UCLA Film and Television Archive

The UCLA Film and Television Archive is an internationally-renowned visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles. It holds more than 220,000 film and television titles and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, a collection second only to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It has more media materials than any other university in the world.

Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the archive screens over 400 films and videos a year, primarily at the Billy Wilder Theater, located inside the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. (Formerly, it screened films at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus.) The archive is funded by UCLA, public and private interests, and the entertainment industry. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives.

The collection

The archive's holdings include 35mm collections from 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Republic, Sony/Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. Independent films are preserved in the Archive's Sundance Collection. Additional film donations have been made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the......
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