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LICENSABLE COLLECTIONS IN THE UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE
Films produced during the early years of the movie industry were printed
onto paper rolls so they could be registered for copyright protection.
As the original nitrate film elements decomposed, these paper prints were
often the only versions of the movies that survived. In the mid-1980s,
the Library of Congress contracted with the UCLA Film & Television
Archive to remaster this material onto 35mm film stock using a special
printer developed for the effort. The collection features early actuality
footage as well as short narrative subjects, including footage of immigrants
arriving at Ellis Island (1906), the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake, the Hatfield and McCoy short "A Kentucky Feud" (1905),
and "The Eagle's Nest" (1908), an early J. Searle Dawley short
featuring a young actor named D.W. Griffith.
UCLA's Hearst Metrotone News Collection is one of the largest newsreel collections in the world. It contains over 27 million feet of distributed newsreels, unreleased stories and outtakes. Much of the collection is camera original negative, yielding images truly as sharp as the day they were shot. The Hearst newsreel went through a series of incarnations. Begun in the
teens, these newsreels were first envisioned as a way to boost Hearst-owned
newspaper readership. The tabloid style of Hearst papers would heavily
influence the style and content of the newsreels, and arguably television
news forms as well. The silent Hearst reels covered topics such as the
First World War, the Mexican American War, the Black Sox Scandal, adventurous
aviators, and North Pole explorers. European royalty were given special
attention in the newsreels. The attraction of celebrity served the reel
further when it became half-owned by MGM. Distributed with MGM features
throughout the 1930s and 1940s, the reel could promote the studio's stars
in the guise of news items. During the 1960 presidential campaign, filmmaker Jack Denove was asked to produce campaign commercials and programming for candidate John F. Kennedy. Using hand-held 16mm cameras and a mobile video unit, Denove filmed or video-taped every speech and public appearance, designed commercials, and produced special fifteen and thirty minute programs around specific themes such as urban problems, medical care of the aged, and revitalizing American prestige. This marked the first time television was used in a presidential campaign to this extent. Included in the collection are Kennedy's speech before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, in which he addressed the issue of his Roman Catholic religious beliefs; COFFEE WITH THE KENNEDYS, a call-in show which included footage from home movies; and NAVY LOG, a television dramatization of the PT-109 incident highlighting Kennedy's heroic actions during World War II. The collection contains all the footage Denove shot during the campaign, including completed product, negatives, trims and outs, unedited footage, stock shots, crowd shots, and airport arrivals. More...
Acclaimed documentary cameraman Stephen Lighthill ("Gimme Shelter," "Surfing For Life") captured U.S. culture during the turbulent years of America's early involvement in the Vietnam War. Based primarily in northern California, Lighthill was at the scene during numerous anti-war protests, the Black Panther movement, and the Grateful Dead's concert performance at the First Human Be-In.
This mid-70s pre-satellite forerunner of CNN had bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Its footage includes the Watergate scandal, the Patricia Hearst kidnapping, and major sports stories of the era. Approximately half the collection consists of released news stories, in color with reporter stand-ups and narration. The rest of the collection is made up of outtakes from released stories as well as raw footage shot for unreleased stories, all shot on 16mm color film with magnetic stripe soundtracks.
Local award-winning television station KTLA-Channel 5 has documented the Los Angeles news scene for over fifty years. In the mid-eighties KTLA donated their rich collection of news footage to the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Just a sampling of the stories covered include such historic events as the Charles Manson family murders and subsequent trial, the Hillside Strangler, Angela Davis' troubles with the law, Cesar Chavez's union organizing, and major Hollywood activities such as the Academy Awards and Hollywood Walk Of Fame ceremonies. The majority of the collection is 16mm color film with ambient magnetic stripe soundtracks. More...
From 1932 through 1934, the Paramount Studios publicity department produced a series of behind-the-scenes shorts depicting their top movie stars in various comedic vignettes. From the glamour of movie premieres to the zaniness of backlot go-kart races, these shorts made it seem like one couldn't set foot in Hollywood without running into a major star like Bing Crosby, Mae West, Cary Grant, or Clara Bow.
Produced from 1941 through 1947 to be shown in coin-operated 16mm rear projection machines, Soundies presented a diversity of musical subjects and styles. An uptempo Dorothy Dandridge sings about fashion in "A Zoot Suit." Duke Ellington confesses "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" in a jazzy number with his orchestra. Barry Wood tries to sell Defense Bonds to the music of Irving Berlin in "Any Bonds Today?" The UCLA Film & Television Archive holds over a thousand of these three-minute black-and-white short films in its collection. More...
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