https://youtu.be/A-x7TP4z3fA
Director: Richard O. Moore
Writer(s): N/A
Starring: James Baldwin, Orville Luster
Synopsis: In “Take this Hammer,” author and activist James Baldwin meets with members of the local African American community in San Francisco in the spring of 1963. He is escorted by Youth For Service’s Executive Director Orville Luster and is intent on discovering “the real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present.
Release Date: February 4, 1964 (USA) | Length: 59 min | Genre: Biography, History | MPAA Rating: NR
Note: The film was livestreamed on Facebook on Friday, February 24 at 8 PM. It was available for viewing for one-week. The 16mm print of Take This Hammer was digitally restored in 2009 by the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive.