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San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive (SFBATA) is a regional moving image archive located in downtown San Francisco. It preserves and digitally restores newsfilm, documentaries and other video programs produced by Bay Area TV stations in Northern California (1948-2005), local Emmy Award winning programs (1974-2005) and privately donated film collections (1939-2004). SFBATA is part of the Department of Special Collections, at San Francisco State University's J. Paul Leonard Library.

SFBATA was established in 1982 by Helene Whitson and is an officially registered, non-profit institutional member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.

TV Stations
SFBATA preserves over 3000 hours of 16mm newsfilm, documentaries and other programs produced by local TV stations KPIX-TV, KQED (TV) and KTVU. This includes footage of the first TV broadcasts in Northern California by KPIX-TV on December 22nd 1948, from the roof of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill, in San Francisco.

Local Emmy Award Winners
SFBATA preserves over 300 hours of local Emmy Award winning news footage and documentaries. These were donated by the Northern California chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Provate Donors
SFBATA preserves approximately 100 hours of archival footage donated by local film makers and politicians from Northern California. These include the Willie Brown Collection and the Dorothy Goldner Collection, which features silent, color film of the Golden Gate International Exposition, produced by Orville C. Goldner in 1939-40.

Online Viewing
Selected archival footage from SFBATA's collections is publicly available to view online for free at the website of SF State's Digital Information Virtual Archive (DIVA).

Public Screenings
Former KQED producer and director Richard O. Moore introduced screenings of his documentaries Take this hammer (1963) and Losing just the same (1966), at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in August 2009. Newsfilm clips featuring the Occupation of Alcatraz Island by Native American activists (1969-71), were projected onto San Francisco's Coit Tower in November 2009, as part of the official 40th Anniversary remembrance program for the occupation.

Film Production
Archival footage from SFBATA's collections features in Gus Van Sant's 2008 Oscar winning biographical film of the gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk Milk (film) and also in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's 2010 Howl biopic of beat poet Allen Ginsberg.