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The '''UCLA Film & Television Archive''' is a [[visual arts]] organization focused on the [[film preservation|preservation]], [[film studies|study]], and appreciation of [[film]] and [[television]], based at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA). 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.<br />
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Also a [[nonprofit]] exhibition venue, the archive screens over 400 films and [[video]]s a year, primarily at the [[Billy Wilder]] Theater, located inside the [[Hammer Museum]] in [[Westwood, Los Angeles, California|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]].<br />
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==The collection==<br />
The archive's holdings include [[35mm movie film|35mm]] collections from [[ViacomCBS]]/[[Paramount Pictures]], [[Walt Disney Studios (division)|Disney]]/[[20th Century Studios]], [[WarnerMedia]]/[[Warner Bros.]], [[Sony Pictures|Sony]]/[[Columbia Pictures]], [[New World Pictures]], [[Orion Pictures]], [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]], [[United Artists]], [[NBCUniversal]]/[[Universal Pictures]], [[RKO Radio Pictures|RKO]] and [[Republic Pictures]]. 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 such figures including [[Hal Ashby]], [[Tony Curtis]], [[Charlton Heston]], [[Orson Welles]], [[Rock Hudson]], [[Jeff Chandler]], [[Radley Metzger]], [[Richard Conte]], [[Audie Murphy]], [[John McIntire]], [[John Wayne]], [[Fred MacMurray]]<ref name="UCLA-20110602">{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Smooth Operator: The Opulent Eroticism of Radley Metzger |url=https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2011-06-02/smooth-operator-opulent-eroticism-radley-metzger |date=June 2, 2011 |work=UCLA Film and Television Archive |access-date=January 28, 2016 }}</ref> and [[William Wyler]]. It also holds the entire [[Hearst Corporation|Hearst]] Metrotone News Library. The archive is also known for holding over 300 kinescope prints from the now-defunct [[DuMont Television Network]]. The archive also holds restored prints of Paramount Pictures' cartoon library. Much of the Archive's collection is available for onsite research by appointment at the Archive's Research & Study Center (ARSC), located on the UCLA campus in Powell Library. ARSC clients often go to the UCLA Media Lab (Room 270) to view their media.<br />
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==Billy Wilder Theater==<br />
The Billy Wilder Theater is on the courtyard level of the [[Hammer Museum]]. Made possible by a $5 million gift from Audrey L. Wilder and designed by [[Michael Maltzan Architecture]], the 295-seat Billy Wilder Theater is the home of the archive's cinematheque and of the Hammer's public programs, which includes artists’ lectures, literary readings, musical concerts, and public conversations.. The theater, which cost $7.5 million to complete, is one of the few in the country where audiences may watch the entire spectrum of moving images in their original formats: from the earliest [[silent films]] requiring variable speed projection to the most current digital cinema and video.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Packard Humanities Institute]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.cinema.ucla.edu UCLA Film & Television Archive website]<br />
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