The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is one of the world’s major archives of research materials relating to the entertainment industry. It maintains over three hundred collections from outstanding playwrights, television and motion picture writers, producers, actors, designers, directors, and production companies. Materials preserved include: historical records and personal papers, twenty thousand motion pictures, television shows, and videotapes; two million still photographs and promotional graphics; and several thousand sound recordings. It is richest in records of the American film industry between 1930 and 1960, American popular theater in the 1940s and 1950s, and American television from the 1940s to the 1970s. The WCFTR’s film collection encompasses a wide variety of American and international cinema. Highlights include 2,000 16mm reference prints of feature films from Warner Brothers, RKO and Monogram Pictures – almost every feature released by these studios between 1931 and 1949; 1500 Vitaphone short subjects and 300 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1926 to 1949. The Feature Film Database gives information on the features films (title, country of production, production company, director and year), and ArCat is the database of materials in all the archival collections searchable by author, title, subject and keyword. All materials are viewed onsite.