Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Enterprises, has donated $2 million US to the University of Southern California to fund an archive to preserve student films and historic documents.
The money will also create an exhibition space in the new headquarters of the university's School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles.
The archive, which already bears Hefner's name, holds more than eight decades of student films, including works by famous alumni such as George Lucas.
Hefner, 81, has already been generous toward USC's film school, donating $1.5 million in 1995 to create the Hugh M. Hefner Chair for the Study of American Film.
He also gave $100,000 in 1992 to create a course on film censorship and has contributed millions to film preservation.
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