The collection is divided in to five series: Good Machine, This is That, Personal, Scripts,
and Films.
The Good Machine and This is That Series are both subdivided into smaller sub-series. The
Administation sub-series covers the overall legal, administrative and financial aspects of
owning and operating a film distribution company. The Development sub-series documents
relationships with directors and film projects the companies tried to produce. The Films
sub-series encompasses the various aspects of film production and distribution. A number of
films in each series have extensive coverage enabling researchers to track the life cycle of
a film from pre-production to release. The Good Machine series is further subdivided to
include information on two subsidiaries of Good Machine - Art Fear and Good Fear.
The Personal series documents Hope's life and career, not related to Good Machine or This
is That, from college to 2009. Included in this series are Hope's college notebooks,
pre-Good Machine film projects and employment contracts, interviews and publicity covering
his career, notes from the various seminar talks Hope gave covering aspects of the film
business, Academy membership materials, and much more.
The Scripts series are various scripts Hope received which had no notation indicating a
connection to either Good Machine or This is That.
The Films series run the gamut of interviews with Hope, an
interview series where Hope and Christine Vachon interviewed people in the industry,
presentations given by Hope, award presentations, as well as Hope's college film project and
short films by various directors including Hal Hartley, Nicole Holofcener, and Frank Grow to
name a few.
The collection also includes a few audio recordings which are interfiled in the paper
collections.
