Finding Aid for the Collection of Motion Picture Background Stills, 1950-1960
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
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Book #1 - Aeronautics, Bridges.
Exterior airport building.
Exterior airport.
Exterior hangar.
Interior hangar.
Planes.
Amusements.
Birds.
Beach.
Buildings under construction.
Exterior camp - Tent.
Camps (Trailer)
Exterior camp - W.U. wagons.
Book #2.
Cemetery.
Estates.
Garden furniture.
Garden walls.
Gates and driveways.
Book #2A - Farms.
Farms.
Costa Rica coffee plantation.
England.
Mexico.
Farm fences.
Fields.
Book #4 - Miscellaneous, Races.
Industries.
Miscellaneous; Parks.
Races - Auto tracks.
Horse racing; Exterior stables; Interior stables.
Book #5 - Railroads, Roads.
Railroads - Engines; Freight cars; Passenger trains.
Exterior railroad station; Interior railroad station; Interior subway car; Exterior railroad tracks.
Roads.
Book #6 - Schools.
Mines; Schools - Athletic field; Exterior school.
Exterior school.
Exterior school; Miscellaneous - Docks and ships.
Docks, Norfolk, Va.; Docks, San Francisco; Naval ship, interior and exterior; Ship interiors "Titanic"; Cartoons.
Book #7 - Skyline Roof Tops.
Atlanta, Georgia; Rooftops - General; Rooftops - Small town; Belguim (Brussels); Beverly Hills; Boston; Buenos Aires; Chicago.
Costa Rica; France.
France.
Germany; Havana; Hollywood.
Italy; London.
Los Angeles; Mandalay, Mexico; New Haven, Connecticut; Quebec.
Book #7A.
Hong Kong; Japan; Rome.
Sacramento; Salt Lake City; Sandakan; San Francisco.
Trenton, N.J.; Trieste; Ankara, Turkey; Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Parks in Washington, D.C.
Book #8 - Sports, Vehicles.
Ballpark; Bowling alley.
Football; Golf courses; Tennis courts.
Telephone wires and poles, Towns; Vehicles - Autos, trucks, etc.
Book #9 - Water.
Water - Bay; Lakes.
Stream.
Book #10.
Apartments - 2nd floor level; apartments, backs and side views.
Apartments, shooting up; Apartments, ground floor set-up; Garage apartments; Bank interior; Exterior barracks; Blacksmith shop.
Book #10A.
Cabins; Cabins - Mountains.
Cabins - Southern sets; Church exterior; Church interior; Clubhouse golfcourse; Bungalow court; Doorway.
Book #10B.
Barn interiors; Close-ups - farm buildings.
Medium shot - farm buildings; Homes - farm houses
Long shot - farm houses; Garage; Gas stations; Hacienda.
Book #10C.
Residential backyards.
Residential backyards; Residential front yards.
Residential front yards.
Book #10D.
African homes; Homes - Argentina; Homes - Mexican.
Homes - Mexican; Philippines; Unidentified homes.
Book #10E.
Hospital interior and exterior; ExtArior hotels with grounds.
Motels; Office exterior; Office interior.
Prison; Public [Libraries]
Store interiors; Saloon; Store windows; Theater backstage; Warm Springs Foundation, Georgia.
Book #11.
Book #11A - Clouds.
Book #11B - Clouds.
Book #12 - Desert.
Desert buildings; Cactus.
Cactus.
Cactus; Death Valley; Desert fences.
Desert fences; Exterior desert mine.
Book #12A - Desert Mountains.
Book #12B - Desert.
Desert mountains and rocks.
Desert mountains and rocks.
Desert mountains and rocks.
Desert rocks.
Desert rocks.
Book #12C - Desert Mountains and Trees.
Book #12D - Desert.
Palm Canyon; Desert roads.
Desert ruins; Desert sand dunes.
Desert sand dunes.
Palm trees in desert; Desert - Joshua trees.
Book #13 - Mountain Tops.
Barren mountain tops.
Close barren mountains.
Low rolling mountains.
Low rolling mountains.
Book #13A - Mountains.
Mountains and trees - shrub covered.
Mountains - Shrub covered.
Mountains - Shrub covered.
Mountains - Some snow.
Mountain tops - Snow.
Book #14(?)
New York buildings - day.
New York buildings - day.
New York buildings - day.
New York buildings - night.
Book #14A - New York.
New York buildings - from park, day.
New York buildings - from park, night; Day (snow) Central Park, etc; New York: buildings from park - night, snow.
Art gallery; Back yards and patios; New York bridges.
Book #14B - New York.
New York - New York State in winter; Brownstones, etc.
New York City homes; Exterior churches; Interior churches; Grand Central Station - interior and exterior.
Hospital interior and exterior; Streets - Lower Eastside; Exterior Grant's Tomb; Exterior police precinct, New York City; Exterior Eastside, New York City.
Restaurants interior and exterior; Sidewald cafe, European; Rockefeller Center.
Subway kiosk; New York World's Fair; interior office building; Exterior Washington Square.
Book #15.
Airport; Bridges, New York; Buildings; Clouds.
Desert; Foreign [miscellaneous]; Mountains.
Niagara Falls location; Public buildings; Railroad; Rocks.
Snow; Skylines; Trees, shrubs, bushes; Tents.
Book #16 - Movie Sets.
Adano Square bakery set; Anna and the King of Siam - Cromwell sets.
Anna and the King of Siam - Cromwell sets (Neg. #A478)
Bernadette Convent garden set; Bernadette French street set.
Bernadette French street set; Bernadette grotto set on golf course.
Book #16A.
Missouri location; Exterior moor - Scotland; New mission set.
New Mexico location - set of Two Flags West (Neg. #A596); Niagara (Hathaway Neg. #x1678); Outpost camp from Manila Calling.
The Robe - set; Studio buildings; Sunday Dinner for Soldier - set.
Tonight We Sing (Neg. #A675); Tropical sets - Camp Pendleton, etc.; Exterior village - Welsh.
West Point - set at Sherwood Forrest; Wickiup (huts).
Book #16B.
My Cousin Rachel. (Neg. #A684)
My Cousin Rachel. (Neg. #A864)
English - Escape. (Neg. #A533)
King Khyber Rifles - Lone Pine set. (H. King, Neg. #A714)
Book #16C.
Scotland; Miscellaneous exterior sets.
Miscellaneous interior sets.
Miscellaneous interior sets.
Miscellaneous interior sets.
Way of Gaucho - set stills.
Miscellaneous exterior sets.
Book #16D.
Chinese Village set; Captain from Castile (Neg. #A508); Convict Lake - set.
Convict Lake - set; Desert Fox; Diplomatic Courier. (Neg. #A655)
The Egyptian - tombs, Red Rock Canyon; Exterior sets, Miscellaneous; Kilimanjaro sets; Egyptian.
Book #17 - Snow.
Lifts - Sun Valley; Town of Ketchum; Railroad station, Ketchum, Sun Valley.
Quebec Railroad station; Railroad shed and tracks; Rodeo grounds, Sun Valley; Homes and streets (residential) - snow.
Snow buildings and sets.
Snow cat; Ottawa - snow.
Quebec - snow; Vermont; Exterior shrine - Switzerland.
Lakes - snow.
Book #17A - Snow.
Trees, some snow, mountains with some trees.
Snow and mountains, snow and trees.
Snow and mountains, snow and trees.
Snow and mountains, snow and trees.
Book #17A - Snow.
Book #18 - Streets.
Alleyways; Streets - Apartments.
Streets - Business; Chinatown; Western and Midwestern streets.
Western and Midwestern streets.
Western and Midwestern streets; Old New York streets.
Book #18A - Streets - Residential.
Book #19.
Eucaplyptus trees; Jungle.
Orchards; Palm trees.
Pine trees.
Pine trees.
Pine trees.
Pine trees; trees - scenic effect.
Book #19A - Trees.
Trees - flat country; trees and low rolling mountains.
Trees and low rolling mountains; Trees and mountains.
Trees, mountains, and rocks.
Trees, mountains, and rocks.
Book #19B - Trees.
Trees with fence.
Trees with fence.
Trees with fence.
Road through trees.
Book #19B.
Road through trees.
Book #19C - Trees.
Tree trunks.
Tree trunks.
Tree trunks; Burned-out area.
Book #19D - Trees - Wooded Grove.
Foreign Views.
Villa Palmieri, Florence.
Villa Palmieri, Florence.
Villa Palmieri, Florence.
Villa Palmieri, Florence.
Villa Palmieri, Florence.
London - miscellaneous stills, some color.
Miscellaneous views.
Item (Neg. #A543) Movie - "Down to the sea in ships."
Scope and Content Note
Movies - Stills, Negatives, Blow-ups.
"All about Eve." (Neg. #A597).
"Adventures in Paradise." ca. 1961.
"Adventures in Paradise."
"A bell for Adano." (Neg. #A450).
"The big lift." (Originally titled "Two corridors east")
"The big lift."
"The big lift."
"The big lift."
"The blue light."
"Chicken every Sunday." (Neg. #A546).
"Deep waters." (Neg. #A529).
"The fan." (Neg. #A255, A2949, A549).
"For heaven's sake." (Neg. #A606).
"The farmer takes a wife." (Neg. #A671).
"Forbidden streets." (Neg. #A554).
Movies - Blow ups.
Note
"The gun fighter." (Neg. #A586).
"It happens every spring." (Neg. #A564).
"No way out." (Neg. #A588).
"The racers." European racing movie.
"The racers."
"The racers."
"Road house." (Neg. #A541)
"Sunday dinner for soldier." (Neg. #A441).
"Talispin."
"That wonderful urge." (Neg. #A542).
"Ticket to Tomahawk." (Neg. #A581).
"Unfaithfully yours." (Neg. #A539).
"Where the sidewalk ends." (Neg. #A591).
Glass Negatives.
Scope and Content Note
Movies - Negatives and Slides.
"Hombre." (Neg. #A867).
"Hombre."
"Justine." (Neg. #G50)
"Justine."
"Justine."
"Three on a couch." (Neg. #8817 (?)).
"Three on a couch."
"Valley of the dolls."
Negatives - Miscellaneous.
Desert views.
Jenny Lake, Wyoming.
Snow scenes. (Neg. #F26)
London.
New York City (?)
"100 rifles." Western movie.
Stone house.
Teton Mountains, Wyoming.
Washington, D.C. (?)
Unidentified western negative. (Neg. #Fll).
Unidentified western negative. (Neg. #8199).
Make-up techniques.
Unidentified miscellaneous negatives.
Non-Pictorial Matter.
"Adventures in Paradise." Correspondence.
"Adventures in Paradise." Notes.
"Adventures in Paradise." Carbon of notes.
"The big lift." Notes.
"The fan." Notes with photographs attached.
"The fan." Notes with photographs attached.
"Mr. 800." Notes. (Neg. #A559)
Ditto master of instructions to photographers.
List of negatives used for rake-up technique. 1950.
Note
Miscellaneous notes removed from negatives in boxes #47 and #48.