Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979
- Abstract:
- This collection contains the papers, photographs, correspondence, recordings, click tracks, and film scores of composer Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979).
- Extent:
- 325.2 Linear Feet 263 boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Dimitri Tiomkin papers and film scores collection, Collection no. 2181, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains the papers and film scores of composer Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979). Materials include personal papers, screenplays, photographs, correspondence, phonograph records, click tracks, and scores for most of Tiomkin's major films including Lost Horizon (1937), Moon and Sixpence (1942), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), High Noon (1952), High and the Mighty (1954), Friendly Persuasion (1956), and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Among the screenplays are Red Strange Lady in Town (1961) and The Guns of Navarone (1961). Scrapbooks dating from the late 1920s cover Tiomkin's career as a concert pianist and film composer. There are also musical scores from Frank Capra's Why We Fight series.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979) was a Russian born American film composer best known for his scores for western films. Tiomkin received 22 Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars: Best Original Score for High Noon (1952), The High and the Mighty (1954), and The Old Man and the Sea (1958); and Best Original Song for The Ballad of High Noon.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Dimitri Tiomkin, June 18, 1969.
- Processing information:
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The collection is unprocessed. In 1981, Harvey R. Deneroff created an offline inventory of the collection. The inventory was scanned, uploaded to the Online Archive of California, and linked to this finding aid as a digital object (see "Digital Material").
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is unavailable for access because of its size and current level of processing. Contact the Cinematic Arts Library ctlibarc@usc.edu for details.
- Terms of access:
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Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Dimitri Tiomkin papers and film scores collection, Collection no. 2181, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
- Location of this collection:
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Cinematic Arts LibraryDoheny Memorial Library, Room G4Los Angeles, CA 90089-0185, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-8383