Saturday, March 5, 1983, 8:00 pm
Newsreel: San Francisco
Formed in 1968, in both San Francisco and New York City, Newsreel produced scores of powerful films which documented with uncanny immediacy the turmoil and passions of 1960s political activism. Both branches are still active today, as California Newsreel in SF and Third World Newsreel in NY. Tonight’s program highlights their best films produced in the Bay Area: Black Panther (1968), an account of the militant Black Panther Party; People’s Park (1969), an account of why a small Berkeley park became a national cause and brought out the National Guard; and State Strike (1969), a document of the famous SF State student strike of 1968-69 as well as a dissection of the quality of education at that time.