Mack Gordon Papers
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Myrow, Josef
Gordon, Mack, 1904-1959
- Dates:
-
1926-1977, undated
- Size:
-
1 Motion picture film
3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1363
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Mack Gordon (1904-1959) was a prolific and successful songwriter, lyricist, and composer. He composed songs for stage and screen. He and Harry Warren won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1943.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Parker, Ben (scriptwriter)
Shurr, Robert L. (scriptwriter)
- Dates:
-
1939-1940, 1968
- Size:
-
0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0133
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The film, George Washington Carver, starring Carver himself, was filmed in 1939 and released in 1940. Ben Parker was the director and Robert L. Shurr wrote the screenplay.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Hillis, Alice Rogers
- Dates:
-
1939
- Size:
-
1 Motion picture film (350 feet, silent, color (Kodachrome), camera original reversal, 16mm )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0531
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of one reel of color film shot at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, New York.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Carmichael, Hoagy
Arnaz, Desi, 1917-1986
Mills Brothers.
Calloway, Cab, 1907-
More … - Dates:
-
1930s-1940s.
- Size:
-
1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0775
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
16mm motion picture films, produced in the 1930s and 1940s by various film production companies, documenting performances by jazz and popular music performers, including Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Lena Horne, the Mills Brothers, and Rosemary Clooney, and others listed below.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Pezzano, Frank J., 1908-1983
- Dates:
-
1939-1940
- Size:
-
1 Item
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0592
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The film, titled "Memories of the New York World's Fair" by filmmaker Frank J. Pezzano documents the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Pezzano edited the film and included hand-drawn and typed intertitles identifying the various locations and activities he filmed.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Vought, Peter
- Dates:
-
1976-1982
- Size:
-
2.18 Cubic feet (2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2008.0019
- Repository:
-
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consist of the following: one 16 mm print, four 16 mm color reversal internegatives (CRIs), two 16 mm optical sound tracks and four 16 mm original color negatives (OCN) rolls relating to "A Place of Dreams;" seven 16 mm original color negative (OCN) rolls and one Type-C video tape from "25 Years in Space;" one Type-C video tape, "IR...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Oster, Marvin L.
- Dates:
-
circa 1920-1940
- Size:
-
22 Film reels (black-and-white silent reversal; black-and-white silent print; 16,000 feet, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.2000.04
- Repository:
-
Human Studies Film Archives
Primarily amateur travel films willed to Smithsonian by Marvin L. Oster. Travel includes Egypt, Scotland, Marrakech, Benares, Ankor, Monte Carlo in the late 1920s and 1930s. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Kates, Arnold D.
- Dates:
-
1929-1931, undated
- Size:
-
1 Film reel
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0259
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Arnold D. Kates was an officer in the Association of Young Advertising Men of New York in the 1930s. As an officer, he visited Washington, D.C., to attend the annual meeting of the Advertising Federation of America and took home movies of the capital, including a formal reception at the White House, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial. Additional film footage includes scenes on a ship, cityscapes and industrial landscapes of New York City.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Young family
Young, Wilbur
- Dates:
-
circa 1926-1939
- Size:
-
7 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0718
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Home movies documenting the Young family of suburban Northern Virginia. Records family members at home, at play, participating in family activities and celebrations.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940
Davis, Myra Tolmach
Hofmeister, Richard
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
More … - Dates:
-
circa 1928 -1930
circa 1971-1975
- Size:
-
0.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 2 films, 2 mp4 files)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0254
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Samuel Yellin was an American master blacksmith. In 1910, he built the Arch Street Metalworker's studio.
