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"What makes this Festival special is not just the pains the Archive's restorers have taken to make every print the best one in existence, it's also the care that's gone into the choice of films."
—Los Angeles Times
"The Festival is a mother lode of moviegoing bliss the likes of which even the most encyclopedic home DVD library would be hard-pressed to match." —LA Weekly
Download the UCLA Festival of Preservation Catalog (PDF)
Every two years, the UCLA Film & Television Archive devotes several weeks in the summer to presenting films preserved and restored by its world-renowned preservation department. Our biennial Festivals of Preservation are an opportunity for Los Angeles audiences to see highlights from a century of moving images created for the large screen and small.
This year finds the Archive heading into a period of transition. The Festival is dedicated to Preservation Officer Robert Gitt—the man who since 1977 has put the Archive on the international map for the excellence of its preservation and restoration program. In 2005, he officially retired from UCLA, but will continue to work part-time, contributing his wealth of expertise to preservation and restoration projects for many years to come. A special evening on Saturday, July 29, hosted by film critic and scholar Leonard Maltin, will celebrate Gitt's singular career.
This year is also notable because it is the last time the Festival will be presented in the James Bridges Theater. In early 2007, with funding from Mrs. Audrey Wilder, the Archive will move into a new home at the state-of-the-art Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood, creating an incomparable center to celebrate the legacy of motion pictures.
The festival is supported in part by Netflix and the Lloyd. E. Rigler-Lawrence F. Deutsch Foundation.
