Container List
Series 1. Film-related papers.
1930-1984.
Scope and Content
Series includes copyright paperwork, legal agreements, publicity material, correspondence, ratings paperwork, and a script
(Maniac) related to specific films produced by Esper or of interest to him. Also present is a small amount of financial records,
primarily invoices for film prints, as well as correspondence regarding theatrical releases and M.J.W. Theatrical Enterprises,
Inc. Advertisements for Esper's films are located in Series 5.
Box 1, Folder 1
"Egyptian Picture."
undated.
Box 1, Folder 2
French Peep Show.
1972-1977.
Box 1, Folder 4
Hitler's Strange Love Life.
1973.
Scope and Content
Alternative titles include Will It Happen Again? and Conform or Die.
Box 1, Folder 5
How to Undress in Front of Your Husband.
1935, undated .
Box 1, Folder 6
Ingagi.
1930, 1950, 1978.
Box 1, Folder 8
Will It Happen Again?.
1948, 1975.
Scope and Content
Alternative title for Hitler's Strange Love Life.
Box 1, Folder 9
Legal/copyright records.
1950-1984.
Box 1, Folder 10
Correspondence.
1950, 1971-1976.
Box 1, Folder 11
Financial records.
1972-1973.
Series 2. Business records.
1957-1970.
Scope and Content
Includes financial records, correspondence, and reports relating to other business or real estate dealings of Dwain and Hildagarde
Esper.
Box 1, Folder 12
Tempest Mining Corporation.
1970.
Box 1, Folder 13
Warm Springs Lead-Zinc Prospect.
1957.
Box 1, Folder 14
Financial records.
1957-1964.
Series 3. Personal material.
1942-[1984].
Scope and Content
Series includes Esper's membership cards, notes. clippings, entertainment magazines, and ephemera. Also present are photographs
(box 1), clippings, and posters related to cult film star and burlesque performer Liz Renay (1926-2007).
Box 1, Folder 16
Membership cards.
1942-1969.
Box 2, Folder 1
Magazines and ephemera.
1945-1979, undated.
Box 1, Folder 18, Box 2, Folder 2
Liz Renay material.
1970s.
Series 4. Photographs.
[1900s]-1960.
Scope and Content
Series contains primarily reprints of historic photographs of 20th century figures and events, including Adolf Hitler, Eva
Braun, Benito Mussolini, and Vladimir Lenin, as well as Nazi concentration camps. Also present are film stills from Forbidden
Adventure, images of marquees of theaters screening Esper's films, and family photographs.
Box 1, Folder 19
Hitler/Nazi Germany.
undated.
Box 1, Folder 20
Buchenwald/concentration camps.
undated.
Box 1, Folder 22
Mussolini/Italy.
undated.
Box 1, Folder 24
Other historical figures.
undated.
Box 1, Folder 25
Forbidden Adventure stills.
undated.
Box 1, Folder 26
Theater marquees.
undated.
Box 1, Folder 27
Film stills (non-Esper).
undated .
Box 1, Folder 28
Family photographs.
[1900s]-1960.
Series 5. Advertisements.
Undated.
Scope and Content Note
Series consists of lobby cards for Forbidden Adventure and mock-ups of advertisements for other Esper films, as well as some
promotional material for a few non-Esper films.
Box 2, Folder 3
Forbidden Adventure.
undated.
Box 2, Folder 5
Hitler's Strange Love Life.
undated.
Scope and Content
Includes one full-size poster.
Box 1, Folder 29
Ads (relief mats).
undated.
Box 3
Series 6. Books.
1934-1948.
Scope and Content
Contains two sex education booklets by Hildagarde Esper: Your Sex Questions Answered... What Every Modern Mother and Father
Should Know (1934), and Facts of Life: What Every Adult Should Know about Sex and Its Relation to Human Happiness (1948).
Also present is The Book of Poe: Tales, Criticism, Poems (1934).