Restoration Spotlight Archive

UCLA Festival of Preservation Now on Tour

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

Seattle and Houston

Continues at Northwest Film Forum (Seattle) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) in May/June!

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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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