The Weston Papers are a small collection that document the period 1976 to 1984, the years of his attendance at the University of Wisconsin. The collection is arranged into categories that parallel the academic and professional aspects of his career. Included are notes and papers written for classes taken to fulfill requirements for a Ph.D. in communication arts, working papers and annotated revisions of an uncompleted dissertation, notes for teaching, several scripts, and a small amount of material concerning WHA-TV programming. More information on the programs with which he was associated at WHA-TV is included in the files of that station held by the Historical Society.
ACADEMIC MATERIAL consists largely of hand-written class notes and syllabi. In addition, there are many seminar and class papers written on various aspects of film criticism and an outline, working papers, and three draft chapters for his proposed dissertation on The Twilight Zone. Also filed here are transcripts concerning his course work at Sienna College and Michigan State University.
PROFESSIONAL MATERIAL consists of files concerning Weston's activities as a writer, teacher, and producer. Included are an application to the Screenwriters' Workshop, unpublished plays, and lecture material for the film programming seminar and public broadcasting classes he taught. While the material on WHA-TV is scarce, there is one file on Cinema of... development and budget papers, and some viewer polls and other planning material concerning Marquee Theater.
