Viewing Facilities

The Yale Film Archive has a range of self-service viewing facilities supporting group screenings as well as individual viewing. Please note that these spaces are for viewing films only: they are not for meeetings. The Archive is located on the 7th floor of Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street in New Haven. Entry to the Archive requires a Yale ID, but special arrangements can be made in advance for visiting scholars. For information on other screening venues on campus, visit the Arranging a Screening page or contact the Registrar.

Yale Film Archive Research Screening Room

Requests for room reservations are made online. You will be contacted by email if the request is approved.

Location: SML Room 710

Capacity: 22

Self-service formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VHS, and LaserDisc (all worldwide video formats)

Formats requiring special arrangements: 16mm, 3D Blu-ray. Contact Brian Meacham (203.432.2798) at least four weeks in advance for 16mm or 3D Blu-ray screenings.

This room has a large screen for projection, with adjustable masking.

Note that the screening room is not a Yale classroom, and most class screenings are not permitted, though we can sometimes accommodate class screenings under special circumstances (for instance, 3D screenings). Faculty should contact the Registrar to reserve one of the many other screening rooms on campus through them for standard class screenings, just as you would reserve a seminar room or lecture hall.

Self-Service Video Viewing Booths

Booth reservations are made online.

Location: SML Room 707

Eight one-person and two two-person viewing stations in semi-private booths are available, with headphones. All stations play DVD and Blu-ray, while the two-person stations also play VHS and LaserDisc (all worldwide video formats).

For viewing films only. In order to ensure the best possible experiences of everyone at the Film Archive, no talking is allowed.

Flatbed Film Viewing Stations

Contact Brian Meacham (203.432.2798) at least four weeks in advance to make arrangements.

Location: SML Room 708

For viewing film prints, the archive has one 35mm and one 16mm Steenbeck flatbed viewer, each with magnetic and optical sound capabilities.