UCLA Film & Television Archive
Film & Television Archive
UCLA
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Phone: (310) 206-8013
- Email: archive@ucla.edu
- Website: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/
The UCLA Film & Television Archive, a unit of UCLA Library, is renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media, and is dedicated to ensuring that the collective visual memory of our time is explored and enjoyed for generations to come. Established in 1965, the Archive is the second-largest repository of motion pictures and broadcast programming in the United States, after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-held collection. More than 520,000 holdings of films, television programs, news footage and radio recordings are conserved in a state-of-the-art facility, called the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Stoa, in Santa Clarita, California.
The Archive is committed to the collection, preservation and restoration, and exhibition of moving images. Its public programs take place year-round at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum in Westwood Village, Los Angeles. The Archive loans media from its vast collection to cinematheques and film festivals around the world. Additionally, footage licensed from the Archive has appeared in many notable projects for the big screen, television and more. Many items in the Archive’s collection can be accessed for research by appointment through the Archive Research and Study Center at UCLA.
Collections at this institution
Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection
The KTLA Newsfilm Collection held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive represents a significant resource for researchers interested in Los Angeles news and local coverage of national events. KTLA has been a prominent independent television station in the Los Angeles area for more than 60 years, with the scope of the KTLA Newsfilm Collection at UCLA primarly encompassing the period of the late 1960s through the end of the 1970s. Despite the growing prominence of television news during this era, many local broadcasters did not fully recognize the long-term historical value of their newsfilm collections, and the industry discarded …
Institution: UCLA, Film & Television Archive
65 Items
Reflecciones
Produced for Los Angeles television station KABC, the vital local public affairs program Reflecciones (1972–74) offered Chicana/o/x perspectives as an alternative to network news sources, whose coverage often ignored or stereotyped people of color. In his essential book, Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (University of Minnesota Press), UCLA Distinguished Professor Chon Noriega explicates the varied landscape of media production by Chicana/o/x communities in the 1970s, describing the Reflecciones series “as unique in style as in its radical subjectivity … mix[ing] an eclectic coverage of current issues with cultural investigations, incorporating dramatizations and low-budget …
Institution: UCLA, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, Film & Television Archive
56 Items
Tom Reed Collection
From 1980 into the 2000s, former local disc jockey, Los Angeles Sentinel columnist, and L.A. jazz and blues historian Tom Reed created, hosted and produced his own independent African American news and magazine television program, “For Members Only.” Airing in Los Angeles on KSCI UHF Channel 18, Tom Reed's “For Members Only” offered viewers Black perspectives on topics ranging from local social issues to African American history to celebrity interviews.
Institution: UCLA, Film & Television Archive
177 Items
