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The HFA Collections Blog
Learn more about the HFA by visiting the Collections Blog, written by the Harvard Film Archive conservation team.

HFA Collections

• The Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications Collection
  16mm films, primarily shorts, dating from 1905 through the 1980s, from the collection created by Amos Vogel while at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.
• The Andrew Bujalski Collection
  Projection prints and production elements for Harvard graduate Andrew Bujalski’s Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation and his student films.
• The Animation Collection
  Short and feature-length animated films from VES professors and former students, Hollywood studios, Eastern European animators and experimental and abstract animators.
• B. F. Skinner Collection
  Fifteen 16mm films in total, including films documenting his experiments as well as several educational documentaries (including outtakes) about his work.
• The Bill Dana Collection
  Material includes 35mm pre-print film elements and 35mm projection prints for the entire run of comedian, writer, director and composer Bill Dana's television program The Bill Dana Show.
  
• The Derek Lamb Collection
  35mm and 16mm prints, production elements and audio recordings from former Harvard professor Derek Lamb’s career as an animator.
• The Dick Fontaine Collection
  Various materials, including film prints, research copies and papers, related to the films produced by documentary filmmaker Dick Fontaine from the mid-1960s through the 1990s.
• The Documentary Educational Resources Collection
  Nearly 200 16mm prints of ethnographic films originally used in classrooms.
  
• Experimental Film in the HFA Collection
  Over 200 experimental films, encompassing the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s, animation, collage, documentary and films from legendary figures Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Bruce Conner, among many others.
  
• The FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Collection
  35mm films and videos produced in Germany between 1975 and 2007, as well as publicity materials, books and magazines.
• The Fort Devens Collection
  Propaganda films from the Fort Devens Historical Museum in Groton, MA, located on the site of the former U.S. Army base. The collection contains material largely from World War II and the Vietnam War.
• The George Kuchar Collection
  Over thirty of underground legend George Kuchar’s works, dating from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, many of which were made in conjunction with his students at the San Francisco Art Institute, where George has taught for over 35 years.
• The Grove Press Film Collection
  35mm and 16mm projection prints, original elements and trailers dating from the 1910s to the 1970s from the Grove Press Film Division.
• The Helen Hill Collection
  New 16mm prints of ten of experimental animator Helen Hill's films, preserved by the Harvard Film Archive and Colorlab, as well as shorts, animation, home movies and Hill's papers.
• The Howard E. Burr Collection
  Over 2,500 films, mostly 16mm American shorts and features, as well as movie posters and lobby cards, movie magazines and paper ephemera.
• The Hollis Frampton Collection
  Frampton’s photographic and xerographic images, papers that include letters written to Frampton and material corresponding to exhibitions of his work, videotapes with footage of and about Frampton and over one hundred audio recordings.
• Home Movies
  Over 200 reels of home movies, the vast majority of which come from two collections: the Carry Wagner Collection and the Max Tennis Collection.
  
• The James E. Hinton Collection
  The films of photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker James E. Hinton, whose work influenced the evolution of African-American film.
  
• The Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection
  Approximately 800,000 film stills, pressbooks, posters, and other ephemera, mainly publicity and production stills from the classical studio era of the 1930s-1960s.
  
• The Michael Blackwood Collection
  Original masters, video masters, and 16mm prints of Blackwood's films chronicling the history of late 20th century art.
  
• The Norman Mailer Collection
  Sound and picture elements from Norman Mailer’s three underground films of the 1960s (Wild 90, Beyond the Law and Maidstone) and digital video of Mailer's significant television appearances.
  
• The Richard P. Rogers Film Collection
  The films and outtakes of documentarian Richard P. Rogers, former Harvard professor and Harvard Film Study Center director.
  
• The Robert Gardner Collection
  The films of Robert Gardner, ethnographic filmmaker, co-founder of the Harvard Film Archive and founder of the Harvard Film Study Center.
• The Somerville High School Collection
  16mm educational films used in classrooms between the 1940s and the 1980s, covering a variety of subjects including art, math, music, science, health and social studies.
• TECO Collection
  115 titles from Taiwan and Hong Kong from the years 1979-1994.
  
• The Television Collection
  Nearly 500 copies of vintage television programs, including 16mm Kinescopes and various video formats dating from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s.
• Trailers
  Over 2,000 movie trailers, mainly 35mm, from the last 75 years.
  

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