We're proud to be able to care for Rod Serling's collection! It includes correspondence, scripts, speeches and articles, reports, press releases, news clippings, and unproduced writings for TV, film, radio, and theater. wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/coll…

Even more exciting: the team Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research has uncovered a seemingly lost short film and guess what—it's GAY! I discuss Jean Béranger's LAFCADIO (1948), below, ahead of its screening, w/Bresson's PICKPOCKET, this Sunday Chazen Museum of Art. cinema.wisc.edu/2025/01/24/the…

#UWMadison’s research enterprise is at the heart of the Wisconsin Idea, our commitment to innovating for the public good and doing work that makes a difference for Wisconsin and the world. news.wisc.edu/a-threat-to-re…

6pm tonight (Fri, 2/14), James Earl Jones & Diana Sands in ep. of "East Side/West Side," a restoration collab of UCLA Film & Television Archive & Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research + Jones & Diahann Carroll in CLAUDINE. 4070 Vilas, 821 University Ave. Free admission! cinema.wisc.edu/events/east-si… + cinema.wisc.edu/events/claudin…

TWILIGHT ZONE and NIGHT GALLERY creator Rod Serling donated a sizable archive to UW–Madison, including revelatory stories, speeches and letters. Click here to listen to a fascinating recording of Serling dictating a TV script in his inimitable voice: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/entering-the-t…

Samira Makhmalbaf's THE APPLE. #35mm print from Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Sun, 3/9, 2pm Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave. Free admission! cinema.wisc.edu/calendar/

On our blog, Matt St. John discusses Film Programmer/Curator Amos Vogel and our tribute to his Cinema 16 Film Society. See the collection of shorts from Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research on Sun, April 27, 2 p.m., Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave. Admission is free! cinema.wisc.edu/events/a-cinem…

Comm Arts and @WCFTR were honored to welcome Chancellor Mnookin and her family to Vilas Hall yesterday for an archival show-and-tell and tour of our film scanner, video transfer space, and film cleaner. We want to thank them for taking the time to stop by!

There are over 1,000 tapes in the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research project, Love, Links, Archives, but only six earned the title of “favorite clip” from each WCFTR team member. Watch the clips that made this team laugh, cry, and smile the most across this vast collection: go.wisc.edu/64kn2f

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