Yale Film Archive

The purchase was funded by three alumni: Fred W. Beinecke, Richard E. Fuller, and Chester J. LaRoche Jr., all graduates of the University.

The screenings feature introductions by Film Archive staff as well as Yale faculty, and have also included guest filmmakers such as Lee Isaac Chung, Tamar Simon Hoffs, Warrington Hudlin, James Ivory, Frank and Caroline Mouris, Michael Roemer, Willie Ruff,[5] Ira Sachs, and Norman Weissman, as well as musical accompaniment for silent films by Donald Sosin.

In January, 2021, the Film Archive moved to a newly renovated 3,200 square foot headquarters, designed by Apicella + Bunton Architects, in Sterling Memorial Library.

In 2018, the Film Archive completed preservation of director Nicholas Doob's 1979 film "Street Music," which features performances by 19 street musicians including "Oliver "Pork Chop" Anderson," Brother Blue, Bongo Joe Coleman, Jimmy Davis, Guy Mosley, Gene Palma, and "The Automatic Human Jukebox."

The Yale Film Archive also preserved 2-inch videotapes containing a 1972 broadcast by WTIC of "What's Happening," a local news program that covered the visit to Yale by Duke Ellington and other jazz musicians including Eubie Blake, Dizzy Gillespie, Jo Jones, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Mary Lou Williams.