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Performing arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Collection on centennial celebration productions

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 5368
Scope and Contents

Contains music scores and production scripts from Brigham Young University centennial celebration productions of the musical "Brigham!" by Arnold Sundgaard and K. Newell Dayley and other productions. Materials dated 1975 to 1976.

Dates: 1975-1976

L. Tom Perry Special Collections digital audio tape with music from The Ten Commandments and interview with Cecil B. DeMille

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232564424]
Identifier: MSS 8941
Scope and Contents

Digital audio tape recording transferred from an older medium. Recording has 2-disc Ten Commandments soundtrack by Elmer Bernstein and an interview with Cecil B. DeMille on his return from Egypt in 1956.

Dates: 1956

Arnold Friberg paintings for The Ten Commandments

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8821
Abstract

Collection of eight artistic renderings of Moses created by Arnold Friberg as commissioned by Cecil B. DeMille for the 1956 film The Ten Commandments.

Dates: approximately 1956

Robert P. Johannes papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2255
Scope and Contents

Materials include personal papers, color transparencies, photographs, and 16mm film relating to Johannes's career as a motion picture and television technician. Materials relate to the television series "Boots and Saddles" and motion pictures "The Conqueror," "The Searchers", "Timbuktu", and "MacKenna's Gold", as well as a 1956 expedition to Iran for a possible remake of the silent documentary "Grass". Television and film locations include some in Utah. Dated 1956-1969.

Dates: 1956-1969

Henry Koster papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8834
Abstract

Annotated scripts, scrapbooks, and 16mm film reels.

Dates: approximately 1936-1966

Jeff Spielberg collection of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8129
Scope and Contents

Contains 606 motion picture scripts created by Metro-Goldywn-Mayer (based in California) for their motion picture films. Includes scripts for films featuring major MGM stars including Joan Crawford. Dated approximately 1920-1980.

Dates: approximately 1920-1980

Robert Starling collection on Ice Cream and Elevators

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8724
Scope and Contents

Contains twelve 16 mm reels of film and sound associated with the production of the 1971 BYU student-made film "Ice Cream and Elevators." Includes a color internegative, a negative optical track, two work prints, A and B-roll Ectochrome commercial originals, a black and white work print, BYU newsreel production, Magnetic sound dialogue and effects track, magnetic sound music track, C-roll print, and a composite magnetic soundtrack.

Dates: 1971

Herbert Stothart digital audio tape recording

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232579075]
Identifier: MSS 8938
Scope and Contents

40 tracks of various Herbert Stothart compositions, including the following titles: Picture of Dorian Gray, We're Expendable, Adventure, The Green Years, Undercurrent, The Yearling, High Barbaree, and Unfinished Dance. Also includes tracks entitled Hollywood Bowl - China, and Stothart Reminisces. Dated approximately 1930-1949.

Dates: Approximately 1930-1949

Michael Van Wagenen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3757
Scope and Contents

Collection of film reels, audio materials, videotapes, DVDs and CDs, personal papers, scripts, books and manuscripts. Also included is a plaster face mask. Tapes are both originals and transfers, and include Low and Slow, Spirit Doctors, 38th Street Gangs, Art and Color, and Mundo Milagroso. Also included are tapes of research material, concerning the Navajo Weavers and Guatemala. Materials range from approximately 1980-2002.

Dates: Approximately 1980-2002

Margaret Blair Young papers

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239279489]
Identifier: MSS 9290
Scope and Contents A CD titled, "I am Jane" and labeled "BYU Black History Month; Margaret Young, Director; 2014." The disk contains a videorecording of a play directed by Margaret Blair Young about the life of Jane Manning and other African American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It details the journey of Manning and her family as pioneers to Nauvoo, Illinois. It also illustrates the lives of other black pioneers. The performance is based on early Latter-day Saint history and...
Dates: 2014