Hart Wegner look at a model plane

Howard Hughes Collection an Invaluable Lens Into Film History

The film department's holdings from the reclusive filmmaker and industrialist offer insights into an original Academy Award nominee for Best Picture.

Film department professor emeritus Hart Wegner was instrumental in getting the Howard Hughes collection brought to UNLV, which includes models used in Hughes' 1930 picture Hell's Angels. (R. Marsh Starks/UNLV Photo Services)

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