McCarty (Clifford) collection, circa 1935-2004

Summary

Title:

Clifford McCarty collection

Dates:

circa 1935-2004

Creators:

McCarty, Clifford

Extent:

29 linear feet of papers.

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Clifford McCarty collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Background

Scope and content:

The Clifford McCarty collection spans the years circa 1935-2004 and encompasses 29 linear feet. The collection consists of McCarty's research files and includes articles and clippings on film music and film composers, correspondence with composers and other researchers, filmographies, music cue sheets, music scores, scripts, books, periodicals, and disc recordings. McCarty maintained files on composers with the intent of authoring a reference work, "Film Composers in America: A Biographical Guide to the Film Composers and Their Work." These files may include biographical questionaires, correspondence asking composers to confirm credits or other information, and biographical material retyped by McCarty from a variety of esoteric biographical reference sources. There are index cards with music credits for Abe Meyer Synchronizing Service, Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Republic, RKO, Triangle, 20th Century-Fox, United Artists, Universal, and Warner Bros. And, there are index cards with film composers' birth and death dates.

Biographical / historical:

Clifford McCarty spent most of his life in the book business after graduating from Los Angeles City College in 1953. His passion for film music lead him on a lifelong quest to document authorship of film scores, often through primary research at film studios. His writings include "Film Composers in America: A Checklist of Their Work," (1953) and "Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970" (2000). He contributed articles to "The Cue Sheet," "Down Beat," "Films in Review," "Film and TV Music," and "Pro Musica Sana," and wrote composer entries for "The New Grove Dictionary of American Music" (1986). He was one of the founders of The Film Music Society and served as the first editor of its quarterly journal, "The Cue Sheet," from 1984 to 1987. He edited the Society's first book, "Film Music 1" (1989). McCarty also authored or co-authored books on Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, and Frank Sinatra.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Maxine McCarty, 2005

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series: 1. Subject files

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

historians

Names:

McCarty, Clifford , 1929-2005--Archives.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Special Collections

Date Prepared:

© 2013

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from Inmagic. Date of source: November 13, 2013

Restrictions:

Available by appointment only.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the Margaret Herrick Library. Researchers are responsible for obtaining all necessary rights, licenses, or permissions from the appropriate companies or individuals before quoting from or publishing materials obtained from the library.

Preferred citation:

Clifford McCarty collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Location of this collection:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library

333 S. La Cienega Blvd

Beverly Hills, CA 90211, US

Contact:

(310) 247-3036 extension 2226

specialcollections@oscars.org

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