UC Berkeley - unedited footage

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UC Berkeley - unedited footage is a short film from c. 1960 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Summary. Unedited documentary footage of UC Berkeley and surrounds. Site-specific detail shots show printing products "at work" in the community of UC Berkeley: Programs, catalogs, newspapers. Many shots in and around Berkeley campus. Also general east bay landscape shots, including freeways being built, and views of Yerba Buena island and the Bay Bridge. A few seconds of San Francisco material. Footage sequences include many repeated sequences.

UC Berkeley - unedited footage
Produced byGolden State Film Production
Production
company
Golden State Film Production
Distributed byGolden State Film Production
Release date
c. 1960
Running time
25 min.
LanguageEnglish
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Shot List

04:35:11:06 - 04:35:21:14 Static exterior street view of newsstand shop: Out of Town / Foreign Newspapers

04:35:21:15 - 04:35:26:28 Berkeley California exterior street view: Telegraph Avenue street sign visible, looks like 2300 block. Cars pass, people get off bus, yellow bus pulls away

04:35:26:29 [RP REVIEW TO ADD DETAIL:] UC Berkeley campus views -students on grass -Barrington Hall exterior -graduation parade marches up campus, shot from behind -long view of large crowd / audience at sporting event. Cheerleaders with pom-poms in front row. -still photo of unidentified head shot of older man tacked to wall - building exteriors, unidentified, campanile visible

04:36:05:15 bird s eye view looking down on scale model of campus buildings, as if on architecture planning table Sign: A Design Proposal by Students of the College of Architecture Young woman points at floor plan beneath sign copy. Young woman points at more scale model buildings.

04:36:28:17 Cafeteria sequence: -Asian-American male student holding a tray walks a meal bar. Many dishes of food are displayed, and glasses of juice. African -American woman cafeteria worker looks on. -Student checks out at cash register.

04:36:49:01 Male crew squad rows on Lake Merritt

04:36:55:14 Crowd at graduation, speaker at podium.

04:37:00:16 Wooden table surface first empty, then campus publications are placed on it one at a time: -Occident -California Engineer -Pelican -Blue & Gold 1955

04:37:12:27 woman secretary at typewriter with California literature visible on desk.

04:37:30:14 -UC Berkeley graduation sequence: Faculty standing around campus in caps and gowns -Man emerges from Administration building and speaks to camera. -The Daily Californian is laid out on a table -California Engineer is laid out on top of it. -The Pelican is laid out on top of it. -Occident is laid out on top. -Blue & Gold 1959 on top of all. -Sequence is repeated, with variations.

04:39:12:04 -Berkeley street view exterior. Same street as in last street view, different angle. Bus stops at bus stop. Women disembark.

04:39:31:17 Revisit UC Berkeley campus views. Some same shots as at 04:35 etc. -students on grass -students bustle at Sproul Plaza - Professors talk beneath the campanile

04:40:10:18 Pan of international and domestic newspapers arrayed at a newsstand: San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta The Philadelphia The St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Idaho, Indiana, Nashville.

04:40:22:06 Berkeley bus stop with trash can City of Berkeley clearly visible. Bus stops. ([DARK IMAGE]

04:40:30:27 UC Berkeley swimmers and rowers at Lake Merritt. -Swimmers jump in water from pier -Rowers row crews past industrial waterfront, houseboats, the Loop Lumber & Mill Co. [RP WHERE ARE WE? ALAMEDA CHANNEL?] -Rowers carry boat onto pier and set it in water.

04:41:31:29 Bird s eye POV of Berkeley street corner. Campus buildings in background. Looks like we re looking onto campus. -Baseball sequence. -graduation sequence with professors marching toward the camera in full cap and gown. -color guard. -Flag raising: U.S. flag, state of California, UC Berkeley

04:43:25:18 light industry interior: Woman in plaid shirt operates a press.

04:43:32:22 bird s eye POV of muddy stream running between verdant banks -long view of stream, appears to be in UC Berkeley campus - UC Berkeley campus exteriors: ivy-covered building

04:44:02:10 Westward view from Berkeley near the shore, looking over new, clean waterfront freeway, with bay bridge approach to Yerba Buena Island visible in the distance. Road is framed by ultra-clean green grassy shoulders. A light handful of cars traverse the road.

04:44:08:16 UC Berkeley campus building exteriors -Scripps Institution of Oceanography -Oowell Memorial Hospital -Sproul? - 04:44:51:15 Man looks up at Freeway interchange above his head. Looks like the Maze

04:44:55:17 [RP HELP WHERE ARE WE] Cantilever bridge under construction

04:44:59:26 Long view of entrance to Hagiwara Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park. Woman stands in front of gate. Cars pass in front of her.

04:45:02:19 A California Brown Pelican in adult plumage preens its chest. Housed indoors -- multi-pane window visible behind bird. Presumably California Academy of Sciences?

04:45:06:19 Freeway interchange under construction. Looks like I-80 approach to Bay Bridge, or Grand Avenue area approach to bridge, or similar

04:45:12:06 Westward view from Berkeley shore: camera looks across water at San Francisco. Bridge, Yerba Buena Island visible at horizon line. City is mostly fog enshrouded but Coit Tower is visible. Waves lap at shoreline.

Two frames of view of San Francisco downtown as seen from the Treasure Island ramp onto the Bay Bridge.

04:45:22:20 Berkeley neighborhood street POV. Looks like possibly Alta-Bates medical center or UC high-rise apartments.

UC Berkeley graduation sequence: faculty files into stadium. -Band plays at graduation -faculty speaks at graduation -faculty mills and smokes at graduation - faculty and parents gather and march - graduation parties march in formation on campus - Sproul plaza: cheerleaders, Bruins in animal outfits.

04:46:52:22 (Secondary footage cut in) (scratchy): UC Berkeley football game

04:49:08:24 UC Berkeley camps exteriors. Campanile, Berkeley hills (without houses) visible in background (scratchy)

04:49:16:02 Library sequence: (scratchy) Librarian (or researcher) approaches card catalog and opens a drawer. Makes notes. Man discusses with librarian at General Reference desk. Man sits and talks. Man IFO fireplace. UC Berkeley campus exteriors

04:50:17:13 San Francisco Bay shoreline. Natural shore vegetation visible, and waves hitting rocks.

FRAME OUT: 04:50:25:22