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Re: Looking for Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) documentaries



The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research's web site
(http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/wcftr/film.htm) says...

"WCFTR's most comprehensive cinema collection
consists of almost two thousand 16mm reference prints of
feature films from Warner Brothers, RKO, and
Monogram Pictures: virtually every feature released by
these Hollywood studios between 1931 and 1949. [...]
The Warners film library also includes 1500
Vitaphone short subjects and over 300 cartoons from the
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, from 1926
to 1949. Most of the Warners and Monogram films have
accompanying documentation in the form of scripts and
variant drafts, dialogue transcripts, legal files,
pressbooks and 8x10 still negatives."

        This is probably the best source for Warner.
RKO product was sold off piecemeal, sometime in the '50's,
I think, and finding the pieces is going to be harder.

                        --Steve Masar
              University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives

At 04:27 PM 2/10/2000 -0500, you wrote:
We're looking for two documentaries that Ted Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) worked
on in the 1940s. The first is "Hitler Lives?" which he made in 1946 for
Warner Brothers. The second is "Design for Death," which he made in 1947
for RKO. Both films won Oscars in the short documentary category. Does
anybody know whether Warner Brothers or RKO kept film archives, and if so,
where those materials might be today? Does the Academy of Motion Pictures
maintain archives of Oscar-winning films? Any other suggestions as to where
we might find these two films? Anybody out there have copies in your
collections?

Thanks for your help,

Michele
Michele Plourde-Barker
Library Associate
Genealogy and Local History Library
Connecticut Valley Historical Museum
220 State Street
Springfield, MA   01103
(413)263-6800 x 308
fax: (413)263-6898
mbarker@spfldlibmus.org

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