Introduced by Steven Finacom

Live Piano Accompaniment

Discover Berkeley when it was young in this charming program of short films. Take A Trip to Berkeley, a 1906 streetcar ride up Hearst Avenue at the close of the bucolic age. Enjoy Senior Class Activities of 1912 and Bentley School Dances of 1922, and witness the terror of the 1923 Berkeley Fire. See an episode from the outrageously funny 1924-1926 serial Officer 444, starring Berkeley's first Police Chief August Vollmer and Hollywood actors, and outlining Vollmer's scientific police methods and ideas of social reform. Cheer for Cal in The Big Game (1928-1929); explore Berkeley, A City of Culture and Progress (1937); ride on the Interurban Electric Railway (1941); and learn a thing or two from the ever-popular Hinks Shoplifting Training Film from the fifties. (If you don't remember Hinks, well....) Your guide to these gems of local history is Steven Finacom, who is a Planning Analyst/Historian in the Office of Capital Projects at the Berkeley campus. He is active with both the Berkeley Historical Society and Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association and helped create a journal of UC history.