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Finding Aid for the Duke Goldstone Scrapbooks, ca. 1920s-ca. 1990s
PASC 359
PASC 359
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Title: Duke Goldstone scrapbooks
Collection number: PASC 359
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.2 linear ft.
(8 flat boxes.)
Date (inclusive): ca. 1920s-ca. 1990s
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.
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.
Creator:
Goldstone, Duke
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.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dian Fauntelle, 2001.
[Identification of item], Duke Goldstone scrapbooks (Collection PASC 359). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
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.
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.
There is no specific arrangement to the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Goldstone, Duke--Archives
Scrapbooks.