[Berkeley] (silent)

Description: Camera original images of youth taking to the streets in Berkeley, California in 1968, including tossed tear gas canisters, smoke, police activities and heated speeches on the University of California campus. Black Panther fashion and Emory Douglas posters for sale. Includes many newspaper headlines and titles in support of French students during the civil unrest of May, 1968.

Leader in middle of film: "Newsreel 6226"

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Subjects: 1960s, Youth, Counterculture, Activism, Law enforcement

Tags: demonstrations; tear gas canisters; nighttime group protest; resistance; violent movements; impassioned oratory; student gatherings; Emory Douglas posters; King Pin Donuts; police wielding batons; Peter Camejo; Cafe Mediterranean; Sproul Plaza; live music; rock and roll band; dancing; guitars; drums; microphones; Haste and Telegraph; rioting; camera original; youth taking to the streets; police activities; heated speeches; UC Berkeley campus; Black Panther Party; Black Panthers; Emory Douglas posters; newspaper headlines; man reading San Francisco Chronicle; hippies; May 68; civil unrest; University of California, Berkeley; night; beards; political literature; activist literature; Trotskyism; dancing; bonfire in street: The Able I; speeches in Lower Sproul Plaza; Young Socialist Alliance banner; closeups of demonstrators and spectators; occupation of Telegraph Avenue; rally on steps of Sproul Plaza; young man reading San Francisco Chronicle

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Creator: [California Newsreel]

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives, California Newsreel

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1968-06-30 through 1968-07-03

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Geographical Location: Berkeley, California; University of California, Berkeley; USA

Genre/Form: activist

Language: eng,fra

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: negative, original, reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mag

Edge Code: triangle square

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 727