Playwriting and Screenwriting Resources

Guides to archival collections related to animation, film and television, theater, dance, and music.

Collection consists of scripts written by William Bast across his career, both produced and unproduced. Projects from early in his career tend to be represented by only a single script, while later projects often have several drafts, some heavily annotated. These later projects are often accompanied by agreements, research material, and some production documents. There is a very small amount of personal correspondence. There is also very little about James Dean, and most of what is present is in the context of the television movie based on Bast's first biography.

Collection consists of various drafts of scripts for Cannon (4 episodes, 1971), Hawaii five-0 (7 episodes, 1968) (23 episodes, 1970-1971 season) and (13 episodes, 1972 season), and Kojak (3 episodes, 1974). Also includes press kit style distributor's package for Requiem for a planet.

Collection consists of script material related to the career of film and television writer Larry Siegel. The bulk of the collection represents the The Carol Burnett Show. Additionally there are scripts for the television shows That's My Mama, Love, American Style, God Bless Our House, Be It Ever So Humble, Oh Nurse, and The Mad Mad Mad Movie of the Week.

Collection consists of typescripts of screenplays, novels, plays, and short stories related to the career of writer Achmed Abdullah.

Collection consists of projects, early treatments, narration scripts, technical plans and shooting scripts for Mr. Rotha's documentary and feature films. Also includes manuscript, typescript, and proof copies of Rotha's books on the cinema along with clippings of his periodical writings and review articles. Reviews and articles on Rotha are both loose and in scrapbooks. Includes Rotha's personal diaries as well as correspondence from John Grierson, Eric Knight, and Richard Griffith, among others. There are art works from the 1920s, photographs (mostly location stills), and recording tapes from Rotha's films.

Primarily American film scripts dating from ca. 1921 to the present. Includes scripts from various studios including Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, RKO Universal, United Artists, and Warner Brothers.

This collection includes scripts from American television production from the early beginnings of television to the present.

Includes scripts for television movies broadcast on various networks including ABC, CBS, HBO, NBC, and Showtime. Also includes a small collection of scripts for television specials and mini-series. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1970s.

A list of available materials by film title, including screenplays.

A list of available materials by show title, including scripts.