Part 4 (M2000-030, Audio 1578A/9-31, VHB 433-VHB 440): Additions, 1946-1997
Physical Description: 12.0 cubic feet (12 record center cartons), 130 photographs (1 archives box), 23 audio recordings, and 8 video recordings 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1946-1997, consisting primarily of script files for produced or projected moving pictures, television series and programs, and stage plays, for which Mandel wrote, adapted, or contributed, the most comprehensively documented being "The Candidate's Wife" (1991), "China Diary" (1986), "Citizen Cohn" (1991), "Disney" (1994), "The Great Danes" (1992), "July's People" (1989), and "Shoreline" (1989). Also included are notes, drafts, and correspondence relating to the unpublished novel "Found Out" (1979). Materials relating to some of the projects also include location photographs, tape-recorded interviews, and publicity materials.

Series: Miscellaneous

Loring Mandel's box lists for this accession

Certificate of Architectural Record Award of Excellence for House Design, 1972
Note: Presented to Mr. and Mrs. Loring Mandel for their house by Richard Henderson, 1972; letter from WCFTR, 1972 February 23.

Series: Professional and Legal Files

ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)

Correspondence and official papers regarding Loring Mandel's membership in ASCAP, 1973
Note: Including sheet music for song "Wheels," written in collaboration with Nancy Ford for television series Love of Life.

Columbia Film School
Note: Mr. Mandel was appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Film Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York, in January 1997, but after a few weeks, he was hospitalized for a severe back problem. He arranged for other writers to take over his class and never went back.

Correspondence with administrators, faculty and students, and course outlines and class lists, 1997 Spring Semester

Contracts and Legal Files
Note: Files of contracts and other legal documents, with accompanying correspondence, arranged by topic, and filed separately by Mr. Mandel (many of the script files listed below also include copies of contracts and related correspondence).

Miscellaneous television contracts

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night: Musical (02089-004), 1966-1994
Note: Contracts and related correspondence, 1966-1994, concerning the musical version of the CBS Playhouse episode scripted by Loring Mandel.

Attica (02089-005), 1975-1993
Note: Contracts and related correspondence.

William Morris Agency v. WGA and Mandel et al. (02089-006), circa 1987
Note: Correspondence and depositions regarding this 1987 lawsuit.

Buffy (Promises in the Dark/Death with Dignity) (02089-007), 1976-1981
Note: Contracts and correspondence regarding the moving picture Promises in the Dark, originally developed under the titles Buffy and Death with Dignity.

Entebbe (2089-008), 1976-1977
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Quinn Case (02089-009), 1976-1977
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Advise and Consent (02089-010), 1959-1987
Note: Contract, 1959 and related correspondence to 1987.

Time-Life Television Production Inc. (LBJ/Tom & Joanne) (02089-011), 1978-1984
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Flowers/The Fifth Victim (02089-012), 1977-1980
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

New Novel (02089-013)
Note: Correspondence regarding taxable status of assigned literary property.

Peekskill (02089-014), 1979-1980
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Court House (02089-015), 1979-1980
Note: Correspondence.

ABC Circle Films (Carol Burnett) (02089-016), 1980-1989
Note: Contract and correspondence regarding untitled film project with Carol Burnett.

Katerina Bloom (02089-017), 1980-1989
Note: Correspondence regarding The Lost Honor of Katrina Bloom.

Wills (02089-018)
Note: Wills of Loring and Dorothy Mandel.

Little Drummer Girl (02089-019), 1983-1984
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Ben and Joanna (02089-021)
Note: Contracts and correspondence, 1983.

Bernstein, E/O Bella (02089-022)
Note: Affidavits, correspondence, will, concerning the decease of Bella Bernstein (Dorothy Mandel's mother).

Two against the Mob (02089-024), 1984-1987
Note: Correspondence, contracts.

Snow (02089-026), 1985-1986
Note: Contracts and correspondence regarding China Diary.

Surgical Malpractice (02089-027), 1987
Note: Contracts and correspondence regarding Shoreline/Exits and Entrances.

July's People (02089-028), 1988
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Bailey's Bridge (James Earl Jones TV Project) (02089-029), 1988
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Four Times Married (02089-031), 1990
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

The Candidate's Wife (02089-032), 1991
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Citizen Cohn (02089-033), 1992
Note: Contracts and correspondence.

Series: Writings and Speeches on Film and Television

Congress, 1977 May 11
Note: Material related to Loring Mandel's appearance before a Congressional Committee considering the problems of television.

Articles for New York Times, 1970-1978
Note: Drafts, notes, research materials, correspondence. Two articles written for the New York Times.

"How I'd Save Television," circa 1986
Note: Article in Parade (Sunday supplement), May 11, 1986, pp. 6-7 (the title was added by the editor, Walter Anderson, against Loring Mandel's wishes). Correspondence, notes, drafts and finished version.

A Salute to George Roy Hill, circa 1989
Note: Appreciation and history of each of the films directed by George Roy Hill, for a retrospective of his films at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and other venues in 1989. Correspondence, typescript, proofs and printed brochure.

Series: Writing Projects in Film, Television, Theater, The Novel
Note: Unless otherwise stated, the scripts for all these projects are by Loring Mandel.

Miscellaneous folder I, 1973-1974
Note: Outlines, notes, ideas, correspondence, research, etc., including the projects listed:
Jon Wilkman's proposal for a television film series, "The American Sound Project" in which Mr. Mandel was to serve as Senior Writer/Story Editor
Sketches of ideas for television series Ray, Book, Soap and Michael's Life (for the last, compare with Box 11, Folder 9: Mike's Life)
Jumbo Jim Folette, a television drama
The Ring, a television series(?) about a Congresswoman
Untitled television film about John Dunlap and James Forten
Voyage, a musical play
Untitled television play or series about an alien
The Golden Girl, a television drama and/or pilot for a series on Barbara Wilcoxon, 1974; and other projects

Miscellaneous folder II
Note: Folder of more miscellaneous development ideas, some are duplicates of material found elsewhere, many are not. In addition, clippings and notes not clearly related to particular projects.
Cathy, television drama proposal (or pilot for series), undated
Ray, idea for a television series (compare with Box 3, Folder 1), undated
"Science-Fiction Dream," description of dream, 1974 February 4
[Lindeman], television play outline about persecution of nuclear scientists, undated
The Old Family, story idea, undated
The Experiment, proposed television play for the U.S.I.A., 1971
Jane, television series or drama proposal, 1974
Winslow House / by Christopher Sarson, television series proposal on the elderly, 1975
The Fall, television drama proposal, undated
Television program proposal fictionalizing conservation issues, undated
Article draft on the Arts in Society, undated
Statement on untitled project with Cliff Marantz, 1970
Gone and Back, notes for a television drama or series, undated
Information for letter from Phyllis to George Litto, September 20, 1971, list of potential projects
Television drama project variously entitled A Piece of the Action (1971), and The Lady and Her Doctor

Play ideas
Note: Undated fragments of plays, including Look, but Don't Touch! and Watchdog.

Script ideas I
Note: Many notes and sketched ideas, some from as far back as Mandel's college days.
Annamarie, television(?) drama, 1974 August 3
Tina, pilot script outline for television series The Wesker House, 1968 February 23
Readout, television play proposal for George Schaefer: 2 drafts, 1971 June 20, 26
Occuphase, proposal for television series, undated
The Hawk, episode for series The Prosecutor, proposal written for David Susskind, with drafts and correspondence, 1970
Group of papers folded together:
Clippings on Soviet science, 1959
The Tank, outline of film or television drama on secret defense-sponsored research, undated
The Voyage from One to Four/The Adventure of the Marine Fox (one of these may be series title, the other episode title?)
Outline of proposal for a television series about Marine corps journalists, and various research clippings and notes
Idea for an episode of CBS television series Pursuit, 1958
Research materials on William "Boss" Tweedd
Idea for episode of CBS television series Suspense, undated
Free Minds at Lackaby Falls, idea and correspondence for episode of Playhouse 90, 1957
"Series Ideas": two pages of ideas for television series The World of the Future-Prophesy, Youth Board, Indian Boy, Improvisation, The Murder of a Good Man, and Shooting Star
Correspondence about a contemporary American-Indian story for television, 1955-1957
Life and Death of Frank Skillen, idea for a television(?) Western, undated
Handwritten and typed pages with lists of varied story ideas
Panic on Saturday, outline of television drama, undated
Shooting Star, outline of television drama, undated
The Secret, outline for a television(?) drama, undated
Lincoln Krumm's Swan Song, outline for television(?) drama, undated

Script ideas II
Note: The Burglar of Momoyomo-Cho, story idea sent to Loring Mandel by Paul (?), undated
She's Only a Bird, television play proposal with outlines, clippings, undated
Aunt Magda, television drama outline, undated
The Invader and Armstrong, television series episodes notes and outlines, undated
The Belt, outline of television drama, undated
All Expenses Paid, outline of television drama, undated
The Ex-Patriot, outline of television drama, undated
Devil's Gallery, series of story outlines for television series (?)
Exchange Child, outline and notes for television drama, undated
Notes and correspondence for television script about Huddy Ledbetter, 1954.

Alternative Medicine new stories, 1992

A. Philip Randolph Story, The, outlines, notes, correspondence, 1991-1997
Note: Television drama by Loring Mandel and David W. Rintels. Research materials originally included a photocopy of James Neyland, A. Philip Randolph (Los Angeles, Melrose Square, 1994).

Acts of Devotion: television drama, script, third draft, 1981 December 22

Althaus
Note: Project based on a true story developed for a West Coast Producer in 1995, but never to the point of a script outline. Includes email printouts, research clippings, computer files (printed out at SHSW, March 22, 2000) of source material, outlines.

The American Parade (CBS News), "The Case against Milligan" script, undated
Note: Original television drama, broadcast January 26, 1975.

Archer's War: script, 1971 March 24
Note: Unproduced motion picture. Script pages dated March 24, 1971, with cover letter from Jerome Hellman Productions, May 28, 1987; script fragment (18 pages), pages dated December 1, 1971.

Bailey's Bridge, television pilot script, 1988

Contract between Nutshell Productions and Weintraub Entertainment Productions Inc., to produce, 1988 October 24

Outlines and annotated draft script, "1st rough draft," 1988 December 5

First draft of script in Weintraub Entertainment Group folder, 1988 December 12

Draft, clean printout, undated

Research notes and clippings, records of research trips, correspondence with comments on drafts, proposals for emendations, notes
Note: Also outline of screenplay Hail to the … by Connie Kaiserman, sent to Loring Mandel in connection with correspondence about Bailey's Bridge.

Bison, correspondence, research materials, notes, outlines
Note: Project proposed in 1995, a fictional story including true historical characters, about the near-extinction of the bison and its saving.

Breaking Up: script, revised to 1976 July 16
Note: Original television play for David Susskind, Time/Life Television.

Bree, correspondence, notes, outlines, 1993
Note: Proposed TV biography of Bree Walker, West Coast TV newsperson.

Buffy/Promises in the Dark

Buffy, film script for Flaxman Film Corporation: script, undated

Buffy, original movie-of-the-week: script, first draft, 1974 January 3

Promises in the Dark: screenplay, revised 1978 July 3

CBS Playhouse

"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," broadcast 1967 October 17

Television play, revised to 1967 May 6

Original television play to be taped April 3-7, 1967, final revised March 27, 1967, revised 1967 May 10

Television drama: photocopy of published version of script, undated

Drafts of several scenes of a version as stage play, undated

"Shadow Game"

Script final draft as taped: mimeograph typescript with handwritten emendations, 1969 March 7

The Candidate's Wife
Note: Television film for Ohlmeyer Productions, 1990-1991. Research materials filed with these manuscripts originally included photocopies of Abigail McCarthy, Private Faces/Public Places (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1972), and Ellen Proxmire: One Foot in Washington: The Perilous Life of a Senator's Wife (Washington, D.C.: Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1982). See also the videotapes of LBJ: The Difference He Made, broadcast May 3 1990, listed separately.

Contract, 1991 April 19

Characters, back story and synopsis, 1990 August 30
Note: Also includes draft script of beginning of Act 2; cast list and scene breakdowns; outlines.

Research notes, including reports on statements of Washington informants and comments on HBO's criticisms of the project

Untitled script draft, undated
Note: In envelope labeled "Unedited 1st Draft, Candidate's Wife (Potomac Fever)."

Untitled script: "First Draft before copyproofing," 1991 February 13

"Potomac Fever": script first draft, 1991 February 14

"Potomac Fever": script draft in Ohlmeyer Productions, Inc., 1991 February 15
Note: Binding titled "Potomac Fever, First Draft."

"The Candidate's Wife": script first draft, 1991 March 29

"The Candidate's Wife": script draft in Ohlmeyer Productions folder, 1991 April 1

"The Candidate's Wife": script "first draft," 1991 April 10

"The Candidate's Wife": script, revised, 1991 June 11

Research materials, general: clippings, Senate daily schedules, photocopies of Texas electoral laws, etc.

Research materials: Indonesian Embassy banquet

Chevalier
Note: Screenplay for pilot episode of television series by Loring Mandel with Frank Pierson for CBS, 1992.

Pilot script, 1992
Note: Includes notes, correspondence, outlines.

Draft script, undated

Trial printout for editing, 1992 November 18

Draft, 1992 November 20

Third draft, 1992 December 11

Fifth draft, 1992 December 30

China Diary
Note: 1986 television program on the lives of Edgar Snow and Helen Foster Snow.

Correspondence about contracts and related questions

Research: clippings, bibliographic material, etc.

Research: visit to China, 1986

Transcripts and notes on tape-recorded interviews made on China trip

Articles by Edgar Snow: photocopies

Articles on Edgar Snow in the Chinese press: typescripts of English translations

Helen Foster Snow: correspondence with Loring Mandel, 1985-1986
Note: Includes clippings and articles sent by her to Mandel while he was researching the program.

Lists of photographs taken by Helen Foster Snow in China, 1930s

The Gung Ho Papers / Helen Foster Snow (privately published, 1985)

Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China / Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow) (privately published, 1961)

Notes on Korea and the Life of Kim San / Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow) (privately published, 1961)

My Yenan Diaries / Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow) (privately published, 1961)

"RVMM Excerpts": typescript photocopy
Note: Excerpts from article or book by Helen Foster Snow.

Lora Sabin, "My Time in History": The Story of Nym Wales in China (B.A. thesis, Stanford University, 1981)

Extracts from Agnes Smedley, Battle Hymn of China

Notes, mostly handwritten by Loring Mandel, a little related correspondence

Outlines, 1985-1986
Note: Mostly by Loring Mandel, but including Tim and John Considine's proposal of February 6, 1984.

Comments on outlines and draft scripts, 1985-1987, undated
Note: By John Considine (undated), Tim Considine (December 12, 1985, February 8, 1986, April 4-7, 1986, and May 20, 1986), Clyde Derrick (September 9, 1986 and April 20, 1987), Dighton Spooner of CBS (July 29, 1987), and Bill Wells of CBS (September 8, 1996), also some with no clear author or date.

Script: Part One, First Rough draft, undated, with pencil emendations.

Script: Part One, First Draft, 1986 August 15

Script: Part One, First Rough Draft, 1986 August 20

Script: Part Two, First Rough Draft, with accompanying notes 1987 February 21

Script: Part Two, First Draft, with accompanying notes 1987 May 1

Chokeberry Stop, 1974
Note: Television series idea developed by Loring Mandel with Franklin Heller (it was rejected at Paramount, but subsequently, a very similar series by Bob Newhart proved successful).

Notes, clippings, correspondence, outlines

Correspondence, clippings, notes, suggested emendations, 1974
Note: Includes similar material, labeled "Hotel Idea," 1976-1979; 1981-1982 correspondence; clippings 1974-1990.

A Christmas Present for the Kids
Note: One-act play.

First draft, folder dated 1966 March 30

The Circle
Note: Proposal for a daytime television serial, 1973.

Correspondence, notes, outlines

Citizen Cohn
Note: Television film script written by David Franzoni for HBO, rewritten by Loring Mandel 1991-1992, broadcast August 22, 1992. See also the videotape of the program as broadcast, listed separately.

Shooting script by David Franzoni, 1989 October 10

Shooting script by David Franzoni, 1989 November 21

Shooting script by David Franzoni, 1990 March 30

Shooting script by David Franzoni, 1990 April 25

Shooting script by David Franzoni, 1990 September 17

Shooting script by David Franzoni, 1990 September 17-1991 October 26

Contract for rewriting with Loring Mandel and related correspondence

Notes, proposed revisions, research clippings

Citizen Cohn shooting script by David Franzoni and Mitch Booker [pseud. for Loring Mandel?], 1992 January 29 with revisions to 1992 March 27 (pages color-coded)

As above, but all white paper

Script revisions, 1992 January 29-February 28

Writers Guild of America arbitration on the script credit: Loring Mandel's statement as "Writer B," 1992 April to July

Clippings of reviews and HBO flyer on the film

Cloakroom
Note: Unproduced television series for Herb Brodkin (Titus Productions), 1969.

Pilot script

The Coming Asunder of Jimmy Bright
Note: 90-minute television drama, broadcast December 1971, written for a PBS station in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which won the Corporation for Public Broadcasting award for Original Drama.

Outline

DC
Note: Proposed television series.

Proposal by George Bellak, and Loring Mandel's outline for the pilot episode ( drafts, notes, 1966?)

DC Idea

Proposal for a "DC Idea," 1996 June 5

Democratic-Party Campaigns
Note: Texts written mostly for local (Long Island, New York) campaigns by Democratic politicians, 1959-1964, with smaller amounts on the presidential and congressional elections of 1964 and 1968. See also the photographs listed separately.

Correspondence, scripts for radio commercials, brochures, newspaper advertisements, and speeches, clippings

Disney
Note: Filmscript for HBO, 1994. Research materials for this project originally included copies of Marc Eliot, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince (Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1993), and The Saturday Evening Post, November 17, 1956 to January 5, 1957, the issues containing Diane Daisy Miller, "My Dad Walt Disney." See also the sound recordings of interviews with friends and associates of Walt Disney listed separately.

Correspondence with HBO on the project, draft outlines, revised script pages, comments from readers and responses, contracts, 1992 October 20-1994 October 30

Loring Mandel's research notes

Research materials: photocopies

Loring Mandel's expenses

Annotated draft, with additional scenes, dated 1993 December 27
Note: Originally in envelope labeled "First Draft-uncut w/notes"

Draft (headed "First draft"), with endnotes, 1994 January 9

Draft (headed "First draft"), without notes but with pencilled emendations, labeled "LM's copy," 1994 January 9

Draft (headed "First draft"), without notes but with emendations, labeled "LT pers." 1994 January 9

Draft (headed "First draft"), annotated version with notes and bibliography, in envelope labeled "First submitted draft," 1994 February 7

Draft (headed "First draft"), without notes, 1994 February 7

Draft (headed "Revised draft"), with notes and bibliography, 1994 May 16

Draft (headed "Revised draft"), in HBO binding, with handwritten shooting suggestions, 1994 May 16

Draft (headed "Revised draft), 1994
Note: May 16, 1994, with corrections May 24, 1994, without notes.

Draft (headed "Revised draft"), without notes, 1994 October 21

Dungeons and Dragons
Note: Proposal for a screenplay, written for Jerome Hellman, 1980-1981.

Notes, correspondence, outlines, research clippings

Encounter
Note: Screenplay for Compass Productions, to be directed by George Schaefer.

Script, 1971 January 4

Episode

Stage play for Wender & Associates, 1969 December 8

Episode, outline of stage play or television drama, undated

First Continental Congress
Note: Proposal for a television celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Congress in 1974.

Outlines, NEA panel comments, notes, correspondence, 1973-1974

Five'll Get You Twenty
Note: Local amateur musical done as a benefit for the Huntington Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women, written as a collaboration between Loring Mandel and two members of the Chapter, Molly Schoen and Bunny Jungreis (now Bunny Hoest, the comic strip author), undated.

Typescripts, notes, musical

Flowers
Note: Play for GJL Productions.

First draft, 1977 October 13

Found Out
Note: Unpublished novel, 1979.

Outline notes

"Master Note List": notes

Notes

"Found Out, Fragments & Ideas, 2"

"Mandel, Found Out": draft of pages 1-43, photocopies of these pages in "D #1" below, but with slightly different emendations, 1979 January 22-1979 March 14

"Loring Mandel, Found Out, first draft, Chapters 8-14": draft of pages 47-161, dated 1979 April 14 to 1979 June 20

"Loring Mandel, Found Out, first draft, Chapts 15 & 16, 7/19/79"

"Novel D #1," dated 1979 January 22 to 1979 August 2

Found Out, First draft of first seven chapters, … 4/5/79," in folder labeled "2D 1-7 Master"

"Found Out, Draft 1-7": emended version of the above

Detailed Revision Notes, D1

"Found Out, 1st Uncorrected Draft, Master," 1979 August 2

Revisions-Ch. 1-12," undated

Chapters 13-21 (presumably second half of above)

"Found Out, After 1st Rev D, Notes & Misc.": clippings, notes, correspondence, 1981-1982

Notes for Revising

Revised draft, chapters 1-5, 7

Revised draft, chapters 1-6

Revised draft (later than above), chapters 1-7

Revised draft (first 50 pages later revision than above)

Outline, and fragment sent to Alex, undated

Four Times Married/Bible
Note: Television mini-series for Hearst Entertainment, 1990.

Contracts

Outlines: various drafts, 1990 May-June

Outline submitted to Writer's Guild of America, 1990 August 12

Outline, revised, 1990 September 6

Notes

Game
Note: Proposed television drama written for George Schaefer, 1971.

Research materials, notes, correspondence, outlines and proposals

The Great Danes
Note: Project on Danish resistance in World War II, 1992. Research materials grouped with these manuscripts originally included photocopies of John Oram Thomas, The Giant Killers, the Story of the Danish Resistance Movement, 1940-1945 (New York: Taplinger, 1976) and David Lampe, The Savage Canary, The Story of Resistance in Denmark (London: Cassell, 1957), and bound published copies of The Training Ship Danmark under the Dannebrøg and the Stars and Stripes (Copenhagen: Samleren Forlag, 1985) and George Putz, Eagle: America's Sailing Square-Rigger (Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1986); also various Danish government pamphlets on tourism in Denmark, guide-books, maps, etc. See also the photographs and the tapes of interviews listed separately.

Production correspondence

"The Great Danes, Outline for a Film Dramatization of the Stories of the Danish Resistance, by Kristine Jane Jensen, copyright October 1990," 1990
Note: Outline, with vitae of Loring Mandel and Chiz Schultz, photocopies of photographs and maps; The Great Danes, story by Loring Mandel; letter of support from Danish Radio; drafts of outline and correspondence; one-page version (several drafts).

Correspondence, schedules and detailed diary and report on a research trip to Denmark, 1992 April 24-May 6

Christine Jane Jensen's research materials: clippings, extracts from books on Danish personalities and places, records of interviews on the project, S.O.E. handbook on plastic explosives, and material on the training ship Danmark

"The Resistance Group Hvidsten … as told by Jørgen Røjel and translated by Kristine Jane Jensen": typescript with cover letter to Loring Mandel, 1991 July 8

The Healer
Note: An original screenplay written for Franklin Schaffner. It was first proposed as the premiere presentation of the Kaiser Aluminum Hour in July of 1956, but the ad agency turned the idea down as controversial, so Schaffner commissioned it as a film. It would have been both his and Mandel's first film.

Carbon copy of script of version for stage, undated

Healy/Damn August
Note: Screenplay, 1991-2. Grouped with these manuscripts originally were also various pamphlets on filmmaking in Kansas prepared by the Kansas Film Office. See also the location photographs for this film listed separately.

Research, notes, odd pages of script, location maps, outline

Harvest, first draft, 10/20/91, with pencil emendations

Harvest, first draft, 10/20/91, variant

Damn August, first draft, 1992 February 25

Damn August, first draft, 1992 April 16

Henry Ford/The Hot One
Note: Projected fiction film or television program based on the life of Henry Ford, provisionally titled The Hot One, 1964-6, revised 1976 as a proposal for a biographical film or television program on Ford.

Outlines and proposals

Correspondence on The Hot One, 1964-1966

Research notes on Henry Ford and the automobile industry

Research clippings on Henry Ford, 1923-1976

Research: Henry Ford Literature, three volumes (Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Motor Company Research and Information Department, 1960-1962)

Research: Pamphlets I
Note: We Work at Ford
Ford Manual
Ford/UAW contract 20th anniversary calendar (1961)
UAW Ammunition: A Look at the Past and the Future
UAW Ammunition: 20th Anniversary edition, 1956 June
We Dared to Make Our Dreams Come True
Ford Rotunda presents
Welcome to Henry Ford Museum
A Bibliography of American Labor Union History
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Welcome to Greenfield Village
Ford/UAW Agreement 1941 June 20
Model T Memories

Research: Pamphlets II
Note: Historical Motor Scrapbook
Henry Ford Museum Guide Book
Greenfield Village Guidebook

Research: Pamphlets III
Note: Automobile advertisements 1900-1905
Henry Ford a Personal History
"Good Morning," Music, Calls and Directions for Old-time Dancing as revived by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford

Hillbillies in Chicago
Note: Initial investigation for proposed script, 1958-1959

Outline and correspondence

Home, pilot episode, "A New Life"
Note: Pilot for television family series for David Susskind and CBS.

Revised second draft, 1981 November 20

Series situation and character sketches

Industrial Musical
Note: Proposal for a musical play, undated.

Brief outline, handwritten notes, record cards

Innocence
Note: Proposed television drama, 1995-1996.

Sketches, correspondence, drafts

James
Note: Stage play co-written by Loring Mandel with James Brandon while an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, 1946.

Script

The Jet Propelled Couch
Note: Screenplay for an unproduced film based on the story by Robert Lindner.

Script, first mimeo, 1967 October

Juanita

Correspondence on a project never undertaken, 1993

July's People
Note: Screenplay adaptation of Nadine Gordimer's novel, 1987-1989. Research materials grouped with these manuscripts originally included photocopies of David Bunn and Jane Taylor, ed., From South Africa: New Writing, Photographs and Art (special issue of TriQuarterly Magazine, Northwestern University, 1977), Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow, South Africa, Black and White (London: Penguin, 1985), and David Mermelstein, ed., The Anti-Apartheid Reader (New York: Grove Press, 1987). See also the videotapes listed separately.

July's People, a screenplay by Nadine Gordimer, copyright Felix Licensing BVI 1987

Contracts and agreements, 1988 October-December

Research: clippings, itineraries, expenses

Notes, correspondence on various drafts of the script, proposed outlines

"July's People, a screenplay by Loring Mandel, based upon the novel by Nadine Gordimer," first draft, in folder labeled "D1-A," 1989 February 17

"July's People, a screenplay by Loring Mandel, based upon the novel by Nadine Gordimer," first draft, with penciled cuts, 1989 February 17

Untitled annotated version of first draft, 1989 February 17

July's People, a screenplay by Loring Mandel, based upon the novel by Nadine Gordimer," first of two slightly variant copies in folder labeled "2 intermediate formatting of D1-A," labeled "Rough format of very first Draft-Very minor changes in reformatting

July's People, a screenplay by Loring Mandel, based upon the novel by Nadine Gordimer," second of two slightly variant copies in folder labeled "2 intermediate formatting of D1-A," labeled "intermediate formatting of very first draft-minor changes to final format, DRAFT1-A.SAV

"July's People, a screenplay by Loring Mandel, based upon the novel by Nadine Gordimer," "First Rev w/o note changes, cuts & formatting," dated 1989 February 17 [crossed out], 1989 June 25

"July's People, a screenplay by Loring Mandel, based upon the novel by Nadine Gordimer," "First Revision, 6/26/89," originally in folder labeled "July-1st Rev."

Kate
Note: Unproduced television series for Palomar Pictures International, 1974.

Treatment, 1974 April 22

Pilot, 1974 November 24

LBJ: Private Moments
Note: Television drama for David Susskind, undated. See also the videotape of LBJ: The Difference He Made listed separately.

Script, parts one and two, 1974 November 24

The Lemon Eaters
Note: Screenplay for unproduced film for Avco Embassy based on the novel by Jerry Sohl.

First draft, 1970 May 5

Lindsay
Note: Unproduced soap opera.

Proposal, written by Mandel with Robert Cenedella, 1973-1975

The Line/Rebellion
Note: Television drama written for Universal Studios (production #85000), 1975-6, based on the 1971 prison revolt at Attica, New York.

Notes, research and an outline (as An Arrangement in Grey and Black), 1975, originally in folder labeled The Line

Script, as September Rebellion, 1975 November 25

Script, as Rebellion, 1975 November 25, revised 1976 January 5 and 1976 February 2

The Little Drummer Girl
Note: Film based on the novel by John Le Carré, produced by Warner Bros. and released in 1984. See also the photographs listed separately.

Screenplay, fourth draft, 1983 September 14

Combined continuity and master spotting list, Warner Bros., 1984 December 18

Press kit (15 8x10 b&w stills transferred to the WCFTR General Stills Archive title file: The Little Drummer Girl).

Clippings of reviews, 1984

Little Loulou
Note: Screenplay for television film to be produced by ABC, 1994.

"First Draft, 2/11/94," in envelope labeled "Loulou D#1 uncorrected"

"First Draft, 2/21/94"

"First Draft, 3/9/94"

First revised draft, 6/6/94

"First Draft, 2/11/94," in envelope labeled "Loulou D#1 uncorrected"

"First Draft, 2/21/94"

"First Draft, 3/9/94"

First revised draft, 1994 June 6

The Liverama Concept
Note: Proposal for a play based on Gogol's The Government Inspector, undated

Sketches, draft scenes

The Love Wars
Note: Original screenplay, 1987.

Notes, 1986-1987
Note: "Notes for revision of Love Songs, 6/3/86," draft screenplay entitled "(Martin Davidson Project)," dated July 20, 1987, comment from "Nancy" dated 1987 November 1.

Revised draft, 1987 September 16

Revised draft, 1987 October 6

Mike's Life
Note: Idea for a television drama (earlier titles Micro-Mountain, The Doing, Cotton-Eye, and I Got to Know the Way It Is), 1971 (compare Box 3, Folder 1, Miscellaneous, Michael's Life).

Correspondence, clippings, notecards, outline, 1987 October 6

The New World/Penn-Turman-Millar
Note: Material relating to Voyage to the New World, a proposed television documentary project about the birth of the atom bomb, and The New World, a fictional television series idea based on the same material. Collaborators include Arthur Penn, Lawrence Turman and Stuart Millar of Millar/Turman Productions, and Franklin Schaffner.

Outlines and presentations, 1961-1963

Notes and research materials

Correspondence, 1961-1963

On Thin Air
Note: Original screenplay.

First draft, 1968 May 17

Pilgrim Project/Moonshot
Note: Film script for Warner Bros, 1966, which provided the underlying material for Countdown.

Script in Warner Bros. binding, entitled Moonshot, 1966 August 5 with revisions to 1966 August 26, (the title has been crossed out, replaced with Pilgrim Project and redated 1966 August 26)

Playhouse 90: episode "Project Immortality"
Note: Television drama, broadcast in 1959, adapted later as a stage play first produced at the Arena Theatre, Washington, D.C. in January 1966.

Playhouse 90 episode, air date 4th revision, 1959 May 14, 1959 June 11

Playhouse 90 episode: final revision 1959 May 29 as telecast 1959 June 11

Playhouse 90 episode: copy of a damaged manuscript different from either of the above made much more recently

"Doner [tentative title]," play in three acts based on Playhouse 90 episode Project Immortality, script #48, 3rd draft, 1962 October 21

Project Immortality: three slightly variant undated playtexts

Prez
Note: Projected two-part television film, begun 1988 but never completed, with David Rintels.

Correspondence, clippings, outlines (including outline for China Diary-see Boxes 4 and 5) and schedule for 1985 September California trip

The Ridiculous Last of Wax Wechsler
Note: One-act play written under the pseudonym Kal Chapin, 1963, submitted pseudonymously to and rejected by Mandel's agent.

Correspondence, drafts

Ruth and Seretse Khama

Fax from Loring Mandel to Tory Whipple, 1992 March 12
Note: On the possibility of using Michael Diffield's book The Persecution of Seretse and Ruth Khama as the basis for a film.

Sandburg's Lincoln, episode "Crossing Fox River"
Note: Television film.

Shooting script draft, 1974 April 8

Season
Note: Proposal for a television series.

Series idea and various pilots and episodes, 1972-1973

Shoreline/Evan
Note: Project for a television drama or film on medical malpractice suits based on the real case of Evan Wolarsky, 1987-1989. Research materials grouped with these manuscripts originally included copies of The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis: Expert Witness Listing and Index to Vol. I, 12/85-12/86; Vol. II, issue 4, 3/87; issue 10, 9/87; issue 11, 10/87; issue 12, 11/87; Damages and Liability Index to Vol. II, 12/86-12/87; Expert Witness Listing and Index to Vols I and II; Vol. III, issue 1, 12/87, to issue 9, 8/88. See also the tape recordings of interviews with Wolarsky and others listed separately.

Correspondence about the project and contracts, 1987

Receipts for expenses

Research: clippings

Research: transcripts of malpractice trials (Stickney vs. Mongeon at al., Orange County Superior Court, 11/29/78, and Johnson vs. Sussman et al., Los Angeles Superior Court, 11/28/79)

Notes, including draft outlines and records of computer files

Set of 3x5 record cards with scene titles and numbers

Untitled script drafts, undated

Breakdown of scenes and untitled script draft (perhaps of second half-pencilled page numbers start at 1, but the first page also has 98), undated

Untitled script drafts, undated

Script fragment sent to Evan Wolarsky 12/21/87, with cover letter and emendations (by Wolarsky?)

Exits and Entrances, script, 9/20/88 (but differing from the "First draft" of the same date below)

Exits and Entrances, script, First Draft, 9/20/88 (originally in folder labeled "Original print-out, first draft")

Exits and Entrances, script, First Draft, 9/20/88, as above but in Major Clients Agency, Inc., binder and with annotations

Exits and Entrances, script draft, undated

Shoreline, second draft, 7/15/89 (originally in folder labeled "Orig copy 2nd D-Shoreline")

The Singles Bar Murder Case
Note: Two-hour television film for David Susskind.

Draft script, undated

First draft, dated 1976 April 30

First draft, variant of above, dated 1976 April 30

First draft with inked emendations to 1976 June 17

Revised draft script, 1976 June 17

Task Force, episode "Takeover"
Note: Unproduced drama written for Talent Associates.

Script dated, 1968 December

This Is Perspective
Note: Projected educational television series, undated.

Outline

To Confuse the Angel
Note: Television play.

First revised draft, 1969 October 29

Top Secret
Note: Screenplay for television program, adapted from a play and screenplay by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, 1991. See also the sound recordings listed separately.

Top Secret: The Battle over the Pentagon Papers, play in two acts by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, undated

Same title, but labeled "Shooting Script" and reformatted as television drama, copyright 1991

Two draft outlines for a screenplay, one marked "1st D, 6/24/91," notes and clippings

Ventura
Note: Proposal for a film, undated.

Four draft scripts

Very Lesli
Note: One-act play, undated.

Typed fair copy with corrections

What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Note: Idea for a theatrical film, 1974.

Outline and notes

Series: Photographs

Democratic-Party Politicians, Material Written for
Note: Compare Box 6, Folders 16-21.

Related photographs

The Great Danes
Note: Compare Box 9, Folders 2-6.

Location photographs
Note: Color photographs, mostly mounted in groups as panoramas, taken on research trip to Denmark, April 24-May 6, 1992.

Exterior/Nazi Execution Site, Copenhagen, Denmark
Note: 2 views.

Exterior/Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
Note: 3 views, two untitled, one "Reverse View, Royal Living Quarters."

Exterior/Elsinor Castle, Helsingor, Denmark
Note: 4 views.

Exterior/Kongens Nytorv Plaza, Copenhagen, Denmark
Note: 2 views.

Exterior/Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
Note: 2 views.

Exterior/Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
Note: 2 views: "House of Danish Parliament, Main Entrance on Vindebrogade."

Exterior/Mustard Point Bog Fields, Hvidsten, Denmark (Jutland)
Note: 5 views: "Marshland where Allies dropped men and material to the Hvidsten resistance group (empty containers buried in the bog)."

Interior/Whitestone Inn, Hvidsten, Denmark (Jutland)
Note: Plan of ground floor and 24 views: "Main Entry" and "Rear Entry."

Exterior/Whitestone Inn, Hvidsten, Denmark (Jutland): Plan of inn grounds, map of Jutland showing location of Hvidsten, and 10 views

Exterior/Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark
Note: 2 views.

Exterior/Various Copenhagen Locations, Copenhagen, Denmark
Note: 14 views: "City Hall" and untitled.

Healy/Damn August
Note: Compare Box 9, Folder 8-12.

Location Photographs
Note: Sets of 4x6-inch color prints pasted together to form panoramic views of potential locations.

Hiawatha, Kansas, Brown County, Population 3,702

Horton, Kansas, Brown County, Population 2,130

Iowa, Sac & Fox Mission Museum, East of Highland, Kansas, 1991 May 24
Note: Negative 6508.

Iowa Tribal Office/Bingo Hall, Fire Department/Gas Station, Hiawatha, Kansas 1991 May 24
Note: Negatives 6508, 6509.

Kickapoo Indian Reservation, Housing Development, SW of Hiawatha, Kansas

Marysville Kansas, Marshall County, Population 3,670

Sac & Fox Tribal Office/Trading Post, Housing Development, Reserve, Kansas, 1991 May 24
Note: Negative 6509.

Seneca, Kansas, Nemaha County, Population 2,389

Yates Center, Kansas

Video

The Candidate's Wife

LBJ, the Difference He Made
Note: Broadcast May 3-4, 1990, parts 1-9 (originally grouped with manuscripts related to The Candidate's Wife, and hence probably research materials for that project. Compare Box 4, Folders 2-15, but could possibly relate to LBJ. Compare Box 10, Folders 20-1).

Physical Description: VHS Videocassettes 

Citizen Cohn
Note: Compare Box 5, Folders 23-4 and Box 6, Folders 1-11.

Rough Cut of Citizen Cohn
Physical Description: VHS Cassette 

July's People
Note: Compare Box 10, Folders 8-17.

Physical Description: VHS cassette copies 

University of California-Apartheid, Parts 1 and 2, 1988 February 11
Note: Probably research materials.

Audio recordings

Disney
Note: Compare Box 6, Folders 22-6, and Box 7, Folders 1-9. Interviews with friends and associates of Walt Disney.

A.J. Carothers, 1992 December 3

Richard Condon, 1992 December 12

Byron Paul, 1992 November 30

The Peysers, 1992 December 7

Sherman brothers, 1992 December 10

David Swift, 1992 December 6

The Great Danes
Note: Compare Box 9, Folders 2-6. Interviews conducted during an April-May 1992 research trip to Denmark.

Bob [Ramsing], 1992 April 27

Gerda [Gerta Jessen-Fiil], 1992 April 29

Dr. [Jørgen] Røjel, 1992 April 29

Axel [Christensen]/H.L. Rasmussen, 1992 May 1-2

H.L. Rasmussen, 1992 May 2

Carl and Ulla Metz, 1992 May 4

Shoreline/Evan
Note: Compare Box 12, Folders 1-19. Interviews.

Evan Wolarsky, medical, miscellaneous personal, 1987 July 28-29

Evan Wolarsky, trial, 1987 July 29

Evan Wolarsky, trial-film, 1987 July 29

Evan at Wildwood, 1987 September 16

Fumuso's office, 1987 December 18

Evan Wolarsky, 1988 January 28

Meeting with Barbara Maltby, 1988 December 27

Evan Wolarsky Phone Interview, 1989 March 9

Top Secret
Note: Compare Box 12, Folders 28-30.

Top Secret, Act I and II, undated

The Press Goes to War, Panel 4 interview, undated