Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company motion picture film
80177
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric Company motion picture film
Date (inclusive): 1960-1970
Collection Number: 80177
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
21 motion picture film reels, 3 manuscript boxes
(5.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Sound recordings and motion picture film of a series of political education programs, featuring campaign presentations by
candidates for election to major state political offices in California.
Creator:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.
[Identification of item], Pacific Gas and Electric Company motion picture film, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) sponsored this series of political forums featuring candidates for statewide office
in California and discussions of leading issues in cooperation with (in 1966, and possibly other years) the Pacific Service
Employees Association, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (Local 1245), and the Engineers and Scientists of California
for the thousands of PG&E employees in northern and central California.
From a "Politics '66" brochure about this series:
"Informing P.G. and E.'s 23,000 employees who are scattered over 47 of California's 58 counties, and who are encouraged to
take their individual citizenship privileges and responsibilities seriously is the broad objective of the "POLITICS '66" series.
This has also been the objective of five such preceding series.
"
Register, work for, contribute to and
vote for the cnadidates and party of choice is the theme of the Company's bipartisan, voluntary Applied Citizenship Training program
of which the Politics Series is a part. The forums provide the vehicle by which citizen employees may learn for themselves
through direct and indirect exposure to candidates and spokesmen on issues, the qualifications of office seekers and the merits
of propositions.
"The forums are held in the Company's General Office auditorium on the ground floor of 245 Market Street, San Francisco during
lunch hours.
"Many of the noon hour programs are filmed in their entirety using a multiple camera technique known as 'Live Camera,' which
is similar to television except that the finished product is on 16 mm sound film. Additional prints are processed immediately
for same day delivery via the Company's internal mail 'Pony Express' to various points in the system for screening in the
operating divisions the following day.
"Program Frequency: Generally a Tuesday-Thursday program schedule beginning mid-September and continuing to election day,
with opposing candidates booked for appearances during the same week, is followed.
"Program Format: Following a brief introduction the candidate or candidates are allowed up to thirty minutes to make their
formal presentation. However, they must submit to ten to fifteen minutes of questions from the audience. Programs are concluded
by 1:00 P.M.
"Candidates or advocates of positions on propositions and their staffs may distribute campaign literature on the date of their
appearance.
"Each biennial series is concluded one week after the election with a panel of distinguished political analysts, commentators,
and editors who 'post mortem' the several campaigns, review the returns, and respond to questions from the audience. Like
the films of candidate appearances, the press panel prints are circulated among the Company's 13 operating divisions for viewing
by employees and their friends.
"Applied Citizenship Training Program: Since its inception in 1960, approximately 8,000 P.G. and E. employees have volunteered
for and completed a 16 hour bi-partisan course in practical politics. Company sponsored, the ACT course has been warmly endorsed
by Local 1245, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Engineers and Scientists of California.
"California Good Citizenship Committee: This year P.G. and E. is cooperating with the California Good Citizenship Committee
and a large number of other California firms in providing the means by which and encouraging employees to contribute financially
to the candidates and party of their individual choice."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Motion pictures
Elections -- California