Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Lorena Parlee Collection,
- Dates:
- 1970 - 1996
- Creators:
- Parlee, Lorena 1945-2006
- Abstract:
- This is a small collection donated by Lorena Parlee's mother to the Center in 2007. It consists of LP records, color slides and papers related to her films, Mexico and Break of Dawn.
- Extent:
- .5 linear feet
- Language:
- Collection materials in English , Spanish
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Lorena Parlee Collection, 85, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Biographical / historical:
-
Documentary filmmaker Lorena Parlee died Aug. 18 after an extended illness. She was 61. Parlee was producer, director, and co-writer of the feature-length IMAX film "Mexico," an award-winner at San Jose's Cinequest Maverick Film Festival. Before working in film, Dr. Parlee was a Professor of Mexican and Chicano History at the University of California's Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses and press secretary to Cesar Chavez. In 1986 she produced, directed, and wrote "The Wrath of Grapes," an advocacy video for the United Farm Workers of America. She co-produced "Concerto for the Earth," a large-format Showscan 3D film, which was shown at the 1992 World's Fair Environmental Pavilion in Seville, Spain. Parlee was president of Sol Films, a 70mm large-format production company and of Reel View Productions, an archival and stock film research company for documentaries, feature films and commercials. At the time of her death she was a editing a feature length film about Chavez.
- Physical location:
- Materials currently housed at the UCLA CSRC library archive
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- ©2010
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from ColdFusion web application and SQLServer relational database. Date of source: July 2008
Access and use
- Restrictions:
-
Collection is open for research.To view the collection or any part of it, please contact the CSRC at http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/
- Terms of access:
-
For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center 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. [
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Lorena Parlee Collection, 85, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 193 Haines HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1544, US
- Contact:
- (310) 206-6052