Summary Information

Title: Ernest Pendrell Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1939-1982

Creator:

• Pendrell, Ernest, 1913-1992

Call Number: US Mss 149AN; Audio 1773A; CC 034-CC 039; CC 958-CC 959; CD 085; DC 638-639; DC 726-DC 742; DF 675-DF 678; FH 166-FH 171; FH 209-FH 210; FH 356-FH 357; FH 363-FH 365; MCHC77-098; MCHC78-055; MCHC79-012; MCHC83-071

Quantity: 4.8 cubic feet (12 archives boxes), 57 audio recordings (1/4-inch reel), and 45 films (16 mm); plus additions of 0.8 cubic feet (4 half-archives boxes)
Repository:

Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Ernest Pendrell, a journalist and maker of television documentaries. The bulk of the collection consists of shooting scripts, research, transcripts of interviews, films, financial records, and reviews relating to ABC News' Scope and Directions series and several individual news specials aired by ABC. Among the subjects treated are marijuana and drug abuse, abortion, race relations, the welfare system, violence in Northern Ireland, nuclear power, and the Vietnam conflict and the problems of the veterans of that era. Also present are script materials for Guns of August (Universal, 1964), a full-length documentary film about World War I; Feeling Good, a PBS series on health; and files on several unproduced titles. Dramatic writings are less represented but include four plays and a script for DuPont Show of the Week (NBC).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0149an