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Documents the pursuit of camera improvements by an Argosy employee and the company's interest in the developing 3-D and Cinerama-type technologies. Included is correspondence related to Argosy's Cinerama stock holdings and trading records. Materials dated 1941-1953.

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Materials detail the sale of all Argosy rights to "The Fugitive," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," and "Wagonmaster," as well as Argosy's interest in ARKO, Inc. and rights to "Mighty Joe Young." Contains correspondence for the period 1950-1954, and the contract of sale and closing agreement. Materials dated 1949-1954.

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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.

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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.

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Contains correspondence, legal documents, photographs, and other material documenting Cooper's career as a film executive. Includes work with various studios, including RKO Radio Pictures and Argosy Pictures. Materials date from 1932 to 1962.

Scope and Contents Argosy Pictures Corporation records such as agreements, letters, budgets, and legal records on the produced film, "Rio Grande." Materials dated 1947-1950. Republic, the most successful of the many Poverty Row studios, churned out low budget musicals and serials, but seemed to specialize in Westerns and adventure films, so Argosy turned once again to a James Warner Bellah story. "Mission with No Record" became the final installment in the John Ford-John Wayne cavalry trilogy, under the title...