Bay Area Television Archive

[3] It preserves and digitally restores[4] 16mm newsfilm, documentaries and other shows produced by TV stations in Northern California (1948–2005), local Emmy Award-winning programs (1974–2005) and privately donated film collections (1939–2004).

[5] BATA was established in 1982 by Helene Whitson and is part of the J. Paul Leonard Library's Special Collections Unit,[6] located on San Francisco State University's main campus.

This includes footage of the first TV broadcast in Northern California by KPIX-TV[9] on December 22, 1948, from the roof of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill, in San Francisco.

The Northern California chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has donated over 300 hours of local Emmy Award-winning news footage and documentaries to BATA.

Former KQED producer and director Richard O. Moore introduced screenings of his documentaries Take This Hammer (1963)[10] and Losing just the same (1966),[11] at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in August 2009.

Women watching a printing demonstration. — Still image from the 16mm Kodachrome film 'Art in Action', produced by Orville C. Goldner c1939.

Edited aerial views of San Francisco, taken from a 1973 Philip Greene film. ^{[

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