ABSTRACT
The KTLA Newsfilm Collection held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Film & Television Archive represents a significant resource for researchers interested in Los Angeles news coverage and local coverage of national events from the late 1960s through 1981. Further complicating access, the KTLA collection, which was gifted with copyright to the University of California in 1991, arrived at UCLA with little to no documentation as to the contents of the film reels. As a result of these physical and intellectual barriers, despite consistent academic and commercial interest, significant segments of the collection remain under described and thus largely undiscovered by scholars and filmmakers. As received by UCLA from KTLA, the majority of the footage contained minimal descriptive metadata on the leader of each roll of film, indicating, often cryptically, the film's general subject in a few words and the airdate and/or shoot date.
