ACCESS

Serving the UCLA community and an international constituency of academic faculty, scholars, students, and professionals, the Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) provides a vital access point to the UCLA Film and Television Archive's collection of over 220,000 films and television programs, over 100,000 News and Public Affairs (NAPA) programs, and over 2,000 radio programs.

ARSC coordinates thousands of individual viewing appointments annually, facilitating access to the Archive's rare collections in UCLA's Instructional Media Lab. Through ARSC's assistance, a diverse demographic of patrons conduct scholarly and professional research for hundreds of class assignments, books, articles, dissertations, and film and television productions.

SYMPOSIA and PUBLICATIONS

ARSC sponsors exhibits, scholarly workshops, symposia and publications on a variety of topics relevant to film and television history and criticism.
Past presentations include: "Turning Points: Columbia Pictures and The Social Film"; "Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet"; "New Vietnamese Cinema"; "Viewers and Voters: The Impact of Media Coverage on the 1996 Presidential Election"; and "AIDS and the Moving Image 2"; and "Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults:  LGBT Film Preservation and Access Strategies" (presented in association with the Outfest Legacy Project). Recent ARSC publications include the commemorative book "Hallmark Hall of Fame: The First Fifty Years" and "Hollywood and Europe: Economics, Culture, National Identity: 1945-95."

NEW MEDIA

In recent years, the Archive has explored the limitless uses of digital and interactive media for educational purposes by producing a series of interactive educational CD-ROMS. The first of these, "Executive Order 9066: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II," was created in cooperation with the Japanese American National Museum and distributed by Grolier. Other Archive CD-Rom projects include "Tour Historic Los Angeles" and "Defining America: Images in Motion, 1929-41." These multimedia titles make extensive use of rare news film from the Archive's vast Hearst Metrotone Newsreel Collection.

NEWS and PUBLIC AFFAIRS COLLECTION (NAPA)

The Archive's News and Public Affairs Collection (NAPA) consists of over 100,000 news programs and broadcasts taped off-air from 1979 to 2003. In addition to regularly scheduled programs, the collection also includes extended coverage of important news events, such as: the Rodney King trial and resulting unrest in Los Angeles; the 2000 presidential election/Florida recount; and the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. To further promote the study of television news, the Archive has subscribed to the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, which offers a searchable database of network news abstracts from 1968 to the present, and online streaming video of current CNN newscasts. This Internet resource is available to UCLA-based researchers on the web at http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu.

MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVE STUDIES PROGRAM (MIAS)

The Moving Image Archive Studies program - the first university-based program of its kind in North America - responds to a national priority within the moving image community to educate and train new generations of archival professionals. This innovative Master of Arts degree program has been developed in collaboration with UCLA's Department of Film and Television and the Department of Information Studies. The goal of the Moving Image Archive Studies program is to provide not only hands-on training, but also to place this training in the context of a broader education and curriculum combining aesthetic judgment, historical knowledge, awareness of social and cultural relevance, and familiarity with new technologies.

SUPPORT OF RESEARCH

In 2007, the Archive Research & Study Center expanded support of research via two outreach initiative pilots. The ARSC Student Research Award and Visiting Researcher Stipend are intended to encourage academic use of collections and to support scholarship. These initiatives would not be possible without the support of generous donors, however, additional funding sources are needed in order to sustain and improve access programs. For information on how your contribution can assist, please visit our Support The Archive webpage.