{"id":12943,"date":"2025-10-06T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&p=12943"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:10:18","slug":"a-global-hub-for-hollywood-history","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/a-global-hub-for-hollywood-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A global hub for Hollywood history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research preserves priceless materials from the entertainment industry<\/h2>\n
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If you dream of reading the original screenplay that kicked off the \u201cJurassic Park\u201d film franchise \u2014 leading to this summer\u2019s blockbuster \u201cJurassic World Rebirth\u201d 32 years later \u2014 look no further than Box 1, Folder 15, of the David Koepp Papers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That precious bit of movie history is safeguarded by UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR). Koepp, a Wisconsin native who attended UW in the early \u201980s, entrusted it to the center along with many of his other early drafts and final scripts, including \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d (1996), \u201cPanic Room\u201d (2002), and \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d (2005), to name a few.<\/p>\n

One of the top archives of its kind in the world, the WCFTR has for 65 years been preserving \u2014 and sharing \u2014 resources from the film, theater and broadcasting industries. Although it\u2019s located on the UW\u2013Madison campus, some 2,000 miles from Hollywood, the center\u2019s rich collection draws scholars, researchers and movie buffs from across the U.S. and around the globe.<\/p>\n

And a rapidly growing digital presence means that many of the jewels in this fascinating collection can be accessed from anywhere, for free, 24\/7. Through the center\u2019s\u00a0Media History Digital Library<\/a>, online visitors can view millions of pages of historical books and magazines focused on film, broadcasting and recorded sound.<\/p>\n

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Written by Gayle Worland | \u200bPhotos by Althea Dotzour<\/p>\n

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