Finding aid to the Republic Pictures cutting continuity scripts 1936-1959 PFA.MSS.010
Michael Campos-Quinn
BAMPFA Film Library
2018-01-31
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
BAMPFA Film Library
Title: Republic Pictures cutting continuity scripts
creator:
Republic Pictures Corporation
Identifier/Call Number: PFA.MSS.010
Physical Description:
2 cartons
2.5 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1936-1959
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Film Library and Study Center
Container: 1
Container: 2
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Arrangement
Scripts arranged alphabetically.
Biographical / Historical
Republic Pictures was a small production company based in Los Angeles, California, that specialized in "B" genre films (especially
Western and crime films), film serials, comedies, and other low-budget films. It was one of the "Poverty Row" studios in Hollywood
churning out mass-market films from the 1920s through the 1950s, but was noted for the quality of much of its output given
the limited resources available and the occasional participation of higher profile directors (Frank Borzage and John Ford
among others) and actors (including Joan Crawford and John Wayne). Herbert Yates, who owned the prominent film processing
laboratory, Consolidated Film Industries, founded Republic Pictures after purchasing a handful of smaller production companies.
Republic was also responsible for technical innovations including a color film process in the 1930s that was cheaper to produce
than Technicolor and an in-house widescreen format in the 1950s. By the 1950s when Republic ceased production, the company
still owned distribution and television broadcast rights to its library of hundreds of films, and Republic titles were frequently
rebroadcast on television even as the studio itself ceased operations.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Republic Pictures cutting continuity scripts, 1936-1959. [PFA--MSS--010]. UC Berkeley Art Museum
and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Contents
61 cutting continuity scripts for Republic Pictures films (primarily Westerns) produced between 1936 and 1959. These scripts
would have been prepared after each film was finished and describe each shot in a film, generally noting the footage mark
and frame number at each shot change.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Republic Pictures Corporation
Corpus Christi bandits
1945
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by Wallace A. Grissell. Written by Norman S. Hall. Photographed by Bud Thackery. With Allan Lane, Helen Talbot, Jack
Kirk, and Twinkle Watts.
Doctor at sea
1945
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by Ralph Thomas. Written by Nicholas Phipps and Jack Davies. Adapted by Richard Gordon. Photographed by Ernest Steward.
With James Kenney, Raymond Huntley, Geoffrey Keen, and George Couloris.
The fabulous Suzanne
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by Steve Sekely. Written by Tedwell Chapman and Randall Faye, based on an original story by William Bowers and Tedwell
Chapman. Photographed by Henry Sharpe. With Barbara Britton, Rudy Vallee, Otto Kruger, and Richard Denning.
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by William Whitney and John English. Written by Barry Shipman, Franklyn Adreon, Ronald Davidson, and Sol Shor. Photographed
by William Nobles. With Lee Powell, Herman Brix, Eleanor Stewart, and Montague Love.
Gay blades
1946
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by George Blair. Written by Albert Beich. Adapted by Marcel Klauver from a story by Jack Goodman and Albert Rice.
Photographed by William Bradford. With Allan Lane, Jean Rogers, Edward Ashley, and Frank Albertson.
Gentleman from Louisiana
1936
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by Irving Pichel. Written by Gordon Rigby and Joseph Fields, based on an original story by Jerry Chodorov and Bert
Granet. Photographed by Ernest Miller and Jack Marta. With Eddie Quillan, Charles Sale, Charlotte Henry, and Marjorie Gateson.
The ghost goes wild
1946
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by George Blair. Written by Randall Faye, based on original story by Randall Faye and Taylor Caven. Photographed
by John Alton. With James Ellison, Anne Gwynne, Edward Everett Horton, and Ruth Donnelly.
The ghost of Zorro
1959
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Directed by Fred C. Brannon. Written by Royal Cole, William Lively, and Sol Shor. Photographed by John Macburnie. With Clayton
Moore, Pamela Blake, Roy Barcroft, and George J. Lewis.
The girl from Alaska
1952
Physical Description: 1 volume
Grandpa goes to town
1952
Physical Description: 1 volume
Great stagecoach robbery
1950
Physical Description: 1 volume
Gun lords of Stirrup Basin
1937
Physical Description: 1 volume
Hidden guns
1956
Physical Description: 1 volume
Hitchhike to happiness
1944
Physical Description: 1 volume
Last frontier uprising
Physical Description: 1 volume
Lawless land
1936
Physical Description: 1 volume
Lay that rifle down
1955
Physical Description: 1 volume
Leadville Gunslinger
1952
Physical Description: 1 volume
Lone star raiders
1940
Physical Description: 1 volume
Lonely heart bandits
1950
Physical Description: 1 volume
Magic fire
1955
Physical Description: 1 volume
Mama runs wild
1938
Physical Description: 1 volume
Man of conquest
1939
Physical Description: 1 volume
Marshal of Amarillo
1953
Physical Description: 1 volume
Marshal of Cedar Rock
1952
Physical Description: 1 volume
Marshal of Cripple Creek
1952
Physical Description: 1 volume
Marshal of Reno
1944
Physical Description: 1 volume
Moonstruck Melody
1955
Physical Description: 1 volume
Mr. District Attorney
1941
Physical Description: 1 volume
My buddy
1954
Physical Description: 1 volume
My wife's relatives
1939
Physical Description: 1 volume
Night riders of Montana
1951
Physical Description: 1 volume
Night train to Memphis
1946
Physical Description: 1 volume
Old Los Angeles
1958
Physical Description: 1 volume
On the Old Spanish Trail
1957
Physical Description: 1 volume
Plunderers of Painted Flats
1958
Physical Description: 1 volume
Powder River Rustlers
1950
Physical Description: 1 volume
Prince of the plains
1959
Physical Description: 1 volume
Rainbow over Texas
1956
Physical Description: 1 volume
Range defenders
1937
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Copy 1
Range defenders
1937
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Copy 2
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1949
Physical Description: 1 volume
Rhythm hits the ice
1942
Physical Description: 1 volume
Riders of the whistling skull
1936
Physical Description: 1 volume
Rio Grande raiders
1946
Physical Description: 1 volume
Roll on Texas moon
1956
Physical Description: 1 volume
Rough riders' roundup
1939
Physical Description: 1 volume
Rustlers on Horseback
1950
Physical Description: 1 volume
The San Antonio Kid
1944
Physical Description: 1 volume
Secrets of the underground
1952
Physical Description: 1 volume
Stagecoach to Monterey
1954
Stories of the Century: Sam Bass and Frank and Jessie James
1954
Scope and Contents
Serial episode
Suicide squadron
1942
Physical Description: 1 volume
Sunset in Wyoming
1941
Physical Description: 1 volume
Terror at midnight
1956
Physical Description: 1 volume
This World of Ours: London
1950
Physical Description: 1 volume
Scope and Contents
Serial episode
Topeka terror
1945
Physical Description: 1 volume
Tough girl
1956
Physical Description: 1 volume
Track the man down
1954
Physical Description: 1 volume
The wayward girl
1957
Physical Description: 1 volume
Zorro rides again
1958
Physical Description: 1 volume
