KRON-TV's Assignment Four

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KRON-TV's Peabody Award winning documentary series from the 1960s and 1970s, which covered issues on a weekly basis that affected Bay Area communities.

A Day at the Point Reyes Light Newspaper (1979)

KRON-TV rough-cut footage produced in April 1979 for an Assignment Four program titled 'Small Town...

Aired: 4/17/1979

America's First Episcopal Cathedral: The Story of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral

Assignment Four documentary film made by KRON-TV which first aired on Ch.4 in the Bay Area on November 16th 1964,...

Aired: 11/16/1964

Assignment Four - No Deposit, No Return

A KRON-TV Assignment Four special report from 1965 about the environmental impact of waste disposal in the Bay Area,...

Aired: 1965

Assignment Four - "What will happen to Carlito?"

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1969, narrated by Phil Wilson, which presents "a report on...

Aired: 1969

Assignment Four - A Family on Fell Street

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film from 1968, narrated by Phil Wilson, which looks at the living conditions,...

Aired: 1968

Assignment Four - A Gift of Time

A KRON-TV Assignment Four special report called  A Gift of Time  from 1966, which narrator Jerry Jensen...

Aired: 1966

Assignment Four - Black Muslims

Part of a KRON-TV Assignment Four episode entitled "Black Muslims" chronicling Malcolm X's...

Aired: 1965

Assignment Four - California Remade

KRON-TV special report from 1965 examining the meaning and impact of legislative re-apportionment of the State...

Aired: 1965

Assignment Four - Chinatown: Community in Crisis

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1968, narrated by Phil Wilson, which looks at the impact of recent...

Aired: 1968

Assignment Four - Departure: SFO

Please note: visible picture defects can be seen in the lower left hand side of the screen throughout, which were...

Aired: 1970

Assignment Four - Ferment in the Fields

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film from 1965, narrated by Art Brown, which looks at working conditions of...

Aired: 1965

Assignment Four - Free Speech or Anarchy? (Rough Cut)

Rough cut edit (derived from a 16mm film negative) of a KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary from 1964, which...

Aired: 1964

Assignment Four - Hunters Point: A View from the Hill

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film which aired on October 5th 1969 at 7:00pm about poverty, racism, urban...

Aired: 1969

Assignment Four - Jackpot at Tahoe

Assignment Four documentary film made by KRON-TV which first aired on September 16th 1963. Narrated by Art Brown, it...

Aired: 9/16/1963

Assignment Four - LSD: The Other Side of Reality

Assignment Four documentary film made by KRON-TV in 1964, narrated by Jerry Jensen and produced in cooperation with...

Aired: 1964

Assignment Four - Segregation Western Style

Assignment Four documentary film made by KRON-TV in 1963, narrated by Craig Jordan, which examines the issue of...

Aired: 1963

Assignment Four - Shepherd of the Streets

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1966, narrated by Art Brown, featuring a look at the work of...

Aired: 1966

Assignment Four - The Adopted Child

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film which first aired on May 3 1965, narrated by Ed Flemming, which according...

Aired: 5/3/1965

Assignment Four - The Green Intricate Country

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary program from 1964 which looks at the history, growth and future of the Napa...

Aired: 1964

Assignment Four - The New Feminists

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film from 1972 about the impact of the feminist movement on women in the Bay...

Aired: 1972

Assignment Four - The Oakland Museum

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film from 1970 about how the newly established Oakland Museum is trying to use...

Aired: 1970

Assignment Four - The People & The Police: Oakland

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1974, narrated by Paul Ryan, looking at how Oakland Police...

Aired: 1974

Assignment Four - The People and the Police: San Francisco

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1973, narrated by Paul Ryan, which looks at how San...

Aired: 1973

Assignment Four - The Techs (1964)

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1964 which presents: "A look at a new innovation in education...

Aired: 1964

Assignment Four - Whaler

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film from 1965, narrated by Jerry Jensen, about America's last whaling...

Aired: 1965

Assignment Four - What's Happening in the Haight

Assignment Four documentary film which first aired on Ch.4 KRON in the Bay area on February 5, 1973 at 7:30pm,...

Aired: 1972

Assignment Four - Where Are We Going?

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1967, narrated by Art Brown, which considers if there is "a...

Aired: 1967

Assignment Four - Where San Francisco Lives

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1965, narrated by Ed Fleming, which looks at the history,...

Aired: 1965

Assignment Four: City of the Space Age

Please note: This 'kinescope' recording was originally made in 1962 by filming the picture from a live...

Aired: 1962

Assignment Four: The Birth of a College

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1964, narrated by Jerry Jensen, which opens with scenes from...

Aired: 1964

Assignment Four: The Making of a Governor

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1966, narrated by Art Brown, featuring a look at the California...

Aired: 11/21/1966

Assignment Four: The New Urban Tribe

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1971, narrated by Art Brown, which considers how the Alcatraz...

Aired: 12/7/1971

Assignment Four: The Researchers

KRON-TV special report from 1967, narrated by Jerry Jensen, about experimental research being conducted in the Bay...

Aired: 1967

Assignment Four: The Single Girl

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report from 1963, narrated by Jerry Jensen, which considers how "San...

Aired: 1963

Assignment Four: We'll Do it Ourselves

A KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary report narrated by Art Brown - first aired on March 21st 1971 - which looks at...

Aired: 1971

Assignment Four: Zoo

KRON-TV documentary film from 1970, narrated by Ed Hart, about San Francisco's Fleishacker Zoo which includes...

Aired: 1970

Braceros

Rough cut edit (derived from a 16mm film negative) of a KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary from 1963, which looks...

Aired: 1963

Danger: LSD

KRON-TV documentary film which first aired on Ch.4 in the Bay Area at 7:00pm on January 23, 1967, narrated by Jerry...

Aired: 1967

GI Junkie

KRON-TV Assignment 4 documentary film from 1971, narrated by Frank Gorin, which examines the issue of drug abuse,...

Aired: 1971

Minorities: Labor Problem

Rough cut edit (derived from a 16mm film negative) of a KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary from 1962, which looks...

Aired: 1962

Project Manong

Edited and incomplete film elements from a KRON-TV Assignment Four program called Project Manong, which aired on...

Aired: c1970s

S.R.O. (standing room only)

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film from 1967, presented by Art Brown, which looks at the state of live theatre...

Aired: 1967

San Francisco State Strike (KRON rough cuts I)

Rough cut edits (derived from 16mm b&w negative and color positive film) of a KRON-TV Assignment Four...

Aired: 1968/9

San Francisco State Strike (KRON rough cuts II)

Rough cut edits (derived from 16mm color positive film) of a KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary from 1968/9, which...

Aired: 1968/9

The Affluent Teenager

KRON-TV Assignment Four documentary film from 1965, narrated by Jerry Jensen, which considers the growing influence...

Aired: 1965

The Fillmore Revisited (1975)

Edited and incomplete film elements from a KRON-TV Assignment Four program called The Fillmore Revisited, shot on...

Aired: 5/6/1975

Youth For Service (1960)

KRON-TV rough-cut footage produced in August 1960 for an Assignment Four program about the Youth For Service...

Aired: 8/14/1960