Summary Information

Title: Saul Landau Films and Related Material
Inclusive Dates: 1967-2002

Creator:

• Landau, Saul

Call Number: CC 533-CC 540; CC 542; DG 066-DG 067; FH 298-FH 305; VBC 307-VBC 314; VFA 070-VFA 075; VHB 688-VHB 719; VMA 007; VMA 288-VMA 292; VTA 042; M2009-084; Audio 1464A

Quantity: 19 film reels (16 mm), 8 video recordings (U-Matic 3/4 inch tape), 6 video recordings (Betacam SP tape), 32 video recordings (VHS 1/2 inch tape), 6 video recordings (MiniDV tape), 1 video recording (Betamax 1/2 inch tape), 22.0 cubic feet of film and video pre-print (11 record center cartons, 4 video boxes, and 55 loose cans), 0.2 cubic feet of paper (1 half archives box), and 125 audio recordings

Repository:

Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Films by Saul Landau, a documentary filmmaker, writer, professor, and Institute for Policy Studies Fellow, investigating social, political, and human rights in the United States and abroad. Landau’s films explore subjects such as Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution, nuclear radiation and cancer, prison life in San Francisco, CIA agents and activities, the election of Dr. Salvador Allende in Chile, political prisoners released from Brazil in 1970, Syrian life after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Mayan uprising in Chiapas, and the Watergate hearings. Also included are talk show programs by Landau done at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Note:

There is a restriction on use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2009084