Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Papers, 1960-1966

Container Title
Series: Broadcast Television
Masters of Horror
Note: Television series by Showtime broadcast from 2005 October 28-2007 February 2.
General
Box   72
Folder   11
Copyright search results on “The Lurking Fear” for an unproduced episode
Box   72
Folder   12
Clippings on the series
Season 1, Episode 2: Dreams in the Witch House
Note: Directed by Stuart Gordon, script by Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli, based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, first broadcast 2005 November 4.
Script
Box   72
Folder   13
Hand-annotated typescript of script, undated
Box   72
Folder   14
Hand-annotated typescript of script, undated
Note: Originally in envelope marked “Dreams in the Witch House, 2nd Draft.”
Box   72
Folder   15
“H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch House” / by Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli, 2005 May 3
Physical Description: Typescript 
Note: An identical copy originally in envelope labeled “Master, Dreams in the Witch House, Final Draft, 2005 May 3.”
Box   72
Folder   16
Outline, 2004 December 28, and correspondence on the script
Production
Legal
Box   72
Folder   1
Copyright search results
Box   72
Folder   2
Director's and writer's agreements
Box   72
Folder   3
Clearances
Design
Box   72
Folder   4
Locations, sets, “Additional storyboards,” special effects
Box   72
Folder   5
Casting
Box   72
Folder   6
Director's production binder

Scope and Content Note
  • Insert list with storyboards
  • Prep memos
  • Director's shot list
  • One liner
  • Day out of Days
  • Script
  • Cast deals
  • Casting lists
  • Shooting schedule
  • Extras
  • Locations
  • VFX
  • Prosthetics
  • Storyboards/Art Department
  • Clearances
  • Music
  • Costumes
  • Props
  • Special FX/Equipment
  • Vehicles
  • Post/Timing
  • Stunts
  • Travel memos
  • Crew list
Box   72
Folder   7
Additional director's files

Scope and Content Note
  • Prep schedule
  • Crew list
  • Script, 2005 March 10-June 8
Box   72
Folder   8
Correspondence
Post-production
Box   72
Folder   9
ADR
Broadcasting
Publicity
Box   72
Folder   10
Synopses and Variety Comic-Con presentation
Box   72
Folder   11
Clippings
Season 2, Episode 11: The Black Cat
Note: Directed by Stuart Gordon, script by Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli, based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe, first broadcast 2007 January 19.
Script
Box   72
Folder   12
Synopsis
Box   72
Folder   13
Typescript, undated
“Black Cat”
Box   72
Folder   14
Second draft, 2006 May 1
Physical Description: Typescript 
Box   72
Folder   15
Third draft, 2006 May 5
Physical Description: Typescript 
Box   72
Folder   16
Fourth draft, first draft submitted 2006 May 9
Physical Description: Typescript 
Box   74
Folder   1
“The Black Cat” / revised, by Dennis Paoli & Stuart Gordon, based on 'The Black Cat' by Edgar A. Poe 2006 July 18
Physical Description: Typescript 
Box   74
Folder   2
Masters of Horror 2, The Black Cat /by Dennis Paoli & Stuart Gordon, based on 'The Black Cat' by Edgar A. Poe, Full White 2006 August 21
Physical Description: Typescript with handwritten emendations 
Production
Legal
Box   74
Folder   3
Signed copies of director's and writer's agreements
Box   74
Folder   4
Clearances
Design
Box   74
Folder   5
Research

Scope and Content Note
  • Portraits of Poe and his contemporaries
  • Pictures of Poe's houses
Box   74
Folder   6
Storyboards
Box   74
Folder   7
Makeup
Scope and Content Note: Schedules.
Casting
Box   74
Folder   8
Callbacks
Box   74
Folder   9
Portraits and résumés of final cast
Box   74
Folder   10
Director's production binder

Scope and Content Note
  • Original story
  • Script pages
  • Crew list
  • Oneline schedule
  • Cast and stunt day out of days
  • Shooting schedule
  • Continuity oneliner
  • White script
  • Stunt breakdown
  • Special effects breakdown
  • Property breakdown
  • Script (2006 August 21-September 6)
  • Storyboards
  • Photocopy of pages from a biography of Poe
  • Information sheet for film units working in Vancouver
Box   74
Folder   11
Vancouver shoot
Scope and Content Note: Schedule and call sheet.
Broadcasting
Box   74
Folder   12
Clippings
Comic books
Box   74
Folder   13
Dreams in the Witch House, comics derived from the television shows

Scope and Content Note
  • Version including episodes “Incident on and off a Mountain Road” and “Dreams in the Witch House”
  • Version with “Dreams in the Witch House” alone
Box   74
Folder   14
The Black Cat, independent comic-book version by Berni Wrightson, 1983 June
Scope and Content Note: Original color comic and black-and-white photocopy.