CIN. Theatre, Cinema, Television

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Lecture materials on world and European drama, letters pertaining to graduate-level curriculum revision, and chapters from Murphree's unfinished manuscript about John Dryden.

Abstract Edith K. Wolk, reverently preserved a lifetime of theatre (New York, London, Los Angeles, etc.) in this chronologically-filed collection of Playbills and programs dating from 1937 through 2004 (a year before her death). The collection represents both professional and amateur productions and is a time capsule of most of the major Broadway stage landmarks of the mid-to-late 20th Century. Through her devotion to theatre and collecting, Edith K. Wolk has preserved a Golden Age of modern theatre...

Abstract Dr. Ramón A. Figueroa, Associate Professor of Spanish at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi (2002 - 2020) began collecting Mexican film posters in 1994 as a hobby. The collection grew to one of the great private Spanish Language poster collections in the world, (including a secondary collecting interest in Cuban film posters). Dr. Figueroa credits his former teacher, Dr. Efrain Barradas (Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida Center for Latin...

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Theatre playbills and programs from the late 18th century to the present.

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The collection contains cinema posters and lobby cards. The majority of the posters are for individual films, with a small portion of the collection devoted to film festivals. The posters span the history of the film industry, from a newspaper insert for the 1916 D.W. Griffith silent epic "Intolerance," to a mini-poster for the 2017 blockbuster hit "Wonder Woman."

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Costume sketches, notes, photographs, and ephemera, belonging to theatre, cinema, television and dance costume designer, John David Ridge.

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One of the more prolific of scriptwriters from the "Golden Age" of radio and television drama and comedy, Preston Wood has produced an amazing and varied list of credits in his sixty-year career. The PRESTON WOOD SCRIPT COLLECTION spans every genre from the western to science fiction and includes many of the classic television episodes cited by broadcast historians and baby boomer fans of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

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Unpublished autobiography, agreements, correspondence, articles, circus tour cards, and circus programs concerning legendary tiger trainer, acrobat, aerialist, ringmaster and clown, Trevor "Tommy" Bale and writer Walter B. Gibson (famed ghostwriter for magicians Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, and Harry Blackstone, and the creator of one of pulp fiction's most enduring characters, "The Shadow").

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Theatre playbills, primarily for Broadway productions but also for productions off-Broadway and in Florida.