Preliminary Inventory to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company Motion Picture Film 1960-1970
Prepared by The Hoover Institution Archives staff
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Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Inventory to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company motion picture film 1960-1970
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Prepared by:
- Hoover Institution Archives Staff
© 2000 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric Company motion picture film
Date (inclusive): 1960-1970
Collection number: 80177
Creator:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Collection Size:
21 motion picture film reels, 3 manuscript boxes
(5.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Pacific Gas and Electric Company motion picture film, [Box number], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1980.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Historical Note
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."
Access Points
Elections--California.
California.
United States--Politics and government.
Moving-pictures.
Phonotapes.
Container List
Box: 1-3
Sound recordings
1960-1970
Tape 4
Marching music used for programs
Tape 5
William Winter (Foreign policy and foreign aid), Sept. 8, 1960
Tape 6
Philip A. Ray (Taxes, inflation, and economic growth), Sept. 14, 1960
Tape 7
Robert A. Kirkwood (Water problems), Sept. 22, 1960
Tape 8
William Becker (Civil rights), Sept. 29, 1960
Tape 9
Murray R. Benedict (Farm problems), Oct. 6, 1960
Tape 10
W. Allen Wallis (Business, labor, and government), Oct. 18, 1960
Tape 11
Frank H. Higgins (National defense), Oct. 20, 1960
Tape 12
Hugo Fisher (Proposition 15), Oct. 27, 1960
Tape 13
Ralph A. Tudor (Natural resources), Oct. 31, 1960
Tape 14
Stanley McCaffrey and Robert Crown (Presidential candidates' summary), Nov. 3, 1960
Tape 15
Seymour Martin Lipset, Sept. 13, 1962
Tape 16
John Busterud (candidate for state treasurer) and Bruce V. Reagan (candidate for state controller), Sept. 18, 1962
Tape 17
Bert Betts (candidate for state treasurer), Sept. 21, 1962
Tape 18
Sound recording of Max Rafferty (candidate for superintendent of public instruction), Sept. 26, 1962
Access Information
Use copy reference number: 80177_a_0000451
Tape 19
Melville D. Shine and Henry W. Alexander (Rapid transit), Oct. 11, 1962
Tape 20
Louis Francis and Gardiner Johnson (Proposition 24), Nov. 1, 1962
Tape 21
Joseph Eley and Guy Millard (Applied Citizenship Training Program), Feb. 1963
Tape 22
W. Byron Rumford (Proposition 14), Sept. 29, 1964
Tape 23
Robert N. Miller (Proposition 14), Oct. 1, 1964
Tape 24
Alan G. Pattee (Proposition 16), Oct. 6, 1964
Tape 25
Henry Alexander (Proposition 16), Oct. 8, 1964
Tape 26
K. E. Flake (Proposition 15), Oct. 13, 1964
Tape 27
Stephen Leonoudakis (Proposition 15), Oct. 15, 1964
Tape 28
Ivy Baker Priest (candidate for state treasurer), Sept. 20, 1966
Tape 29
Bert Betts (candidate for state treasurer), Sept. 22, 1966
Tape 30
James Flournoy (candidate for secretary of state), Sept. 10, 1970
Tape 31
Ivy Baker Priest (candidate for state treasurer) and Houston Flournoy (candidate for state controller), Sept. 15, 1970
Tape 32
Rodney Cameron, Sept. 17, 1970
Tape 33
George Milias and Homer Hyde (Propositions 20 and 1), Sept. 22, 1970
Tape 34
John Sproul (Constitutional amendments), Sept. 24, 1970
Tape 35
Senator Nejedley (Proposition 20) and Thomas J. Mellon (San Francisco Proposition A), Sept. 29, 1970
Tape 36
Sound recording of Max Rafferty (candidate for superintendent of public instruction), Oct. 1, 1970
Access Information
Use copy reference numbers: 80177_a_0000454 (side A), 80177_a_0000455 (side B)
Scope and Content Note
Side A - Politics '70. Side B - Politics '70 (possibly a meeting)
Tape 37
Wilson Riles (candidate for superintendent of public instruction), Oct. 6, 1970
Film shelf
Motion picture film
1962-1966
reel 1
Joe Eley (History of Fabianism)
reel 2
Joe Eley (Responsibility)
reel 3
Joe Eley (Independent voter)
reel 11-12
Post-election, 1962 or 1964
reel 15
Alan Cranston (candidate for state controller), Oct. 4, 1966
reel 16
Thomas C. Lynch (candidate for state attorney general), Oct. 6, 1966
reel 17
Robert H. Finch (candidate for lieutenant governor), Oct. 18, 1966
reel 18
Glenn M. Anderson (candidate for lieutenant governor), Oct. 20, 1966
reel 19
Edmund G. Brown (candidate for governor), Nov. 2, 1966
reel 20
Ronald Reagan (candidate for governor), Nov. 3, 1966
reel 21
Post-election press panel, Nov. 15, 1966
