The San Francisco Film and Photo League was one of the associated groups of the Workers Film and Photo League

Workers Film and Photo League

The Workers Film and Photo League was an organization of filmmakers in the United States initially affiliated with the Workers International Relief...

. Active from 1933-1934, the San Francisco General Strike ended their activity in 1934, with the disappearance of equipment and films during vigilante raids associated with the strike. Members of the San Francisco Film and Photo League were Lester Balog

Lester Balog

Lester Balog was a labor activist and founding member of the Workers' Film & Photo LeagueBorn in Hungary, he immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. A soccer player in Budapest, after immigrating to the U.S. with his family as a teen, he joined the Labor Sports Union in New York. From...

, Otto Hagel and Hansel Mieth

Hansel Mieth

Hansel Mieth was a German-born photojournalist who worked on the staff of LIFE Magazine. She was best known for her social commentary photography which recorded the lives of working class Americans in the 1930s and 1940s....

. The one extant film produced by the group is "Century of Progress."