BYU Library - Special Collections

Contains correspondence, research, photographs, and screenplay drafts for the Cooper's unproduced film project Children of the Sea. Includes correspondence on securing legal rights and between Cooper and motion picture production companies. Materials date from between 1930 and 1969.

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.

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.

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

Contains research, screenplays, photographs, and other materials from Cooper's production of Mighty Joe Young (1949). Includes story treatments, screenplays, and continuity treatments, production stills and photographic reproductions of Willis O'Brien sketches mounted on art board. Materials date from between 1921 and 1951.

Screenplay written by Ruth Rose and budget script, written in 1946.

Contains correspondence, research, scripts, photographs, and other materials related to Cooper's unproduced film project Young Men Never Die. Materials date from between 1933 and 1975.