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Black Girl (1972)
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, which was founded in December 1965, an era when studios jettisoned their materials into the ocean and film studies was still emerging as an academic field. Beginning as a scrappy and somewhat clandestine operation (“Most of the major stages in our growth were accomplished by stealth,” said Charles Hopkins, the Archive’s first paid employee. Archive co-founder Howard Suber described the early years as the “buccaneering days”), the Archive has grown into one of the largest moving image archives in the world, and the second-largest in the U.S., encompassing more than 520,000 motion pictures and television programs and 27 million feet of newsreel footage. A public arts unit of UCLA Library, the Archive continues to build on its mission of collecting, preserving, circulating, exhibiting and providing research access to moving image media for learning and enjoyment, for today and generations to come.
To celebrate this six-decade milestone, TCM (Turner Classic Movies) will air a 24-hour programming block starting September 25, featuring 18 film and television titles and a selection of newsreels preserved by the Archive with its funders and partners. The lineup includes the restoration world premieres of director Ossie Davis’ poignant social drama Black Girl (1972) and director Budd Boetticher’s vibrant bullfighter romance The Magnificent Matador (1955), and a new restoration of director Ida Lupino’s TV noir Screen Director’s Playhouse: “No. Five Checked Out” (1956). The broadcast will also include interview segments with Archive Director May Hong HaDuong.
Read the TCM announcement, which features an interview with Archive Motion Picture Curator Todd Wiener.
Learn more about the Archive’s history in UCLA Film & Television Archive: 50 Years (published in 2015).
“60 Years of the UCLA Film & Television Archive”
Full schedule (in Pacific Time):
Thursday, September 25
8:00 p.m. My Darling Clementine (1946)
Director: John Ford. With: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature.
Preserved by the Archive and the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (NY) in cooperation with 20th Century Fox. Funding provided by American Movie Classics and The Film Foundation.
9:45 p.m. Greedy Humpty Dumpty (short, 1936)
Director: Dave Fleischer.
Preserved by the Archive and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by The Seth MacFarlane Foundation.
10:00 p.m. The Devil and Daniel Webster (a.k.a. All That Money Can Buy, 1941)
Director: William Diertele. With: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell.
Preserved by the Archive and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films, The Museum of Modern Art and The Library of Congress. Funding provided by The Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Paper Moon (short, 1949)
Director: Flora Mock.
Preserved by the Archive with funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936)
Friday, September 26
12:15 a.m. Screen Director’s Playhouse: “No. 5 Checked Out” (1956)
Director: Ida Lupino. With: Teresa Wright, Peter Lorre, William Talman.
Preserved by the Archive with funding provided by Alexandra Seros.
12:45 a.m. This Is Your Life: “Ida Lupino” (1958)
Executive producer/host: Ralph Edwards. With: Ida Lupino.
1:15 a.m. Desert Hearts (1986)
Director: Donna Deitch. With: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley.
Preserved by The Criterion Collection/Janus Films and the Archive in conjunction with Outfest UCLA Legacy Project and Sundance Institute.
3:15 a.m. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Director: Michael Curtiz. With: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell.
Preserved by the Archive and The Film Foundation in association with Warner Bros. Entertainment. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Desert Hearts (1986)
Friday, September 26
4:45 a.m. El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire, 1953)
Director: Román Viñoly Barreto. With: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nathán Pinzón.
Preserved by the Archive with funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation.
6:30 a.m. Woman on the Run (1950)
Director: Norman Foster. With: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith.
Preserved by the Archive with funding provided by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Charitable Trust (The HFPA Trust) and the Film Noir Foundation.
8:00 a.m. Wanda (1970)
Director: Barbara Loden. With: Michael Higgins, Barbara Loden, Frank Jourdano.
Preserved by the Archive in cooperation with Televentures Corp and Parlour Pictures. Funding provided by The Film Foundation and GUCCI.
9:45 a.m. Black Girl (1972)
Director: Ossie Davis. With: Brock Peters, Claudia McNeil, Leslie Uggams.
Preserved by the Archive and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
11:30 a.m. Vanity Fair (1932)
Director: Chester M. Franklin. With: Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent.
Preserved by the Archive in cooperation with the Cinema Museum (London) and the British Film Institute. Preservation funded by the AFI Challenge Grant for Film Preservation and The Film Foundation.
El vampiro negro (1954)
Friday, September 26
1:00 p.m. The Argyle Secrets (1948)
Director: Cy Endfield. With: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd.
Preserved by the Archive with funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust (the HFPA Trust).
2:30 p.m. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Director: Robert Epstein. With: Harvey Fierstein (narrator).
Preserved by the Archive in cooperation with Telling Pictures, the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center and Earle-Tones Music, Inc. Funding provided by The Ahmanson Foundation in association with the Sundance Institute.
4:00 p.m. The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Director: Phil Goldstone. With: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart.
Preserved by the Archive in cooperation with Independent-International Pictures. Funding provided by the Packard Humanities Institute.
5:30 p.m. The Magnificent Matador (1955)
Director: Budd Boetticher. With: Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, Manuel Rojas.
Preserved by the Archive and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by The Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
7:30 p.m. The Battle of the Century (1927)
Director: Clyde Bruckman. With: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy.
Preserved by the Archive in conjunction with Jeff Joseph/SabuCat.
The Magnificent Matador (1955)
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