Jameson C. Goldner

Jameson C. Goldner was a California film professor and documentary director.He grew up in Burbank close to the studio of Warner Brothers ,where he watched productions being made, while his father Arthur worked nearby in the MGM wardrobe department.His mother Golde was a pianist who taught music in elementary school.Graduating from John Burroughs High in 1956, Jameson received an M.A. in Cinema at UCLA. in 196o,, he made a film, with the help of his mother, about the silkworms she brought home from a classroom, called "The Silkworm Cycle," which was later used in school courses. Goldner relocated in 1962 to Northern California where he worked briefly at Stanford and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories before beginning a career in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, a department he helped get started and where he would land up teaching for 52 years. During summers he would also teach at Camp Swig in Saratoga CA. He was especially known for courses he added to the SF State curriculum on the Blacklist and the Holocaust. During a 1970 sabbatical in Israel, he met his first wife, fellow filmmaker Enulla Shamir, mother of his daughter Naomi.