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Guide to the Efrain Gutiérrez Papers,
1966-1998
M1103
M1103
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Title: Efraín Gutiérrez Papers
Identifier/Call Number: M1103
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1966-1998
Abstract: Scripts and production notes related to feature films and proposed projects. Miscellaneous correspondence. Production and
business documents: scripts, shooting notes, promotion, box office receipts, contracts, and legal correspondence. Original
posters for all three feature films. Photographs. Clippings include local and grassroots publications that are difficult to
find elsewhere. These provide a rare opportunity to study grassroots feature film production and distribution.
creator:
Gutiérrez, Efrain
Collections contains scripts and production notes related to feature films and proposed projects, miscellaneous correspondence,
production and business documents such as scripts, shooting notes promotion, box office receipts, contracts, and legal correspondence.
Also contains original posters for all three feature films, photographs, clippings from local and grassroots publications.
This collection provides a rare opportunity to study grassroots feature film production and distribution.
Efrain Gutierrez is a Chicano filmmaker whose film Don't Bury Me Alive! is the first Chicano-produced feature film. It addressed
a number of issues relevant to the Chicano civil rights movement. The film broke the Mexican film industry's monopoly on the
Spanish-language theater circuit in the United States. Guiterrez later directed and starred in two other feature films: Amor
Chicano es Para Siempre, 1977, and Run, Tecato, Run , 1979.
Efrain Gutiérrez Papers. M1103. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Purchased, 1999.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chicano Arts Theater.
Mexican American art
Mexican American authors
Mexican Americans
Motion pictures
Photoprints.
Screenwriters.