Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Dick Dickson motion picture scripts ,
- Dates:
- 1930-1940
- Creators:
- Dickson, Dick
- Abstract:
- During the 1930s Dickson Dickson was a movie producer. The collection consists of 18 scripts related to Dickson's career, including Man from Bar-20 and Sons of the Pioneers from the Hopalong Cassidy series.
- Extent:
- 3 boxes (1.25 linear ft.)
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Dick Dickson motion picture scripts (Collection 223). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of motion picture scripts relating to the career of motion picture producer Dick Dickson. The collection includes items that reflect his association with Harry Sherman and a small number of scripts related to the Hopalong Cassidy series. Included in the collection are scripts for The Barrier, Beneath Western Skies, Border Vigilantes, Bullets and Bandits, Cherokee Strip, Escape to Paradise, Everythings on Ice, Fisherman's Warf, Gun Chores, The Light of the Western Stars, Man from Bar-20, Mysterious Rider, Our Town, The Round-up, Sons of the Pioneers, and Way Down South.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dick Dickson was born in 1897. He started his "movie business" career in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He took tickets, swept the floors, and rewound films in a silent movie house. He was a machine gunner in France during World War I. After the war he began working for Paramount in Des Moines, Iowa. By 1929, he and a partner owned thirty-three movie houses, which they sold one month prior to the stock market crash.
During the 1930s Dickson was a movie producer. He made many westerns including more than twenty Hopalong Cassidy films. Among his credits are American Empire, Buffalo Bill, Forty Thieves, and The Woman of the Town. Dickson was hired as executive manger of over 140 southern California movie theaters. In 1947, while serving as an executive with Fox West Coast Theatre Corporation, Dickson was tapped to be Executive Director in Los Angeles for the Friendship Food Train. Later, he was also involved in the promotion of the Freedom Train.
Dickson died on July 14, 1962 in Hollywood, California.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift, 1989.
- Arrangement:
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The scripts are arranged alphabetically by production title.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2008
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access and Notetab Pro; frontmatter gathered from MARC Record. Date of source: 2001.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections. Literary 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:
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[Identification of item], Dick Dickson motion picture scripts (Collection 223). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988