Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Blumenthal, Herman A., 1916-1986
- Abstract:
- Herman Allen Blumenthal was an art director and production designer for the film industry. The collection consists photographs of theater sets, scenes, and sketches of stage productions, including operas and Shakespeare plays. Additionally there are prints of various genres of art, assorted images of trees, and photographs of assorted published product advertisements. Some of the photographs derived from publications whose original sources were drawings, paintings, engravings, and photographs.
- Extent:
- 1.75 linear ft. (4 boxes)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Herman Blumenthal Photograph Collection (Collection PASC 184). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of material related to the career of production designer, Herman Blumenthal. The bulk of the collection is photographs of theater sets, scenes, and sketches from various stage productions, including operas and Shakespeare plays. Additionally there are prints of various genres of art, assorted images of trees, and photographs of assorted published product advertisements. Some of the images in the collection are photographs derived from publications whose original sources were drawings, paintings, engravings, and photographs.
- Biographical / historical:
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Herman Allen Blumenthal was an art director and production designer for the film industry. Blumenthal was born in 1916. His credits include such films as Cleopatra, Hello, Dolly!, Miracle on 34th Street, The Three Faces of Eve, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He won two academy awards for Best Art Direction, for his work on Cleopatra (1963) and Hello Dolly! (1969), as well as an earlier nomination for Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). Blumenthal died on March 30, 1986.
- 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
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], Herman Blumenthal Photograph Collection (Collection PASC 184). 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