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UCLA Film & Television Archive
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<p>The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a <a href="/facts/Visual_arts/95RgxP8e">visual arts</a> organization focused on the <a href="/facts/Film_preservation/PK7SeNh2">preservation</a>, <a href="/facts/Film_studies/cYR17az6">study</a>, and appreciation of <a href="/facts/Film/wM3b9Kk3">film</a> and <a href="/facts/Television/X4YG5nT1">television</a>, based at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_Los_Angeles/KwPz7AK1">University of California, Los Angeles</a> (UCLA). </p><p>As a <a href="/facts/Nonprofit/AmXu2c85">nonprofit</a> exhibition venue, the archive screens over 400 films and <a href="/facts/Video/F1AV8ben">videos</a> yearly, primarily at the <a href="/facts/Billy_Wilder/7aw1azcg">Billy Wilder</a> Theater, located inside the <a href="/facts/Hammer_Museum/A6ltqbTd">Hammer Museum</a> in <a href="/facts/Westwood%2c_Los_Angeles%2c_California/tUo6aaL9">Westwood, California</a>. Formerly, it screened films at the <a href="/facts/James_Bridges/GP5ugAAs">James Bridges</a> 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 <a href="/facts/International_Federation_of_Film_Archives/SXEXzNcH">International Federation of Film Archives</a>. </p><p>The Archive is a division of the <a href="/facts/UCLA_Library/4NHDDgNa">UCLA Library</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/Transcription_discs/CxRtRJkU">transcription discs</a>. The archive has the largest nitrate-safe storage facility on the West Coast, located in <a href="/facts/Santa_Clarita/mhobzNSd">Santa Clarita</a> and funded by the <a href="/facts/Packard_Humanities_Institute/LD1NNqqD">Packard Humanities Institute</a> (which the archive shares the building with) and <a href="/facts/David_Packard/8GfWblhG">David Packard</a>. </p>