Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein collection, 1900-1980.

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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein collection, 1900-1980.

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A collection of material on the Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, 1898-1948, collected by Jay Leyda, eminent film historian and former assistant to the curator in the Museum's Film Library, 1936-1940. Especially noteworthy in the collection are Eisenstein's family scrapbook, correspondence with Leyda, and material relating to the filming of "An American Tragedy." Much of the material in the collection was used by Leyda in his writing on Eisenstein, most notably in "Eisenstein at Work," a book co-authored by Leyda and Zina Voynow in 1982 and published by Pantheon and MoMA.

2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)

eng,

ger,

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

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Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948

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Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988

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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein created his first film, "Strike" in 1924. "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) brought him to the attention of critics in the United States and England. "October of Ten Days that Shook the World" followed in 1928 and, the next year, "The General Line." Eisenstein came to America in 1930 to work for Paramount. He was assigned to direct "Sutter's Gold" and a film adaption of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy"; neither project was completed. In 1932, in collab...

Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984

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Epithet: son of Louis 2nd Baron Swaythling British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x00020e ...