KQED Film Unit
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Please note: copyright to ACT Now is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. ACT Now was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1970. An unnarrated documentary film made by the KQED Film Unit about the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. Includes scenes of ACT's Director William Ball, dancer Ed Mock and others training and teaching students at the theater on Geary Street, in downtown San Francisco. They include: Peter Donat; John Schuck; Michael Learned; Ramon Bieri and Paul Shenar. Also features views of dance, mime, elocution and acting classes and opens with members of the company shown walking along Geary Street and into the theater. Cinematography is by Philip Greene and Fred Cohn. It should be noted that there is a significant loss of picture quality in the 16mm film print that was loaned to the TV Archive by Philip Greene, due to chemical decomposition. Thanks to the Pacific Film Archive for confirming they preserve another print of this film.
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Please note: copyright to Darius Milhaud Part I: A Recollection of the Twenties is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Darius Milhaud Part I: A Recollection of the Twenties was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1965. Part I of a documentary film made by the KQED Film Unit, written, directed and narrated by Richard O. Moore, about the life and work of composer and teacher Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). Includes interviews with Milhaud, his wife Madeleine Milhaud (1902-2008) and also with jazz pianist and Milhaud's former student Dave Brubeck. Darius Milhaud discusses: critical reactions to his work; the origins and formation of Les Six group in Paris; identification of himself as a "mediterranean lyricist"; his experiences of the Parisian artistic scene during the 1920s; the relation of writer Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) and composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) to Les Six; his youthful approach towards life and work; admiration for composer Claude Debussy's music ("I have always had an enormous devotion for Debussy"); his opinion of Maurice Ravel's music ("I'm allergic to Ravel") and methods of musical composition. When asked which of his works he likes best, Milhaud replies: "The next one, the next one! I forget my past works very fast and I think that's a very good thing." Brubeck considers how Milhaud use of the jazz idiom provided "a new fresh spirit within classical music." Madeleine Milhaud discusses adaptations of Erik Satie's Le piège de Méduse, with views of this short play being performed on-stage. Also features scenes of Darius and Madeleine presenting a spoken word version of his opus Caramel Mou on-stage, as well as a full musical rendition at Mill College's 1963 Milhaud Festival in Oakland. This film was produced by William Triest and executively produced for NET by Lane Slate.
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Please note: copyright to Darius Milhaud Part II: Paris & California is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Darius Milhaud Part II: Paris & California was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1965. Part II of a documentary film made by the KQED Film Unit, written, directed and narrated by Richard O. Moore, about the life and work of composer and teacher Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). Includes interviews with Milhaud, his wife Madeleine Milhaud (1902-2008) and also with jazz pianist and Milhaud's former student Dave Brubeck. Darius Milhaud discusses: how he's divided his time since 1947 alternating between living and teaching at Mills College in Oakland and being in Paris; his position on aleatory or 'chance' music and how he is against musical improvisation ("because I love performers but I don't trust them"); his String Quartet No. 5 and the influence of composer Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve Tone system and his music for the ballet Adame Miroir, based on Jean Genet's "half-page" scenario. Madeleine Milhaud reflects on the difficulty of interpreting Genet's source material for the Adame Miroir ballet (with scenes of the ballet being rehearsed on-stage by choreographer Rebecca Fuller and others). Brubeck remembers how Mills College celebrated Milhaud's 60th birthday ten years earlier and describes a typical Milhaud working day. Also features views of guests enjoying Mills College's 1963 Milhaud Festival's outdoor program 'The Young Americans', described by Moore as an electronic music "environment and sound mobile." Ends with extended views of Milhaud conducting the world premiere of his Suite de Quatrains, at the Milhaud Festival. This film was produced by William Triest and executively produced for NET by Lane Slate.
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Produced by KQED for NET, The Rejected was the first ever U.S. televised documentary about homosexuality and aired on September 11th 1961.
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Please note: copyright to Dorothea Lange Part I: Under the Trees is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Dorothea Lange Part I: Under the Trees was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1965. Part I of a documentary film made by the KQED Film Unit, written and narrated by Richard Moore, about the life of documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). As Moore puts it in his introduction: "This is not about photography. It is about Dorothea Lange. Who in her long, rich and frequently painful life, has used the camera vastly to enrich our perception of ourselves and of the human condition." Includes scenes of Lange working at her Berkeley family home with husband Paul Taylor, son Dan Dixon and New York Museum of Modern Art's Curator of Photography John Szarkowski, on an exhibition of her work. We are told that Lange is living with esophageal cancer and that in order to work on her exhibition in New York, she has had to give up a project for Look Magazine on photographing a family cabin, by the Pacific coast. Also features views of Lange and Szarkowski discussing which photographs will be shown in New York and close ups of many of her still photographs. At one point Lange reflects on her evolution as an artist and confesses that: "I'm just really beginning to sense what's in this medium ... how much I could have made of the things I actually did, had I understood those negatives as well as I understand them now." This film was directed and edited by Philip Greene and Richard Moore. Oakland Museum loaned their 16mm film print of this film to the TV Archive, to be remastered.
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Please note: copyright to Dorothea Lange Part II: The Closer For Me is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Dorothea Lange Part II: The Closer For Me was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1965. Part II of a documentary film made by the KQED Film Unit, narrated by Richard Moore, which reflects on the work and legacy of documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange, who died on October 11th 1965 of esophageal cancer, during post-production of this film. Seen in conversation with Peter Odergard, Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, Lange meditates on the influence and potential of photography and expresses a hope that the principles set down in the seminal Farm Security Administration (FSA) project of the 1930s, will be extended to chronicle the life of America's new urban landscapes. She opens the film by advising that: "One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind." And she ends with a valediction on photography and images: "The visual mind has a very great contribution to make ... This is a peculiar and a powerful instrument for this purpose of saying to you or saying to the world in general. This is the way it is. Look at it. Look at it!" Also features many close ups of Lange's photographs from the 1930s-60s. This film was produced, directed and edited by Philip Greene, Robert Katz and Richard Moore. Oakland Museum loaned their 16mm film print of this film to the TV Archive, to be remastered.
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Scanned PDF copy of a draft script for KQED's documentary film The Rejected, written by John W. Reavis, Jr. on March 9th 1961. This work in progress is prefaced by a letter from KQED's Program Manager Jonathan C. Rice to NET's Director of TV Programming Donley F. Feddersen. In the letter, Rice states: "Enclosed is the latest version of THE REJECTED. There is still alot of work to be done and some changes to be made." It should be noted that this 18 page version features material that never aired in the program's first broadcast on September 11th 1961. This includes a scene in the "Black Cat Cafe" described on page 5, with the owner Sol Stouman.
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Please note: copyright to From Protest to Resistance is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. From Protest to Resistance was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1968. A documentary film from 1968 produced by the KQED Film Unit, which in the words of narrator Richard Moore: "Is about three veterans of Mississippi [of the Civil Rights movement] who have become peace spokesman for the new opposition activist. It traces their thought and action over the past year, as they see themselves moving from demonstration to political organizing." Features interviews, speeches and political reflections from Mario Savio ("for the new radical politics"), Stokely Carmichael ("speaks for Black Power") and David Harris ("for the non-violent draft resistance"). At one point, Savio expresses his opinion that: "Protest doesn't work and it's something which is very clear now." All three men are wrestling with how to change the direction of U.S. domestic and foreign policy and are united in their opposition to the Vietnam War. Includes scenes of mass demonstrations, arrests and also interviews and speeches by: President Lyndon Johnson; Robert Vaughn; Suzanne Goldberg (Savio's first wife); William Appleman Williams; Herbert Marcuse and Bobby Seale. This film was directed by Richard Moore, Saul Landau and Irving Saraf, with additional photography by Philip Greene. This is indicated by subtitles. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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Scanned PDF copy of a letter written by NET's Director of TV Programming Donley F. Feddersen to KQED's Program Manager Johnathan C. Rice dated May 15th 1961, regarding the production process for KQED's documentry film The Rejected. In the letter Feddersen confirms that the film is to be edited down from 90 minutes and will begin with a statement from Jim Day. He also gives his opinion on which scenes he thinks work and which which do not, stating: "We are agreed that most or all of [Sol] Stoumin's section should be cut ... I'm not particularly keen on the pictures from the "swish" bar ... the audio ... is difficult to understand." It should be noted that the scenes shot on location in San Francisco at the Black Cat gay bar were eventually cut out, before the film aired on September 11th 1961.
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Scanned PDF copy of a letter written by KQED's Program Manager Johnathan C. Rice to NET's Director of TV Programming Donley F. Feddersen, dated March 28th 1961. In the letter Rice provides specific details (including a table of costs and out-of-pocket expenses) about the projected budget for The Rejected documentary film they are working on.
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Scanned PDF copy of a letter written by KQED's Program Manager Johnathan C. Rice to NET's Director of TV Programming Donley F. Feddersen, dated April 14th 1961. In the letter Rice descibes a "mass viewing" of an 88 minute version of The Rejected documentary film with 50-60 people in attendance. He states that: "The concensus of the staff is that it is too long and tends to drag in places." He goes on to outline different options for cutting the running time down to 73 or 59 minutes and also details the additional budget required to do this. It should be noted that The Rejected was first broadcast on September 11th 1961 and was 59 minutes long.
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Scanned PDF copy of a letter written by KQED's Program Manager Johnathan C. Rice to NET's Director of TV Programming Donley F. Feddersen, dated April 7th 1961. In the letter Rice explains to Fedderson that they had to be "pretty firm" to cut the running time of The Rejected documentary film from it's original 120 minutes down to 90 minutes. He also goes into some detail about the program's budget. It should be noted that The Rejected was first broadcast on September 11th 1961 and was 59 minutes long.
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Scanned PDF copy of a letter written by KQED's Program Manager Johnathan C. Rice to NET's Director of Distribution Donald L. Sandberg, dated July 26th 1961. In the letter Rice explains that the original video master copy of The Rejected documentary film is currently at Ann Arbor. He also states that he is anxious to try and schdule the program for Monday September 11th, which is in fact when it was first broadcast. It should be noted that there is a hand-written note on this typed letter which asks: "When are you coming out?" We are unable to verify who wrote this.
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Please note: copyright to Losing just the same is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Losing just the same was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and was first aired on October 31st 1966, by KQED-TV in San Francisco.
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Please note: copyright to Louisiana Diary is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Louisiana Diary was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1964. Written and directed by Richard O. Moore (who described the experience in a 2012 interview), this film follows the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from July to August 1963, as they undertake an African American voter registration drive in the town of Plaquemine, Louisiana (Iberville Parish). Includes scenes of: citizens undergoing mock interrogations at voter education clinics; CORE members canvassing from house to house; civil rights meetings in Baptist Churches; a mass march and vigil; police tear gassing crowds and making arrests; interviews with Ronnie Moore (Field Secretary for CORE in Louisiana) and Mama Joe Homes; a speech by James L. Farmer, Jr. (National Secretary of CORE) and views of a Plaquemine contingent getting on a bus, heading for the August 28th 1963 civil rights march on Washington, DC. Narrated by Moore, the film adds a postscript that on October 17th 1963, Reverend Joseph Carter became the first African American who successfully registered to vote in the West Feliciana Parish of Louisiana.
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Note: to send your email vote in support of Take this Hammer's nomination to the National Film Registry, please visit this web page at the Library of Congress's web site: http://www.loc.gov/film/vote.html.
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To send your email vote in support of Take this Hammer's nomination to the National Film Registry, please visit this web page at the Library of Congress's web site: http://www.loc.gov/film/vote.html.
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Please note: copyright to The Long Walk is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. The Long Walk was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired in 1970.
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An interview with director Richard O. Moore about the making of KQED's Louisiana Diary (1963). This documentary film follows the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from July to August 1963, as they undertake an African American voter registration drive in the town of Plaquemine, Louisiana (Iberville Parish). Our conversation with Richard took place on February 24th 2012 at The Redwoods senior community in Mill Valley, CA. Moore talks about: the film's title and subject matter; shooting on location in Louisiana for 2.5 months; local reactions to them filming; generational changes in historical perspective; filming during a police attack on a peaceful march; avoiding police arrest (by hiding in a mortuary); relations with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); comparisons between this film and Take this Hammer, which he also made in 1963 and what happened to the church featured in the film one week after KQED left Plaquemine. The interview was conducted by Caroline Dijckmeester-Bins, with Mark David on sound and camera. This film was produced and edited by Alex Cherian. Note that Louisiana Diary may be viewed in DIVA. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
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Note: to send your email vote in support of Take this Hammer's nomination to the National Film Registry, please visit this web page at the Library of Congress's web site: http://www.loc.gov/film/vote.html.
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Please note: copyright to The Rejected is held by WNET. All rights reserved. WNET is the premier public media provider of the New York metropolitan area and parent of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21. The Rejected was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired on September 11th 1961, on KQED Ch.9 in the Bay Area.
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Scanned PDF copy of a Program Screening Report for KQED's documentary film The Rejected, produced by National Educational Television (NET) in 1961. The program receives a generally positive review and is recommended for approval, subject to some editing: "It answers, because of its scope, many questions of the subject of homosexuality. Further, it stimulates the mind to more questions, both intellectual, emotional and moral. And this, is a goal of educational television." It also states: "The contribution of the bartender of the "Black Cat" bar to the program is minimal and could be eliminated." It should be noted that the scenes shot on location in San Francisco at the Black Cat gay bar were eventually cut out, before the film aired on September 11th 1961.
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A Philip Greene film produced by Richard Moore and Zev Putterman for KQED in 1973, which features aerial views of California's coastline from Mt. Shasta to Los Angeles. Greene's title is taken from a poem by Robinson Jeffers, which celebrates the majesty of California's Pacific coastline. Richard Moore quotes Jeffers directly in voice over as a preface to the film: "This place is the noblest thing I have ever seen. No imaginable / Human presence here could do anything / but dilute the lonely self-watchful passion." Includes extended views of: Mt. Shasta; coastal and marine wildlife; the logging industry; Mendocino; Sacramento; San Francisco; Monterey; Big Sur; Salinas Valley; surfing; skateboarding; Malibu and Los Angeles. The film's sound was edited by four time Oscar winner Mark Berger.