 1930)
Keywords: Frieda Kahlo; Diego Rivera; Pele DeLappe
Downloads: 1,577
Average rating: (0 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: 964
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: 3,347
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: 697
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: 863
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Bike Mural - Chris Carlsson
Artist Mona Caron describes the meaning of her mural along the newly christened Duboce Bikeway.
Keywords: murals; Duboce Bikeway; Mona Caron
Downloads: 650
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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: 523
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| 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: 2,252
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: 3,465
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| 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: 500
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Digger Poem - Chris Carlsson
"Diamond Dave" Whitaker recites his Digger poem
Keywords: Diamond Dave Whitaker; Diggers; counterculture
Downloads: 752
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: 12,853
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| West Portal
West Portal tunnel under construction, Portola Drive cutting through empty surrounding hillsides.
Keywords: West Portal; Portola Drive; Sutro Forest
Downloads: 1,014
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Queen Isabella Pageant protest - Carla Leshne
A protest against the silence surrounding the original genocide in North America staged at a "Queen Isabella" pageant.
Keywords: Pageant; protest; Quincentennial
Downloads: 614
Average rating: (0 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: 3,321
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Union Square
Dedication of Dewey Monument in Union Square, c. 1903. St. Francis Hotel visible behind scene.
Keywords: Union Square; Dewey Monument; 1903
Downloads: 1,226
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Under the Piers - Chris Carlsson
canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront.
Keywords: waterfront; Piers; canoe
Downloads: 584
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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: 2,274
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: 1,793
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| 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: 1,040
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: 7,876
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| 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: 944
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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: 1,251
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: 766
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| 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: 1,927
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Corruption in Local 2 - Mary Ellen Churchill
A rank and file member of Local 2 denounces the rampant corruption and anti-democratic practices of the union leadership under Joe Belardi.
Keywords: Union democracy; rank and file; corruption
Downloads: 626
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Telegraph Hil from Bay - Chris Carlsson
shot from a canoe off Pier 33 looking up at Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill.
Keywords: Telegraph Hill; SF Bay; Coit Tower
Downloads: 852
Average rating: (0 review) |  |
| 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: 1,073
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: 2,609
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: 917
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti in his Potrero Hill home in 1965, ruminating on San Francisco
Keywords: Ferlinghetti; Potrero Hill; poetry
Downloads: 1,620
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| 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: 1,289
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: 2,109
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Crowds at Ocean Beach
Turn of the 19th century crowds at Ocean Beach
Keywords: Ocean Beach; Cliff House; 1900
Downloads: 3,517
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: 1,688
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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: 417
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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: 13,485
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| 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: 2,740
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: 4,917
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| 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: 1,055
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: 1,307
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: 2,140
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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: 43,002
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| 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: 2,434
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: 1,728
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
