Shirley Clarke Papers, circa 1936-1983

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 145AN
Series: Part 1: Original Collection, 1952-1972
Subseries: Biographical Material
Materials of interest about Shirley Clarke
Box   1
Folder   1
1963, undated
Box   1
Folder   2-3
Clippings and articles, 1955 September 4-1972 February 7, undated
Box   1
Folder   4
Berlin trip, correspondence, 1965 September 7-1965 December 23
Box   1
Folder   5
European trip, correspondence and clippings, 1966 November 23-1968 August 2, undated
Box   1
Folder   6
Pictures of people Shirley Clarke admired (clippings), undated
Box   1
Folder   7-8
Notebooks, 1958 December-1965, undated
Box   2
Folder   1-2
Brochures, 1957-1972 June 25, undated
Subseries: General Correspondence
Box   2
Folder   3-4
Business, 1955 July 17-1972 September 12, undated
Box   2
Folder   5
Personal, 1955 May 13-circa 1970, undated
Box   3
Folder   1
Research material; correspondence, articles, and interviews, 1955-1966, undated
Subseries: Motion Pictures, Produced
Dance in the Sun (1953)
Box   3
Folder   2
Correspondence and clippings, 1952 December 2-1954 June
In Paris Parks (1954)
Box   3
Folder   3
Correspondence, notes, and music scores, 1953-1955
Bullfight (Halcyon Films, 1955)
Box   3
Folder   4
Correspondence and clippings, 1955 April 12-1969 February 11
Moment in Love (1957)
Box   3
Folder   5
Correspondence, clippings, and script cards, 1955 August-1970 September 11
Loops (Affiliated Film Producers, 1958)
Box   3
Folder   6
Correspondence, script cards, clippings and reviews, 1957 September 30-1968 December
Bridges Go Round (1958)
Box   3
Folder   7
Correspondence, clippings, reviews, research materials, 1957 April 12-1969 January 12
Skyscraper (1959)
Box   3
Folder   8
Correspondence, clippings and reviews, 1958 September 16-1966 November 16
A Scary Time (1960)
Box   3
Folder   9
Correspondence, clippings and reviews, 1959 November 23-1970 June 25, undated
The Connection (1960)
Box   3
Folder   10
Business correspondence and related materials, 1960 January 28-1968 March 30
Box   3
Folder   11
Research material, notes, transcript, script and editing code book, 1959 July 15-1961 March
Box   4
Folder   1
Daily scene reports, transcript, 1960 October 31-1960 November 11
Box   4
Folder   2-3
Clippings, reviews, and student critiques, 1961 April 6-1970 October 21
Frost: A Lover's Quarrel (1963)
Box   4
Folder   4
Correspondence, research materials, clippings, and reviews, 1959-1964 April
The Cool World (1963)
Box   4
Folder   5
Correspondence, budget material, and research material, 1962 February 8-1970 August 23
Box   4
Folder   6
Production materials, 1962
Box   5
Folder   1-3
Production materials (continued)
Box   5
Folder   4
Script draft and final script, 1962 August, and 1962
Package   1-2
Script cards, circa 1962
Box   5
Folder   5
Clippings, reviews, and student critiques, 1963 March 30-1969 June 17
Portrait of Jason (1967)
Box   5
Folder   6
Correspondence and budget material, 1966 May 10-1969 December 3
Box   6
Folder   1
Research material, production material, clippings and reviews, 1969 July 9-1969 December 19
Man and the Polar Regions (1967)
Box   6
Folder   2
Clippings and reviews, 1967 June
Kaleidoscope (1967)
Box   6
Folder   3
Correspondence, budget material, research material, clippings and reviews, 1966 April 26-1967 November 11
Lions Love (1969)
Box   6
Folder   4
Correspondence, script, clippings and reviews, 1969 February 7-1969 December
Ornette: Made in America (1985)
Box   6
Folder   5
Press materials, 1985-1986
Subseries: Motion Pictures, Unproduced
Files of never-completed productions
“Mime, Rose, and Players,” (1957)
Box   7
Folder   1
Correspondence and scripts, 1955 August-1969 September 29
“The Villain” (1958)
Box   7
Folder   2
Correspondence, research material, and clippings, 1958 January 3-1966 February 17
“Love Story” (1965)
Box   7
Folder   3
Correspondence, draft, and notebook, 1961 August-1967 February 19
“Googs” (1965)
Box   7
Folder   4-5
Script drafts and notebooks, 1965 June-August
“The Nightclerk” (1965)
Box   7
Folder   6
Correspondence, budget material, research material, and script notes, 1965 November 25-1970 January 30
Box   7
Folder   7
Scripts, 1965, 1968
“The Andrei Voznesensky Film” (1967)
Box   7
Folder   8
Correspondence, budget materials, research material, script notes, and clippings, 1967 January 16-1967 December; undated
“Butterfly” (circa 1967)
Box   7
Folder   9
Correspondence, undated
“Ornette Coleman Film” (1967)
Box   8
Folder   1
Correspondence and budget material, 1967 October 18-1969 February 14
Box   8
Folder   2
Budget material, 1968 July 31-1969
Box   8
Folder   3
Script notes and clippings, 1968 April 30-July 3; undated
Scripts considered for production
Box   8
Folder   4
“The Apple,” “Reverberations,” and “Love Child,” 1960, 1964, and 1965
Box   8
Folder   5
“La Vida,” “Three Target Pieces,” and “Six-Sixty-Six,” 1967
Box   8
Folder   6
“The Kodel Papers,” “The Film Club,” and “The Fox,” 1969; undated
Box   9
Folder   1
“Duppy,” “The Drums Make Me Nervous,” “Christopher and Me,” “Hot Ice,” “The Darkest Bough,” and “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” undated
Subseries: Film Festivals and Awards
Box   9
Folder   2
Academy Awards (1960), correspondence, 1960 March 18-April 5
Box   9
Folder   3
Cannes Film Festival (1961), correspondence and budget material, 1961 March 28-May 6
Box   9
Folder   4
Puerto Rico Film Festival (1966), correspondence, notes, and brochures, 1961 December 17-1966 March
Box   9
Folder   5
New York Film Festival (1968), correspondence and brochures, 1965 September 5-1968 April 10
Box   9
Folder   6
Svenska Filminstitutets Filmklubb (1968), clippings, 1968 January 30-March
Box   10
Folder   1
London Film Festival (1968), brochure, 1968
Box   10
Folder   2
Miscellaneous film festivals, correspondence, brochures and clippings, 1957 December 19-1968 March 8
Subseries: Lectures
Box   10
Folder   3
Robert Flaherty seminar, correspondence, brochures, and budget material, 1954 July 1-1964 August 31
Box   10
Folder   4
Northwestern and New York State lectures, correspondence, 1958 October 22-1966 May
Box   10
Folder   5
Ohio Colleges, Kent State, and Webster College lectures, correspondence and student critiques, 1968 July 31-1970 July
Miscellaneous lectures
Box   11
Folder   1
Correspondence and lecture contracts, 1957 April 24-1969 January 29
Box   11
Folder   2
Calendar, notes and brochures, 1958-1968
Subseries: Filmmakers Distribution Center
Box   11
Folder   2
Correspondence and budget material, 1957 September-1968 December 28
Box   11
Folder   3
Catalogs and clippings, 1965-1968
Series: Part 2: 1975 Additions, 1949-1974
Subseries: General File
Biographical material
Box   12
Folder   1
Articles and clippings, 1955-1973
Box   12
Folder   2
Interviews and miscellany, undated
Box   12
Folder   3
“New Look at an Old World, The Films of Shirley Clarke, a Critique,” by Joseph H. Gillis Jr., 1959 August
Correspondence
Box   12
Folder   4-5
General, 1955-1974
Box   12
Folder   6
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1959
Box   12
Folder   7
Robert Flaherty Foundation, 1972, 1974, undated
Box   12
Folder   8
Miscellany, 1949-1973, undated
Notebooks
Box   12
Folder   9-10
1971-1973
Box   13
Folder   1-4
1974, undated
Subseries: Production Files
Dance in the Sun (1953)
Box   13
Folder   5
Clippings and correspondence, circa 1953
Box   13
Folder   6
Musical score, circa 1953
A Paris Park (1954)
Box   13
Folder   7
Correspondence and film notes, 1955
Bullfight (Halcyon Films, 1955)
Box   13
Folder   8
Clippings and correspondence, 1955-1973, undated
Bridges-Go-Round (1958)
Box   13
Folder   9
Clippings, correspondence, and film notes, 1960, 1972-1974
Skyscraper (1959)
Box   13
Folder   10
Clippings and correspondence, 1959-1960
A Scary Time (1960)
Box   14
Folder   1
Correspondence, notes and 2 scripts, 1960, undated
The Connection (1960)
Box   14
Folder   2
Business agreement, 1961
Box   14
Folder   3
Clippings and reviews, 1960-1961, undated
Box   14
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1960-1961, 1973, undated
Box   14
Folder   5
Notes, undated
Box   14
Folder   6
First draft screenplay, by Jack Gelber, 1960
Box   14
Folder   7-8
2 Screenplays, by Jack Gelber, annotated, 1960
The Cool World (1963)
Box   14
Folder   9
Clippings, correspondence, and synopsis, 1964-1974
Portrait of Jason (1967)
Box   14
Folder   10
Correspondence and financial material, 1970-1974
Earth Visions
Box   14
Folder   11
2 scripts, original script by Judith Eglington with additional dialogue by Shirley Clarke, 1973 February 16
Box   14
Folder   11
Clippings, 1973
The Rose and the Players
Box   14
Folder   12
Script [schedule] and picture, undated
The Rose Ballet
Box   14
Folder   13
Scenario, undated
Studio 46 Tape
Box   14
Folder   14
Notes, record, and script, undated
Time to Smile
Box   14
Folder   15
Notes, including photographs, undated
Box   14
Folder   16
Notes and miscellaneous scripts, undated
Subseries: Films
DC 806
[Creative Arts Festival, Kent State] [1969]
Note: Directors: Shirley Clarke, Richard Myers, students of Richard Myers' Kent State cinematography class.
CA 560-564
[Assorted scenes]
Note: [Shirley Clarke?, 196-?]
CA 518
Brussels Loops [print]
Note

Affiliated Film Producers, 1958. Brussels World's Fair Commission of the U.S. Department of State [Sponsor]

Directors: Shirley Clarke, Donn Alan Pennebaker

Scope and Content Note: Eight of twenty-five 2-1/2 minute loops produced for exhibition at the American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Each loop is a montage of views of the American scene designed to run continuously. Loops include “Melting Pot”; “Coast to Coast”; “County Fair”; “Houses”; “Churches”; “Gas Stop”; “Nite Lites”; and “Sundown.”
AB 766
“Changing City” (Brussels Loops)
AB 770-771
Bullfight [C and D rolls]
Note: Halcyon Films, 1955. Director: Shirley Clarke.
AB 762-763
Butterfly
Note: [Halcyon Films?] 1967. Director: Shirley Clarke.
CA 553
The Cherub Film
Note: Northwestern High School Institute [195-?]. Director: Shirley Clarke et al.
CA 566-569
The Connection [unedited sound]
Note: The Connection Company and Allen-Hodgdon Productions, 1960. Director: Shirley Clarke.
AB 764, CA 557-559, GA 068, HA 073-077
The Cool World [sound outs, test, workprint]
Note: Wiseman Film Productions, 1964. Director: Shirley Clarke.
CA 554-556, DC 803
[DeCroux Film [miscellaneous footage, negative]]
Note: Halcyon Films [circa 1955]. Director: Shirley Clarke.
DC 804-805
Flight [unedited footage]
Note: [Shirley Clarke] 1953.
CA 551
In Paris Parks [Workprint]
Note: [Shirley Clarke] 1954.
AB 767
[Interview with Shirley Clarke]
Note: Producer unknown, February 29, 1956.
AB 769
[Joan class stuff #1]
Note: [Shirley Clarke, 195-?]
DC 807
[Lion's Love Set: Home Movies]
Note: Producer unknown [1968?]
AB 768
A Moment in Love [test shots]
Note: [Halcyon Films, 1957?]
CA 552
[New York University Class Project, Exercise #2]
Note: [Shirley Clarke, 1966-1967]
CA 536-546, CA 565
Portrait of Jason [outtakes, rough cut, soundtracks]
Note: Shirley Clarke and Filmmakers Distribution Center, 1967. Director: Shirley Clarke.
AB 765
A Scary Time [excerpts]
Note: [Halcyon Films] 1960. Director: Shirley Clarke.
CA 547-550
[School film [unedited footage]]
Note: Halcyon Films Inc., 1955. Director: Shirley Clarke.
GA 069
[Wendy [test]]
Note: [Shirley Clarke?, 195-?]
Audio 629A
Subseries: Tapes
629A/1-11
Portrait of Jason [Original recordings]
629A/12-22
The Connection [Unedited track and mixes]
629A/23
[School Film [Children's narration]]
U.S. Mss 145AN
Series: Part 3: 1987 Additions, circa 1936-1983
Subseries: General File
Biographical material
Box   15
Folder   1
Résumés, filmographies, etc., undated
Box   15
Folder   2
Interview transcriptions, 1980-1982
Box   15
Folder   3-5
Biographical clippings, reviews, announcements, 1964-1983
Correspondence
Personal
Box   15
Folder   6
Childhood letters, yearbooks, summer camp notes, circa 1936
Box   15
Folder   7
Lincoln High School yearbook, scrapbook, 1939, undated
Box   15
Folder   8
1958-1969
Box   15
Folder   9-13
1973-1983, undated
Box   15
Folder   13a
Carl Lee correspondence, 1965, undated
Box   15
Folder   14-19
Film/Video/Business, 1973-1983, undated
Box   16
Folder   1
Women's Interart Center, 1977
Box   16
Folder   2
UCLA Department of Theatre Arts, 1978-1982
Box   16
Folder   3
Income tax correspondence and forms, 1975-1982
Notebooks
Box   17
Folder   1-14
1973-1980s
Box   17
Folder   15
Undated
Box   17
Folder   16-17
Day books, 1953, 1974-1982
Box   17
Folder   18
Miscellaneous loose notes, undated
Subseries: Production Files
Shirley Clarke films
The Cool World
Box   18
Folder   1
Script (annotated) by Shirley Clarke and Carl Lee, 1962
Radio Drama for Two TV Balls
Box   18
Folder   la
Script (annotated) by Shirley Clarke, notes, 1974 May-June
Great Balls of Fire
Box   18
Folder   2
Script (annotated), circa 1975
Notes, 1974
Milk and Honey
Box   18
Folder   3
Proposal and Script by Susan Yabankowitz and Shirley Clarke, 1976 March 19
The Western
Box   18
Folder   4
Script (annotated by Shirley Clarke) by Gerald A. Browne, 1977?
Savage/Love
Box   18
Folder   5
Script (annotated) by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, 1979
Box   18
Folder   6
Notes and correspondence
Bigtime Boogie
Box   18
Folder   7
“Brill Bldg. Bigtime?” script by Sage Allen, 1979
Box   18
Folder   7
Notes and program
I Love New York: A True Romance
Box   18
Folder   8
Narrative script (1981) by Viva and Shirley Clarke
Box   18
Folder   8
Notes and correspondence
Nightclerk
Box   18
Folder   9
Script by Stephen Schneck, circa 1968
Box   18
Folder   9
Outline by Schneck? and Shirley Clarke, 1982
Tongues
Box   18
Folder   10
Script (annotated), by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, 1979
Box   18
Folder   10
Notes, budget materials, reviews
Kali Brown
Box   18
Folder   11
Proposal by Alan Howard and Shirley Clarke, undated
American Way
Box   18
Folder   12
Script (annotated), by Robert Thom, undated
Visions
Box   18
Folder   13
Notes , undated
Unidentified films and projects
Elsa Jane's Journal
Box   18
Folder   14
Script by Vicki Polon, 1974
Bapu
Box   18
Folder   15
Script by Donald Freed and Harold Lieberman, 1976
The Works
Box   18
Folder   16
Script by Julia Cameron, 1978
Ozark
Box   18
Folder   17
Script by Julia Cameron, 1979
Lovers
Box   18
Folder   18
Script by Fred Tan, 1980
Repo Man: Not Just a Job, It's An Adventure
Box   18
Folder   19
Script by Alex Cox, 1982
Reconstruction
Box   18
Folder   20
Scripts (annotated) and synopsis by Viva?, undated
Public Lives
Box   18
Folder   21
Script by Julia Cameron, undated
Knights of the Road
Box   18
Folder   22
Script by Richard Tate, undated
Free Lover
Box   18
Folder   23
Script by James Tobak, undated
Struggles of the Electrolight Cyborgs
Box   18
Folder   24
Illustrated synopsis, undated
Box   18
Folder   25
Untitled scripts (2), undated
Box   19
Folder   1-2
Proposals, outlines, and miscellaneous script material, 1972-1978, undated
Subseries: Miscellany
Box   19
Folder   3
Film festivals, 1977
Box   19
Folder   4
Clarke, Wendy, 1977-1982
Box   19
Folder   6
Grants, 1978-1980
Box   19
Folder   7
Jordan, Joan, Chapters of Civil Wars regarding Cool World, 1964?
Box   19
Folder   8
Lecture materials, 1976-1981
Box   19
Folder   9
License agreements and applications, 1977-1981
Box   19
Folder   10
Scott, Marion, project, circa 1978
Box   19
Folder   11
Women's Media Resource Center publications, 1978-1979
Box   19
Folder   12
Miscellaneous documents and notes, undated