UCLA Film and Television Archive
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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 over 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 university in the world.
Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the Archive screens over 400 films and videos a year, primarily at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus in Westwood, California. The Archives are funded by the University, public and private interests, and the entertainment industry. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives.
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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 American Film Institute, and the Directors Guild of America as well as esteemed figures including Hal Ashby, Tony Curtis, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, and William Wyler. It also holds the entire Hearst Metrotone News Library.
