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Chennault of China, 1935-1986
Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Series 2
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, drafts, research, photographs, and other materials related to Cooper's unproduced film project Chennault of China. Materials date from between 1935 and 1986.
Dates:
1935-1986
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
Merian C. Cooper papers regarding Pioneer Pictures, 1936
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
Subseries contains correspondence, synopses, and other materials related development of Cooper's unproduced film project Food of the Gods with Pioneer Pictures. Materials date from 1936.
Dates:
Other: 1936