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Alex Segal papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2385

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Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers, photographs, and awards of American television director Alex Segal (1915-1977). These papers include set blueprints and drawings, clippings, and scripts. Photographs of sets are also included. Segal worked on such television series and television movies as "Death of a Salesman" (1966), "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1967), "The United States Steel Hour," and "Celanese Theatre."

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1950s-1970s

Creator

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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.

Biographical / Historical

Alex Segal (1915-1977) was an American television director. Segal worked on such television series and television movies as "Death of a Salesman" (1966), "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1967), "The United States Steel Hour," and "Celanese Theatre." He won Primetime Emmy for TV direction for "Death of a Salesman" in 1966. Segal was chairman of the Division of Drama at the University of Southern California from 1971 to 1976.

Extent

25 Linear Feet (18 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This collection consists of the papers, photographs, and awards of American television director Alex Segal (1915-1977).

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Processing Information

This collection is unprocessed.

Title
Finding aid for the Alex Segal papers
Status
Unprocessed
Author
Marissa Chavez for History Associates Incorporated
Date
2022 May
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library Repository

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