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M2003-100
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Part 8 (M2003-100): Additions, 1943-1983
0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 2 cassette tape recordings
: Additions, 1943-1983, consisting of material relating to the publication of Bessie's notebooks kept while serving with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, documentation of unproduced films, Joaquin and The Last Volunteer, and other miscellaneous materials.
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Series: Miscellaneous
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Box
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Documents relating to Alvah Bessie's service with the Civil Air Patrol, 1943-1945; contracts, correspondence and press releases regarding the reprint of Alvah Bessie's novel Bread and a Stone and his Short Fictions in , 1983; scripts by Alvah Bessie for two films, Many Waters (eventually produced and directed by Dan Bessie as Tierra del Sol) and an unproduced film on nutrition
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Series: Spanish Civil War Notebooks
: Material relating to the publication in 1998, edited by Dan Bessie, of the notebooks Alvah Bessie kept while serving with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain in 1938, and on which his 1939 book, Men in Battle, was based.
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Box
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Correspondence between Dan Bessie, the governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, and members of Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, including Harry Fisher, Moe Fishman, Len Levenson, and Milton Wolff, about the publication project; draft preface, reader's report and proposal
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Box
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3
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Typescript of the notebooks as submitted for publication
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4
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Page proofs
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Series: Joaquin
: Unproduced film written by Alvah Bessie from a story by Dan Bessie and Severo Perez.
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5
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Annotated draft script; final script, 1974
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Series: The Last Volunteer
: Unproduced screenplay by Alvah Bessie and Arthur H. Landis, revised by Dan Bessie. See also the audio cassettes in this accession.
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Correspondence on the project, 1973-1975, mostly letters from Alvah Bessie, also from Arthur Landis, Dan Bessie, Milton Wolff, Martin Ritt
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Box
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7
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The Volunteers, a film-story treatment by Alvah Bessie, February 12, 1972
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Box
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8
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Continuity outlines, 1974
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Box
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Folder
9
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Alvah Bessie's first draft, undated
Photocopy of script
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Box
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“Final AB-AL & DB version, & re-worked by Dan, 1980”
Heavily annotated typescript
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Box
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“1985 version,” “original story by Arthur H. Landis, screenplay by Alvah Bessie with Dan Bessie”
Cyclostyled script
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Box
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“Pages revised and removed prior to , 1985 revision by Dan Bessie.”
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Box
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“Semi-Final Draft”/”Not final draft”, “original story and screenplay by Alvah Bessie, Arthur H. Landis, Dan Bessie”
Cyclostyled script
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Sound Archive
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Audio recordings with comments on the script for Dan Bessie's attention, dictated by Arthur Landis
2 cassette tapes
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