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Add MS 88936/2/153
- Record Id:
- 040-000786654
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000786456
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001245.0x00019a
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88936/2/153
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1. 'Calling all peoples'; 1942. Script by Jiri Weiss and Laurie Lee of a Crown Film Unit film encouraging the people of occupied Europe to resist. Typewritten.
2. 'Youth'; 1942. Script by Laurie Lee of a Crown Film Unit film outlining what 'youth has done, is doing, and might eventually accomplish' (from the introductory note). With a commentary on the script by an unidentified hand. The film was abandoned. Typewritten.
3. 'Lily Marleen'; 1943. Two summaries of the aim of the film by the Crown Film Unit, a 'rough impressionistic treatment' and 'notes for a film treatment' by Laurie Lee. Typewritten.
4. 'Cyprus is an island'; 1945, 1946. Draft and final commentaries. The final text was published in 'We made a film in Cyprus', see Add MS 88936/2/11. Typewritten.
5. 'Boodoo & Sookoo'; 1946. Notes, skeleton outline, incomplete script, final script of a film on Indian tea workers, commissioned by the International Tea Board. Autograph and typewritten. Although Lee left for India on 5 Oct. 1946, the drafts and scripts of this and the second film are dated between 10 May and 20 Sept. 1946.
6. Second film for the International Tea Board; 1946. First draft treatment, second treatment and revised treatment, all prepared by Greenpark Productions Ltd. Typewritten.
7. 'Festival film: boy's commentary, 2nd draft'; [1951]. For Lee's other work for the Festival of Britain, see Add MS 88936/2/157.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000786456
036-000786486
037-000786653
040-000786654 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88936 : Laurie Lee Papers
Add MS 88936/2 : Laurie Lee: Prose Works
Add MS 88936/2/153-155 : Television and film scripts.
Add MS 88936/2/153 : Contents:1. 'Calling all peoples'; 1942. Script by Jiri Weiss and Laurie Lee of a Crown Film Unit film encouraging the… - Hierarchy:
- 032-000786456[0002]/036-000786486[0018]/037-000786653[0001]/040-000786654
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88936
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1942
- End Date:
- 1951
- Date Range:
- 1942-1951
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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