Restrictions on Access
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Preferred Citation
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Title: Sidney Z. Litwack television scripts
Collection number: PASC 40
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.6 linear ft.
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1972-1979
Abstract: Relating to the career of art director Sydney Z. Litwack, the collection consists of television scripts, teleplays, art direction
notes, and production information.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Litwack, Sydney Z.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold
the copyright.
Scripts may not be photocopied without permission of copyright holder.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Z. Litwack.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sidney Z. Litwack television scripts (Collection PASC 40). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Biography
Sydney Litwack graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1952. He earned a master's degree from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954. His career spanned more than 40 years in the television and motion picture industry
as a production designer and art director. Among his film credits are
Buck and the Preacher (1972),
Doctor's Lives (1971),
Places in the Heart (1984), and
Just Between Friends (1986). His television credits include
Lou Grant,
Cannon,
Banacek,
Rod Serling's Night Gallery. Litwack retired in 1994.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of various drafts of television scripts related to the career of art director Sydney Z. Litwack. The bulk
of the scripts are for the television series
Lou Grant (1977-78). Additionally there are teleplays, occassional art direction notes, and production information.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Television Series
- TV Movies
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Litwack, Sydney Z. -- Archives.
Television -- Art direction -- Archival resources.
Television scripts.