San Francisco State setting

hi

i went to SF State in the 70's and i would say that none of the scenes were shot at that campus. The SF State campus was much more open and green since its located in more of a "suburban" area of San Francisco. None of the buildings open onto urban streets like the ones in the film. It looks like many of the scenes were shot in the North Beach area of San Francisco (St Peter and Paul Church; Washington Square park, Coit Tower.) My guess is that Galileo High School which is in the same area was used for the outdoor administration building scenes.

As to the school actually being called SF state in the film, I don't think they actually say the name of the school in the film.

I just found the film on Itunes which i thought was great since you can't get it via Amazon for example.

Actually, the protest scene and the interiors of the auditorium were filmed in Stockton, California. I know this because I was a kid at the time and we thought it was the coolest thing, it was the closest we got to a "protest" in Stockton. The building where the interior shots were taken is the Stockton Civic Auditorium and the outside shots of the huge protest were done in front of City Hall. Those buildings share two sides of a large plaza, (now a park), which is where the protest was filmed.

Stockton Civic Auditorium, (we always called it the "Civic")

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24002

Stockton City Hall

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11113173

Lots of movies have been made in Stockton over the years. Once when I was home from high school I was watching an old Bing Crosby movie and realized that I was looking at my high school gym. Very strange!

I'm fairly certain none of the film was made at SF State, I was a student there in the early 80s and didn't recognize any of the buildings. It looked like a lot of the campus scenes were filmed at Berkeley, but they may have filmed some in Stockton. The University of Pacific there looks like an Ivy League college and they've filmed a ton of movies there as well.

If anyone's interested, here's a list of the movies filmed in Stockton, it might answer some questions.

A number of motion pictures have been filmed in Stockton[55] Over the years, filmmakers have used Stockton's waterways[56] to stand in for the Mississippi delta, the surrounding farmland as the American plains and Midwest, and Pacific's campus[57] as an Ivy League college. Some of the movies filmed in Stockton include:

All the King's Men (1949)[58]
Always
Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
The Big Country (1958)[59]
Big Stan (2007)[60]
Bird (1988)[61]
Blind Man Sees First
Blood Alley (1955)[62]
Bound for Glory (1976)[63]
BroadCasting Sunshine: Am in the Am (2010)[64]
Coast to Coast (1980)[65]
Cool Hand Luke (1967)[66]
Coyote (1997)[67]
Day of Independence (2003)[68]
Dead Man on Campus (1998)[69]
Death Machines (1976)[70]
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)[71]
Dreamscape (1984)[72]
Fat City (1972),[73] based on Leonard Gardner's acclaimed 1969 novel Fat City. It is set in Stockton in the late 1950s, and was filmed by director John Huston.
Flubber (1997)[74]
Friendly Fire (1979)[75]
Funky Fresh
Glory Days (1988)[76]
God's Little Acre (1958)[77]
High Time (1960)[78]
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)[79]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)[80]
Oklahoma Crude (1973)[81]
Porgy & Bess (1959)[82]
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)[83]
Rampage (1988)[84]
Return Fire/Jungle Wolf II (1988)[85]
R.P.M. (1970)[86]
Skipping [87]
The Strawberry Statement (1970)[88]
The Sure Thing (1985)[89]
Valentino's Return (1989)[90]
The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)[91]
The 1960s Western TV series The Big Valley was set just outside Stockton.