Finding aid for the William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles 7132

Bo Doub

USC Libraries Special Collections

2022 May

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections

Title: William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles

Creator: Yee, William

Identifier/Call Number: 7132

Physical Description: 0.58 Linear Feet 1 box

Date (inclusive): 1963-1971

Abstract: The William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles consist of four 16mm films and one U-matic videotape of neighborhood footage of Watts and East Los Angeles, recorded by Dr. William Yee in the 1960s and 1970s. The videotape of Watts focuses on street scenes circa 1963, just prior to the Watts Riots of 1965, including footage of the Watts Towers. The East Los Angeles footage, which Yee titled "East LA Estrada," was filmed circa 1970-1971. The East Los Angeles footage shows Chicano murals in the neighborhood, along with people and children interacting between the buildings and murals.

Language of Material: English .

Container: 1

Scope and Contents

The William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles consist of four 16mm films and one U-matic videotape of neighborhood footage of Watts and East Los Angeles, recorded by Dr. William Yee in the 1960s and 1970s. The videotape of Watts focuses on street scenes circa 1963, just prior to the Watts Riots of 1965, including footage of the Watts Towers. The East Los Angeles footage, which Yee titled "East LA Estrada," was filmed circa 1970-1971. The East Los Angeles footage shows Chicano murals in the neighborhood, along with people and children interacting between the buildings and murals.

Conditions Governing Access

The USC Digital Repository digitized all of the films in this collection in November of 2021. The digital files are publicly accessible via the USC Digital Library. Each file-level record in this finding aid is titled with the digital surrogate's filename and includes a link to the corresponding USC Digital Library asset.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of William Yee, July 30, 2021.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles, Collection no. 7132, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Processing Information

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Chicano movement -- Archival resources

East Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources

Mural painting and decoration -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

Simon Rodia's Towers (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Archival resources

Street art -- California -- East Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources

Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources

Film reels

Moving images

Yee, William -- Archives

EastLAEstrada_ARoll.mov

EastLAEstrada_ARoll.mov