in search of lost television footage of the berkeley folk music festival.
In 1967, 1968, and 1970, public television station KQED filmed the Berkeley Folk Music Festival and broadcast excerpts of the festival on television. I am on the hunt for the footage. Usually these were part of a KQED program called the “Summer Sampler.”
The amazing researchers at the Berkeley in the Sixties Blog have found a TV listing for it in the Lowell Sun (likely it was circulated through the early NET or PBS networks of public broadcasting stations): Corry Arnold, “1967 Berkeley Folk Festival Film,” Berkeley in the Sixties Blog, 31 October 2009.
There is documentation about the recordings in the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive, but no tapes! Nothing at the SF State Bay Area Television Archive or the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
Please contact me if you have any footage or any leads about where the footage of the programs might be. Thanks!
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