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SF URBAN FILM FEST 2018

Take This Hammer

Directed by Richard O. Moore

Featured Programs, SFUFF 2017, Films, Documentary, Shorts / USA / 1964 / 44 mins / English / Black & White / Video

Description

“Take This Hammer” is a documentary film produced and directed by KQED (TV)‘s Richard O. Moore for National Educational Television in 1963. It features KQED’s mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin, as he holds frank exchanges with local people on the street and meets with community leaders in the Bayview and Western Addition neighborhoods.