Film

Scope and Contents The Kenneth Atchity Collection is a set of personal papers of Kenneth J. Atchity comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, scrapbooks, video tapes, printed ephemera and related material, comprising 42 linear feet of material arranged in 29 boxes. The collection is arranged in eight series: the Individuals Correspondence Series, the Scripts and Manuscripts Series, the Academic Series, the Business Files Series, the Printed Materials Series, the Video Series, the Scrapbook...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials related to Alfred Hitchcock that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes the following:One letter written by Alfred Hitchcock to his assistant director, Herbert Coleman (1955). One letter written by Francois Truffaut to Alfred Hitchcock (circa 1966).Six letters from Patricia Hitchcock to Peter Halliday regarding "Strangers on a Train" and other matters, 1950-1956, 1983.Eight photographs, including three...

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The collection contains typed manuscripts and galley proofs for novels and screenplays by William P. Blatty. It also contains research materials related to the Exorcist, including letters from Father William S. Bowdern (1968-1975).

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The Homer Vaughan Hervey Collection consists of vintage movie posters and film stills from famous Hollywood movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Also included in the collection are film stills and movie posters from a few English, French, and Italian films from the same era, as well as from a few American films of the 1930s through early 1960s. The collection is stored in two boxes of film stills and one oversize box of movie posters.

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The Panama Hattie Collection contains a screenplay for the film "Panama Hattie" and a typescript of the play by that same name. The music and lyrics to Panama Hattie were authored by Cole Porter; the book was authored by Herbert Fields and B.G. De Sylva.

Dated July 10, 1941, the screenplay was actor Dan Dailey's personal copy. The screenplay is 117 pages long. Deriving from State Fair Musicals in 1954, the typescript includes several pencil sketches among the pages.

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of photographs that were used in Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). It is primarily an assemblage of publicity photographs that feature individuals associated with the motion picture industry: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are also represented among the...

Scope and Contents The collection contains materials pertaining to the various periodicals of Quigley Publications, Inc., including correspondence, subject files, some photographs and the extensive photographic morgue of the Motion Picture Daily, as well as index cardfiles created for the Motion Picture Daily, Motion Picture Herald, and others.Boxes 1 - 2, Motion Picture Daily index cardfilesBoxes 3 - 25, Motion Picture Herald Product Digest index cardfiles (Reviews, Features &...

Scope and Contents The collection contains notes, documents, videos, audio recordings, digitized interviews, photographs of the research and reporting of Susan and Joseph Trento for the following books: The Power House (1992), Widows (1989), The Secret History of the CIA (2001), Prelude to Terror (2005), Unsafe at Any Altitude (2006), and America and the Islamic Bomb (2007).It includes notes, draft proposals, movie treatments, screenplays, and underlying story materials from the unpublished project...

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This collection contains typed manuscripts of works by author Graham Greene, as well as photographic stills of films and plays written by Greene. Also included is correspondence between Greene and bookseller David Low and related material for the published book of this correspondence titled "Dear David, Dear Graham." Topics discussed in the correspondence include rare books, Low's memoir, and Greene's travels.