100 YEARS OF MGM HISTORY- CELEBRATING THE UCLA HEARST NEWSREEL COLLECTION

Containing over 27 million feet of distributed newsreels, unreleased stories and outtakes, the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Hearst Metrotone News Collection is one of the largest newsreel collections in the world. Distributed by MGM from the late 1920s through the late 1960s, the newsreels often covered events that promoted the studio’s stars and celebrated the release of their major films. In 2016, the Archive and The Packard Humanities Institute embarked on a joint project to make the Hearst newsreel collection more easily accessible to the public.  Please join the UCLA and The Packard Humanities Institute for a celebration of rarely seen classic Tinseltown celebrity moments, as well as some of the other unique subjects of this historic moving image format. 

In attendance: Todd Wiener – Motion Picture Curator, UCLA FTVA, Jeffrey Bickel – Senior Newsreel Preservationist, UCLA FTVA, Patrick Loughney – Director, Packard Humanities Institute