During the spring 2016 semester, the WCFTR began to host a digital collection of films on the Internet Archive—a nonprofit dedicated to creating an Internet library and providing long-term access to historical collections in digital …
WCFTR Is Hosting the Northwoods Tour this July!
WCFTR is proud to be hosting the Northwoods Tour this July in the beautiful northwoods of Wisconsin! A trio of archivists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison return to their roots to present ways to preserve …
National Film Preservation Foundation Gives Grant To Preserve “The Inheritance” (1964)
The staff of the WCFTR is delighted to announce that the Center has received a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve The Inheritance (1964). The Inheritance is a documentary film sponsored …
WCFTR Receives GRAMMY Foundation Grant
The WCFTR is pleased to announce it has received a grant from the GRAMMY Foundation® to help fund a project to digitize tape and disc recordings of performances or excerpts of many of Marc Blitzstein’s …
Home Movie Day
The WCFTR hosted the first ever Home Movie Day event in Brookfield, WI at the Brookfield Public Library on Saturday, April 2, 2016. WCFTR staff and student volunteers from the UW’s School of Library and …
New Collections Overview Page
New on our website, we now offer a complete listing of our collections to provide an overview of our holdings and allow for browsing and sorting within supplied collections categories. To browse our 270+ collections, please visit …
New Exhibit Highlights the Dalton Trumbo Papers
The new movie Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, John Goodman, and Helen Mirren, chronicles the life of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo from 1947 to 1970. Trumbo refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee …
WCFTR Partners with UW Department of African Languages & Literature
The WCFTR is partnering with faculty and students from the UW-Madison’s Department of African Languages and Literature to assist with the translation and cataloging of several Arabic films from the Madison Public Library collection. During …
Jarchow Exhibits Return!
In 2007, UW alumnus Stephen Jarchow made possible through a very generous 2007 gift the creation of twelve expertly researched and curated online exhibits based on the Center’s collections. Under the supervision of then WCFTR …
Additions to the Nietzchka Keene Papers Arrive
In 2005, a collection of manuscripts, film, videorecordings, photographs, and tape recordings arrived at the WCFTR documenting the filmmaking career of Nietzchka Keene. Keene, an independent filmmaker born in Boston and trained at UMass-Amherst and …