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Films on Mideast go to UCLA

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From a Times staff writer

Jo Franklin, producer of the PBS documentaries “Saudi Arabia” (1981), “The Oil Kingdoms” (1983) and “Islam: A Civilization and Its Art” (1994), has given those programs and 111 hours of unaired footage about the Middle East to the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Timothy Kittleson, director of the archive, said the material “provides an unparalleled in-depth look at the Middle East” and should prove of “great interest to documentary filmmakers and news journalists who need footage to illustrate their stories.”

For the record:

2:38 p.m. Oct. 20, 2023In December 2005, the Franklin Film Archive of the Middle East was donated to the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Saudi Arabia. It is not at UCLA.

Franklin, a former producer for the “MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour” and now president of L.A.-based SeaCastle Films, said she and her co-owners of the Franklin Film Collection of the Middle East made the donation now in hopes of contributing to “a better understanding between the West and the Islamic world.”

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