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Amos Vogel papers, 1896-2001, bulk 1960-1990

68 linear feet
This collection documents the professional work of film critic, professor, and author, Amos Vogel. The bulk of the records are concerned with numerous films that Vogel has screened for Cinema 16, the independent film society that he founded and directed for sixteen years, as well as administrative records, correspondence, photographs, and printed material.
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Albert and David Maysles papers, 1948-2018

185 linear feet

Correspondence, memoranada, agreements, notes, contracts, posters, clippings, financial files covering the entire career of the Maysles brothers.

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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, 1906-2014, bulk [Bulk:1975-2001]

51.08 Linear Feet
This collection contains 1700+ folders of feminist ephemera collected by the Barnard Center for Research on Women on topics such as women, gender, activism, labor, sexuality, healthcare, marriage, psychology, development, and law.
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Richard Brick and Geri Ashur collection, 1968-2014, bulk 1975-2005

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The Richard Brick and Geri Ashur collection consists of materials related to film productions created and collected by Richard Brick and Geri Ashur, dating from 1968 to 2014. The materials document the career of Richard Brick as a filming professor, producer, and the first commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB). The collection also includes materials related to films by Geri Ashur. The bulk of the collection focuses on the motion picture films and production files of the films Richard Brick and Geri Ashur produced, as well as the administrative records that document Richard Brick's contribution to the filming industry in New York during his tenure as the commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB).
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Norman Witty Cinema Collection, 1917-2008

5 linear feet
A collection of rare periodicals, books, and printed ephemera on topics related to cinema history, assembled by the cinema enthusiast and rare book collector Norman Witty (1941-2013).
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The Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film, 1863-2015, bulk 1920s-1990s

370.11 linear feet
Over the course of fifty years, the former documentary filmmaker Makino Mamoru (1930-) developed an extensive collection on the history of East Asian film, which covers the history of Japanese cinema spanning over a hundred years. The collection as a whole contains approximately 80,000 items, and focuses on print materials. The materials cover various film events and festivals across multiple genres of films: experimental films, educational films, documentary films, news films, amateur films, and animated films, among many others. The collection contains books, correspondences, handbills, magazines, manuscripts, newspapers, notes, photographs, postcards, posters, scripts/scenarios, slides, glass plate negatives, video cassettes, and other printed materials.
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Subseries IV.5: Independent Film Companies/独立系映画会社, 1925-1995

Subseries IV.5: Independent Film Companies/独立系映画会社, 1925-1995
This Subseries contains materials related to several independent film companies. It includes
documents from Ekuransha/エクラン社 film company and has post-war distribution materials from the independent

This Subseries contains materials related to several independent film companies. It includes documents from Ekuransha/エクラン社 film company and has post-war distribution materials from the independent film company, Art Theatre Guild/Nihon Āto Shiatā Girudo/日本アート・シアター・ギルド (ATG), which turned from distribution to production in the late 1960s. It also has documents from Shinsei Eiga/新星映画 and film school rules of Tōa Kinema/東亜キネマ.

  1. Series IV: Film Production Company Files (Studio Files), 1920-1995

Sub-subseries VI.14.5: GHQ Period Film Publications, 1948-1998

) and local film (regional) publications and publications for Independent film showings, including Shine

This sub-subseries contains movie theater programs that are reprints from the 1980s of theater programs originally published during the late 1940s and 1950s. They are divided by movie theater name where possible. It also contains study-discussion guides from SCAP CIE (Civil Information and Education Section) and local film (regional) publications and publications for Independent film showings, includingShine furonto,Mirion pāru.It also includes handbills for the American movie culture association andKokusai Weeklyhandbills.

  1. Series VI: Subject Files, 1908-2006
  2. Subseries VI.14: Occupation Period Materials, 1945-1998 [Bulk Dates: 1945-1952], 1945-1998

Sub-subseries XIV.1.1: General Cinema Ephemera, 1958-2003

Files: Independent Film Company Files. For materials related to Okinawa, see Series VIII: Okinawan

This sub-subseries includes general post-war film ephemera of Japanese cinema. The majority of the materials are related to Tōhō/東宝, Shōchiku/松竹 and Tōei/東映's contemporary Japanese cinemas from the 1980s.

  1. Series XIV: Post-War Ephemera, 1949-2007 [Bulk Dates: 1970s-1990s], 1949-2007
  2. Subseries XIV.1: Japanese Cinema, 1958-2003 [Bulk Dates: 1980s-1990s], 1958-2003
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Cecile Starr papers, 1925-2001

15 linear feet
Personal documents, correspondence, photographs, audiocassettes, and printed material of the filmmaker, film writer, and educator Cecile Starr (1921-2014).
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Angus and Hetty MacLise papers, 1950s-2010

15.5 linear feet
Angus MacLise was a musician, poet, artist, and countercultural figure who was a mainstay of the downtown New York arts scene in the 1960s, which included Fluxus alongside other avant-garde communities and scenes. Hetty MacLise was an English-born artist, poet, and multi-instrumentalist likewise associated with various overlapping movements and milieus within the 1960s and 70s avant-garde. This collection contains papers, documents, publications, ephemera, sound and video recordings, photographs, and artwork primarily created by, given to, or related to Angus MacLise and Hetty MacLise.
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[Living Theatre] Poster for "Films from the Margin: the Best of Independent Films Past & Present" at Emerson College, /010/5-December 7, [no year], undated Box 20, Folder 5

[Living Theatre] Poster for "Films from the Margin: the Best of Independent Films Past & Present

Boston: Emerson College Film Arts Society/Post Mordem Productions, [undated .] Advertisement for film screenings, including films relating to the Living Theatre.

  1. Series III: Friends, Associates, and Other Material Not Directly Related to the MacLises, 1960s-2010
  2. Subseries III.1: Ira Cohen
  3. Ephemera kept by Ira Cohen and Don Snyder, unrelated to the MacLises
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Yuri and Bill Kochiyama Papers, 1936-2003, bulk 1968-1998

186.25 linear feet

Letters, diaries, albums, photographs, and printed material.

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Daniel Talbot Papers, 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2008

495 linear feet
The Dan Talbot Papers document the business operation of the New Yorker Films, an independent film acquisition and distribution company, dating from 1960s to 2008, as well as movie theaters in the Upper West Side Manhattan which he operated, dating from 1960 to 2007. It is of particular relevance to New Yorkers as the Talbots operated the New Yorker Theater, Cinema Studio, Metro, and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, on the Upper West Side, as popular venues to view independent and foreign films.
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Series I: New Yorker Films, 1965-2008

New Yorker Films was established in 1965 by Daniel Talbot as an independent film distributor
Yorker Films as an independent film distribution company, dating from 1965 to 2008. Materials related to

New Yorker Films was established in 1965 by Daniel Talbot as an independent film distributor focused on the import of foreign films to the US and North America market. New Yorker Films acquired prints for first-time US distribution such as Bernardo Bertolucci's Before the Revolution (1964), Jean-Luc Godard's Les Carabiniers (1963), Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl (1966), Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). New Yorker Films was known for being the chief proponent in bringing New German, Latin American and Postcolonial African Cinema to American audiences and included French New Wave, Iranian, Asian and Eastern European filmmakers as well. New Yorker Films spurred the growth of educational film societies and independent cinemas throughout the United States, providing support and guidance to the non-theatrical cinema market. In 2009, New Yorker Films was sold to Madstone Films.

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