Adult Entertainment Industry
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KRON News footage from December 13th 1966 featuring brief scenes of Art Brown inteviewing a lawyer, who talks about what the law considers sexual "obscenity," in relation to erotic dancing in San Francisco's bars. Note this story was titled "Bottomless" in the original KRON-TV news shot log. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON-TV news footage from December 30th 1966 with Art Brown featuring an interview with topless dancer Carol Doda (1937-2015) at the Condor Club, in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Doda is seen descending (very slowly) from a hole in the ceiling on a grand piano and wearing a white evening gown. She explains this will be her outfit for the inaugural ball of Governor Ronald Reagan in Sacramento. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON News footage from November 26th 1974 with reporter John Fulmer, featuring a look at how the Mitchell Brothers Film Company, based at the O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, manages casting for it's many porn film releases. Includes a brief interview with "Chekene" who explains their actors come from many different backgrounds, including doctors, lawyers and athletes. He speculates that: "I think ... they want to work out their fantasies." Ends with silent shots of Fulmer interviewing Chekene. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON-TV Newswatch footage from August 4th 1970 with Phil Wilson featuring a report on the making, screening and censorship of pornographic movies in San Francisco, foucssing on O'Farrell Theatre owners the Mitchell Brothers. Includes exterior views of downtown adult movie theaters and of a film production set at the O'Farrell Theatre. Filmmaker Artie Mitchell discusses censorship on his film set and states: "It's their role ... to stop change, to resist change. Just like, you know, change being such an explosive force." There is also an interview with a lawyer ("Mr. Zwerin"), who points out the Board of Supervisors recently tried to close down the O'Farrell Theatre by suggesting that: "They might be using an inflammable film [nitrate film] in the motion picture," posing a potential fire hazard. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX-TV News report by Rollin Post from August 6th 1969 in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood featuring an interview with Supervisor John Ertola (1926-2007), who talks about issues relating to legislation that covers nudity and topless dancing. Also includes brief scenes from a press conference by Mayor Joseph Alioto, who states he would support any ordinance banning topless dancing. Post provides a voiceover summarizing the recent history of topless dancing in North Beach, when: "Almost overnight San Francisco became the topless capital of the world," which includes many (exterior) views of topless bars in North Beach. Ends with more silent views of topless bar fronts. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX Eyewitness News report from December 2nd 1970 by Mike Lee and Ben Williams featuring the first San Francisco Erotic Film Festival. Includes scenes of people arriving at the Presidio Theater for a premiere, Hibiscus and Tahara from The Cockettes singing 'By a Waterfall' and interviews with organizers and Supervisor Dianne Feinstein, who states: "The thing that I regret ... is that this whole field is jeopardized right now because of the irresponsibility of certain money hungry people ... who are capitalizing on sickness to sell their very depraved wares."
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KPIX Eyewitness News report from January 4th 1972 by Ed Arnow in San Francisco, featuring views of the Garden of Eden adult club on Broadway. Includes scenes of a lady barker inviting guests into the club and when Arnow asks her if there may be a future for more women as barkers outside adult clubs, she replies: "I don't see why not … I think it's an equal thing."
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KRON-TV News footage from June 6th 1973 featuring brief scenes from a press conference by actress Marilyn Chambers (1952-2009), who is responding to local criticism in Hayward of her film Behind the Green Door, produced in San Francisco by Artie and Jim Mitchell. She states: "I have a 1st Amendment right to my freedom of expression. My acting is very important to me … My film has never been found to be obscene by any court in the United States or anywhere else in the world. We just recently showed it at Cannes." Note that KPIX-TV reporter Pat O'Brien can be heard off-camera asking Chambers questions about her performance. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX-TV Eyewitness news footage from June 6th 1973 featuring brief scenes from a press conference by actress Marilyn Chambers (1952-2009), who is responding to local censorship in Hayward of her film Behind the Green Door, produced in San Francisco by Artie and Jim Mitchell. She states: "The Chief of police or it's officers or the District Attorney in Hayward are not the judges of my work. Why don't they want Behind the Green Door shown? Are they afraid of honesty in sexual matters? Would that destroy their community?" She goes onto declare that: "It is time for Hayward to join the Twentieth Century and hope that my film Behind the Green Door will help it do so." Note that this clip follows the press conference up till it's end. Film Reference Number KRON 3348-8 in DIVA features earlier sections of Chambers's comments. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON-TV News footage from August 11th 1969 featuring a press conference by attorney Melvin Belli, who states his objection to labelling exotic dancing in San Francisco's North Beach clubs as "obscenity" when compared to acceptable popular entertainment such as the musical 'Hair' or adult movies. He paraphrases Lenny Bruce by stating that: "Obscenity is in the mind of the beholder" and calls this kind of double-standard "the damndest kind of discrimination." Also includes brief views of topless dancer Carol Doda advocating the relative merits of topless dancing. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX News report by Belva Davis from August 26th 1969 featuring a press conference by the Mitchell Brothers, who claim that their films need to be considered in context, represent creative works of art and as Artie Mitchell puts it: "We don't feel that they're obscene at all. In fact ... they're what's happening today." Ends with a press conference by two attorneys, who appear confident that San Francisco's recent practice of arresting the patrons of adult movie theaters will end because it's difficult for the law to clearly define what is meant by "obscenity." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON-TV News footage August 15th 1969 featuring brief scenes from a press conference in San Francisco by an attorney representing the Mitchell Brothers who states they are seeking to take out an injunction against the city to enjoin officials from "this scheme or conspiracy" to harrass "art theater owners in San Francisco" and try and drive them out of business. Also includes views of Jim Mitchell asserting his belief that: "I think I feel and our patrons feel that our films aren't obscene." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX Eyewitness News report from August 1st 1979 in San Francisco featuring views outside the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre and inside their new videotape store. Includes scenes from a brief interview with a Mitchell Brothers spokesman, who states they intended to press legal charges against a recent police raid.
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An episode of KPIX-TV's show People Are Talking in the Afternoon, featuring an interview with "adult film star" Marilyn Chambers (1952-2009), presented by Ann Fraser and Ross McGowan on May 22nd 1984. McGowan introduces Chambers as being: "The best known and highest paid x-rated actress in the business" and she discusses topics relating to: the Marilyn Chambers clause (which requires models to declare if they've ever worked in the adult entertainment industry); how she became a "porno queen" (Fraser's words); landing a role in the Mitchell Brothers film Behind the Green Door; her sexuality; the realities for young women of the "casting couch"; her manager Chuck Traynor ("He's made me become a better person"); Linda Lovelace; her parents and family; writing a sex advice column for Club magazine; her taste in men; only having done five "x-rated" movies to date; the personal background of adult actresses and home video rental habits. Ends with brief, silent views of the audience milling about on-stage after the show. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX News report by Mike Lee from August 22nd 1969 featuring scenes from the Largo strip club in Sacramento, where topless dancer Carol Doda is seen arriving to perform as a form of testimony in the trial of topless dancers Susanne Haines and Sheila Brendenson, who are being prosecuted for dancing at the Pink Pussy Kat club, in Orangevale. Includes views of Haines, Brendenson and Superior Court Judge Earl Warren, Jr. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX Eyewitness News report from June 14th 1977 by Jim Avila featuring a police raid on the Mitchell Brothers Ultra Room in San Francisco. Includes views outside and inside the Ultra Room on O'Farrell Street and interviews with Police Chief Charles Gain and Jim Mitchell.
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KRON-TV Newscenter 4 report by Dick Courier in San Jose from May 30th 1978, featuring the controversy surrounding a drive in adult movie theater. Includes an interview with local resident Sherry Hensley and scenes from a San Jose council meeting about this matter. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON-TV News footage from August 14th 1969 featuring views of local TV cameras crews following police into a San Francisco adult movie theater. Surprised patrons are shown answering questions (with the movie still running) and covering their faces up. Ends with scenes of a police officer explaining that patrons will be charged under Section 220 of the municipal police code and theater owners under Section 311.2 of the penal code (which are all misdemeanors). He goes on to confirm these raids will continue and that there are currently 24 theaters of this type operating in the city. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX-TV special Eyewitness News report from January 15th 1968 by Jim Harwood which features how North Beach's topless dancing bars are experiencing a decline in business. Includes silent views of entertainers and patrons enjoying themselves (and dancing) in the Peppermint Tree Club. Also an interview with owner Al Dunbar, who explains his new strategies for dealing with this lack of interest in semi-nudity. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON News footage from May 3rd 1965 in San Francisco featuring silent views outside a courtroom which is hearing a case against a topless bar. Also includes an interview with lawyer Melvin Belli, who reflects on what precisley "obscenity" can mean in relation to censorship and states that: "I don't think that we can be charged with anything else other than ... hardcore pornography."
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KTVU News footage from c1965 featuring an interview with a model and author, who wants to file a complaint against Whisper magazine for publishing semi-nude photographs of her. She states: "They do not have my permission to take this picture … And I was so shook up about it and they showed it to my husband ... I've got a book coming out and I've got legitimate stories. I'm a writer ... And they come along and stick something like this in a magazine. It makes me look like some topless idiot!" Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.