This 1970 color film, produced by the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce, written and edited by Thomas E. Houghton, pitches the northern California town as a versatile shooting location for prospective film productions, featuring behind-the-scenes footage from contemporaneous shoots, including John Huston’s “Fat City” (TRT: 21:29).

Police and students clash in a violent campus riot scene during the filming of Stanley Kramer’s “R.P.M” (1970) at the University of the Pacific. A camera crew (0:08). Opening titles: “Hollywood North.” A sign: “Stockton City Limit.” Aerial photography (0:31). A film crew on a location shoot. A grip and electric truck. A locomotive engine. A United jet airliner (1:02). Red tape is applied to a “police vehicle” on the campus shoot. Exterior: “Chamber of Commerce” (1:19). Paul Newman and Anthony Quinn sign autographs (1:31). A boxing ring during the making of “Fat City” (1972). John Huston directs. Jeff Bridges has a fake wound applied to his face. Cinematographer Conrad Hall looks through a loupe (1:45). Shooting “Deadlock,” a feature-length 1969 pilot episode of “The Bold Ones: The Protectors.” A political rally. Young people hold signs: “Washburn for Senator.” Protestors are sprayed with a fire hose on the steps of a city building (2:10). A crowd scene from “All the King’s Men” (1949) with men carrying torches at a political rally (2:31). Stockton’s countryside provides a backdrop for a covered wagon in “Sam Whiskey” (1969). Burt Reynolds sings while riding a horse (3:37). A fight scene is filmed with Clint Walker. Reynolds takes a fake punch from Ossie Davis. A scene with Walker and Davis (4:26). A boy with a fishing rod sits on a dock. Stockton doubles for Georgia in a chain gang scene from “Cool Hand Luke” (1967). George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper, and Paul Newman appear as prisoners. Newman “on the run” (6:09). Watersports: Water skiing. Speed boating. Yachts. Swimming children. Sailboats in the Stockton waterways. A duck. Scenes of importing and exporting goods via the San Francisco Bay (8:26). Anthony Quinn and Anne Margaret ride a motorcycle in “R.P.M.” The campus of the University of the Pacific plays an east coast campus in the fall. A scene with Quinn and Paul Winfield (9:26). Men in football uniforms on the field of a college stadium. Stanley Kramer speaks into a microphone during an on-set interview (11:23). Shooting a police raid on the campus, stuntmen leap from windows and evacuate a smoking entranceway. Narration explains that extras were local college students (11:50). A sign for the University of the Pacific and Delta College. The entrance gates for UOP and scenes of campus life. A sign: “Cunningham Center Going Up– Delta College Going Forward!” (12:14). Bert Remsen has makeup applied. Director Stuart Hagmann is interviewed poolside (12:52). Highlights from “three nights of simulated rioting” during the making of “The Strawberry Statement” (1970). City Hall is “occupied” by protestors (13:30). The climax of “All the King’s Men” shows the same City Hall location in use (14:07). An interior town hall scene from “Deadlock.” Leslie Nielsen in closeup. An off-duty police officer, serving as an extra, shoots an actor in an alleyway. Director Lamont Johnson is interviewed (14:30). Johnson speaks into a megaphone. Actor Hari Rhodes is carried by a cheering crowd (15:13). The iconic “failure to communicate” scene from “Cool Hand Luke” (15:48). John Huston pitches at a softball game: The “Fat City” crew plays against police officers wearing “Pigs are Beautiful” t-shirts (17:03). “Pixie Woods,” a Stockton theme park, features a statue of humpty dumpty, children, a small train, a sheep (17:25). Stockton City Hall, Civic Auditorium, Public Library. A field of flowers. A bilingual street sign in Chinese: “Chung Wah Lane” (17:35). Shooting an episode of “The Name of the Game” with Gene Barry (18:11). More from “Fat City.” Jeff Bridges speaks in an interview, spoiling the film’s ending. John Huston smokes a cigar in an interview. Crash zoom on a Holiday Inn marquee: “Welcome Columbia Pictures Fat City” (18:23). End credits with local acknowledgements (20:03).

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