KPFA on the air / Independent Television Service presents.

In 1949, America's first listener-supported community radio station, KPFA, began broadcasting from Berkeley, Calif. The station quickly became a living testament to free speech and cultural diversity -- a vital community of the air that often found itself embroiled in conflict. This film reviews KPF...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Independent Television Service
Selver Productions
Other Authors: Selver, Veronica
Wood, Sharon, 1952-
Fanshel, Susan
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Selver Productions, [2000]
Subjects:
KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.) > History.
KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
Pacifica Radio > History.
Pacifica Foundation > History.
Radio > California > Berkeley > History.
Alternative radio broadcasting > California > Berkeley > History.
Radio broadcasting > Political aspects > California > Berkeley > History.
Radio broadcasting > Social aspects > California > Berkeley > History.
Radio broadcasting > California > Berkeley > History.
Public broadcasting > Political aspects > California > Berkeley > History.
Public broadcasting > California > Berkeley > History.
Freedom of speech > California > Berkeley > History.
Liberalism > California > Berkeley.
Radicalism > California > Berkeley.
Alternative radio broadcasting.
Freedom of speech.
Liberalism.
Public broadcasting.
Radicalism.
Radio.
Radio broadcasting.
Radio broadcasting > Political aspects.
Radio broadcasting > Social aspects.
California > Berkeley.
History.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Genre:
History.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Local Note:
MSU copy digitized for preservation purposes from VHS version published by California Newsreel in 2000.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
In 1949, America's first listener-supported community radio station, KPFA, began broadcasting from Berkeley, Calif. The station quickly became a living testament to free speech and cultural diversity -- a vital community of the air that often found itself embroiled in conflict. This film reviews KPFA's passionate 50-year history, including its founding by pacifists and poets, through alternative news coverage of the McCarthy hearings, peace issues, race relations, nuclear disarmanent, nuclear power, student protests, the Black Panther Movement, and the Vietnam War, to the present day challenges that confront this ongoing experiment in democratic media.
Note:Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1991.3.B4 K64 2000 VideoDVD
Credits:Producer/director, Veronica Selver ; co-producer/writer, Sharon Wood ; editor/writer, Susan Fanshel.
System Details:Burned DVD (DVD-R), all regions, NTSC format.
Participant or Performer:
Narrated by Alice Walker.