Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection
Owning Institution: UCLA, Film & Television Archive
About this Collection
The KTLA Newsfilm Collection held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive represents a significant resource for researchers interested in Los Angeles news and local coverage of national events. KTLA has been a prominent independent television station in the Los Angeles area for more than 60 years, with the scope of the KTLA Newsfilm Collection at UCLA primarly encompassing the period of the late 1960s through the end of the 1970s. Despite the growing prominence of television news during this era, many local broadcasters did not fully recognize the long-term historical value of their newsfilm collections, and the industry discarded much local TV news footage, making the surviving KTLA newsfilm collection at UCLA a unique and vital moving image resource for research.This curated collection of 65 KTLA newfilm holdings documents a selection of people, places, and issues relevant to marginalized communities in Los Angeles between 1970 and 1980. Marked by the international trauma of the devastating war in Vietnam and the national political upheaval of Watergate, this period saw great strides in social movements for equality for marginalized communities and continued legacies of institutionalized oppression, discrimination, and prejudice. The news segments selected for the Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) KTLA Television Newsfilm project are intended to help illuminate the challenges facing marginalized communities and related public policies during this critical period in Los Angeles history.
For additional information and resources related to the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s KTLA Newsfilm Collection, please visit: https://cinema.ucla.edu/collections/ktla-newsfilm-collection View this collection on the contributor's website.
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