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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Universal Pictures production files
Creator:
Universal Pictures (Firm)
Identifier/Call Number: 2314
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/5/resources/1193
Physical Description:
1046.4 Linear Feet
920 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1940s-1960s
Abstract: This collection consists of production files for films including scripts, screenplay drafts, continuity records, budgets,
shooting schedules, call sheets, and personnel files created by Universal Pictures during the 1940s through the early 1960s.
Language of Material:
English.
This collection is currently unavailable for access.
This collection is made of production files including scripts, annotated screenplay drafts, continuity records, budgets, shooting
schedules, call sheets, and personnel files. Records are grouped by department, then by project. Some titles represented in
the collection are:
Saboteur (1942),
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948),
Harvey (1950),
Glenn Miller Story (1953),
The Lone Hand (1953),and
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
This collection is currently 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, July 14, 1976.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Universal Pictures production files, Collection no. 2314, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Collection is partially processed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Scripts
Screenplays
Budgets
Schedules (time plans)
Universal Pictures (Firm) -- Archives