Argosy Pictures Corporation business records
Scope and Contents
The records provide insight into legal and tax aspects of film production, as well as documenting the search for suitable story material and researching aspects of a film before production. Includes correspondence; legal, financial, and personnel records; story ideas; a scrapbook; photographs; and other documentation.
Dates
- 1939-1958
Creator
- Argosy Pictures Corporation (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Business records must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Administrative History
Argosy pictures was an independent film company organized to give John Ford and Merian C. Cooper creative freedom for motion picture production. Working with Walter Wanger Productions, RKO, Republic, and MGM, Argosy produced ten films between 1940 and 1953: The Long Voyage Home, The Fugitive, Fort Apache, Three Godfathers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Mighty Joe Young, Wagon Master, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, and The Sun Shines Bright. Noted for collaborations with writers James Warner Bellah, Frank Nugent, and Dudley Nichols; cinematographer Winton Hoch; and effects animator Willis O'Brien.
Extent
35 boxes (17.5 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
Finding aid available in repository.
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS1849.xml
Custodial History
The material was acquired in 1986 from a mechanical engineer. He received the records as payment for work done for the niece of an unnamed Argosy board member. The niece inherited the papers upon the death of that board member.
Appraisal
Arts and Communications.
- Account books
- Argosy Pictures Corporation
- Contracts
- Cooper, Merian C.
- Correspondence
- Culver City (Calif.)
- Ford, John, 1894-1973
- Letters
- Material Types
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah)
- Motion pictures -- Production and direction
- Photographs
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Republic Pictures Corporation
- Scrapbooks
- Tax returns
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
- Title
- Register of Argosy Pictures Corporation business records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Garrett Schroath
- Date
- 2011 April 4
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
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Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States