Universal Pictures production files

Collection

Identifier: 2314

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Scope and Contents

This collection is currently unavailable for access.

This collection is made of production files including scripts, annotated screenplay drafts, continuity records, budgets, shooting schedules, call sheets, and personnel files. Records are grouped by department, then by project. Some titles represented in the collection are:

Saboteur (1942),Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Harvey (1950),Glenn Miller Story (1953),The Lone Hand (1953),and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).

Dates

Creation: 1940s-1960s

Creator

Universal Pictures (Firm) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is currently unavailable for access because of its size and current level of processing. Contact the Cinematic Arts Library ctlibarc@usc.edu for details.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Extent

1046.4 Linear Feet (920 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection consists of production files for films including scripts, screenplay drafts, continuity records, budgets, shooting schedules, call sheets, and personnel files created by Universal Pictures during the 1940s through the early 1960s.