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VERTIGO 1958
Release date: January 1, 1958 (USA)
Music composed by: Bernard Herrmann
An ex-police officer who suffers from an intense fear of heights is hired to prevent an old friend's wife from committing suicide, but all is not as it seems. Hitchcock's haunting, compelling masterpiece is uniquely revelatory about the director's own predilections and hang-ups and is widely considered to be one of his masterworks. Some scenes were filmed in Bayview.
The FAN 1996
A troubled salesman who peddles knives, Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) has a volatile personality, which has resulted in divorce and a strained relationship with his young son. The one thing that Renard cares passionately about is baseball, particularly the San Francisco Giants and the team's newest recruit, Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes). As Renard's personal life continues to crumble, he begins obsessively tracking Rayburn, leading to kidnapping and even murder. Scenes were shot at Candlestick Park in Bayview. 1996
SUCKER FREE CITY 2004
Initial release: September 16, 2004
A SPIKE LEE JOINT
Nick (Ben Crowley), a white mailroom clerk who rips off his coworkers' credit card numbers on the side, moves to a mostly African-American neighborhood and is terrorized by a local gang called the V-Dubs. He befriends K-Luv (Anthony Mackie), a black gang member to whom Nick helps sell bootlegged CDs, and they soon build a relationship with Lincoln (Ken Leung), a low-level Chinese gangster. But tension becomes palpable as the trio begin committing crimes on one another's turf. Scenes were shot in Bayview.
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CONTAGION 2011
Release date: September 9, 2011 (USA)
When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco 2019
Release date: June 7, 2019 (USA)
Jimmie and his best friend Mont try to reclaim the house built by Jimmie's grandfather, launching them on a poignant odyssey that connects them to their past, even as it tests their friendship and sense of belonging in the place they call home.
Freebie and the Bean 1974
Two wisecracking plain-clothes San Francisco policemen discover that there is a contract on the life of the suspect they have been tailing. The pair decide to act as bodyguards until they can get a warrant to pick him up, but plans for a clean arrest go spectacularly wrong, and the two cops manage to bring the city to a virtual standstill. With James Caan, Alan Arkin, Valerie Harper
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BULLITT 1968
Release date: October 17, 1968 (USA)
Senator Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross (Vic Tayback) with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny (Pat Renella), who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen). Some scenes were shot on Pier 70 in Potrero Hill and in the backland Piers 92-96 in Bayview. A classic San Francisco film.
STRAIGHT OUTTA HUNTERS POINT 2003
Initial release: 2003
Our neighbor and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Epps chronicles a San Francisco neighborhood in crisis.
Experiment in Terror 1962
Lee Remick, Glenn Ford
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BOBBY KENNEDY in Bayview 1967
KTVU news footage from May 10th 1967 featuring scenes of US Senators Robert Kennedy and George Murphy describing their impressions of housing in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood as they walk along a street. Continues with views from a public US Senate Committee hearing about the relative impact of the Federal Poverty Program on Bay Area communities, at the Bayview Community Center on Third Street in San Francisco. Featuring testimony by representatives of Bayview Hunters Point, including Osceola Washington, Harold Brooks and Suzanne Cook. Oakland's Mayor John Reading and San Francisco's Mayor John Shelley also answer questions. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
JAMES BALDWIN in Bayview 1963 TAKE THIS HAMMER
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TAKE THIS HAMMER was originally produced by KQED for National Educational Television (NET) - the predecessor of WNET - and first aired on February 4th 1964 at 7:30pm, on KQED Ch.9 in the Bay Area.KQED's mobile film unit follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American community. He is escorted by Youth For Service's Executive Director Orville Luster and intent on discovering: "The real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present." He declares: "There is no moral distance ... between the facts of life in San Francisco and the facts of life in Birmingham. Someone's got to tell it like it is. And that's where it's at."
IKE and TINA TURNER on THIRD STREET
At the Club Long Island Third/McKinnon. We're working on locating still images and news on this known history. Stay tuned.
the image shown is archival only-location unknown but the era likely correct
The BEATLES Final Concert_CANDLESTICK PARK 1966
a still image and poor sound, but we're working on locating archival footage
REV. JESSE JACKSON on Third Street in 1984
JESSE JACKSON Campaigns for President on Third Street in 1984 at Providence Church and down Third Street.
BVHP on TV
BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT COLLECTION
Established in 1982, the TV Archive preserves 6000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries and other TV footage produced in the Bay Area and Northern California from the Twentieth Century. We are a part of the J. Paul Leonard Library's Department of Special Collections and oversee material owned by local TV stations KPIX-TV, KRON-TV, KQED and KTVU. The Bay Area TV Archive’s digitization projects are supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Contact Bay Area Television Archivist Alex Cherian if you have any questions (Email: acherian@sfsu.edu / Tel: 415-405-5565).
Newsfilm and Documentaries
Local television newsfilm and documentaries featuring the Bayview Hunters Point Community in San Francisco, covering the 1950s-70s. Approx. 160 programs and films
BVHP in AUDIO
Radio Programming and Audio Files - Bayview Stories
Radio Programming and Audio Files - Bayview Stories
Radio Programming and Audio Files - Bayview Stories
SIGHTS and SOUNDS of BAYVIEW
Community Meetings on Radio -Live
Radio Programming and Audio Files - Bayview Stories
Radio Programming and Audio Files - Bayview Stories
6–8:30 pm Patricia Nobile patricia@kpoo.com
2nd Mon: Hunter’s Point Citizens Advisory Committee