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Vast UCLA film, TV collection moves to state-of-art theater

The UCLA Film & Television Archive makes its long-awaited move to the new, state-of-the-art Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum in Westwood on Friday...

"With this theater's level of technology, we can go from silent film to the most extraordinary and contemporary surround sound, and we can go from the nitrate era all the way up to digital in a contemporary setting," [UCLA Dean Robert] Rosen enthuses...

With its store of more than 220,000 movies and television programs - only the Library of Congress has a larger collection - UCLA plans to program its heart out at the Wilder.
Read entire article at Los Angeles Daily News