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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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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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Richard Brick and Geri Ashur collection, 1968-2014, bulk 1975-2005

43 Linear Feet
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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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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Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1935-2011, bulk 1963-1991

200 linear feet

The Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City's WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.

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Latino Comics Collection, circa 1990s-2010s

3 linear feet

This collection contains comics illustrated, written, inked and published by Latinos in the US. It also includes associated ephemera that includes posters, animated DVDs, posters, pins, dolls and more.

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Hernandez, Javier, 2012 Box 3

a few extra features. The Award-Winning EL MUERTO film (2008 Whittier Independent Film Festival-Best

EL MUERTO COLLECTOR BOX. [Los Angeles, California]: Los Comex, 2012. 1st ed. 9x12 in. box with a doll, the first issue of El Muerto, and the film based on the comic. New. Packed with the first issue of EL MUERTO, the DVD of the live-action film and a hand-drawn & colored EL MUERTO mini sketch doll! The premiere issue of EL MUERTO! Featuring the origin story "DAZE OF THE DEAD". When Diego de La Muerte is abducted on his 21st Birthday by the Aztec God of Death, he's reborn one year later on the Day of the Dead as El Muerto, the Aztec Zombie! Also includes a 3 page Elastico story, guest pin-ups and a few extra features. The Award-Winning EL MUERTO film (2008 Whittier Independent Film Festival-Best Feature) based on the comic book. Starring Wilmer Valderrama (THAT 70s SHOW), Joel David Moore (AVATAR), Tony Plana (UGLY BETTY) and Michael Parks (KILL BILL Vol 1 & 2). DVD features commentary track by screenwriter director Brian Cox and creator/Associate Producer Javier Hernandez, a making-of-featurette, guest artist gallery, and more!

  1. Latino Comics Collection, 1984-2012

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