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Hammond Film Script Collection, ca. 1935-1996

Title: Hammond Film Script Collection ca. 1935-1996

Robert Hammond (1920-2009) was a dedicated educator and author in French literature and cinema. He taught at the University of Arizona-Tuscon, Harvard University, and at SUNY-Cortland, where he also served as chair of the International Communications and Culture Department. Hammond published numerous analyses and critiques of French filmography, translated various texts, and contributed countless papers and general scholarship on the French cinema. The Hammond Film Script Collection represents his personal collection of shooting scripts of feature films, the vast majority of which are French (along with assorted English, Spanish and Italian language scripts) spanning the years 1935 - 1996. Accretions to the collection include over 60 scripts from the collection of Marc Maurette, a French filmmaker (and friend of Dr. Hammond) who was assistant director on many of the films included in his gift. As of March 2003, the Hammond Film Script Collection consists of 454 scripts.

ArchivalResource: 35.0 Linear feet; (80 boxes)

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Un chien andalou / Luis Buñuel, réal., mise en scène, scénario ; Salvador Dali, scénario ; Richard Wagner, comp. ; Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dali... [et al.], act.

Title: Un chien andalou / Luis Buñuel, réal., mise en scène, scénario ; Salvador Dali, scénario ; Richard Wagner, comp. ; Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dali... [et al.], act.

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Belle de jour / un film de Luis Buñuel ; adaptation et dialogue Luis Buñuel et Jean-Claude Carrière ; Joseph Kessel, auteur adapté ; avec Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli... [et al.].

Title: Belle de jour / un film de Luis Buñuel ; adaptation et dialogue Luis Buñuel et Jean-Claude Carrière ; Joseph Kessel, auteur adapté ; avec Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli... [et al.].

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Los Olvidados [Multimédia multisupport] ; Esto no es una carcel.

Title: Los Olvidados [Multimédia multisupport] ; Esto no es una carcel.

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. [Luis Buñuel] : artist file

Title: [Luis Buñuel] : artist file 1900-

Assembled file includes clippings, photographs, reproductions from books and auction catalogs, postcards, press releases, slides, resumes, reviews, exhibition ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Jay and Si-Lan Chen Leyda Papers and Photographs, Bulk, 1930-1980, 1913-1987, bulk 1930-1980

Title: Jay and Si-Lan Chen Leyda Papers and Photographs Bulk, 1930-1980 1913-1987, bulk 1930-1980

Jay Leyda (1910-1988) was a leading film historian, filmmaker, photographer, archivist, translator, teacher, and noted Sergei Eisenstein, Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville scholar. Leyda studied directing with Sergei Eisenstein at the Moscow State Film School, became a correspondent for and , and was an art critic for the . In 1936, Leyda was Assistant Curator of Films the Museum of Modern Art, but resigned amidst allegations that he was a subversive agent. Leyda went to Hollywood in 1942 where he was a technical advisor on films on Russian subjects and began work on Herman Melville documents which led to a number of books on the subject. In 1973, Leyda became professor of Cinema Studies at NYU. He died in 1988. His wife, Si Lan Chen Leyda (1909- ), was a modern dancer who pioneered the use of Chinese dance elements. Si-Lan Chen was born in Trinidad and attended the Bolshoi Ballet School and Vera Maya's school in Moscow where she met and married Leyda. Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, she toured and worked in Hollywood as a choreographer and dance instructor, and occasionally appeared in films. The collection includes their biographical material, correspondence, writings, and material pertaining to their various pursuits. Theatre Arts Monthly New Theatre Moscow News

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear feet; in 33 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize flat box, and 2 folders

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Los Olvidados [Multimédia multisupport] ; Esto no es una carcel.

Title: Los Olvidados [Multimédia multisupport] ; Esto no es una carcel.

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Film stills collection, [ca. 1920-1970], [ca. 1960-1970] (bulk).

Title: Film stills collection, [ca. 1920-1970], [ca. 1960-1970] (bulk).

Included are still photographs from the films of avant-garde and other directors. Directors represented include Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Peter Brook, Luis Buñuel, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Joseph Cornell, Sergei Eisenstein, Jerome Hill, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Sidney Peterson, Ron Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Joseph Ruttenberg, Harry Smith, Michael Snow, Stan Vanderbeek, Dziga Vertov, Jean Vigo, Orson Welles, and others.

ArchivalResource: ca. 12 cubic ft.

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Tristana / Luis Buñuel, réal., scénario ; Julio Alejandro, scénario ; d'après le roman de Benito Pérez Galdós ; Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero... [et al.], act.

Title: Tristana / Luis Buñuel, réal., scénario ; Julio Alejandro, scénario ; d'après le roman de Benito Pérez Galdós ; Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero... [et al.], act.

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Papers, 1956-1967.

Title: Papers, 1956-1967.

Collection consists of papers relating to a proposed film adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's semi-autobiographical novel Under the Volcano, to have been directed by Luis Buñuel and to have starred Zachary Scott. Included in the collection are correspondence, script treatments, newspaper clippings, and a contract.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Tristana / Luis Buñuel, réal., scénario ; Julio Alejandro, scénario ; d'après le roman de Benito Pérez Galdós ; Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero... [et al.], act.

Title: Tristana / Luis Buñuel, réal., scénario ; Julio Alejandro, scénario ; d'après le roman de Benito Pérez Galdós ; Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero... [et al.], act.

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Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988. Jay and Si Lan Chen Leyda papers, 1913-1987 (bulk 1930-1980).

Title: Jay and Si Lan Chen Leyda papers, 1913-1987 (bulk 1930-1980).

Series I includes family and childhood materials, early writings, autobiographical notes and clippings, and professional memorabilia. Series II includes correspondence including James Agee, Alfred Barr, Walter Benjamin, Paul Bowles, Luis Buñuel, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aaron Copland, Joseph Cornell, Mina Curtiss, Walker Evans, Joseph and Charmian Freeman, Helga Greene, Langston Hughes, Joris Ivens, Paul Jarrico, Romana Javitz, Elia Kazan, Carol King, Lincoln Kirstein, Naum Kleiman, Fritz Lang, Julian Levy, Joseph Losey, Albert Maltz, Ivor Montagu, Jack Rau, Man Ray, Satyajit Ray, Abby Rockefeller, Muriel Rukeyser, Georges Sadoul, Josephine Schwarz, Gilbert Seldes, Marie Seton, Ralph Steiner, Lee Strasberg, Thornton Wilder, and Edmund Wilson. There is also a thick MOMA correspondence file, as well as Leyda's correspondence with his family. Series III contains Leyda's clippings, correspondence, film scripts, research notes, and a typescript relating to his book Dianying; an account of films and the film audience in China (1972). Series IV contains writings, research notes, clippings, reviews, and some correspondence relating ot Soviet cinema. There are articles written under his pseudonym James Lincoln for the Moscow News, 1932-36, letters to Eisenstein, notes for his reconstruction of Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico, film festival and exhibition catalogs, an editing proposal for Potemkin, and an unpublished typescript "Letters from Russia." Series V mainly documents the balance of Leyda's cinema career, and includes correspondence with the Guggenheim Foundation, 1931-42, regarding his fellowship application, scripts for unproduced movies, including World Unity (1940s) and Conquistador (1943), a partial list of film shots for A Bronx Morning, several files of "Germinations," (project proposals), and several typescripts by novelist and poet Ben Maddow. The Dickinson and Melville material in this series includes Leyda's libretto for the opera Bartelby. The Si Lan Chen Leyda papers document her dancing career and personal activities. Series VI contains her FBI file and documents related to her travels. Series VII is Chen's correspondence principally with her family and Jay Leyda. There is also correspondence with Pearl S. Buck and Langston Hughes, and a file relating to immigration issues. Series VIII documents her dance career with programs, flyers, dance notations and drawings, a scrapbook, and radio interview transcripts. Series IX includes the typsecript of her autobiography, Footnote to History (1984), a diary, autobiographical notebooks and unpublished writings.

ArchivalResource: 15.25 linear ft. (31 boxes)

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Un chien andalou / Luis Buñuel, réal., mise en scène, scénario ; Salvador Dali, scénario ; Richard Wagner, comp. ; Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dali... [et al.], act.

Title: Un chien andalou / Luis Buñuel, réal., mise en scène, scénario ; Salvador Dali, scénario ; Richard Wagner, comp. ; Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dali... [et al.], act.

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Antheil, George, 1900-1959. George Antheil papers, 1919-1959.

Title: George Antheil papers, 1919-1959.

Correspondence, manuscripts, music scores, and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. ( 7 boxes & 2 oversize folders)

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Enquête sur l'amour, 1928-1929.

Title: Enquête sur l'amour, 1928-1929.

Volume contains manuscript and printed material relating to a survey by surrealists on love: the printed statement and questionnaire (in duplicate), manuscript responses, the printed versions of the responses from issue number 12 of La révolution surréaliste (1929), and newspaper clippings. There are 54 manuscript responses to the survey, 47 autograph and seven typescript, addressed to La révolution surréaliste or to André Breton, with revised drafts from Luis Buñuel and Paul Eluard. In additon to Buñuel and Eluard, contributors include well-known artists and writers affiliated with the surrealist movement. Contributors include: Louis Aragon, Jacques Baron, Joë Bouquet, Breton, Blaise Cendrars, René Char, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Fernand Divoire, Hubert Dujardin, Luc Durtain, Max Ernst, André Gaillard, Maurice Heine, René Magritte, Francis de Miomandre, Paul Nougé, Valentine Penrose, Pierre Renaud, François Ribadeau Dumas, Rolland de Renéville, J.-H. Rosny, Noël Sabord, Georges Sadoul, André Thirion, Pierre Unik, and Clément Vautel. Binding bears the name of Paul Bonet.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 28 cm.

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Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983. Luis Buñuel film scripts, 1932-1956.

Title: Luis Buñuel film scripts, 1932-1956.

Nine scripts for films directed by "the father of Surreal cinema." One transcription of a narration from Bunuel from 1932.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

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Southern, Terry. Collection of 11 autograph letters : [Hartford and East Canaan, Ct.], to Nelson Lyon, 1982-1995 and undated.

Title: Collection of 11 autograph letters : [Hartford and East Canaan, Ct.], to Nelson Lyon, 1982-1995 and undated.

Collection consists of the following 11 letters: undated [ca. 1990?] a.l. signed "T.," 10 p. (10 leaves); undated a.l., 1 p.; undated a.l.s., 1 p.; undated a.l.s., 2 p. (1 leaf); a.l. on Columbia University School of the Arts stationery, dated Apr. 4, 1993, with accompanying envelope postmarked Hartford, CT, Apr. 7, 1993, 2 p. (1 leaf); undated a.l. on verso of photocopied unattributed pornographic/political comic strip titled "Chambers and Hiss in Betrayed," on which Southern comments, 1 p.; a.l.s on stationery with "The Bay O' Peeg, Captained by T. Southern and R. Torn" embossed at the top, with accompanying envelope postmarked East Canaan, CT, Nov. 16, 1982, 5 p. (3 leaves); undated a.l.s., 1 p.; a.l.s. with accompanying envelope postmarked Hartford, CT, Aug. 4, 1995, 2 p. (1 leaf); undated a.l. signed "T.," 4 p. (written on large Post-Its); and undated a.l., 1 p. Topics discussed include: the current cinema, popular culture, politics, sex, the film "Eraserhead," the film director Luis Bunuel, the application of Islamic law in Iran, racist Texas policemen, Whittaker Chambers's betrayal of Alger Hiss, how to pick up women at a bar, and the disgraced figure skater Tanya Harding. Collection also includes newspaper clippings and clipping photocopies highlighted by Southern. First clipping accompanying the 10-p. letter, source unidentified, is about an electric-chair executioner in Texas, phrases highlighted in yellow, with "Attn Nels Lyon" in black pen, Southern's hand, in upper left corner; second clipping, source unidentified, with three notes in black pen in Southern's hand, with headline "Human head transplanted onto pig's body," with photo, phrases highlighted in orange; third clipping, source unidentified, with headline "Giant 13-foot worm strangles baby," with phrases highlighted in orange. Four works in progress accompany the final letter in the collection, headed "(Omitted By Mistake From Previous Packet)" and which refers to "the work-in-prog!" These four typescript drafts (three of which are photocopies) comprise: incomplete typescript of screenplay "Grossing Out," "Based on an Idea Of Peter Sellers" (with Southern note in blue pen on title page), [n.d.], 50 p. (50 leaves); photocopy typescript essay "Looking For Dr. Strangelove or How Double-Think And Instant Gratification May Relegate George Bush To A Mere Footnote In History" [1991?], 3 p. (3 leaves), with blue pen highlighting of one letter; photocopy typescript essay "Linkage? Let's Go For It!," [n.d.], 3 p. (3 leaves), on U.S./Israel relations and the mistreatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories by Israeli soldiers; photocopy fax typescript screenplay "Good Golly Colonel Ollie! Is Virginia Ready For You," May 1994, 4 p. (4 leaves) imagining a meeting of the Iran-Contra scandal's Col. Oliver North, Sen. Bob Dole, and Speaker Newt Gingrich, as North campaigns to become a Republican Senator from Virginia

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio (11 letters with enclosures) : ill. ; size varies + 3 envelopes.

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