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Title No: 7277

Title: I'll make me a world [production files: episodes 3-4]

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Paper

Original Summary:
Contains the files of Katy Mostoller, associate producer for episode 3 "Bright Like a Sun" and episode 4 "The Dream Keepers" of  "I'll Make Me a World." Includes largely research materials.

Box 01 - Contains Katy Mostoller's  "Primary document notebooks" for episodes 3 and 4 of "I'll Make Me A World." Includes articles related to Augusta Savage ; Paul Robeson ; Dizzy Gillespie and Bebop music, including material on General Jazz, Swing, Swing Dixie v. Bop, Critics, Europe, California, Economics, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Anti-Bebop, Earl Hines, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughn, and Mary Lou Williams.

Box 02 - Contains Katy Mostoller's  "Primary document notebooks" for episodes 3 and 4 of "I'll Make Me A World."  Includes writings by James Baldwin ; articles related to Baldwin ; articles about Lorraine Hansberry and her play, "A Raisin in the Sun" ; Dance, including American Negro Ballet, Janet Collins, Katherine Dunham, Ballets Russes, New York Negro Ballet, New York City Ballet, Arthur Mitchell, New Negro Art Theatre dance group.

Box 03 - Contains Katy Mostoller's files for episodes 3 and 4 of "I'll Make Me A World." Includes rights information for feature films and music ; interview and pre-interview correspondence ; miscellaneous correspondence and articles related to interviewees, including Maya Angelou ; Lloyd Brown ; Ray Brown ; Delores Browne Abelson ; Jeff Donaldson ; Herbert Gentry Riva Helfond ; Joseph Johnson ; Virginia Johnson ; Jacob Lawrence ; Gwendolyn Knigh ; Arthur Mitchell ; Paul Robeson, Jr. ; Carmencita Romero ; Helen Rosen ; Raven Wilkinson ; Lucien Happersberger ; Gidske Anderson ; David Leeming. Also contains research materials from various archives and museums, including the BBC ; BundesArchive ; CBC ; National Film and TV Archive ; Progres ; Reuters ; Theatre Museum ; Abamedia ; Krasnogorsk ; ABC News ; Arcive Films ; CBS News ; Chicago Historical Society ; FBI ; French Path ; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center UT Austin ; Abby Luby & Marilyn Elie ; McDonald & Assoc. ; Museum of TV & Radio ; Moorland-Springarn Research Center Howard University ; Nara, Harmon Foundation ; National Portrait Gallery ; NBC News Archive ; Northern Lights ; Peabody-Essex Museum ; Producers Library Service ; Schomburg ; Southwest Film/Video Archives ; Third World Newsreels ; UCLA ; All American News ; Black Journal. ; National African American Museum and Cultural Center ; International Association of Blacks in Dance ; Amon Carter Museum. Also has Xerox copies of photos of James Baldwin by Steve Shapiro and photos of Paul Robeson by Julius Lazarus.

Box 04 - Contains Katy Mostoller's files for episodes 3 and 4 of "I'll Make Me A World."  Includes articles and biographies concerning people, organizations and issues examined  in episodes 3 and 4 of "I'll Make Me A World." Individuals include Paul Robeson ; Augusta Savage ; Mary Brady ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Charlie Parker ; Jeff Robinson ; Mahalia Jackson ; Richard Wright ;  James Baldwin ; Janet Collins ; Langston Hughes ; Rose McClendon ; Clarence Muse ; James Earl Jones. Organizations include ARTnews magazine ; National Association of Women Artists ; American Negro Ballet ; Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo ; New York Negro Ballet ; Karamu House. Subjects examined include Bebop music ; World War II ; Expatriate Americans in Europe ; African-American Dance ; and African-American Theatre.

Box 5 - Contains Katy Mostoller's photo research files for episodes 3 and 4 of "I'll Make Me A World." Subjects include Augusta Savage ; Jacob Lawrence ; William H. Johnson ; Harlem Artists ; Harmon Foundation ; WPA ; Federal Arts Project ; World's Fair, 1939 ; Harlem in the 1930's ; Bebop music ; Cab Calloway ; Billy Eckstein ; Duke Ellington ; Dizzie Gillespie ; Woody Herman ; Charlie Parker ;  Harlem nightclubs, 52nd Street nightclubs, The Beats ; WWII.

Box 6 - Contains Katy Mostoller's archival research files for episodes 3 and 4 of  "I'll Make Me a World." Contains, brief, general information on subjects and individuals including : James Baldwin ; WWII ; Civil Rights Movement ; Nat King Cole ; Sammy Davis Jr. ;  Lorraine Hansberry ;  Ruby Dee ; Sidney Poitier ; Langston Hughes ; Otto Preminger ; Carmen Jones ; Porgy & Bess ; Raisin in the Sun  ;  Black Dance ;  Alvin Ailey ;  George Balanchine ; Janet Collins, Jacques d'Amboise ; Katherine Dunham ;  Martha Graham ;  New York City Ballet  ; Arthur Mitchell ; Pearl Primus ; Ballet Russe ; New York Negro Ballet ; Bebop Music ; Billy Eckstine ; Duke Ellington ; Tommy Dorsey ; Jimmy Dorsey ; Louis Armstrong ; Count Basie ; Cab Calloway ; Dizzy Gillespie, Goodman, Woody Herman ; Billie Holliday ; Louis Jordan ; Mahalia Jackson ; Lux Lewis ;  Artie Shaw ; Fats Waller ; Blues, Jazz ; Paul Robeson ; Augusta Savage ; Jacob Lawrence ; Harmon Foundation ; WPA ; Museums & Art ; New York World's Fair. Also includes transcripts.

Box 7 - Contains Katy Mostoller's research notebooks for episodes 3 and 4 of  "I'll Make Me a World." Contains "Dance Photo Research Notebook,"  "James Baldwin Photo Research Notebook" and  "Schomburg Center Photo Research Notebook." 
 "Dance Photo Research Notebook" contains material on : Alvin Ailey ;  George Balanchine ; Janet Collins, Jacques d'Amboise ; Katherine Dunham ;  Martha Graham ;  New York City Ballet  ; Arthur Mitchell ; Pearl Primus ; Ballet Russe ; New York Negro Ballet ; School of American Ballet ; Delores Brown ; Marion Cuyjet ;  Raven Wilkinson ; Ballet Russe ; Dance history ; The Metropolitan Ballet. 
 "James Baldwin Photo Research Notebook" contains material on Richard Wright ; Harlem in the 1950's ;  Paris ; Civil Rights Movement ; Blues for Mr. Charlie. 
"Schomburg Center Photo Research Notebook" contains material on : Louis Armstrong ; James Baldwin ; Amiri Baraka ; Richmond Barthe ; Romare Beardon ; Eubie Blake ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; John Coltrane ; Miles Davis ; Roy DeCarava ;  Aaron Douglas ; Duke Ellington ; Aretha Franklin ;  Nikki Giovanni ;  Lorraine Hansberry ;  Chester Himes ; Langston Hughes ; Zora Neale Hurston ; Woodie King ;  Jacob Lawrence ; Oscar Micheaux ; Florence Mills ; Arthur Mitchell ; Toni Morrison ; Ismael Read ; Sonia Sanchez ; Barbara Teer ; Melvin Van Peebles ; Margaret Walker ; Fredi Washington ; Bert Williams.  
   Also includes an "I'll Make Me a World" Research List  with material on : Paul Robeson ;  Augusta Savage ; Bebop Music ; Dance ; Lorraine Hansberry ; James Baldwin in Paris.

For  episodes 3-4 fact check book, scripts with verifying references, see 4572, Box 10.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Subjects: Bop (Music); World War, 1939-1945.; African American theater; Theater--United States; African American dance

Name As Subjects: Angelou, Maya; Lawrence, Jacob; Mitchell, Arthur; Rosen, Helen; Brown, Lloyd L.; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; NBC News Archives; Reuters ltd.; UCLA Film and Television Archive; Newsreel; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Howard University; All American News, Inc; Browne, Delores; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Ellington, Duke; Harmon Foundation, inc.; Robeson, Paul; Gillespie, Dizzy; Parker, Charlie; Hansberry, Lorraine; Davis, Miles; Collins, Janet; Donaldson, Jeff; Hines, Earl; Dunham, Katherine; Ballets russes; New York Negro Ballet; New York City Ballet; Brown, Ray; Romero, Carmencita; British Broadcasting Corporation; Lazarus, Julius; Shapiro, Steve; National African American Museum; Leeming, David Adams; Baldwin, James; Wilkinson, Raven; Gentry, Herbert; Helfond, Riva; Johnson, Joseph; Johnson, Virginia; Knight, Gwendolyn; Savage, Augusta

Credits:
RoleName
CompilerBlackside, Inc.
CompilerMostoller, Katy

Notes:
Inventory lists of each box available. 

Items x7

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7276I'll make me a world [production files]