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Motion picture authorship

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Former term: Film & Television Writing and Directing

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

20th Century Fox Film Scripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0302
Abstract

American film producing and distributing corporation. Materials include motion picture screenplays (both American and foreign) and television scripts. The screenplays range from various dra s to dialogue and cutting continuity scripts. Correspondence and general business agreements.

Dates: 1929-1971

Albert J. Cohen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0126
Abstract

American motion picture and television script writer and producer. Program scripts, department materials, memos, clippings, notes, correspondence, production budgets, and miscellaneous photographs.

Dates: 1948-1961; Majority of material found within 1951-1955

Albert Zugsmith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0196
Abstract

American motion picture producer, director and writer. Ten script items ranging from shooting schedules to screenplays.

Dates: 1943-1964

American Broadcasting Company Transcripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0368
Scope and Contents

Transcripts of the ABC Evening News 1970-1973 (typewritten).

Dates: 1970-1973

Arthur A. Ross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0127
Abstract

Motion picture and television script writer. Slides, watercolor paintings, scripts, screenplays, short stories and novels by Ross; photographs, three recordings.

Dates: 1942-1965; Majority of material found within 1950-1965

Barry Kemp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0495
Abstract

Television writer, producer. Consists of two series, scripts and video cassettes.

Dates: 1982-1997

Celeste Hotaling-Lyons Fanzine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0400
Abstract

Fan writer and editor. A collection of science fiction fanzines, primarily consisting of pieces of fan fiction, and a few related items, including some science fiction convention materials. Collection of fanzines, encompassing a number of different fandoms, assembled by fan writer and editor Hotaling-Lyons.

Dates: 1974-2005

Charles O'Neal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0360
Abstract

American television and motion picture screenwriter and novelist. Father of actor Ryan O'Neal. Screenplays, teleplays, typescripts, correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1982; Majority of material found within 1950-1969

David Morrell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0478
Abstract

Born in Ontario 1943, awarded a PhD in American literature by Pennsylvania State University in 1970, taught at Iowa from 1970 to 1986, retired to write. Perhaps best known for Rambo, the central character of his 1972 novel First Blood, which lead to the Rambo films starring Sylvester Stallone, Morrell has written numerous novels as well as screen- and teleplays. The growing collection of his papers includes video and audio tapes as well as research notes, correspondence, and manuscripts.

Dates: 1974-1999

David Swift Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0125
Abstract

Television and motion picture writer, director and producer. Television and motion picture scripts, screenplays, publicity, reviews, notes and memos, set designs, and costume sketches.

Dates: 1951-1965

Debbie Hoover Fanzine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0430
Abstract

Oregon-based fan and collector of fanzines. Collection of fanzines - mostly fan fiction -, mainly from Star Trek but also for other SF and genre media properties.

Dates: 1967-2007

Don Farran Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0600
Abstract

Writer, State Director Historical Records Survey. Collection includes drafts of poems and stories but consists largely of scripts for Navy and Coast Guard training films dating from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.

Dates: 1930-1978

Editorial Comments of Iowa Television Stations Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0158
Abstract

Typed editorial comments gathered for years from prominent TV stations from throughout Iowa.

Dates: 1965-1985

Elbert Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0042
Abstract

Legal papers, diplomas, certificates of appointments, scrapbook, 2 issues of Keosauqua, Iowa, newspapers (1852-58), and other papers.

Dates: 1828-1895; Majority of material found within 1850-1869

Federal Theatre Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0314
Abstract

Complete working scripts of 19 produced and 5 unproduced plays. Includes Eugene O'Neill (One-Act Plays of the Sea) and George Bernard Shaw (On the Rocks).

Dates: 1936-1939

Gene Wilder Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0526
Abstract

Actor, film star, writer, director and producer, University of Iowa alumnus (1955). The Wilder papers include scripts and drafts of scripts, contracts and related papers, and a group of photographs.

Dates: 1961-2000; Majority of material found within 1970-1979

Howard Richardson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0301
Abstract

Dramatist. Subject files relating to his career and personal life, including dra s, photographs, set designs, etc. Much of the collection relates to his best known play, Dark of the Moon..

Dates: 1923-1987

John Leggett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0503
Abstract

Manuscripts and correspondence of the editor, writer, and director of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, 1969-1987. Papers include research files and drafts for Ross [Lockridge] and Tom [Heggen]: Two American Tragedies (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), including three hundred Ross Lockridge letters and 40 interviews; copies of newspaper articles and book reviews; 446 letters by and about Tom Heggen, 95 interviews, copies of stories and articles written by Heggen; copies of newspaper and magazine articles written about Heggen and Mr. Roberts; official reports concerning Heggen's death; and general research and miscellaneous Items. This collection also includes materials for A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan (New York: Knopf, 2002), and other books and stories.

Dates: 1933-1987; Majority of material found within 1970-1979

Keith/Albee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0356
Abstract

Vaudeville, theater, and movie business. Clipping books, managers' report books, scrapbooks, business records, cash books, etc.

Dates: 1890-1952

Laura Leach Collection of Man From U.N.C.L.E. Fanzines

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0910
Abstract

Collection of fanzines (primarily fan fiction) and other materials, including episode scripts, devoted to the 1960s cult television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Dates: 1964-2006