Jill Godmilow Papers, 1974-2010

Contents List

Container Title
Mss 1080
Part 1 (Mss 1080): Original Collection, 1974-2010
Physical Description: 5.0 cubic feet (5 records center cartons), 14 videodiscs, 3 videorecordings (2 1/2-inch VHS cassette and 1 3/4-inch cassette), 3 reels of 16 mm film, and 5 reels of 35 mm film 
Scope and Content Note

The Original Collection contains 16 series. It is divided primarily by film, with two additional series. The series are JILL GODMILOW, ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN, FAR FROM POLAND, LEAR '87 ARCHIVE (CONDENSED), THE LOFT TAPES: STUDENT FILMS FROM NOTRE DAME, NEVELSON IN PROCESS, THE ODYSSEY TAPES, THE POPOVICH BROTHERS OF SOUTH CHICAGO, ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, TALES, THE VIGIL, WAITING FOR THE MOON, WHAT FAROCKI TAUGHT, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, WHAT'S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS?, and WITH JERZY GROTOWSKI, NIENADÓWKA, 1980.

JILL GODMILOW contains materials pertaining generally to the filmmaker. These include book excerpts and articles by or about the filmmaker, materials regarding her production company, Beach Street Films, and general press and promotional materials. It also includes some publicity stills of the filmmaker.

ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN contains dialog lists, distribution materials, festival materials, and a DVD viewing copy of the film (VDA 094). It also includes some publicity stills from the film.

FAR FROM POLAND contains financial information about the film's production, dialog lists, distribution materials, festival materials, press materials, a 16 mm print copy (FG 913-914), and a DVD viewing copy (VDA 101). It also includes some publicity stills from the film.

LEAR '87 ARCHIVE contains distribution, fundraising, press and production materials, and a DVD viewing copy (VDA 091-093).

THE LOFT TAPES: STUDENT FILMS FROM NOTRE DAME contains promotional materials and related correspondence, a video preservation copy (VHB 340), and a DVD viewing copy (VDA 146).

NEVELSON IN PROCESS contains a dialog list and press materials.

THE ODYSSEY TAPES contains distribution materials, publicity correspondence, a video preservation copy (VBC 216), and a DVD viewing copy (VDA 147).

THE POPOVICH BROTHERS OF SOUTH CHICAGO contains distribution, exhibition, press, and promotional materials, a dialog list, a video preservation copy (VHB 295) and a DVD viewing copy (VDA 102). It also includes a publicity still from the film.

ROY COHN/JACK SMITH contains cash contribution records, dialog lists, distribution correspondence, festival brochures, press and promotional materials, and a DVD viewing copy (VDA 099).

TALES contains press and distribution materials.

THE VIGIL contains a DVD viewing copy (VDA 097).

WAITING FOR THE MOON contains A/P registers, budgets, contracts, daily call sheets and production reports, financial materials, production materials, press materials, dialog lists, music rights correspondence, promotional materials, distribution correspondence, and a 35 mm film copy (HC 416-420). It also includes publicity stills for the film.

WHAT FAROCKI TAUGHT contains general correspondence, dialog lists, distribution materials, production materials, grant and fellowship materials, press materials, a 16 mm film print (DF 598), a DVD viewing copy (VDA 095), and a DVD viewing copy of Harun Farocki’s original film, Inextinguishable Fire (VDA 096). It also includes publicity stills for the film.

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE contains casting documents, scripts, financial documents, literary options and agreements, correspondence, distribution, publicity, and press and financing materials.

WHAT'S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS contains a DVD viewing copy (VDA 100).

WITH JERZY GROTOWSKI, NIENADÓWKA, 1980 contains dialog lists, promotional materials, and a DVD viewing copy (VDA 098).

Series: Jill Godmilow
Box   1
Folder   1
Articles citing the filmmaker, 1986-1995
Box   1
Folder   2
Book excerpts
Box   1
Folder   3
General promotional materials
Box   1
Folder   4
Interviews, 1975-2006
Box   1
Folder   5
Laboratory for Icon & Idiom, Inc., 1985-1992
Box   1
Folder   6
Press materials, 1983
Box   1
Folder   7
Published writing
Box   1
Folder   8
Tribute brochures
Series: Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
Box   1
Folder   9-10
Dialog list
Box   1
Folder   11
Distribution and awards correspondence, 1974-1975, 1994
Box   1
Folder   12-13
Distribution and publicity materials
Box   1
Folder   14
Festival and museum screening materials
Box   1
Folder   15
Ownership and distribution correspondence and related materials
Box   1
Folder   16
Press materials, 1974-1975
Box   1
Folder   17
Press documents, 1974-1976
Physical Description: Photocopies 
Box   1
Folder   18
Promotional materials
Box   1
Folder   19
Television distribution materials
VDA 094
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: Far From Poland
Box   1
Folder   20
Accounts and deferments
Box   1
Folder   21
Advertisements for other Polish Solidarity subjects, 1982
Beach Street Films
Box   1
Folder   22
Business certificate
Box   1
Folder   23
Checking account register, 1986
Box   1
Folder   24
Remittance advice from Federal Express, 1987
Box   1
Folder   25
Cash day journal
Box   1
Folder   26
Check stubs and receipts, 1985-1986
Box   1
Folder   27
Correspondence, 1983-1986
Box   1
Folder   28
Daily ledger, 1984-1986
Box   1
Folder   29
Dialog list, 1984
Box   1
Folder   30
Dialog list
Box   1
Folder   31
Dialog list and cue sheets
Box   1
Folder   32
Distribution and interview materials, 1983, 1990-1997, 2000
Box   1
Folder   33
Distribution contracts and related correspondence
Box   1
Folder   34
Festival application materials, 1985-1987
Box   2
Folder   1-3
Festival materials
Box   2
Folder   4
The Film Fund distribution questionnaire
Box   2
Folder   5
Grants and applications
Box   2
Folder   6
International distribution, 1984
Box   2
Folder   7-10
Invoices and receipts, Beach Street Films, #101-224
Box   2
Folder   11
Letters of agreement
Box   2
Folder   12
Notebook
Box   2
Folder   13
Outline of scenes
Box   2
Folder   14
Paper by Marianne Connor, 1986
Box   2
Folder   15
Press and advertisements
Press materials
Box   2
Folder   16
1983-1985
Box   2
Folder   17
1984-2007
Box   2
Folder   18
1986, 1992
Box   2
Folder   19
Production notes and related correspondence, 1987
Box   2
Folder   20
Promotional materials, 1983-1984
Box   2
Folder   21
Promotional materials and related correspondence
Box   2
Folder   22
Royalty receipts from Facets Multimedia, Inc., 1987-1989
Box   2
Folder   23
Sales and rental correspondence
Box   2
Folder   24
Screen Actors Guild materials
Box   2
Folder   25
Shotlist by reel
Box   2
Folder   26
Storyboard and notes
FG 913-914
16 mm print copy
VDA 101
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: Lear '87 Archive
Box   2
Folder   27
Distribution
Box   2
Folder   28
Fundraising
Box   2
Folder   29
JVC camera documents and correspondence
Box   2
Folder   30
Press articles
Box   2
Folder   31
Production materials
VDA 091-093
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: The Loft Tapes: Student Films from Notre Dame
Box   2
Folder   32
Promotional materials and related correspondence
VHB 340
1/2-inch preservation video copy
VDA 146
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: Nevelson in Process
Box   2
Folder   33
Dialog list
Box   2
Folder   34
Press materials, 1978
Series: The Odyssey Tapes
Box   2
Folder   35
Distribution correspondence and publicity materials, 1981
VBC 216
3/4-inch preservation video copy
VDA 147
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
Box   2
Folder   36
Distribution and exhibition materials, 2010
Box   2
Folder   37
Press materials, 1978-1979
Box   2
Folder   38
Promotional materials
VHB 295
1/2-inch preservation video copy
VDA 102
DVD viewing copy
FG 915
16 mm print copy
Mss 1080
Series: Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Box   2
Folder   39
Cash contributions records, 1994
Box   2
Folder   40
Dialog list, 1995
Box   2
Folder   41
Dialog list
Box   2
Folder   42
Distribution correspondence and related materials (also for What's Underground About Marshmallows), 1995-1996, 2003
Box   3
Folder   1
Festival brochures, 1995
Box   3
Folder   2
Press materials, 1995-2001
Box   3
Folder   3
Promotional materials
VDA 099
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: Tales
Box   3
Folder   4-5
Press materials, 1971-1973
Series: The Vigil
VDA 097
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: Waiting for the Moon
Box   3
Folder   6
A/P registers, 1986-1987
Box   3
Folder   7
Bon de Command, 1986
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence on shipping production materials from Paris to New York City.
Box   3
Folder   8
Budgets
Box   3
Folder   9
Cast contracts
Box   3
Folder   10-11
Citibank account statements, 1984-1987
Box   3
Folder   12
Cost progress reports
Box   3
Folder   13
Crew deal memos
Box   3
Folder   14
Culturefront article, 1993
Box   3
Folder   15
Daily call sheets
Box   3
Folder   16
Daily production reports, 1986
Box   3
Folder   17
Duart Film Lab credit application form, 1987
Box   3
Folder   18
English dialog transcript
Box   3
Folder   19
Estimated final cost variances, 1986
Box   3
Folder   20
Final credits and related correspondence, 1986
Box   3
Folder   21
French article
Box   3
Folder   22
French taxes
Box   3
Folder   23
Insurance policy
Box   3
Folder   24
Invoices from Éclair Laboratory (Paris) and related documents, 1986
Box   3
Folder   25
IRC (International Distributor) correspondence, 1989
Box   3
Folder   26
Journal voucher register, 1986
Box   3
Folder   27
Lab financial
Box   3
Folder   28
Linda Hunt voice-overs, 1986
Box   3
Folder   29
Lined shooting script, 1987
Box   3
Folder   30
Location contracts
Box   3
Folder   31
Music rights and related correspondence
Box   3
Folder   32
Musical rights
Box   3
Folder   33
Petty cash log
Box   3
Folder   34
Petty cash voucher register, 1986-1987
Box   3
Folder   35
Picture research
Box   3
Folder   36
Post-Sundance Festival screenings and related correspondence
Box   3
Folder   37
Pre-production planning, 1984-1985
Box   3
Folder   38
Press materials, 1987-1988
Box   3
Folder   39
Producer's daily progress reports to funders, 1986
Box   3
Folder   40
Production contracts
Box   3
Folder   41
Production insurance, 1986
Box   3
Folder   42
Promotional materials
Box   3
Folder   43
Promotional materials and related correspondence
Box   3
Folder   44
Release forms
Box   3
Folder   45
Script (titled On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine), 1986 May 10
Box   3
Folder   46
Script continuity notes
Box   3
Folder   47
Service contracts
Box   3
Folder   48
Skouras (U.S. Theatrical Distributor) correspondence, 1988-1990
Box   3
Folder   49
Sundance Institute Production Assistance Program loan
Box   3
Folder   50
Title reports and related correspondence, 1986
Box   4
Folder   1
U.S. theatrical distribution materials, 1986-1987
HC 416-420
35 mm film print copy
Mss 1080
Series: What Farocki Taught
Box   4
Folder   2
Center for Community Television grant, 1994
Box   4
Folder   3
Conference
Box   4
Folder   4
Copyright and other legal papers, 1996-1998
Correspondence
Box   4
Folder   5
1991-1999
Box   4
Folder   6
1998
Box   4
Folder   7
Correspondence with Video Data Bank, U.S. distributor
Box   4
Folder   8
Dialog list, 1998
Box   4
Folder   9
Dialog list
Box   4
Folder   10
Distribution contracts and related correspondence, 1998-1999
Box   4
Folder   11
Editing, 1999
Box   4
Folder   12
European distribution rentals, 1998
Box   4
Folder   13-14
Festival screening
Box   4
Folder   15
Final script, 1998
Box   4
Folder   16
Guggenheim Fellowship
Box   4
Folder   17
Indiana Arts Commission grant, 1993-1995
Box   4
Folder   18
Institute for Studies in the Liberal Arts grant, 1997
Box   4
Folder   19
Introduction to Screening at University of Notre Dame
Box   4
Folder   20
Jill Godmilow Retrospective at the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, 1999
Box   4
Folder   21
Lab, 1996-1998
Box   4
Folder   22
National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1995
Box   4
Folder   23
New York State Council on the Arts grant, 1993-1996
Box   4
Folder   24
Notre Dame faculty research grant, 1996
Box   4
Folder   25-26
Pre-production
Box   4
Folder   27
Pre-production research
Box   4
Folder   28
Press kit and festival materials, 1997-2007
Box   4
Folder   29
Press materials, 1998-2003
Box   4
Folder   30
Print sale to UW-Milwaukee, 2000-2001
Box   4
Folder   31
Promotional materials
Box   4
Folder   32
Scripts and scene list
Box   4
Folder   33
Whitney Museum Biennial Exhibition, 2000
DF 598
16 mm film print copy
VDA 095
DVD viewing copy
VDA 096
DVD viewing copy of Inextinguishable Fire
Mss 1080
Series: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Box   4
Folder   34
American Playhouse correspondence, 1989-1990
Box   4
Folder   35-37
Casting
Box   4
Folder   38
Credits and script
Box   4
Folder   39
Editor and crew correspondence, 1989-1991
Box   4
Folder   40
Final script
Box   4
Folder   41-42
Financing
Box   5
Folder   1
Financing (continued)
Box   5
Folder   2
Japanese financing, 1989-1991
Box   5
Folder   3
John Jost and Roberto Cicutto correspondence, 1993
Box   5
Folder   4
Literary purchase and option agreements and related correspondence
Box   5
Folder   5
Location, 1990-1991
Box   5
Folder   6
NEA grant
Box   5
Folder   7
Option agreement and correspondence, 1988-1989
Box   5
Folder   8
Promotional materials, 1989
Box   5
Folder   9
Research
Box   5
Folder   10
Robert Altman's script for L.A. Shortcuts and related correspondence, 1990-1992
Box   5
Folder   11
Script correspondence with Martha Gies, 1987-1990
Box   5
Folder   12
Sundance, 1989
Series: What's Underground About Marshmallows?
VDA 100
DVD viewing copy
Mss 1080
Series: With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadówka, 1980
Box   5
Folder   13-14
Dialog list
Box   5
Folder   15
Facets Cine-Notes booklet, 2008
Box   5
Folder   16
Promotional materials
VDA 098
DVD viewing copy
M2011-083
Part 2 (M2011-083): Additions, 1984-1997
Physical Description: 1.0 cubic feet (1 records center carton), 14 audio recordings, 11 CD-ROMs, and 27 videorecordings (12 3/4-inch videocassette tapes, 10 Betacam SP videotapes, and 5 1/2-inch videocassette tapes) 
Scope and Content Note: Remaining unprocessed are additions to the manuscript materials for What Farocki Taught, audio recordings of the music from Antonia and Waiting for the Moon, audio recordings of radio interviews with Godmilow, and additional video and film copies of other Godmilow films listed in this finding aid.