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2006 UCLA Festival of Preservation

UCLA Festival of Preservation (2006)
July 20, 2006 -
August 19, 2006

"What makes this Festival special is not just the pains the Archive's restorers have taken to make every print the best one in existence, it's also the care that's gone into the choice of films."
Los Angeles Times

"The Festival is a mother lode of moviegoing bliss the likes of which even the most encyclopedic home DVD library would be hard-pressed to match."LA Weekly

Download the UCLA Festival of Preservation Catalog (PDF)


Every two years, the UCLA Film & Television Archive devotes several weeks in the summer to presenting films preserved and restored by its world-renowned preservation department. Our biennial Festivals of Preservation are an opportunity for Los Angeles audiences to see highlights from a century of moving images created for the large screen and small.

This year finds the Archive heading into a period of transition. The Festival is dedicated to Preservation Officer Robert Gitt—the man who since 1977 has put the Archive on the international map for the excellence of its preservation and restoration program. In 2005, he officially retired from UCLA, but will continue to work part-time, contributing his wealth of expertise to preservation and restoration projects for many years to come. A special evening on Saturday, July 29, hosted by film critic and scholar Leonard Maltin, will celebrate Gitt's singular career.

This year is also notable because it is the last time the Festival will be presented in the James Bridges Theater. In early 2007, with funding from Mrs. Audrey Wilder, the Archive will move into a new home at the state-of-the-art Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood, creating an incomparable center to celebrate the legacy of motion pictures.

The festival is supported in part by Netflix and the Lloyd. E. Rigler-Lawrence F. Deutsch Foundation.

Past Programs & Events

Title Date and Time Location
Faces (1968)

Faces (1968)

Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Under Two Flags (1936)

Under Two Flags  /  If I Were King

Friday, August 18, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Chicago (1928)

Chicago (1928)

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 8:00 pm
For Alimony Only (1926)

For Alimony Only (1926);
Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo (1924)

Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 7:00 pm James Bridges Theater
A Walk in the Sun (1946)

A Walk in the Sun (1946);
Home of the Brave (1949)

Saturday, August 12, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
The Fast Worker (1924)

The Fast Worker (1924);
K–The Unknown (1924)

Friday, August 11, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Welles shooting It's All True in 1941.

Orson Welles and the Hollywood System

Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Cliff Robertson

Cliff Robertson and "The United States Steel Hour"

Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
One Million Years B.C. (1940)

Turnabout (1940);
One Million Years B.C. (1940)

Sunday, August 6, 2006 - 7:00 pm James Bridges Theater
An Eastern Westerner (1920)

Wagon Ho!: A Round-up of Early Western Shorts

Sunday, August 6, 2006 - 2:00 pm James Bridges Theater
Scorpio Rising (1963)

Kenneth Anger

Saturday, August 5, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
The Big Combo (1955)

The Big Combo (1955);
The Enforcer (1951)

Friday, August 4, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
A protest in Clinton, Tennessee.

Civil Rights and the Cold War: A Look Back at the Hearst Metrotone News Collection from 1956

Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Fair Wind to Java (1953)

Fair Wind to Java (1953);
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)

Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Dynamite (1929)

Dynamite (1929);
Sharp Shooters (1928)

Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 7:00 pm James Bridges Theater
Robert Gitt

A Tribute to Robert Gitt

Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Way Out West (1937)

Way Out West  (1937);
Topper  (1937)

Friday, July 28, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
The Barker (1928)

Vitaphone Varieties 1927-1930;
The Barker (1928)

Thursday, July 27, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson Before "The Tonight Show"

Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Cloak and Dagger (1946);
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)

Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 7:00 pm James Bridges Theater
The Red Kimona (1925)

The Red Kimona (1925);
My Lady's Lips (1925)

Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Baby Doll (1956)

Baby Doll (1956);
God's Little Acre (1958)

Friday, July 21, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater
Of Mice and Men (1939)

Of Mice and Men (1939)

Thursday, July 20, 2006 - 7:30 pm James Bridges Theater