Restoration Spotlight Archive

2013 UCLA Festival of Preservation

Supernatural (1933)

Saturday, March 30 — Closing Weekend!

The Festival comes to a close with two programs on Saturday, March 30. At the 4 p.m. matinee, join us for a selection of restored SHORTS FROM THE 1910s; then at 7:30 p.m. it's a dark and chilling double-bill of DOUBLE DOOR (1934) and SUPERNATURAL (1933), starring Carole Lombard.

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UCLA Festival of Preservation On Sale!

FOP Passes

Passes & Tickets Available Now! 

Purchase your limited-edition, commemorative UCLA Festival of Preservation Pass today and enjoy all the Festival has to offer––at a substantial discount from purchasing individual tickets to the Festival's more than 20 events! 

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"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema"

Ashes & Embers (1982)

Now On Tour in Philly! Coming Soon to Toronto & NYC!

Representative works from the Archive's groundbreaking "L.A. Rebellion" exhibition will screen in select North American cities. Now through Janurary 26 the tour visits International House Philadelphia with stops at the TIFF Cinematheque and Museum of the Moving Image in February!

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"Out of the Past" Highlights

Bob O'Neil, Universal Studios

Archive Blog

The Archive Blog recaps some of the many highlights and insights from film restoration professionals during the first 3 weeks of our "Out of the Past: Film Restoration Today" series. 

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Different From the Others (1919)

Different From the Others (1919)

Outfest Legacy Project

The Archive's restoration of the earliest known surviving full-length film that features a gay protagonist had a special "sneak peek" at Outfest's Legacy Awards. 

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"UCLA Festival of Preservation" Tour

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

July 15, 2011 – August 17, 2012

Recently completed UCLA Film & Television Archive preservation projects spanning an entire century of moving image media.

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The Legacy Project at Outfest

"We Who Are Sexy: The Whirlwind History of Transgender Images in Cinema”

Saturday, July 16 @ 4:30 p.m.

This year's Outfest has included Legacy Project titles, and there's more to come: "We Who Are Sexy: The Whirlwind History of Transgender Images in Cinema" plays on Saturday.

Tickets: www.outfest.org

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Pioneering efforts to rescue and preserve

Night of the Hunter (1955)

Dedicated to ensuring that film history is explored and enjoyed

All of the preservation and restoration work done at UCLA is the result of hours of painstaking hard work in collaboration with commercial film laboratories specializing in preservation. Computers and digital means are increasingly used to improve image and sound quality in the preservation process.

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