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Finding Aid for the Lorena Parlee Collection 1970 -
1996
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Title: Lorena Parlee Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1970 - 1996
Collection number: 85
Creator: Parlee, Lorena
1945-2006
Extent:
.5 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
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.
Physical location: Materials currently housed at the
UCLA CSRC library archive
Language of Material: Collection materials in English, Spanish
Collection is open for research.To view the collection or any part of
it, please contact the CSRC at http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/
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. [
[Identification of item], Lorena Parlee Collection, 85, Chicano
Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
Please the The Pedro Gonzalez Collection and the Isaac Artenstein
Collection
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Lorena Parlee
Mexico
Pedro J. Gonzalez