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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Dimitri Tiomkin papers and film scores collection
Creator:
Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979
Identifier/Call Number: 2181
Identifier/Call Number: 555
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/5/resources/1066
Physical Description:
325.2 Linear Feet
263 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1927-1969
Abstract: This collection contains the papers, photographs, correspondence, recordings, click tracks, and film scores of composer Dimitri
Tiomkin (1894-1979).
Language of Material:
English.
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.
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.
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.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dimitri Tiomkin, June 18, 1969.
[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.
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").
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Composers -- United States -- Archival resources
Composition (Music) -- Archival resources
Film composers -- Archival resources
Motion picture music -- Archival resources
Scores
Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979 -- Archives