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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Republic Pictures Corporation records
Creator:
Republic Pictures Corporation
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0979
Physical Description:
69.5 linear feet
(139 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1935-1960
Abstract: Republic Pictures Corporation was created in 1935 by merging four minor studios. The studio produced mostly westerns in assembly-line
fashion, and occasionally produced a major motion picture under direction of Raoul Walsh, John Ford, or Orson Welles. The
collection consists of shooting and continuity scripts for approximately 2000 titles.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Materials without or with ambiguous box numbers, e.g. * or -, are currently not accessible.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of David Bloom, 1967.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9927230663606533
[Identification of item], Republic Pictures Corporation Records (Collection 979). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Republic Pictures Corporation was created in 1935; formed by Herbert J. Yates, owner of a film laboratory, by merging four
minor studios; created B movies, producing mostly westerns, in assembly-line fashion; occasionally produced a major motion
picture under direction of Raoul Walsh, John Ford, or Orson Welles; as B movies were eliminated in the 1950s, Republic abandoned
film production in favor of television programming; Yates retired in 1959.
Collection consists of shooting and continuity scripts for approximately 2000 titles. Includes Gene Autry, John Wayne, and
Roy Rogers movies as well as Orson Welles'
Macbeth.
Portions of this collection are available in duplicated or original form at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York), and at the University of Southern California.
Arranged in the following series:
- Continuity scripts (Boxes 1-61).
- Shooting scripts (Boxes 62-139).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Film scripts.
Motion picture industry -- Archives.
Republic Pictures Corporation -- Archives