San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

Stills of the 1968 SF State Strike from the KPIX News Collection

About

The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive is a unique moving image collection that chronicles 60 landmark years of social history and cultural revolution in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film & video material in our collection – which includes local newsfilm, documentaries and other footage - was donated to San Francisco State University by broadcasting organizations and private individuals for the use of its faculty, students and staff.

Access to the collection and our search databases is by prior appointment only. Please contact the resident film archivist Alex Cherian with research and general enquiries:

SF Bay Area TV Archive, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University 1630 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132. Tel: 415-338-3896 E-mail: acherian@sfsu.edu

Collections

KQED Collection (KQED, Channel 9, PBS affiliate)

KPIX Collection (KPIX, Channel 5, CBS affiliate)

KTVU Collection (KTVU, Channel 2, Fox affiliate)

Local Emmy Award Winners (Emmy-Award Winning Programs from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northern California Chapter)

Willie L. Brown, Jr. Collection (donated by The Willie L. Brown, Jr. Institute)

Using the Collections

Most of our archival footage is preserved on unedited outtakes and trims from 16mm local newsfilm. Researchers may only view this and other film & video material on pre-ordered screener copies due to long-term preservation issues. There will be no access granted to original film and video elements for viewing purposes.

See our Access Service PDF for full details of how researchers, media production companies and others may gain access to and use material from our collection. Read selected reviews by researchers, producers and film makers.

Faculty, students and staff of San Francisco State University may access material from the collection free of charge (subject to the archive’s prior commitments and preservation considerations). Read selected reviews by SFSU faculty, students and staff.

KQED Collection

The KQED Collection (KQED, Channel 9, PBS affiliate) consists of approximately 1.2 million feet of 16 mm local newsfilm shot between 1967-1980, as well as selected documentaries and other footage. Copyright is held by NCPB/KQED.

KPIX Collection

The KPIX Collection (KPIX, Channel 5, CBS affiliate) consists of approximately 6-7 million feet of local newsfilm shot between 1948-1980, as well as selected documentaries and other programs. Copyright is held by CBS-5/KPIX TV.

KTVU Collection

The KTVU Collection consists of approximately 150 000 feet of selected local newsfilm shot exclusively on 16mm film by KTVU between 1961-1969. Copyright is held by Cox Enterprises Inc./KTVU.

Local Emmy Award Winners

This collection consists of local Emmy Award winning programs (1974-2005) presented by the Northern California Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Access to Emmy footage is available on a limited basis and will depend upon the condition of original U-matic and Betacam SP video formats on which it was recorded. Copyright is held by the individual station/production company which produced each award-winner.
Local Emmy-Award winners were donated to the archive by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northern California Chapter.

Willie L. Brown, Jr. Collection

The Willie L. Brown, Jr. collection consists of approximately 1500 news stories, press conferences, documentaries and other moving image material that relates to the political career of SF State alumnus Willie Brown as California State Assemblyman, Speaker and Mayor of San Francisco between 1972-2004. The footage is preserved on numerous video formats and was donated to the university as part of an initiative to establish the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Leadership Center. Copyright is held by various television stations and production companies.
It should be noted that we have other archival footage featuring Willie Brown in our local newsfilm collection that covers the period from 1966-1979.