Richard Apple

Coordinator
Archives and Special Collections
Web and Exhibits

Phone:
email: richard.apple@csueastbay.edu
Fax: (510) 885-2049
Location: Hayward Campus Library
Office: LI 3134

Current Responsibilities:

Coordinates CSUEB Archives, Library Exhibits, Media Services and Web

Education:

M.A., History and Media Production, California State University, East Bay
B.A., History, California State University, East Bay

Media Productions:

Jewett Bubar: Movie Palace and Landscape Artist, 1900-1968. Web site focusing on the life and work of a San Francisco-based commercial artist in the first half of the 20th century, whose career was coterminus with the growth of the large theatre chains and movie palaces of the times. Producer/designer. 2004.

The Fox Theatre, San Francisco. Web site dedicated to the historic Fox Theatre - regarded by many as the most sumptuous movie palace ever built. It seated 5,000 and was completed just before the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression. It was demolished in 1963 despite one of the earliest organized attempts at urban preservation. Producer/designer. 2003.

The Jensen History Collection. Web site highlighting the local and family history of the pioneering Eric and Jens Jensen family of Castro Valley. Producer/designer. 1998.

The Jensen History Collection Exhibit, California State University Library 1998 -1999. Library exhibit showcasing the historical role of the Jensen family in the context of Southern Alameda County history. Exhibit producer, artist. Co-mounter with Lucille Klovdahl. 1998.

Sufism: The Inward Journey. 35mm multi-screen slide production outlining the historical development of Sufism as a social and religious tradition within Islam. 40 minutes. 1980.

This Enemy: The Japanese American Experience to 1945. Video production dealing with the multi generational experiences of American citizens of Japanese ancestry, both before and during World War II (Issei, Nisei, Sansei). Focuses on the Japanese American internment. Producer/writer/director. 60 minutes. 1977. 

Selected Training and Workshop Materials:

Training Non-Musician Student Assistants to Give Good Service in a Media/Music Library. Abstract and Exercises. 1998.