Haskell Wexler Collection of Scripts for Television and Motion Pictures, 1967-1996

Summary

Creators:

Wexler, Haskell

Language:

English.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of television and motion picture scripts and treatments received by Haskell Wexler's production company. Includes numerous scripts by various authors. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1980s on.

Biographical / historical:

Wexler was born in Chicago, IL, June 2, 1922; attended Univ. of CA, Berkeley; made educational and industrial films before he started a career in cinematography (late 1950s); the recipient of two Academy Awards, his credits include, "Medium Cool" (1969), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), "American Graffiti" (1973), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975); has made a number of documentary films in various capacities including, "The Bus" (1965), "Interviews with My Lai Veterans" (1970), and "At the Max" (1991); was also interviewed for the film documentary "Visions of Light : the art of cinematography" (1992).

Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically by film title.

Physical location:

Held at SRLF. Please contact the Performing Arts Special Collections for paging information.

Physical description:

24 boxes (10.0 linear ft.)

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Film scripts
Television scripts
Treatments (documents)

Location of this collection:

UCLA, Library Special Collections, Performing Arts

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US

Contact:

(310) 825-4988

AskLSC@library.ucla.edu

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