Knoxville Police Department Collection
Content Description
23 reels of 16mm film of various lengths, totaling a few thousand feet, documenting public law enforcement activities by the Knoxville Police Department, training activities for the department, outreach/educational films for a public audience, and amateur films of public relations activities, all circa 1960s-1970s. Several training films for police officers and safety PSA films are in the collection as well. Much of the documentary material is believed to have been shot by WBIR-TV camera operators on behalf of KPD. The collection also includes a single 3/4" U-matic videotape depicting local KPD training activities shot by WATE-TV in 1976.
Dates
- 1950-1980
Creator
- Knoxville Police Department (Compiler, Organization)
Extent
23 Reels (23 film cans) : 16mm black-and-white silent reversal film, 16mm black-and-white and color sound print film ; ~15,000'
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Originals
The original reels are located in the ETHC B1 vault.
Existence and Location of Copies
SD telecine transfers of all reels are located on TAMIS hard drives FVCM-7 (A&B).
Separated Materials
As many as 60 additional training films unrelated to East Tennessee accompanied the reels retained in the Knoxville Police Department Collection. These films were discarded.
Condition Description
The films are in generally good condition, with color fading present in the prints of PSAs and educational/training films.
- - Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Knoxville Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Knoxville (Tenn.) Police Department Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Protests Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- TAMIS paper files: inspection sheets
Repository Details
Part of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound Repository
