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Film Slides collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2621

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of film slides from movies by studios such as Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia, United Artists, MGM, ITC Entertainment, Paramount, Universal, Orion, and DreamWorks Pictures. These films include "Back to the Future" (1985), "Beetlejuice" (1988), "The Breakfast Club" (1985), "The Blues Brothers" (1980), "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Cheech and Chong" (1982), "A Christmas Story" (1983), "Conan the Barbarian" (1982), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), "The Exorcist" (1973), "Jaws" (1975), "Karate Kid" (1984), "The Lost Boys" (1987), "Mary Poppins" (1964), "Grease" (1978), "The Goonies" (1985), "Friday the 13th" (1980), "Footloose" (1984), "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), "Rocky" (1976), "Ghostbusters" (1984), "Hitch" (2005), "The Godfather" (1972), "The Legend of Zorro" (2005), "Are We There Yet?" (2005), "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005), "The Sopranos" (2002), "The Muppets" (1979), "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983), and many more.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1946 - 2005

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

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

10.125 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This collection consists of film slides from movies by studios such as Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia, United Artists, MGM, ITC Entertainment, Paramount, Universal, Orion, and DreamWorks Pictures.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of various studio publicity departments, circa 1980s.

Processing Information

This collection is unprocessed.

Title
Finding aid for the Film Slides collection
Status
Unprocessed
Author
Marissa Chavez for History Associates Incorporated
Date
2022 April
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

Contact:
Doheny Memorial Library G4
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0185 United States