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Motion pictures -- Production and direction

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Marc Allegrét papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 651
Overview: The Marc Allégret Papers document Allégret 's career as a filmmaker and his association with author André Gide. Allegrét's working files include screenplays, shooting scripts, correspondence, background and research materials, production notes and documents, cut film, photographs, and printed ephemera. There are screenplays or shooting scripts for over a dozen feature-length films and larger, mixed files for the documentaries Voyage au Congo (1927), Occultisme et magie (1951), and Avec...
Dates: 1900-1972, bulk 1920-1956

Anne Heywood and Raymond Stross Film Collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1613
Overview: The collection contains materials documenting the professional activities of British actress Anne Heywood and British film producer Raymond Stross.
Dates: 1959-1971

Boris Kaufman papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 562
Overview: The Boris Kaufman Papers contain professional papers, correspondence, writings, and other material documenting the life and work of cinematographer Boris Kaufman, as well as film production and cinematographic practice in France and the United States during the middle decades of the 20th century.
Dates: 1836-2004

Set design drawings for the film Mourning Becomes Electra.

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 798
Overview: The collection includes 34 charcoal set design sketches by Albert M. Pyke of scenes from the film Mourning Becomes Electra, produced and directed by Dudley Nichols. The drawings, dating from circa 1947, are on mountings measuring 35 3/4" x 29 3/4" and smaller. Each drawing has a title label which reads: "Dudley Nichols Production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra [title of drawing] William E. Flannery, Art Director."
Dates: circa 1947

Western film collection

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2730
Overview: The Western Film Collection consists of press kits, pressbooks, posters, photographs, souvenir programs and other materials that were distributed by film producers to movie theater operators to promote their films. The Western films represented in this collection are Western genre films, films set in the trans-Mississippi West, and/or films with Western characters. Press kits typically include advertisements prepared for submission to newspapers and magazines; black-and-white photographs of...
Dates: 1911-2006