Jump to Content

> Home > Autry Museum of the American West
Collection Guide
∞ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8sj1mm2/
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Dunkel (John) Scripts and Papers
MSA.37  
No online items No online items
Collection location Contact Autry Museum of the American West
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Entire Collection Guide
Online Items
 
 
Table of contents What's This?

box 14, 27

Administrative papers 1953-1988

Scope and Contents

This series includes folders of general correspondence, correspondence with the National Endowment for the Humanities regarding the Origin of the Crown Dance script, correspondence with the UCLA Radio Archives, and correspondence regarding Gunsmoke. This series also includes a folder of correspondence and contracts with agents Candida Donadio and the firm Adams, Ray & Rosenberg. This series also contains financial records and writing credits on file with the Writers Guild of America.
box 14, 27

Correspondence 1953-1988

box 27

Finances 1969-1985

box 27

Writing credits 1986

box 1-18, 24-40

Manuscripts 1955-1985

Scope and Contents

The Manuscripts series of the John Dunkel Scripts and Papers makes up the bulk of the materials in this archive. It includes television scripts for shows such as Broken Arrow, Gunsmoke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Rawhide, The Rifleman, The Virginian, Western Marshall, and many others. The television script folders may include a script or story idea, notes, correspondence relating to the script, and a finished draft, when possible. The Manuscript series also includes scripts for pilots and other television projects, screenplay and story ideas, short stories, drafts and notes for a Navajo book project, book reviews, an article "Radio and television, Westerns on" for the Readers Encyclopedia of the American West, a symposium talk, poems, and research files for scripts, stories, pitches, and a documentary film idea.
box 1-18, 24-40

Screenplays 1945-1983

 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: Alarm at Pleasant Valley 1956

Physical Description: 1 folder1 script
Language of Material: English.
 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: Doc's Revenge MSA.37.2.1.2 1956

Physical Description: 1 folder3 copies of script
Language of Material: English.
 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: Cow Doctor MSA.37.2.1.3 1956

Physical Description: 1 folder2 copies of script
Language of Material: English.
 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: Dutch George MSA.37.2.1.4 1956

Physical Description: 1 folder2 copies of script
Language of Material: English.
 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: General Parsley Smith MSA.37.2.1.5 1955

Physical Description: 1 folder3 copies of script
Language of Material: English.
 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: Hunter MSA.37.2.1.7

Container Summary: 4 copies of script
 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: Indian Scout MSA.37.2.1.8

Container Summary: 1 copy of script
 

Screenplay for Gunsmoke: The Killer MSA.37.2.1.6

Container Summary: 2 copies of script
box 14, 16-18, 25-28

Literature 1938-1983

box 17-18, 25-27

Other manuscripts 1956-1981

box 27-28, 40-43, oversize Folder and roll

Memorabilia 1945-1979

Scope and Contents

The Memorabilia series includes artwork, reel-to-reel audio tapes, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, plaques, and a poster. The reel-to-reel tapes include a radio program entitled "The Story of Gunsmoke" originally broadcast on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C., April 25, 1976. The plaques were awarded to John Dunkel by the Writers Guild of America for the 1956 "Ghost Face" episode of Broken Arrow, the 1959 "Incident of the Dry Drive" episode of Rawhide, the 1959 "Day of the Hunter" episode of The Rifleman, and the 1961 "Incident of the Buffalo Soldier" episode of Rawhide.
oversize Folder and roll

Artwork 1960-1974

box 41

Audio tapes 1956-1976

box 27, 40, 42

Clippings 1945-1979

box 28, 40, 42

Photographs undated

box 42-43

Plaques 1956-1961

Collection Contents
Administrative papers
Manuscripts
Memorabilia
Home | Contributing Institutions | Collection Guides | Browse Map | About OAC | FAQs | Contact Us | Privacy Statement | Terms of Use | Accessibility
The Online Archive of California is a service of the UC Libraries, powered by the California Digital Library.