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+ Part 1 (Stevens Point Mss BS): Original Collection, 1929-1987

Sermons

Personal Ministerial Records

Correspondence

First Congregational Church, Wisconsin Rapids

Mission Education and Wisconsin Fellowship

General Congregational Council/UCC General Synod

News clippings, 1940-1976

Part 2 (M2003-092): Additions, 1908, 1944-1973, undated

Container	Title
	Fortress Note: Film directed by Stuart Gordon, script by Troy Neighbors and Stephen Feinberg, released in the United States by Davis Entertainment, 1993 September 3.
	Research
Box 22 Folder 5	Correspondence with researchers
Box 22 Folder 6	Miscellaneous Scope and Content Note: Obstetrics; United States port-of-entry procedures; use of the United States Great Seal; sleep deprivation; prosthetic devices; systolic arrays.
Box 22 Folder 7	Prisons Scope and Content Note: Especially Pelican Bay prison; filming in prisons; tattoos of inmates; Maori tattoos.
Box 23 Folder 1	Prisons (continued)
	Script
Box 23 Folder 2	“Fortress, screenplay by Troy Neighbors & Steven Feinberg and David Venable, story by Troy Neighbors & Steven Feinberg”: copyright 1988 Quantity: Cyclostyled script Note: Inscribed “Original Draft, this is the one to work from.”
Box 23 Folder 3	“Fortress, by Troy Neighbors & Steven Feinberg,” undated Quantity: Cyclostyled script with handwritten emendations Note: As the handwritten emendations describe 2013, the date of the story, as “22 years from now,” they were presumably written in 1991.
Box 23 Folder 4	“Fortress, Rewrite Outline, by Troy Neighbors & Steven Feinberg,” 1991 June 29, 1991 July 11, 1991 July 12, undated Quantity: Typescripts
Box 23 Folder 5	“Fortress, Notes on Production Re-write of 1991 August 18,” 1991 August 12: memoranda
Box 23 Folder 6	“Fortress, written by Troy Neighbors & Steven Feinberg” Quantity: Cyclostyled script Note: Marked “Production re-write, 1991 August 14.”
Box 23 Folder 7	“Fortress, revised pages by Terry Curtis Fox, from the script by Neighbors and Feinberg,” 1991 August 25 Quantity: Typescript
Box 23 Folder 8	“Fortress” / written by Troy Neighbors and Steven Fainberg : second re-write, 1991 August 29 Quantity: Typescript
	“Fortress” / screenplay by Troy Neighbors & Steven Feinberg and Terry Curtis Fox
Box 24 Folder 1	1991 September 13 Quantity: Typescript
Box 24 Folder 2	Third draft, 1991 October 8 Quantity: Typescript
Box 24 Folder 3	Memos from Terry Curtis Fox, John Flock regarding rewrites, Rick Cluchey memo, 1991 October-1992 April
Box 24 Folder 4	Handwritten script notes, including biography for character Abrahim
	Production
	Legal
Box 24 Folder 5	Stuart Gordon's director's agreement and related correspondence
Box 24 Folder 6	DeForest Research reports on branding and similar issues
Box 24 Folder 7	Budget
Box 24 Folder 8	Schedule
Box 24 Folder 9	Design Scope and Content Note: Lists and vitae of potential designers; information on holography; sketches for tattoos (including portraits of Maoris); machine designs; credits designs.
	Storyboards
Box 24 Folder 10	Pencil and ink sketches of storyboard frames Note: Originally in envelope labeled “Fortress Story Boards Originals.”
Box 25 Folder 1-2	Storyboard binder Scope and Content Note Opticals Trailer Enters Fortress Reveal Pro-Bot Dreams Fight on the Bridge Brennick's Alive!! Hologram Map Sequences Escape into Water Pipe Strikeclones Awaken Poe's Death, Fortress in Chaos Trailer Exits F. Truck Battle 9/13 Video Obsolete Bds Note: Originally in ring binder.
Box 25 Folder 3	Additional Storyboards
Box 88 Folder 1	Design sketches, mostly photocopies, a few hand-inked; one encapsulated and with designer's message to Stuart Gordon
	Special Effects
Box 25 Folder 4	Breakdowns
Box 25 Folder 5-6	Storyboard binder
Box 25 Folder 7	Stuart Gordon's Production Binder Scope and Content Note: Cast; Crew and contact lists; Script. Note: Originally in separate ring binder together with materials in next folder.
Box 26 Folder 1	Stuart Gordon's Production Binder (continued) Scope and Content Note: One-line schedule; Day-out-of-days; Video breakdown; Notes on script; Schedule. Note: Originally in separate ring binder together with materials in previous folder.
Box 26 Folder 2	Casting
Box 26 Folder 3	Crew lists
Box 26 Folder 4	Stunts Scope and Content Note: Prospectus from The Stunt Agency.
Box 26 Folder 5	Production memos
Box 26 Folder 6	Call sheets
Box 26 Folder 7	Miscellaneous production files Scope and Content Note: Timings; script day/night breakdown; boardroom reshoot; schedules for video for surveillance monitors; status report; bullet hit special effects inserts; barn location shoot memo.
Box 26 Folder 8	Australian studio facilities brochure; publicity materials from “Baitmaster” (Australian fishing tackle dealer)
Box 26 Folder 9	Trucks Scope and Content Note: Catalogues and correspondence with truck, forklift and crane manufacturers/renters.
Box 26 Folder 10	Clippings: Australian press on location shoot
Box 26 Folder 11	Souvenirs Scope and Content Note Private correspondence received during the Australian shoot (including letters from Stuart Gordon's children) Humorous letters and cards from cast and crew Christmas cards, 1991 Congratulatory letters on wrap (originally in envelope labeled “Fortress Souvenirs” which also contained many production photographs, separately filed)
	Post-production
Box 27 Folder 1	Contact lists, schedules, correspondence, screening schedules
Box 27 Folder 2	Automatic Dialog Replacement
Box 27 Folder 3	Zed-10 Quantity: script with dialogue by computerized voices
Box 27 Folder 4	Music Scope and Content Note: Names and vitae for potential composers for the film; correspondence.
Box 27 Folder 5	Credit titles
	Distribution
Box 27 Folder 6	Correspondence, 1992-1993
	Publicity
Box 27 Folder 7	Public relations: drafts of press releases on the film, 1992 Spring
Box 27 Folder 8	United States publicity materials and pressbook
Box 27 Folder 9	Japanese publicity brochures plus 1 color photo (4x5-inch) of production team?
Box 88 Folder 2	Posters for French release Quantity: 2 full-sheet posters
Box 88 Folder 3	Posters for Italian release Quantity: 1 half-sheet and 2 full-sheet posters
Box 88 Folder 4	Japanese posters Quantity: full-sheet and half-sheet posters
Oversize Folder 1 Item 2	French and Flemish poster Quantity: 1 poster (16x24-inches)
Oversize Folder 1 Item 3-4	Japanese posters Quantity: 1 poster (20x28-inches) ; 1 poster (41x28-inches)
Oversize Folder 1 Item 5-7	English-language poster Quantity: 3 posters (40x26-inches)
Oversize Folder 2 Item 1	Theater lobby cutout
	Previews
Box 27 Folder 10	Test screenings, 1992 March, April, 1993 March, May, July
Box 27 Folder 10	Analysis of preview surveys
Box 27 Folder 11	Festival screenings
Box 28 Folder 1	Pre-opening clippings and reports
Box 28 Folder 2	Box office reports, first and second week in United States distribution
	Clippings
Box 28 Folder 3	United States box office
Box 28 Folder 4-6	United States reviews
Box 29 Folder 1	International box office
Box 29 Folder 2	United Kingdom reviews
Box 29 Folder 3	Australian reviews
Box 29 Folder 4	Other international reviews
Box 29 Folder 5	United Kingdom Home Video version: Stuart Gordon's invoice for work on this version
Box 29 Folder 6	Book of the film: Rob Gerrand, Fortress (Melbourne, Australia: Bookman Publications, 1992)