UCLA Film & Television Archive
| Established | 1965 |
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| Location | 405 Hilgard Ave. Powell Library, Room 46 Los Angeles, CA 90095 |
| Type | Audiovisual archive |
| Key holdings | John H. Mitchell Television Collection, Hearst Metrotone News collection, and collections from Columbia, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox |
| Collection size | 500,000 items |
| Director | May Hong HaDuong |
| Website | https://cinema.ucla.edu/ |
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
As a nonprofit exhibition venue, the archive screens over 400 films and videos yearly, primarily at the Billy Wilder Theater, located inside the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. Formerly, it screened films at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus. The archive is funded by UCLA, public and private interests, and the entertainment industry. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives.
The Archive is a division of the UCLA Library. As of January 2021, its collection hosted more than 500,000 items, including approximately 159,000 motion pictures and 132,000 television programs, more than 27 million feet of newsreels, more than 222,000 broadcast recordings, and more than 9,000 radio transcription discs. The archive has the largest nitrate-safe storage facility on the West Coast, located in Santa Clarita and funded by the Packard Humanities Institute (which the archive shares the building with) and David Packard.