Motion pictures
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on motion pictures themselves, including motion pictures as an art form, copyrighting, distribution, editing, plots, production, etc. Works about the technical aspects of making motion pictures and their projection onto a screen are entered under [Cinematography.] Works about the technical aspects of making video recordings, i.e., creating and storing moving images in an electronic form and displaying them on an electronic display are entered under [Video recording.] Works about the artistic aspects of making video recordings are entered under [Video recordings--Production and direction.]
Found in 2071 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1994
File — Box 18, Folder: 4
Series Description
From the Series:
This series is arranged chronologically and is comprehensive enough to effectively relate the inherent complexities in the life of a prominent working-journalist. The correspondence signals both Lewis’s constant loyalty to friends as well as his uncommon writing ability. The series contains many poignant and superbly crafted letters. The tone of this series ranges between expressly personal letters and perfunctory business memos. This series is rich with notable...
Dates:
1994
Correspondence, 1995
File — Box 18, Folder: 5
Series Description
From the Series:
This series is arranged chronologically and is comprehensive enough to effectively relate the inherent complexities in the life of a prominent working-journalist. The correspondence signals both Lewis’s constant loyalty to friends as well as his uncommon writing ability. The series contains many poignant and superbly crafted letters. The tone of this series ranges between expressly personal letters and perfunctory business memos. This series is rich with notable...
Dates:
1995
Correspondence, undated
File — Box 18, Folder: 6-7
Series Description
From the Series:
This series is arranged chronologically and is comprehensive enough to effectively relate the inherent complexities in the life of a prominent working-journalist. The correspondence signals both Lewis’s constant loyalty to friends as well as his uncommon writing ability. The series contains many poignant and superbly crafted letters. The tone of this series ranges between expressly personal letters and perfunctory business memos. This series is rich with notable...
Dates:
undated
Correspondence, 1986-1987
File — Box 2992, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
1986-1987
Correspondence from Broyles to his parents, February 10, 1976 including a copy of letter he wrote to Representative Barbara Jordan, February 3, 1976 including his response to correspondence relating to his appearance on the Today Show; Correspondence from Broyles to his parents including Texas Monthly’s entry statement for the National Magazine Award for the Specialized Journalism category , April 7, 1976
File — Box 3931, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Archival material donated by writer William Broyles, the bulk of the material is from 1965-2013. This addition includes many materials relating to his magazine career, including clippings documenting the founding of Texas Monthly, Broyles’ time as editor of Newsweek, and many of the articles he wrote for other publications. It also documents his film career, with many “progress files” for movies he wrote that include all correspondence documenting the project usually from inception to the...
Dates:
April 7, 1976
Correspondence from parents, Ultra Filtration Summary, 1980-1988
File — Box 2992, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
1980-1988
Correspondence, Khe San Veterans, Sybil, Rice University, 1987-2003
File — Box 2992, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
1987-2003
Correspondence - Letters and greeting cards to Grover and Raona Lewis, 1974
File — Box 3668, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Archival material donated by Rae Lewis relating to the life, writing career, and death of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly journalist, Grover Lewis’ dating 1962-2015. Materials include extensive notes, research materials, correspondence, publishing contracts and manuscript drafts for Lewis’ unpublished memoir, “Goodbye If You Call That Gone” and unpublished novel, “Code of the West”, the posthumous anthology, Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, drafts of unproduced...
Dates:
1974
Correspondence, photos of Bill Broyles, 1973-1991
File — Box 2989, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
1973-1991
Correspondence, “Vortex Weapons”, 1988-1999
File — Box 2992, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
1988-1999
Cosmopolitan, “Paul Newman: Off Guard!” - Published copy, 1973
File — Box 21, Folder: 5
Series Description
From the Series:
This series is arranged alphabetically by publication and surveys Lewis’s entire writing career from his earliest poetry and short fiction publications in Avesta (1955)—the student literary magazine of North Texas State College—to his last published piece, a profile of well-known photographer Birney Imes, published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine (1994). Material from a posthumous collection of Lewis’s writing,...
Dates:
1973
Country Music screenplay based on the novel, photocopy
File — Box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a copy of the screenplay for the 1975 novel Country Music, a copy of a typescript of the 1989 novel Buffalo Nickel, and an issue of the Poseidon Press Spring Selections 1989 containing an excerpt from Buffalo Nickel. The material was donated through Bill Wittliff to whom Smith had submitted these copies for comments.
Dates:
1989-1990
Found in:
The Wittliff Collections
/
C. W. Smith Papers
Cowboy hat that Bill Broyles wore to “play cowboy” whenever he went to New York on business as editor of Texas Monthly , undated
File — Box 1456
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection predominately consists of screenplay drafts written or edited by William Broyles, Jr. Screenplays include: Shadow Divers, Cast Away, The Visitor, Lost Moon, Apollo 13, K-19, Flags of Our Fathers, The Polar Express, The Company, South Central, China Beach, JFK: Reckless Youth, Tom Harris, Unfaithful, Green Lantern, King Arthur, Nagasaki Deadline, and Jarhead. In addition to drafts the collection also contains editing notes by Broyles and others related to the screenplays,...
Dates:
undated
“Cowboy-KS: Actznu6.doc”, floppy disk, undated
File — Box 3004, item: 59
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
undated
“Cowboy/Chuck”, floppy disk , November 6, 1997
File — Box 3004, item: 89
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
November 6, 1997
“Cowprint10.scr”, floppy disk , undated
File — Box 3004, item: 100
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
undated
“CowprintW.scr”, floppy disk, June 16, 1997
File — Box 3004, item: 99
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
June 16, 1997
“CR Mag Pr Photos”; Paint Rock productions, notebooks, undated
File — Box 3000, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates:
undated
Crumley, James, “Whores”, 1988
File — Box 68, Folder: 3
Series Description
From the Series:
This series is arranged alphabetically by author and includes mostly photocopied short stories and screenplays. Two notable items relating to Lewis are a forty-six page biography, Grover Lewis: The Uncommon Insight and Grace of an Ordinary Man, written by longtime friend and poet R.K. Scott; and the screenplay Deep Ellum, by Stan Vosper, Jr., based on Lewis’s adolescent days with Larry McMurtry and other North Texas friends. ...
Dates:
1988
Cub Scouts “Do Your Best” flag , undated
File — Box 3016, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Donation by Bill Broyles of his Marine uniforms, Cub Scouts memorabilia, and Texas Boys State clothing, undated.
Dates:
undated
