A unique resource for media study, the Archive constitutes one of the largest collections of media materials in the United States - second only to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. - and the largest of any university in the world. Its vaults hold more than 220,000 motion picture and television titles and 27 million feet of newsreel footage. The combined collections represent an all-encompassing documentation of the 20th century.

Here To Serve

Much more than a repository of film and tape, the Archive continually strives to provide the following services:

• Service to the Culture The Archive preserves media heritage through an aggressive program of acquisition, restoration, transfer and maintenance of its extensive collections of motion pictures, broadcast programming and newsreels.
  
  
• Service to Scholarship The Archive promotes media studies research, media production and publication through its Research and Study Center on the UCLA campus. At no cost, the Center provides scholarly and educational access to the Archive's collections in a state-of-the-art viewing facility with 90 viewing stations to students, researchers, the entertainment industry and the general public.
  
  
• Service to the Community The Archive contributes to the public's media awareness and enjoyment by providing special screenings of films and television shows on an ongoing basis. Some 400 films are exhibited at UCLA each year, and hundreds of additional programs are provided to other archives, museums and film festivals in the U.S. as well as overseas. Its programming combines the best of the old, the new, the classic and the innovative.

Stellar Collection

Among the Archive's motion-picture holdings are 35mm collections from 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony/Columbia, Republic, Orion and the entire Hearst Metrotone News Library. The Archive has a sizeable number of independent films in the Sundance Collection, and also holds major film collections that have been donated by the American Film Institute, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, and the Stanford Theatre Foundation. Films have been received from hundreds of renowned individuals, including William Wyler, Stanley Kramer, Hal Wallis, King Vidor, George Pal, Tony Curtis, Hal Ashby, Charlton Heston and Rock Hudson.

The television collections include the complete runs of such classics as the Jack Benny Program, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Carol Burnett Show, Hallmark Hall of Fame, All in the Family and the Mary Tyler Moore Show. In conjunction with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), the Archive also holds over forty years of Emmy Awards broadcasts as well as all the nominated programs. Over 10,000 television commercials dating from 1948 to the mid 1980s are available to researchers and interested parties.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives.