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Jan-Christopher Horak to Head UCLA Film and Television Archive



Jan-Christopher HorakOn December 1, Jan-Christopher Horak will become the new Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Horak's career as a film archivist and curator has included the role of Senior Curator of the Film Department of the George Eastman House and Director of the Munich Filmmuseum. In 1998, he became Founding Director of Archives & Collections at Universal Studios, and then moved to the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, where he was Curator until 2006.

Horak was also involved in the restoration of Maurice Tourneur's 1920 Western The Last of the Mohicans and G. W. Pabst's 1925 drama Die Freudlose Gasse / Street of Sorrows, which provided Greta Garbo with her first major role.

Among Horak's film books are Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema (1997) and The Dream Merchants: Making and Selling Films in Hollywood's Golden Age (1989). As per the UCLA release, he has also published more than 200 articles and reviews in a variety of languages.

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1 Comment to Jan-Christopher Horak to Head UCLA Film and Television Archive

  1. Richard
    February 1, 2009 | Permalink

    Hooray for the UCLA Film & Television Archives. The work they do is incredible.

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