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Media Archival Studies

A research guide to assist in locating relevant books, articles, and resources on audio-visual archiving.

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Introduction

This guide contains selected resources for students in the UCLA Media Archive Studies MLIS specialization. Note that some publications and tools related to moving image preservation and access can be found online via organizational websites and pamphlets, rather than in academic press publications. 

This guide was created during the 2023 school year by Diana King and Arts Library Research Assistant Diana Cardenas. 

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Equipment found in a digital lab, including monitors and media playback devices.

UCLA Film & Television Archive Digital Lab

Digital Lab located at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, the home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Photo provided by UCLA FTVA. 

Film cans lined up in a film archive vault.

Film Vault at the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Vault located at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, the home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Photo provided by UCLA FTVA. 

Audio material and audio reels on a table.

Recorded sound audio materials

From the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

Photo of film scanner and a film can.

Lasergraphics Film Scanner at the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Photo taken at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, the home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Photo provided by UCLA FTVA. 

Betty Corwin, director of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, and Richard Ryan, technical assistant, reviewing a videotaping of the stage production Amadeus

Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, 1981

Betty Corwin, director of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, and assistant Richard Ryan reviewing archival videotape footage. 

From the New York Public Library Collection.

Two film reels on a synchronizer block.

Two film reels on a synchronizer block at the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Photo taken at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, the home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Photo provided by UCLA FTVA. 

Three men looking through a hugh pile of burned film cannisters and reels recovered from a fire.

Aftermath of Hollywood Theater Fire

Three men looking through film canisters recovered from a fire.  

From the Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Los Angeles Public Library 

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