Adult Entertainment Industry
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KRON-TV news footage from May 7th 1965 outside the courtroom of Judge Leo R. Friedman in San Francisco, who has ruled that topless dancing in North Beach clubs does not violate U.S. obscenity laws. However, the owner of the off broadway club Voss Boreta (1934-2013) has just been informed that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department has filed separate charges against him for allegedely violating liquor license laws. His attorney Melvin Belli is shown standing next to Boreta bitterly complaining about these new charges, saying if this news is correct: "That is persecution." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON-TV news footage from April 23rd 1965 featuring brief scenes from out side and inside of Big Al's topless club on Broadway in North Beach, San Francisco, where employees have been told by police they will be in violation of US obscenity laws if they go topless. Includes silent views of men marching outside the club holding protest signage against censorship, performers singing and dancing on-stage and of two women wearing white robes which have "Cops took our tops, sorry" written on them. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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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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KPIX news footage from February 10th 1975 with reporter Eric Smith featuring scenes of topless dancer Carol Doda surrounded by the press at the San Francisco Museum of Art as she has her breasts molded for a plaster cast. The resulting work of art will be made into a trophy for the "artists soapbox derby" and the winner of the worst car will be awarded this "booby prize." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KPIX news report from June 11th 1973 by Frank Goran featuring brief scenes from a press conference by topless dancer Carol Doda, who is protesting against plans to prevent her from performing naked in San Francisco's North Beach clubs. She states that: "My act draws a lot of tourists and I have been publicized throughout the years as nude ... And if they can't see any of this this, they're going to be very unhappy and they're not gonna want to come to San Francisco." Also includes views of Doda strolling with Goran on the sidewalk in North Beach and walking underneath the iconic sign of the Condor Club. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON-TV compilation reel from the 1970s featuring Carol Doda and the North Beach topless dancing scene in San Francisco. Includes brief interviews with Doda and views of people walking past topless bars in North Beach, with barkers trying to lure them in to catch a show and entertainers playing music outside on the sidewalk. 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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KRON-TV news footage from May 7th 1965 featuring brief views inside Big Al's and the Condor Club (silent and sound), following a recent court decision in San Francisco that topless dancing is not obscene. Includes short interviews with a club owner and the dancer Yvonne D'Angers ("the Persian Lamb"), who expresses her satisfaction over this legal precedent. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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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 April 27th 1965 which opens with brief, silent views outside the off broadway topless club in North Beach, followed by a glimpse of topless dancer Carol Doda posing for a photgrapher inside on-stage (fully clothed). Attorney Melvin Belli is interviewed in the club by reporter Art Brown and claims that it isn't Mayor Shelley who's behind the recent crackdown on topless entertainment in North Beach. He exclaims that: "We've got the cleanest, nicest area up here in the North Beach in the whole United States!" and wants to know exactly whom in San Francisco has elected to act as: "The Führer of our morals." He continues: "I'd like to know who this nameless one is who tells us that we're going to fold San Francisco up so it's gonna be like a place like Dallas, where they have guinea hens and grass in the street!" 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 attorney Michael J. Kennedy 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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KRON-TV news footage from March 25th 1965 featuring scenes from a public hearing in North Beach with San Francisco Mayor John Shelley and Chief of Police Thomas J. Cahill, who listen to a request from the Rev. Larry Byrne (1908-1987) to do something about the "situation" in North Beach, which is known for the topless bars and night clubs on Broadway. Cahill acknowledges these concerns but emphasizes how: "We have to enforce the laws but we cannot make illegal arrests." Byrne ran the Salesian Boys Club and was urged by Shelley to form a select committee to work with him and Chief Cahill, over the next 2-3 weeks. One month after this hearing the SFPD launched raids on North Beach topless bars, claiming they were in violation of US obscenity laws. A court case followed and Judge Leo R. Friedman found that the topless bars were not breaking obscenity laws in May. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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KRON news footage from April 23rd 1965 with reporter Art Brown featuring scenes from San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where police are raiding topless bars, including the Condor Club. Includes views of performer Carol Doda at the police station, from the courtroom, interviews with owners, managers and workers at these clubs and also lawyers. There are also brief glimpses of the raids themselves in progress, accompanied by lusty booing from the club audiences. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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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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KRON-TV news footage from April 27th 1965 feturing scenes of reporter Art Brown interviewing people on the streets of San Francisco, about controversy surrounding the recent ban of topless dancing in North Beach clubs. Reactions vary from those who think topless dancing should be allowed, others who feel it's wrong to some who believe other parts of San Francisco deserve more attention such as Market Street or Golden Gate Park. Ends with one young man opining: "As far as I go, I have a girlfirend now but I don't think a man would like to see that sort of thing." 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 news fotoage from April 28th 1965 with reporter Art Brown featuring silent and sound views of lawyer Melvin Belli and topless dancers and club owners leaving Belli's law offices and heading to court in downtown San Francisco, where they are on trial accused of violating US obscenity laws. Includes an interview with Belli, who claims that if topless dancing was banned in North Beach, the resulting l loss of jobs would effectively shut down the Broadway entertainment strip. There are also interviews with a club owner (referred to as "Chris") and topless dancer Carol Doda (1937-2015). Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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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 (the O'Farrell Theater, opened by the Mitchell brothers on July 4th). 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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KRON-TV news footage from May 7th 1965 featuring scenes from the courtroom of Judge Leo R. Friedman in San Francisco, who has just ruled that topless dancing in North Beach clubs does not violate U.S. obscenity laws. Includes an interview with defense lawyer Melvin Belli who talks about the case in relation to censorship and also with Judge Friedman, who refers to freedom of expression under the Constitution. Ends with an interview with a man who also discusses this case and a brief word from topless dancer Carol Doda, who says she's going back to work. At the time of this court case, Doda had already been topless dancing in North Beach clubs for 11 months. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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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.