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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Mainerd Baker collection of scripts
Creator:
Baker, Mainerd
Identifier/Call Number: PASC.0274
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1940s-1970s
Abstract: Mainerd Baker was a musician and music copyist in Hollywood from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. The collection consists
mostly of radio and television scripts either collected by or related to the career of Baker
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of C. Plath, 2003.
[Identification of item], Mainerd Baker Collection of Scripts (Collection PASC 274). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9950576893606533
There is very little biographical information available about Mainerd Baker. He was a musician and music copyist in Hollywood
from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. Baker worked at many studios and networks and for many arrangers over the years.
The collection consists mostly of radio and television scripts related to the career of musician and music copyist Mainerd
Baker. The scripts are from productions in which Baker may have been involved with in some capacity and/or scripts that were
given to him by friends from the entertainment business who knew of his interest in collecting scripts. Included are scripts
from
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre,
Inner Sanctum Mysteries, and
This is Your Life.
The scripts are arranged alphabetically by program title.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Television scripts.
Radio scripts -- Archives.
Television scripts -- Archives.
Radio scripts
Baker, Mainerd--Archives.