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Candlestick Park pre-1971 on TV

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I was watching a program on MLB Network some days ago about the 1970 All-Star game. When the program was documenting the various players in that game, I noticed when they were focusing on Willie Mays, they had footage from Candlestick Park from 1970, before the ballpark was enclosed. It was from some game in that season. The footage for Willie Mays first had the center-field view, then when the batter hits the ball, the home plate camera view shows the ball travelling into right-center field, at that point Willie Mays made a spectacular catch on the fence, running into Bobby Bonds. All that footage was in color and my question, if anyone knows is where that footage came from. It could be from KTVU or from NBC as that footage looked like it was from a live broadcast. I'm not sure about if it was from KTVU as I've never seen any archived footage from them of a live broadcast showing the SF Giants in Candlestick Park pre-1971. Did KTVU or NBC archive any footage from Candlestick pre-1971 or is it lost forever?
 
If anybody has archived it, it's probably Major League Baseball. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but even though local stations or networks provide game coverage, they are allowed reasonable use of the footage, but I believe MLB (or possibly the NL and AL separately) owns it for archival purposes. I know that when you see historical football clips, it's the property of the NFL, so I would guess that baseball is the same.

So the question is probably - how much of this game footage was saved in the MLB archives over the decades?
 
I hope there's some preserved footage at MLB of the SF Giants before the enclosing of Candlestick Park. But it doesn't seem likely, at least for the Game of the Week during the 1960s. I read on another thread here that NBC/CBS/ABC did a horrible job in preserving any of those games. Apparently, the earliest complete game footage is from 1969 and that wasn't even saved on videotape. It was made on a kinescope instead. Hopefully KTVU preserved the games that they broadcasted at Candlestick Park during that time but I wouldn't be too sure about it now.
 
There's good Candlestick Park footage in the 1962 film Experiment in Terror. The stadium opened in 1960, so the scenes which occur towards the end will show Candlestick with it's "still new" feel.

The climax of the film happens at the ballpark, but so does the lengthy build-up to the climax.
 
RicoGregg said:
There's good Candlestick Park footage in the 1962 film Experiment in Terror. The stadium opened in 1960, so the scenes which occur towards the end will show Candlestick with it's "still new" feel.

The climax of the film happens at the ballpark, but so does the lengthy build-up to the climax.
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Hmm, I might take a chance at checking out that movie. But if it's not on DVD, I'm going to have a tough time finding it. Maybe I can find it on eBay or something...
 
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