Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Grubel, Robert M.
- Extent:
- 3 linear feet of papers.
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Robert M. Grubel papers span the years circa 1940-1970 and encompass 3 linear feet. The collection includes Grubel's notes and reference materials regarding photographic processes and chemical formulas; documents submitted by Grubel to the U.S. Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories in New Jersey on processing color film; a photocopy of a paper written by Grubel for the 1960 SMPTE convention on the CFI replenisher control; material for a film chemistry course he taught at Columbia College around 1968, and a collection of books on motion picture film and photography.
- Biographical / historical:
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Robert M. Grubel was an American chemist active in the field of motion picture film processing from the mid-1940s. For more than 35 years he ran the chemical lab at Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), a film laboratory and processing company in Hollywood that specialized in color film. For his work on the automatic developer replenisher system for CFI he received a 1960 Scientific or Technical Award certificate of honorable mention from the Academy.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Janet Grubel, 1998
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series: 1. Subject files; 2. Books.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Grubel, Robert M.--Archives.
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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333 S. La Cienega BlvdBeverly Hills, CA 90211, US
- Contact:
- (310) 247-3036 extension 2226