Goldstone (Duke) Scrapbooks, ca. 1920s-ca. 1990s

Summary

Title:

Duke Goldstone scrapbooks

Dates:

ca. 1920s-ca. 1990s

Creators:

Goldstone, Duke

Abstract:

Duke Goldstone was a film and television director and producer for more than 60 years. The collection consists of eight scrapbooks documenting Goldstone's long career.

Extent:

3.2 linear ft. (8 flat boxes.) and 8 flat boxes (3.2 linear ft)

Language:

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Duke Goldstone scrapbooks (Collection PASC 359). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of eight scrapbooks created by and related to the career of director and producer Duke Goldstone. The scrapbooks consist primarily of original photographs, but also include original and copied clippings, occasional script pages or production information pages, and ephemera pertaining to projects in which Goldstone was involved in some capacity, colleagues, family and friends. Among the various projects documented in the scrapbooks are Goldstone's involvement with George Pal productions, Snader Telescriptions, his industrial film company, RFG Associates, and his association with Charlie Chaplin. Additionally documented are Goldstone's travels in the United States, particularly the Southwest.

Biographical / historical:

Louis 'Duke' Goldstone was born in Omaha, NE on January 17, 1914. He attended the University of Nebraska. Goldstone started his film career as a property man at Universal during the silent film era. He worked as editor and then director at Paramount, RKO, and Pathe, working mostly on short films. In the 1940s he began his association with George Pal working as editor on Destination Moon, The Great Rupert, and Puppetoons. In the early 1950s he went into television and working for Swift-Chaplin Productions, he directed classic animated commercials featuring such characters as Speedy Alka-Seltzer, the Hamm's Bear and the Jolly Green Giant. He directed popular television variety shows for Liberace, Frankie Laine, Horace Heidt, Connie Haines and Florian Zabach, and Betty White's first situation comedy, Life With Elizabeth. Additionally in the early 1950s, he wrote, produced and directed Snader Telescriptions, television's first music videos. In 1965, he established an industrial film company, RFG Associates, and for the next 30 years produced hundreds of commercial and educational films. Goldstone died in Los Angeles, on April 16, 1998 from heart failure.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Dian Fauntelle, 2001.

Arrangement:

There is no specific arrangement to the collection.

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:

Scrapbooks.

Names:

Goldstone, Duke--Archives

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Julie L. Graham; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.

Date Prepared:

©2014 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-02-27T10:24-0800 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé using Notetab Pro.

Restrictions:

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:

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:

[Identification of item], Duke Goldstone scrapbooks (Collection PASC 359). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

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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