What do films like The Bigamist, MacBeth, Diary of a Chambermaid, Farewell To Arms have in common? Answer: All those films have been saved from extinction by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, their restorations financed by the HFPA. And now another classic will be rescued from the endangered species list:.The Film Foundation, which received a $ 350.000 donation by the HFPA, approved the complete restoration of the John Wayne film The Long Voyage Home. The assignment to bring back the original quality of the 1940 film was again given to the highly experienced specialists at the laboratory of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. In a personal letter to HFPA President Theo Kingma, Jan-Christopher Horak, the Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive thanked the HFPA for continued support of UCLA’s film preservation efforts. “Indeed, Hollywood Foreign Press funding has been crucial to our work as the second largest film archive in the United States”. For the past two decades the preservation of classic films has been on top of the HFPA’s charity agenda. The organisation of film and TV journalists tries to do its part in stemming a tide which can only be described as a cultural disaster. Films are a fragile medium. Fifty percent of all films produced in the United States prior to 1950 have disappeared. Ninety percent of classic film prints in the United States are currently in very poor condition. Similarly, much of historic television now exists only on obsolete and deteriorating tape formats. The website of the UCLA Film & TV Archive explains the reason for this emergency: Until 1950, films were produced using nitrate cellulose film stock, a chemically unstable and flammable material that eventually deteriorates and turns to dust. After 1950, more stable acetate (or safety) film stock was used, but it also deteriorates, giving rise to "vinegar syndrome" or irreversible color fading. The Archive is increasingly relying on polyester film stock and digital means to preserve image and sound quality. In his letter Jan Christopher Horak lists films UCLA restored using funds donated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, adding, “We look forward to continuing a long and fruitful relationship with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association”: The Bigamist (1953, Ida Lupino) Shock Corridor (1963, Samuel Fuller)” Seven Men From Now (1956, Budd Boetticher) Shadows (1959, John Cassavettes) Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick) A Farewell to Arms (1932, Frank Borzage) Diary of a Chamber Maid (1946, Jean Renoir) Of Mice and Men (1939, Lewis Milestone) MacBeth (1948, Orson Welles) Faces (1968, John Cassavettes) Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Robert Altman) That Cold Day in the Park (1969, Robert Altman)