The collection provides fragmentary documentation of Adato's career as a filmmaker and consists of biographical information, production files, tape recordings, and films. Coverage is most extensive for The '40s: The Great Radio Comedians and includes transcripts, paste-ups (transcripts arranged in film sequence and annotated with production notes), logs, notes, correspondence, and a final script. Transcripts of interviews Adato conducted with Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, George Burns, Bing Crosby, Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), and Arch Oboler (a radio writer) are included as are transcript excerpts from Allen's Alley, the Fred Allen radio program. The collection also contains a folder of shot lists for Eames at MoMA.
The AUDIO RECORDINGS relate to Adato's film on Dylan Thomas. Included are an interview with British writer Pamela Hansford Johnson (Lady Snow) in which she recalls her friendship with Thomas and a tape containing excerpts of Thomas reading his own poetry.
FILMS include excerpts, outs, and miscellaneous footage from such productions as Women's Film Festival, Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe, and The '40s: The Great Radio Comedians.
