Melvin Belli Supports Topless Dancing (KRON-TV)
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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.
- Originally aired on
- KRON-TV
- Date aired
- 8/11/1969
- Recording medium
- 16mm color magentic sound film
- 2:14
- Rights for this video belong to
- Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
- Type of material
- local newsfilm
- Identifier
- KRON 2045-16
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- 2208
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