Lonesome Dove Production Records
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
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).
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- CBS Inc
- Duvall, Robert, 1931-
- Forrest, Frederic
- Glover, Danny, 1946-
- Jones, Tommy Lee, 1946-
- Lane, Diane
- Lonesome Dove (Television program : 1989)
- Lovell, Dyson
- McMurtry, Larry -- Television adaptations
- McMurtry, Larry (Lonesome Dove)
- Motown Productions
- Photographs -- United States -- 20th Century
- Storyboards -- United States -- 20th Century
- Television producers and directors -- United States
- Television producers and directors -- United States -- 20th Century
- Television programs -- United States
- Television scripts -- United States -- 20th Century
- West (U.S.) -- In popular culture
- Western television programs
- 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
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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