Guide to the Sam Tagatac collection CEMA 107
Finding aid prepared by Callie Bowdish and Lauren Cain, 2014; revised by Mari Khasmanyan, 2015. Latest revision by Zachary
Liebhaber, 2022.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2014; 2015; 2022
Title: Sam Tagatac collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 107
Language of Material:
English,
Tagalog.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Creator:
Tagatac, Sam, 1939-2021
Physical Description:
37 Linear Feet
(144 motion picture film reels, 16 audiotape reels)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1969-1980s
Abstract: Film and audiotape reels produced by Filipino American Sam Tagatac (1939-2021), recording Filipino American life and culture
in California, including Manilatown in San Francisco.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through
the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department
of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University
of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and
is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Sam Tagatac collection, CEMA 107. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Sam Tagatac on March 1, 2007.
Biographical Note
Filipino American Sam Tagatac (1939-2021) was a filmmaker, poet, writer, and artist who grew up in Santa Barbara, California.
Tagatac graduated from the California State University at San Francisco (SFSU) with a B.A. and M.A. in film. He taught film
in the Asian American Studies Department at SFSU, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tagatac lived in Santa Barbara, California, where he owned Sam's Manila Café. He also lived in Billings, Montana, and Lompoc,
California. Among the films he made was
P.O.C. Filipino Community Organizing. Tagatac's poems and short stories were published in several anthologies.
Scope and Content
This collection contains sixteen audiotapes and 144 motion picture films produced by Filipino American Sam Tagatac (1939-2021).
The film and audiotape reels contain footage, dating to the 1960s and early 1970s, recording Filipino American culture and
life in Manilatown, a district in downtown San Francisco centered around Kearny and Jackson streets that existed from the
1920s to the 1970s. Manilatown included such businesses as the International Hotel, ("I-Hotel"), the Manila Cafe, Bataan Lunch,
Lucky M. Pool Hall, and Tino's Barber Shop. These establishments, along with many others, served the residents of the area
before their forced relocation during the urban redevelopment of the 1960s and 1970s, under the San Francisco Redevelopment
Agency.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Filipino Americans -- California -- Social life and customs
Filipino Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
Motion picture film
Open reel audiotapes
Tagatac, Sam, 1939-2021 -- Archives
International Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History
Motion picture film reels
film V2617/F1
Goat Thesis
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound; Film Length: 276 ft.
film V2618/F1
Burning and Cooking a Goat #2
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General
Audio/Visual: 16 mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 108 ft.
film V2619/F1
Cutting Meat- Family at Home
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 108 ft.
film V2620/F1
Burning and Cooking a Goat
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: 104 ft.
film V2621/F1
City at Night
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 38 ft.
film V2622/F1
City at Night- Rain and Ocean
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 95 ft.
film V2623/F1
City at Night- Rain and Ocean- Man Sweeping
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 98 ft.
film V2624/F1
Night Street Scene
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 27 ft.
film V2625/F1
Night Street Scene- Pool Hall
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 109 ft.
film V2626/F1
Kids, Urban Daytime to Urban Nightlife
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 420 ft.
film V2627/F1
City Kids- Classroom
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 212 ft.
film V2629/F1
Exterior Building- Fire Escape
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 6 ft.
film V2630/F1
Hotel Exterior/Interior- "Filipino/SF- 1970"
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 237 ft.
film V2631/F1
Family at Beach
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound, color; Film Length: 87 ft.
film V2632/F1
Filipino Youth Activities #2
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: 93 ft.
film V2633/F1
Filipino Youth Activities
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound, Color; Film Length: 93 ft.
film V2634/F1
Formal Event at Banquet Hall
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 125 ft.
film V2635/F1
Girl and Metronome
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: unknown
film V2636/F1
Girl and Trees
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General
Audio/Visual: 16 mm silent, color; Film Length: unknown
film V2637/F1
Child in Park
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General
Audio/Visual: Super 8, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2638/F1
Interview- Barbershop
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2639/F1
Interview- Doctor
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 76 ft.
film V2640/F1
Interview- Farmers Market and Barbershop
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 202 ft.
film V2641/F1
Interview- Farmers Market Woman and Man at Hotel
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 154 ft.
film V2642/F1
Interview- Farmers Market, Barbershop, Man in Office- Performing Arts
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 450 ft.
film V2643/F1
Interview- Farmers Market, Old Man, Man in Office
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2644/F1
Interview- Group of Men- Farmers Market
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2645/F1
Interview- Group of Men, Old Man at Hotel, Women- Optimist Club
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 130 ft.
film V2646/F1
Interview- Man in Kitchen and Hall
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 210 ft.
film V2647/F1
Interview- Men and Women Ethnic Dancing
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 284 ft.
film V2648/F1
Interview- Old Man in Apartment
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2649/F1
Interview- Woman and Child
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2650/F1
Interview- Woman and Man at Farmers Market
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 163 ft.
film V2651/F1
Interviewer in Classroom
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 99 ft.
film V2652/F1
Interviews- Man in Office, Caucasian Man- Inside Hotel/Housing
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 900 ft.
film V2653/F1
Interviewer in Plaid Suit
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 16 ft.
film V2654/F1
Man and Woman at Beach- Multiple Takes
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 16 ft.
film V2655/F1
Man Meets Woman at Beach- "Leong and Kitty"
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 350 ft.
film V2656/F1
"The Trip" Footage- Joint, Magazine, Man with Ball
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 98 ft.
film V2657/F1
Man Silhouette- "A"
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: unknown
film V2658/F1
Man with Ball- "B"
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: unknown
film V2659/F1
Man with Ball- Man in Chair
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: 206 ft.
film V2660/F1
Man with Ball
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: unknown
film V2661/F1
Man with Ball- San Francisco- "C"
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: unknown
film V2662/F1
Men on Sidewalk with Babies
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 200 ft.
film V2663/F1
Narrative- Man in Marshes
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 208 ft.
film V2664/F1
Onion Farm- 3 Men
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 33 ft.
film V2665/F1
Onion Farm- OR1
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2666/F1
Onion Farm 2- OR2
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2667/F1
MCO 5th Annual Convention
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2668/F1
Philipino Community in San Francisco
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: 365 ft.
film V2669/F1
Philipino Organising Committee
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 42 ft.
film V2670/F1
Political Meeting
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2671/F1
Political Rally
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 24 ft.
film V2672/F1
Pool Hall
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2673/F1
Pool Hall, Band, Street Scene
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 189 ft.
film V2674/F1
Pool
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound; Film Length: 159 ft.
film V2675/F1
Pool Tracks
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound; Film Length: 159 ft.
film V2676/F1
Practicing for a Play- Tino Barbershop
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 420 ft.
film V2677/F1
Rausch Street- Children Playing
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 70 ft.
film V2678/F1
Eigth Street and Howard
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound; Film Length: unknown
film V2679/F1
Urban Street Scenes- Teirrah St., Moss St., and Naroma St.
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 215 ft.
film V2680/F1
Kearney Central City Scenes
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 108 ft.
film V2681/F1
Russ Street- Political Sign for Congressman Burton
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 70 ft.
film V2682/F1
Tino Barbershop- Trans Canada
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General
Audio/Visual: black and white; Film Length: 48 ft.
film V2683/F1
Trans Canada Journey
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound, color; Film Length: 389 ft.
film V2684/F1
Trans Canada Journey- Bay and Cowboys
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm optical sound, color; Film Length: 82 ft.
film V2685/F1
Trans Canada Journey- Log Rolling, Apple Trees, Cattle and Cowboys
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm optical sound, color; Film Length: 221 ft.
film V2686/F1
Trans Canada Journey- Map of Canada
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm optical sound, color; Film Length: 63 ft.
film V2687/F1
Trans Canada Journey- Skiing, Aerial shots, Waterfall
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm optical sound, color; Film Length: 167 ft.
film V2688/F1
Trans Canada Journey- Country Side, Church Jumble Sale
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm optical sound, color; Film Length: 127 ft.
film V2689/F1
Trans Canada Journey- Mountains, Bison, Black Bear, Moose
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm optical sound, color; Film Length: 64 ft.
film V2690/F1
Unable to view due to damage
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2691/F1
Rural to Urban Scene
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm magnetic sound, color; Film Length: 398 ft.
film V2692/F1
Urban Shops/Clubs/Cafes- Pool Hall
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2693/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2694/F1
Views of San Francisco
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: 327 ft.
film V2695/F1
Roll #1- R4- R6- Interviews Man in office, Two Women, Mother and Child
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 909 ft.
film V2696/F1
Roll #2- Interview- Man in Office, Doctor, Man on Sidewalk, Woman on Sidewalk, Farmers Market- Woman, Old Man, Girl
undated
General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 1181 ft.
film V2697/F1
"The Trip"- Tino's Barbershop- Farmers Market- Interview- Man in Office Two Caucasian Women, Interview Man in Bathroom
undated
General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2698/F1
The Trip; Intl Hotel Exterior; Farmers Market; Woman Old; Zablones; Kearney Street From Hill; SF From East Bay; Pool Room
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 804 ft.
film V2699/F1
Tin Can Reel #1- Editing Exercise- The Trip- Interviews
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: 1100 ft.
film V2700/F1
Tin Can Reel #2
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 1096 ft.
film V2701/F1
Gallon
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2702/F1
Sablones
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 100 ft.
film V2703/F1
For Your God
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 190 ft.
film V2704/F1
For Your God- 2
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 186 ft.
film V2705/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2706/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2707/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2708/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2709/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2710/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2711/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2712/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2713/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2714/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2715/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, black and white; Film Length: unknown
film V2716/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2717/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2718/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2719/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2720/F1
Beth
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 93 ft.
film V2721/F1
Traffic
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 72 ft.
film V2722/F1
Traffic 2
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 180 ft.
film V2723/F1
Sync Delmonte
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2724/F1
Tony Boy
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 58 ft.
film V2725/F1
First Tony
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 154 ft.
film V2726/F1
Tony- Girl- Tony and Woman- Wild
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2727/F1
Tony- Boys- Pool Hall
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 130 ft.
film V2728/F1
Guitar Music
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 58 ft.
film V2729/F1
Before the War- Tino
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2730/F1
A- Tino
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 25 ft.
film V2731/F1
The Reluctant Students- D Tino- Sync American District
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 96 ft.
film V2732/F1
Tino
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2733/F1
Tino #5
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 66 ft.
film V2734/F1
Sync Customer at Tino's
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 43 ft.
film V2735/F1
Scattered
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 33 ft.
film V2736/F1
Old Time Band
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 74 ft.
film V2737/F1
Old Time Band
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 94 ft.
film V2738/F1
Conversation, Chorus Folk Song, Poll, Atom Bomb
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 376 ft.
film V2739/F1
Bayrnihans
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 143 ft.
film V2740/F1
W3- Lost Part Manuel
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 115 ft.
film V2741/F1
Gallon- A2
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 43 ft.
film V2742/F1
Tagalog- Second Old Man- Wild
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 97 ft.
film V2743/F1
Blank Magnetic Film
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 37 ft.
film V2744/F1
Wild Sound- Pool Marked
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 55 ft.
film V2745/F1
Gusaling Pilipino
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 732 ft.
film V2746/F1
A-B
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 48 ft.
film V2747/F1
Tenant- N- O
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 22 ft.
film V2748/F1
Manual Sync
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 217 ft.
film V2749/F1
Unidentified
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: unknown
film V2750/F1
"#5 Two Dollars"
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 230 ft.
film V2751/F1
A Track
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 381 ft.
film V2752/F1
B Track
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 376 ft.
film V2753/F1
C Track
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 381 ft.
film V2754/F1
D Track- Blurry Images
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 383 ft.
film V2755/F1
Street Scene- "Gallon"
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 107 ft.
film V2756/F1
Ness C
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 167 ft.
film V2757/F1
Collection of Images- Sail Boat, Art Plate, Splashes of Paint
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 146 ft.
film V2758/F1
Family Get Together Christmas 1969
1969
General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent, color; Film Length: 130 ft.
film V2759/F1
"S" Magnetic Film
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 18 ft.
film V2760/F1
Aquarius
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General
Audio/Visual: unknown; Film Length: 300 ft.
film V2761/F1
"First Old Man"
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General
Audio/Visual: 16mm silent; Film Length: 60 ft.
reel A13989/R7
Lip Sync. Interview New, ?, and Tenants
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reel A14001/R7
Sync April 10th, 1971, 1
4-10-1971
reel A14002/R7
Particle of Sam 8mm
undated
reel A14003/R7
Music Com. Dec. 1969
December 1969
