ABC Television Network scripts and production files, 1954-1974

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Summary

Creators:
ABC Television Network
Abstract:
Collection consists of materials related to the production, promotion and/or programming activities of television shows aired on the American Broadcasting Company from approximately 1954-1974.
Extent:
7.5 Linear Feet (16 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], ABC Television Network Scripts and Production Files (Collection PASC 220). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of materials related to the production, promotion and/or programming activities of television shows aired by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The materials appear to have belonged to offices handling promotion and/or programming procedures at the network as described by Harold (Hal) Garb, a correspondent in the files. (Garb was not personally acquainted with the Walt Disney Production files, most of which date previous to his arrival.) The bulk of the collection dates from the 1956-1959 and 1962-1974. Included are scripts, programming and/or promotional information, and production information from a variety of television shows, such as Griff (1973-1974), The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1973), and Walt Disney Productions such as The Mickey Mouse Club (1954-1959). The production,cprograming, and promotional material may include network memos, cast sheets, shooting schedules, story outlines, photo shoot orders, development reports and biographical sketches. Additionally there is script material, including a script written by Rod Serling, for a series titled The New People (1968).

Walt Disney Productions files appear to have been generated by Walt Disney Productions and copied to the network. It is not clear what office at ABC (if any) these files came from. They form a self-contained unit of materials exclusively associated with Disney television productions, which happen to have aired on ABC.

Acquisition information:
Gift, 1980.
Processing information:

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Processed by Julio Vera. Additions processed by Peggy Alexander, 2016.

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Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. ABC TV Programing Files
  2. ABC TV Promotional Files
  3. Scripts and Production files
  4. Walt Disney Productions

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], ABC Television Network Scripts and Production Files (Collection PASC 220). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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