The UCLA Film and Television Archive Collections

With over 220,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, the UCLA Film and Television Archive is the world's largest university-held collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming. Information on these collections is held in our on-line databases. Among its collections are:

Film:

Containing material dating back to the 1890s, the motion picture holdings include major 35mm collections from Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, New World Pictures, Orion Pictures, RKO and Republic Pictures. In addition, the Archive's 16mm film collection has more than 5,000 titles.

Films have been received from hundreds of individuals, including William Wyler, Jean Renoir, King Vidor, George Pal, Stanley Kramer, Tony Curtis, and Robert Aldrich, among others.

Television:

The television collection documents the entire course of broadcast history; it includes the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/UCLA Collection of Historic Television, donations from the Hallmark Hall of Fame, Jack Benny, Milton Berle and Loretta Young, and many milestones in the history of television technology.

News:

The news collections, including the Hearst Newsreels and the News and Public Affairs collections, offer the researcher coverage of events from newsreels and national and local television news broadcasts.

Audio:

The Archive Research and Study Center's audio collection consists of a wide selection of radio programming, audio-only segments of special Archive and TFT events, and unabridged interviews with 1970s era filmmakers conducted during the production of the IFC documentary, A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE.