Series 1. Film projects
Scope and Content
Antheil composed music for films by directors Cecil B. DeMille, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Ben Hecht and Stanley Kramer, among
others. Series includes manuscript and reproduction scores and parts, including a holograph score for the surrealist noir
film Dementia (1955). Material is generally undated; dates following titles are those of the film's release. Some oversized
scores are housed separately.
The films Harlem Sketches and Orchids to Charlie were shorts.
box 1, folder 1-3
Angels over Broadway (1940)
box 2, folder 4, box 3, folder 1-2
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
box 3, folder 3
Harlem Sketches [Harlem Picture] (1935)
box 3, folder 4-5, box 4, folder 1
House By the River [Floodtide] (1950)
box 4, folder 2-5, box 6, folder 1-3, box 5, box 37, folder 2-7
Hunters of the Deep (1955)
box 6, folder 5, box 7, folder 1-2
box 7, folder 5-6, box 36, box 12, folder 1-2, box 8, box 9, box 10, box 11
box 13, box 12, folder 3-5
Once in a Blue Moon (1935)
box 14, box 39, folder 3-6, box 15, folder 1-2
Orchids to Charlie [Orchids for Charlie] (1941)
box 15, folder 3, box 16, folder 1
box 16, folder 2-3
The Plainsman and the Lady (1946)
box 39, folder 1-2, box 38
The Pride and the Passion (1957): Full score manuscripts
box 16, folder 4, box 17, box 18, box 19, box 20, box 21, box 22, box 23, box 24, box 25
The Pride and the Passion (1957): Parts
box 27, folder 2, box 26
The Pride and the Passion (1957): Sketches and conductors scores
box 27, folder 1
The Pride and the Passion (1957): Clippings and ephemera
box 27, folder 3
The Pride and the Passion (1957): Songs
Scope and Content
Also includes some material from The Young Don't Cry (1957).
box 27, folder 4-5
The Pride and the Passion (1957): Photostat scores
box 28, folder 1-2
Repeat Performance (1947)
box 1, folder 7-9
The Sniper (1952)
Scope and Contents
Box 8 also includes score "Death Ride" from
Death of a Salesman (Columbia, 1951) by Alex North.
box 29, box 37, folder 1, box 30, folder 1-3
Specter of the Rose (1946)
box 31, folder 2
We Were Strangers [Rough Sketch] (1949)
Series 2. Television projects
Scope and Content
Primarily contains scores of music written for the CBS documentary series The Twentieth Century, which aired from 1957 to
1968.
box 32, folder 1
The Twentieth Century: Churchill, Man of the Century [A Little Mouse of Thought]
box 32, folder 2
The Twentieth Century: D-Day Attack
box 32, folder 3
The Twentieth Century: Gandhi
box 32, folder 4
The Twentieth Century: Guided Missile
box 32, folder 5-6
The Twentieth Century: Liberation of Paris
box 33, folder 1-2
The Twentieth Century: Mission Outer Space
box 33, folder 3
The Twentieth Century: Remagen Bridge
box 33, folder 4
The Twentieth Century: War in China
box 33, folder 5
The Twentieth Century: War in Spain
box 33, folder 6
The Twentieth Century: The Windsors
box 34, folder 1
Television cues: The Twentieth Century
box 34, folder 2-4
Television cues
Scope and Content
Cues for television programs of various genres; specific productions unknown.
Series 3. Other musical compositions
box 35, folder 6
Requiem
Scope and Content
Possibly Requiem for the Soldiers of the Last War, 1927.
box 35, folder 7
Toccata No. 2
[1948]
Scope and Content
Piano solo, reproduction.
box 35, folder 8-9
The Wish
[1954]
Scope and Content
Orchestral score for the opera, reproduction.
box 40, box 42, folder 5
Unidentified scores
Scope and Content
Includes music written for unidentified film or television projects.
box 35, folder 1
Instructions for system of orchestral indication
1957
box 42, folder 6
Chansons de France by Marcel Vigneras (publication)
1941
Series 4. World War II writings
Scope and Content
Antheil's book The Shape of the War to Come (published anonymously in 1940), along with magazine articles written about World
War II, led him to be hired by Los Angeles publisher Manchester Boddy to analyze the war for his radio program. In 1943, Antheil
left Boddy's program for John Nesbitt's The Passing Parade (CBS), where he continued as a war analyst.
This series contains scripts, essays and drafts for both radio programs. Also present are drafts and parts of drafts of other
World War II writings that may have been for either radio program, or for publication elsewhere; a clipping of Antheil's Esquire
article "So Smells Defeat" (Nov 1936); and articles on strategic geography, author unknown.
box 41, folder 1
Manchester Boddy program
1942-1943
box 42, folder 1-2, box 41, folder 2-9
John Nesbitt's The Passing Parade
1943-1944
box 42, folder 3-4
Other World War II writings
[1936], undated
box 42, folder 7
Series 5. Correspondence
1955
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
No duplication or photography permitted.
box 27
Series 6. Sound recordings
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
RESTRICTED ACCESS: Use of audio material requires production of listening copies.
Scope and Content
Five 78 rpm discs with songs most likely from the films The Pride and the Passion and The Young Don't Cry, as well as other
songs with music written by Antheil.
