UCLA FESTIVAL of PRESERVATION
UCLA FESTIVAL of PRESERVATION 2019 FROM THE DIRECTOR This year for the first time, we decided to organize our UCLA Festival of Preservation We begin Friday morning with a delightful early 1930s musical comedy, My Lips as a weekend event, instead of one spread out over a whole month, as in previous Betray (John G. Blystone, 1933), starring Germany’s most popular actress, Lilian iterations. We believe this will give the biennial event more of a festival character, but of Harvey, who was one of the few non-Jewish German actors to turn her back on course this is a grand experiment. We welcome your feedback on the new format. the Third Reich and immigrate to America. Harvey plays a commoner in a mythical As a result of this format change, our festival is slightly smaller than in past years, European kingdom who is in love with a prince; an old story, but Harvey is absolutely but still representative of the broad and deep efforts of UCLA Film & Television charming. Another comedy highlight will be Sunday's Laurel and Hardy program, Archive to preserve and restore our moving image heritage. We have tried to put featuring Perfect Day (1929), the restoration of which was funded by our incredibly together a mix of main stream classic Hollywood, independent features, successful UCLA Spark crowdfunding campaign last year. documentaries, and television work, reflecting the Archive’s many stellar collections of film and video material. Continuing our efforts, begun in 2017 to preserve classic Spanish-language films for our retrospective “Recuerdos de un cine en español: Latin American Cinema We officially open the UCLA Festival of Preservation 2019 on Friday evening in Los Angeles, 1930-1960,” we have finally finished the restoration of Enamorada with Frank Borzage’s The Mortal Storm (1940), one of the few Hollywood anti- (Emilio Fernández, 1946), a version of The Taming of the Shrew that may be the Nazi melodramas made before America’s entrance into World War II.
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