Berkeley High School circa 1984 - [on] Kodachrome [film]

Around 1984 (I think) I brought my super 8 movie camera to school (remember, these were the days before compact video cameras -- yeah, I'm old).

I shot about three minutes, had it developed, watched it once and stuck it in a shoe box for the past 23 years. I rediscovered it while looking for negatives to scan for my 20 year high school reunion so I transferred it to digital.

The camera work is terrible and a lot is blurry but it is kind of fun seeing the old place in full motion.

Paul Simon's song Kodachrome WAS in the background (it was shot on Kodochrome film, after all!) before WMG had them pull down the video for using it.

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[dezziemac17]

gawd! im tha class of 07! i miss b-high so much wish i was around in the 80s

[admannn]

I don't know what BHS was like the 00s but I've heard we had a lot more freedom in the early/mid 80s.

[crittertv]

Its like if I remember hard enough I can almost picture you standing there during lunch filming people, I see Andrea in it a few times, Classic 80s footage, dreams of summers, I can see the writing on the wall...

[admannn]

I can't remember if we hid the camera or not. :)

Andrea was a good friend of my sister's at the time. One of these days I plan to do a better film to digital transfer to capture the details better.

[crittertv]

Critter, BHS, class of 1985, I see some haky sak hippies and some cut class stoners I knew, and I think some punker chicks as well! ha ha, you should redo it with Kadachrome, that would work perfectly, real arty, enjoyed, C.

[admannn]

Thanks for the comment! It was a much better video before YouTube pulled out Paul Simon's Kodachrome. The song timed almost perfectly to the original, unedited super-8 film. If you want to see what I mean, start the song around 0:10. :)

[999MichaelMyers999]

Anybody know tami stronach?

[flacca97]

This is so f-ing cool... I know alot of those people in the video..circa 1984... VERY COOL VIDEO! Thanks so much (BHS Alumni 1986)

[dezziemac17]

it look like it was awesome back then, it was too ghetto when i went there, i mean u could just walk off campus and never come back i used to cut all tha time in 9th and now that i think about it that was way too lenient buh i graduated and am proud to say i've graduated from one of the best high schools in California.

[vmatt99]

That was awesome! I didn't attend Berkeley High, I graduated from El Cerrito High in 1984. The interior shots look very similar to the old El Cerrito main building. We had a hackey sack crew at El Cerrito too! :-)