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The California Prison Litigation Compliance Collection focuses on preparation for trials against the California Department of Corrections and subsequent work towards institutional compliance with court orders. These materials were gathered by Dr. Anthony C. Newland, retired Warden of Solano State Prison, and former Chief of the Court Management Services Branch during his forty-five-year career with the California Department of Corrections. Major topics of the collection include litigation around conditions of confinement, such as overcrowding, facility safety and cleanliness, and access to legal resources; physical and mental health care; and disability accommodation. The collection also includes Dr. Newland's teaching and research materials, files related to his consulting work, and historically significant materials related to the California Department of Corrections during the 1970s. Formats include born-digital documents such as PDFs, emails, text documents, videos, and audio recordings.

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This collection consists of approximately 825 individual film titles primarily of independent and experimental shorts of such film artists as Arthur Lipsett, Rautis, Norman McLaren, Peter Foldes, Alan Septoff, David Perry, Kathy Strickland, Pat Sullivan, Paul Dopff, Baur, Dick Corben, Rene Jodoin, Patricia Marx, Charles Fischer, Scott Bartlett, Robert Swarthe and John Mayer, Dave Fleischer, James W. Horne, Frank Olvey and Robert Brown, Norman Gollin, Bill Norton and Steve Rosen, Venezia, Leonard Henny, Rick Friedberg, Mary Ellen Bute, James Glover, Ben Van Meter, Russell Kingston, Kevin Rafferty, Bruce Green, Peter Spoecker, Robert Swarthe and John Mayer, Len Lye, Paulmichel Mielche, Howard Lester, Walerian Borowczyk, Rob Thompson, Stuart Kusher, David Brain, Chuck Menville and Len Janson, Larry Secrist, Christopher McCulloch, Dick Harber, Ryan Larkin, Leonard Lipton, Paul von Shreiber, Robert Green, Bud Fisher, Jerry Fairbanks, Paul Golding, Tom Desimone, and Libby. The collection also includes the following full length features: Animal crackers (1930), Citizen Kane (1941), Hell's angels (1930), Killing of a Chinese bookie (1976), Nosferatu (1921), Opening night (1977), Phantom of the Opera (1925), Reefer madness (1936), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), The lady from Shanghai (1947), The navigator (1924), The passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Woman under the influence (1974). The bulk of the collection consists of 16 mm. safety prints with a small number of 35 mm. safety prints.

The personal papers of Elmo, created during the time Elmo was a Muppet character on the children's television show Sesame Street.

This representative sampling of Indian films originally released in theaters between 1957 and 2007 were distributed on DVD by Eros International. Titles include Mother India (1957), Mughal-e-Azam (1960), Sholay (1975), Mr. Natwarlal (1979), Qurbani (1980), Bombay (1995), Shakti the power (2002), Munna bhai M.B.B.S. (2003) and the popular Bollywood film, Om shanti om (2007). Directors represented include Ramesh Sippy (1947-), Rajiv Rai (1955-), Rajkumar Santoshi, and Farah Khan (1965-). Actors represented include Guru Dutt (1925-1964), Amitabh Bachchan (1942-) and Shahrukh Khan (1965-). All the films are in color, with the exception of two black and white films Chaudhvin ka chand (1960) and Sahib, bibi aur ghulam (1962). The classic black and white epic film Mughal-e-Azam is a 2004 colorized version.

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This collection features home movies of parties for Gene Kelly's children, Christmas gatherings, Kelly fishing, Kelly in Dakar, Accra, Paris, Abidjan, Ghana, Kelly in Monte Carlo with Yul Brynner and Prince Rainer, and Kelly getting his footprints in cement at the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater as part of the promotion for the film he directed, Hello, Dolly! (1969). Dance sequences are clips from Kelly's feature films: Summer stock (1950), Words and music (1948), Living in a big way (1947), An American in Paris (1951), Thousands cheer (1943), The pirate (1948), It's always fair weather (1955), Brigadoon (1954), and Singin' in the rain (1952). Also featured is an excerpt from a kinescope of the 34th annual Academy Awards where Kelly is presented with a special award during a segment saluting choreographer Jerome Robbins, 16 mm. copies of the feature films, For me and my gal (1942) and Living in a big way (1947), and behind the scenes amateur footage shot during the production of The Three Musketeers (1948). A short film labeled Clown around shows various shots of circus clowns and brief glimpses of their acts. All films are 16 mm., except two 35 mm. reels of dance excerpts, two reels of home movies on Super 8, and four 3/4 in. videocassettes of home movies transferred by the Kelly estate.

This collection of reference videocassettes and DVDs documents GLAAD's designation of positive and defamatory media potrayals of trans and intersex people. The collection consists predominantly of television entertainment programming such as the 2003 COURT TV coverage of the Michael Kantares trial (a female-to-male transexual seeking custody of his children), 2002 media coverage of the killing of transgendered teen Gwen Araujo, and portrayals of transgender and intersex people in made-for-TV movies, documentaries, and television series such as The Sopranos (1999-2007), Ally McBeal (1997-2002), Friends (1994-2004), Nip/tuck (2003-), The Oprah Winfrey show (1986-), Dr. Phil (2002-), Entourage (2004-) and Ugly Betty (2006-). The collection consists of 1/2 in. VHS videocassettes, 1/2 in. Betacam SP videocassettes and DVDs that all contain sound and color.

Papers of Shifra M. Goldman, a former professor of Art History at Santa Ana College and Latin American Art and Social historian.

This collection of home movies primarily documents the early years of the Lloyd children and life at the family's Irving Street home located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hancock Park (where the family lived until 1929), and Greenacres estate in Beverly Hills, California. It features children's parties, birthday celebrations, family gatherings, Halloween parties, picnics, barbecues, beach vacations at their get-away home in Santa Monica, and footage of Lloyd's annual invitational pro golf tournament played on the nine-hole course at his Beverly Hills estate. Also included is amateur footage of Lloyd and his volunteer activities at the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children. All of the footage was originally shot on 35 mm. black and white nitrate film, with the exception of a compilation of footage not on deposit at the UCLA Film Television Archive that was transferred to Betacam SP videocassette that features Lloyd's 1971 funeral and Betacam SP reproductions of the Shriners Hospitals footage originally shot on black and white 16 mm. safety film.