University Archives Audio-Visual Collection

Earliest footage of the Cal Poly football team available in the library's University Archives. Highlights of Cal Poly vs San Francisco State football game. Footage is vignetted and appears to be filmed at a slightly higher than usual frame rate.

Documentation of Cal Poly football team when John Madden, future Hall of Fame coach for the Oakland Raiders and famous television commentator, played as a lineman on the Cal Poly team.

Documentation of Cal Poly football team when John Madden, future Hall of Fame coach for the Oakland Raiders and famous television commentator, played as a lineman on the Cal Poly team.

Footage of Cal Poly's facilities and departments, circa 1929 - 1933. Jespersen is in the footage, and that building was built in 1929. Aeronautics Department professor H. G. Warren is pictured, he left in fall 1933. This film was mostly likely used in promoting the school in visiting high schools around California.
[00:00:11] "Pictures of the Campus taken from the Air"
[00:00:51] Weeks' Buildings can be seen (L-R: Anderson Hall, Administration, Household Arts)
[00:00:55] Crandall Gym to the right of Weeks' Buildings, Power House.
[00:01:08] Dormitories (Deuel, Chase, Jespersen ('Jesperson'), Heron)
[00:01:39] "Shop Buildings of the Aeronautics Department."
[00:02:05] "The Airplane Construction Department." (Aeronautics building)
[00:02:37] "The Airplane Welding Department." Shows students welding, with goggles instead of helmets and far less protection than is used in the labs today.
[00:03:08] Student, wearing no eye protection, watches another student weld
[00:03:11] "The Airplane Engine Repair Department."
[00:03:47] "Checking Valve Tappet Adjustments on an Airplane Engine."
[00:04:02] "All Airplane Engines are Tested after being Overhauled."
[00:04:34] "The Aeronautics Club," including Professor H. G. Warren at right.
[00:04:58] "The Electrical Power Generating Plant for the California Polytechnic School." (The Power House)
[00:05:34] "Gas and steam engine laboratory used also for the science work."
[00:06:31] "The Electrical Department of the California Polytechnic School."
[00:07:19] "The Armature Winding and Motor Repair Department."
[00:08:16] "Generator Testing."
[00:08:55] "Synchronizing Alternating Current Machines."
[00:09:09] "Adjusting an Industrial Control Panel."
[00:09:24] "Machine shop training is essential to students in Aeronautics, Electricity, and Mechanical Drafting."
[00:10:00] Student uses a lathe
[00:10:45] Student uses a mill and also shows off his drafted part drawing
[00:12:50] Students return the tools they checked out to a shop tech
[00:13:09] Students working at drafting tables
[00:13:25] "The Cal Poly school enters into a regular athletic competition with junior colleges."
[00:13:34] Students exercising in Crandall Gym, basketball, boxing, handball, gymnastics (bars, ropes, tumbling, Pommel horse)
[00:14:56] "There is a club room in each dormitory." "Club room" appears to be a student common room, with students lounging and a fireplace in the room.
[00:15:27] "A Student's room in the dormitory."
[00:15:57] "There is a fine collection of technical books and magazines in the library."
[00:16:43] "The students are served cafeteria style."
[00:16:49] Women are seen in the film for the first time

Documentation of Cal Poly football game when John Madden, future Hall of Fame coach for the Oakland Raiders and famous television commentator, played as a lineman for the Cal Poly team.

Recording of future US President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to Cal Poly for the inauguration of Cal Poly President Robert E. Kennedy. See also https://digital.lib.calpoly.edu/islandora-765
[00:00:15] Brief shots of the exterior and interior of the Men's gymnasium (now Mott Gym)
[00:00:24] Governor Reagan begins his speech
[00:01:36] Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke begins speaking but is cut off
[00:02:02] President Kennedy begins his speech
[00:03:12] End of recording

Cal Poly's Rose Parade float in 1968. People decorate a papier-mache mouse's head that will be used on the Rose Float.

Early footage of livestock and agricultural activities on Cal Poly campus, when it was known as California Polytechnic School, and prior to the school being recognized as having 'collegiate status' by the state.
[00:00:12] "Cal Poly boys look over barrows for project animals"
[00:00:45] "Getting the Future Farmer champion steer ready for the South San Francisco Show"
[00:01:33] "Carloads of Angus and Herefords owned and fed by students"
[00:02:15] "Looking over the best beef project animals"
[00:02:56] "Cal Poly students round up the breeding animals and calves"
[00:03:45] "Mike Stevens ropes a calf"
[00:03:57] "Selecting market hogs"
[00:04:34] "These students decide the corn is ready to cut down"
[00:05:14] "The chopped corn, ready to be blown into the silo"
[00:05:42] "Time to butcher -- Scalding a pig"
[00:05:47] "And off come the bristles"
[00:06:18] "The poultry unit, cared for entirely by students who share in profits"
[00:07:08] "Picking a good bird from a pen of healthy cockerels"
[00:07:34] "Trapnesting -- Each egg is weighed, credited to the proper hen"
[00:07:55] "Candling and grading eggs"
[00:08:18] "Weighing and grading meat birds"
[00:09:01] "The governor opens the South San Francisco Junior Livestock Show"
[00:09:44] "Officials welcome a junior exhibitor from Nevada"
[00:09:58] "Some of the 350 high-quality hogs shown by Future Farmers"
[00:10:15] "Into the ring come the baby beef classes"
[00:11:16] "Crowds watch the judging"
[00:11:26] "Henry W. Vaughn, nationally-known judge, places the animals"
[00:11:50] "Bert Jones, Cal Poly, wins championship with the steer at the far end"
[00:12:04] "An Angus Class"
[00:12:47] "Judging at the Pacific Slope Show in the New Pavilion"
[00:13:11] "The Centerville Future Farmers Band goes over big"

Couper FFA story / Modesto FFA
[00:00:10] A man tries to fix a plow but is unable to
[00:00:51] A man continues working on a plow
[00:01:07] The man repairs the plow
[00:01:49] A man gets into a truck
[00:01:57] A man drives a tractor across a field
[00:02:10] A man drives a different tractor along a row of trees
[00:02:36] A man uses an engine to drive a grain mill
[00:02:53] A man holding a shovel inspects a ditch
[00:03:08] A man with an FFA shirt studies from books
[00:03:21] A 1950s car, a 1920s car, and a horse-drawn wagon drive on a road
[00:03:46] A man loads a truck full of cans
[00:04:21] View of a chicken farm
[00:04:35] View of a cattle judging competition
[00:04:51] Several men prune bushes
[00:05:02] A pig is herded into a truck with an FFA placard on it
[00:05:19] Several students eat and drink by an FFA sign
[00:05:42] A man walks near a rural house
[00:06:00] Several people load furniture onto a truck
[00:06:13] A boy asks a question to a middle-aged man and is answered by an older man
[00:07:10] View of more livestock
[00:08:13] A man calls to order the Modesto chapter of FFA
[00:08:34] The two men and the boy continue talking
[00:08:57] The boy enters a building and exits carrying books
[00:09:21] The boy and the man walk near a farm and are shown with livestock
[00:09:59] Several FFA publications are displayed on a table

Pictures of student farming programs at Cal Poly in 1932 when it was still a high school
[00:00:14] Title cards
[00:00:35] A man sorts eggs according to cards; more men are shown caring for birds as explained by title cards
[00:02:43] A student walks around hen cages and sorts eggs
[00:03:40] Dairy cows are examined and selected
[00:05:18] Cows are led by students
[00:05:54] Some cows are milked
[00:10:10] Sheep are shorn
[00:10:39] Hogs are shown in a field, then get fed by students
[00:12:20] Plants are organized in a greenhouse
[00:13:00] Students plant small bushes outside a barn
[00:13:27] A student irrigates a field with a hoe
[00:14:16] Students near the mission plant a new lawn, Ah Louis house visible
[00:15:46] View of a large silo and additional farm equipment
[00:16:30] A mechanic repairs a piece of farm machinery
[00:17:51] Some men construct farm equipment in a field
[00:18:00] Views of interior of a warehouse for construction