Lee Simonson Papers, 1922-1933

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 181AN
Box   1
Folder   1a
Series: Biographical Information
Series: Production Files
The '40s: The Great Radio Comedians (WNET, New York, May 1972)
Note: Broadcast as part of the series Playhouse New York.
Box   1
Folder   1b
Correspondence, drafts, undated
Box   1
Folder   2
Miscellany, undated
Box   1
Folder   3
Notebooks of tiny trims, undated
Box   1
Folder   4
Production Notes, undated
Box   1
Folder   5
Stills Logs, undated
Fred Allen
Box   1
Folder   6-7
Allen's Alley, scripts, undated
Box   1
Folder   8
Paste-ups, undated
Box   1
Folder   9
Jack Benny transcript and paste-up, undated
Box   2
Folder   1
Edgar Bergen, transcript and paste-up, undated
Box   2
Folder   2
George Burns, transcript and paste-up, undated
Box   2
Folder   3
Bing Crosby, transcript and paste-up, undated
Box   2
Folder   4
Jim Jordan, transcript and paste-up, undated
Box   2
Folder   5
Arch Oboler, transcript and paste-up, undated
Box   2
Folder   6
Script, annotated, by Stu Hample, undated
Eames at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, 1973)
Box   2
Folder   7
Shot List, circa 1973-1974
Audio 741A
Series: Audio Recordings
Pamela Hansford Johnson Interview, circa 1968
741A/1
Time   0:01
The most productive period in Dylan Thomas' career
Time   3:20
Johnson's first meeting with Thomas
Time   6:35
Johnson's correspondence with Thomas and the topics they discussed
Time   8:20
Concerns and themes Thomas expressed in his poems
Time   8:80
Ethical attitude of Thomas
Time   9:75
Thomas: “instinctive man” vs “intellectual man”
Time   10:85
Johnson's dominant impression of Thomas
Time   11:75
Their exchange and criticism of each other's work
Time   12:50
Thomas' aim for obscurity in his poems
Time   13:30
Thomas' opinion and criticism of Johnson's literary work
Time   15:15
Thomas' changing moods and Johnson's attitude toward them (e.g., morbidity, depression)
Time   17:40
Johnson's first impression of Thomas at their first meeting
Time   18:70
Johnson's impression of Dylan Thomas, the person
Time   19:95
The publication and critical response to Thomas' first book, 18 Poems
Time   21:35
Johnson's opinion of Thomas' stature and ability as a poet
Time   22:64
Origin of 18 Poems
Time   23:10
Johnson's knowledge of Thomas' method of writing poetry
Time   24:90
Thomas' increasing difficulty in writing
Time   26:50
End of tape
741A/2
Time   0:55
Beginning of tape
Time   1:30
Thomas' ideas about literary infertility
Time   3:45
Thomas' health
Time   5:40
Thomas' obsession with the idea of death
Time   6:70
Thomas' attitude toward Swansea (his childhood home), Wales, and London
Time   16:05
Johnson's impression of what caused Thomas' early death (discusses drunkenness and overwork)
Time   17:85
Comparison of Dylan Thomas the legend with Dylan Thomas the person
Time   20:15
Thomas' contribution to poetry
Time   21:80
The last time Johnson saw Thomas (, 1948)
Time   22:85
How and why Johnson and Thomas drifted apart
Time   23:30
End of tape
Dylan Thomas Readings, undated
741A/3
Time   0:25
Thomas reading a poem (“Fern Hill”?) which describes his childhood
Time   4:90
Thomas describing his early poetry before an audience
Time   8:78
Thomas reading a poem, unidentified
Time   13:45
End of tape
Series: Film
AB 773-774
Paris 1900 [excerpts], 1946
Note: Producer unknown. Director: Nicole Vedres.
AB 775
Clay: Origin of the Species, 1964
Note: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. Director: Eliot Noyes Jr.
AB 776
Calendar [excerpt], 1960s?
Note: CBS.
AB 777
[Norman Corwin Radio Drama] [excerpt], 1972
Note: WNET, New York. Director: Perry Miller Adato.
AB 778
The Great Radio Comedians [outs], 1972
Note: WNET, New York. Director: Perry Miller Adato.
CA 574-575
Paris La Belle, 1959
Note: Argos Films. Director: Pierre Prevert.
DC 810-811
Man with a Movie Camera [music track]
GA 073
[Warsaw Ghetto], [circa 1940]
Note: Producer unknown.
SCA 001-130
An Eames Celebration [soundtracks], 1974
Note: WNET, New York. Director: Perry Miller Adato.
SCA 131-185
An Eames Celebration [dailies], 1974
Note: WNET, New York. Director: Perry Miller Adato.
SCA 186-191
Women's Film Festival [miscellaneous footage], 1972-1973
Note: WNET, New York. Director: Perry Miller Adato.
SCA 192-215
Dylan Thomas - The World I Breathe [miscellaneous footage], 1968
Note: WNET, New York. Director: Perry Miller Adato.
SCA 216-217
Eames at MoMA [miscellaneous footage], 1973
Note: WNET, New York. Director: Perry Miller Adato.