News Footage: California Housing and Hotels

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: Padre Hotel: Exterior shot of hotel, garbage and flies, man sweeping huge piles of garbage from inside the hotel, men carrying garbage from the hotel, dumpster outside on street, truly disgusting shots of garbage in hotel, broken window on front of hotel, man posting notice on window, inspectors coming to look at the damages, men bring in boards to cover the broken windows, hotel "under new management," man and woman walking through inspecting the work done on the hotel, many of the rooms are cleaned, but lots more are filthy dirty with all kinds of garbage piled up inside, fire chief and crew do a walk through, the place is a wreck, exposed light bulbs, dirty sinks and bathtubs, in a word: yuckypoopo International Hotel: Exterior shots of the hotel, man reads posters that are glued to walls, signs read " stop the destruction of our community: fight the demolition of the I-Hotel!", signpost is at 900 block of Kearny Street in SF, aerial shot of building St. Anne's Home: Exterior shots of beautiful brick building sign on building reads "St. Anne's Home conducted by the Little Sisters of the Poor" Housing Project: Shots from outside the housing project (on Valencia?), reporter walks around outside of the gate, the place looks deserted Harbor Bay Homes: Japanese family enter a new home, woman opens the blinds upstairs, couple talks with developers, shots of other houses being built, construction workers without shirts or wearing wifebeaters, sandy area around the housing development Ponderosa Homes: Sign on housing development with yellow and white daisies growing around it, model homes in the development, sales office, blueprints of the houses, goofy sales man sitting behind desk as reporter asks him questions about the Ponderosa Homes, salesman appears to be rolling his eyes up in his head Watergate Condos (Emeryville, CA) (07/25/1978): Huge condominium buildings in the Gateview development, woman walks around the grounds of the complex, two women play tennis, various shots of the buildings and the grounds Hidden Valley Ranch (troubled kids' boarding school): School yard, kids standing around (all wearing denim pants and jackets), kids playing basketball, dormitories, kid with afro playing pool, lounge area with old console tv with orange shag rug underneath, various shots of the kids performing different tasks around the school