Look Up & Live: Many Mansions (Glide)

A CBS News production from 1971 featuring a report on the unique ministry of Glide Church and the Glide Foundation, to effect social change in San Francisco. Includes scenes of Rev. Cecil Williams leading worship and describing how Glide will liberate it's community through a combination of social inclusion and spiritual revolution; Rev. Lewis E. Durham explaining how Glide helped to establish Huckleberry House for teenage runaways; Rev. A.C. Ubalde and colleagues discussing issues of racism, Asian identity and stereotyping as part of the Asian Coalition project; Rev. Lloyd Wake delivering a sermon on revolutionary comunity; members of the Transition Center reflecting on whether it's possible to change society from within; views of Rev. Edward Peet speaking to demonstrators at City Hall and a seminar by the National Sex & Drug Forum. As narrator Peter Galman states in his introduction, Glide's "goal ... is to change San Francisco, if not California and the western United States for the better ... because hidden within the city ... is another city, populated by people who are in some way different from most of us. People living out of the mainstream, unheard and unseen. Through countless dozens of projects Glide is making this invisible city visible and bringing its people into the center stream of urban life. In the past 9 years Glide has evolved strategies and projects which have become models in the broad struggle to give new life to America's cities." This film was written by Jonathan Donald, edited by Faust W. Doreste and produced by Chalmers Dale. The TV Archive would like to thank Glide for loaning us their 16mm print of this film for repair and digital remastering.