Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Leonard, Harold
- Abstract:
- Harold Leonard was a critic and film historian. The collection consists of Leonard's research files dealing mainly with critical and historical aspects of motion pictures.
- Extent:
- 16.5 linear ft. (33 boxes)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Harold Leonard Motion Picture research files (Collection 1933). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of research files related to motion picture historian Harold Leonard. Included are bibliographic citations, clippings, press releases, a small amount of publicity ephemera and photographs, and occasional publications. The files document individuals and topics that deal mainly with critical and historical aspects of motion pictures. Some of the research may have been source material for the second volume of The Film Index: A Bibliography. Also included is a small amount information related to television.
- Biographical / historical:
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There is very little biographical information available about Harold Leonard. He graduated from Harvard with a M.A. and worked for the Warner Brothers story department in New York and Hollywood. In 1936, he submitted an idea to create The Film Index to the Works Progress Administration. The project was put into operation in May, 1936. Leonard along with fellow associate editor Sonia Volochova both saw all three volumes of The Film Index: A Bibliography through to publication. He was a correspondent for the British film quarterly Sight and Sound and contributor to many American periodicals. Leonard moved to Los Angeles where he continued to write and became a member of the UCLA Theater Arts faculty, teaching film history. He died of cancer November 10, 1956 at the age of 47.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mrs. Harold Leonard, 1958.
- Arrangement:
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The files are arranged alphabetically by individual's names or subject titles.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Motion pictures--History.
- Names:
- Leonard, Harold--Archives
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Harold Leonard Motion Picture research files (Collection 1933). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988