Los Siete

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Newsreel.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: California Newsreel (Firm); Newsreel (Firm)

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; This film is about the oppression of the Third World community in the Mission district of San Francisco, specifically seven Latino youths who were recruiting street kids into a college Brown Studies Program. Accused of killing a plainclothesman, they became victims of a press and police campaign to "clean-up" the Mission. Their defense became the foundation of a revolutionary community organization called Los Siete.; PFA 1612-01-5650. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2006/ 10/10; Fair condition; Eastman 7302 A-wind print on 1969 stock; start up damage; leader cut off; sprocketing; tears; fairly lo-con print; original appears to have been taped together A-roll only; 9 splices; scratches; 0.5% shrinkage

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE