Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Segaloff, Nat 1948-
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of materials pertaining to Nat Segaloff's career as a freelance writer, producer, teacher and journalist. A highlight of this collection is the large amount of material pertaining to the Hollywood blacklist.
- Extent:
- 41.5 Linear Feet (83 boxes) and 14 Born-digital Carriers (14 optical discs)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Nat Segaloff papers (Collection PASC 354). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of materials pertaining to Segaloff's career as freelance writer, producer, teacher and journalist. A highlight of the collection is the extensive collection of Hollywood Blacklist materials collected and used by Segaloff as research material. Included are materials related to Segaloff's newspaper, magazine, radio, television and film projects. Amongst these projects are "Alien Voices." In 1996 Nat, John de Lancie, and Leonard Nimoy formed a production company named Alien Voices to produce audiobook dramatizations of classic science fiction stories acted by "Star Trek" performers. The idea came from John's recreated production of the Orson Welles classic Invasion From Mars that was done for LA Theatre Works and NPR. Because the radio play was so short, Nat and John wrote a sequel, When Welles Collide, that trashed tabloid news media. They had so much fun that they formed a company to keep doing it. They did five titles for Simon & Schuster Audio. Included in the collection are marked-up copies of the scripts, sample tapes, never-released behind-the-scenes footage (DVD, VHS and mini cassette), audio outtakes, and corporate paperwork.
Another project of note is the Segaloff radio play, "The Waldorf Conference." "The Waldorf Conference" is a play about the secret meeting held in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on November 24 and 25, 1947 among 48 film company businessmen to decide how the industry should react to the HUAC hearings just concluded in Washington from October 20-30 at which charges were leveled against 10 men for alleged Communist party membership.
Segaloff compiled a detailed description of the collection contents which is attached to the finding aid as a PDF.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Projects
- Series 2. Hollywood Blacklist
- Series 3. Research Material, 1970-
- Biographical / historical:
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Nat Segaloff is a freelance writer, producer, teacher and journalist whose broadcast, writing and hosting career has included positions for CBS radio, Westinghouse Television, network affiliates and independents, and U.S. field producer for the BBC. He has written special material for Edward Asner, William Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Warren Beatty, Maria Bello, Annette Bening, Toni Braxton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dom DeLuise, Michael Douglas, Michael J. Fox, LisaGay Hamilton, Herbie Hancock, Dustin Hoffman, Anjelica Huston, Samuel L. Jackson, Natalie Maines, Esai Morales, Sarah Jessica Parker, Paula Poundstone, Alan Rosenberg, James Whitmore and numerous other celebrities and public figures. Segaloff's writing has appeared in Film comment, International documentary, Boston magazine, Written by, Boston after dark, Time out (USA), The Journal of the Producers Guild of America, The Word Guild magazine, Audio/video interiors, The Tab, Animation magazine, American movie classics magazine, Moving pictures, The Boston globe and The Christian Science Monitor. He has taught on the faculty of Boston University and Boston College, and worked on motion picture advertising and publicity campaigns for Paramount, Disney, Columbia, United Artists, Fox, and MGM. In addition, he has written books on personalities such as: John Huston, Arthur Penn, Stirling Silliphant, and William Friedkin, and on such topics as: the Hollywood Blacklist, employment in the television field, romantic films, etiquette, and writing for television.
- Acquisition information:
- The collection is a gift of the creator, Nat Segaloff.
- Processing information:
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Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff.
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- Arrangement:
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The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Projects
- Series 2. Hollywood Blacklist
- Series 3. Research Material, 1970-
- Physical / technical requirements:
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CONTAINS UNPROCESSED DIGITAL MATERIALS: Materials will require assessment and may need further processing for safe access. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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], Nat Segaloff papers (Collection PASC 354). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988