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Lonesome Dove Production Records

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3107

Scope and Contents

Production records for the 1989 Lonesome Dove television miniseries, produced by Dyson Lovell of Motown Productions for CBS Inc. and starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, and Frederic Forrest. The records include financial and budgetary files, as well as files on the cast and crew, including headshots of prospective cast members and information on prospective directors, editors, composers, and photographers. The records also include shooting schedules, call sheets, storyboards, scripts, and production reports, as well as Dyson Lovell's production files. Post production files are also included.

Dates

  • 1987 - 1988

Language of Materials

In English.

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Lonesome Dove Production Records is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Royal Books on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2015.

Arrangement

Organized into five series: I. Financial, 1987-1988. II. Cast and Crew, 1987-1988. III. Set, 1987-1988. IV. Dyson Lovell, 1988. V. Post Production, 1988.

Extent

3.55 Linear Feet (10 boxes)

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.lonesomedove

Abstract

Production records for the 1989 Lonesome Dove television miniseries, based on Larry McMurtry's book Lonesome Dove, produced by Dyson Lovell of Motown Productions for CBS Inc., and starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, and Frederic Forrest. The records include financial and budgetary files, as well as files on the cast and crew, including headshots of prospective cast members and information on prospective directors, editors, composers, and photographers. The records also include shooting schedules, call sheets, storyboards, scripts, and production reports, as well as Dyson Lovell's production files. Post production files are also included.

Biographical / Historical

Lonesome Dove, television miniseries, broadcast on CBS in 1989; adaptation of the novel by Larry McMurtry (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985).

Processing Information

Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.

Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.

This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.

Title
Guide to the Lonesome Dove Production Records
Author
by Alison Clemens
Date
May 2016
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository

Contact:
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(203) 432-2977

Location

121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511

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Access Information

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