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Motion picture plays

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

"Men with Wings" signed script

 Collection — Item 1: [Barcode: 31197233635959]
Identifier: MSS 7533
Scope and Contents

"Men with Wings" script, signed by director William Wellman and actors Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, and Louise Campbell, and six civic leaders. Approximately 1938.

Dates: approximately 1938
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Merian C. Cooper and Ruth Rose script for Revenge, 1960

 Item — Box 21: Series 6 [Barcode: 31197238104746], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Sub-Series 8 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Annotated copy of script, including revisions suggested by A. Yukol.

Dates: 1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers / Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures / Revenge / Scripts for Revenge

Merian C. Cooper book and script papers for A thousand springs, 1945-1963

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Sub-Series I Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains correspondence, scripts, and other material related to book and script treatments for A Thousand Springs. Materials date from between 1945 and 1963.

Dates: 1945-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers / Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures / A thousand springs

Merian C. Cooper Enterprises, Inc. project records, 1924-1960s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 9 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, research, scripts, and other material related to television program proposals developed by Merian C. Cooper Enterprises. Materials date from between 1955 and 1969.

Dates: 1924-1960s
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers / Merian C. Cooper Enterprises, Inc. records

Merian C. Cooper Enterprises, Inc. records, 1919-1990

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 9
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, legal files, story ideas, treatments, scripts, and research materials from Merian C. Cooper Enterprises. Includes extensive documentation regarding a proposed television series about the United States Air Force Academy. Materials date from 1919 to 1990.

Dates: 1919-1990
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers

Merian C. Cooper notes from early drafts of A Thousand Springs, 1960

 File — Box 21: Series 6 [Barcode: 31197238104746], Folder: 16
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Sub-Series I Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Notes from early drafts of the book A Thousand Springs, written in 1960.

Dates: 1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers / Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures / A thousand springs / Merian C. Cooper book and script papers for A thousand springs

Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures, 1916-1975

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, synopses, treatments, publications, photographs, financial records, and research material on various projects that Cooper considered motion picture material, but that were never completed. The most ambitious of these was a film biography of General Claire Chennault, leader of the famed Flying Tigers of the American Volunteer Group. Other projects include Children of the Sea, Food of the Gods, Revenge, A Thousand Springs (from Anna Chennault's book of the same name),...
Dates: 1916-1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers

Merian C. Cooper papers regarding Argosy Pictures, 1948-1949

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains correspondence, script treatments, sketches, and other materials related to the development of Cooper's unproduced film project Food of the Gods with Argosy Pictures. Materials date from between 1948 and 1949.

Dates: 1948-1949
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers / Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures / Food of the Gods

Merian C. Cooper photographs of props, undated

 File — Box 64: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197233624433], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Sub-Series 3 File 864-871
Scope and Contents

Photographs of museum mock-ups of killer whale and giant squid.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers / Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures / Children of the sea

Merian C. Cooper screenplays and book drafts for Chennault of China, 1958-1960

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains research, screenplay drafts, photographs, and other materials from Cooper's unproduced film project Chennault of China. Materials date from between 1958 and 1960.

Dates: 1958-1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Merian C. Cooper papers / Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures / Chennault of China

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