Hearst Metrotone Newsreel Collection (Safety Portion)

FAIN: PT-50073-07

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Robert E. Stone (Project Director: May 2006 to November 2008)
Edward Richmond (Project Director: November 2008 to September 2009)

Rehousing some 27 million feet of newsreel film (5,000 hours) dating from 1915 to the 1970s in a climate-controlled storage facility. The collection focuses on aviation and the space age, science and medicine, and sports. The project would focus on film produced after 1950.