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Wrather Papers, Series 2, Subseries D, E

 

THE THOMAS AND DOROTHY LEAVEY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES RESEARCH COLLECTION

JACK AND BONITA GRANVILLE WRATHER PAPERS (CSLA-23)


Series 2. Subseries D: "The Magic of Lassie" Film Production

BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES

1

1

"That Small Town Feeling." Master copy script

1976

1

2

"That Small Town Feeling." First draft script (photocopy)

1976

1

3

"That Small Town Feeling," plus notes and memorandum. First draft script

1976

1

4

"That Small Town Feeling." Revised first draft script. Master copy

1976

1

5

"That Small Town Feeling." Revised first draft script (photocopy)

1976

1

6

"That Small Town Feeling." Revised first draft. Later revision (photocopy)

1976

1

7

"That Small Town Feeling." Revised first draft script. Later revision (photocopy)

1977

1

8

"Lassie!" script, with song sheets (photocopies)

1977

1

9

"Lassie!" script, with name "Bonita Granville Wrather" written on cover

1977

2

1

"Lassie, My Lassie." Final draft

1977

2

2

"Lassie, My Lassie," with crew list. Final draft script. Attached note: "Mrs. Wrather's copy."

1976

2

3

"Farewell Lassie." Revised script

1976

2

4

"Farewell Lassie." Revised script

1977

2

5

"The Magic of Lassie," script with memorandum and "trailer continuity."

1978

2

6

"That Small Town Feeling." Revised first draft script (photocopy)

1976

3

1

"Lassie, My Lassie" script

1977

3

2

"Lassie, My Lassie" script

N. D.

3

3

"Lassie, My Lassie." Script incomplete

N. D.

3

4

"Lassie, My Lassie" script (photocopy)

1977

3

5-6

"Lassie!" script

N. D.

3

7

"Lassie!." Annotated script

1977

3

8

"Lassie, My Lassie. The Gus and Apollo Sequence." Script with handwritten notes of Bonita Granville Wrather. 3 copies. (photocopies)

1977

4

1-3

Partial scripts with revisions, annotated; lists of suggested script changes. For Lassie movies

1977

4

4

Partial script with revisions. With attached note: "Mrs. Wrather Suggested Reconstruction Pages 76-119." For Lassie movie: "Magic of Lassie" (?)

N. D.

4

5

Script: "Jean Holloway's Other Friday Nights--Scenes--9/13/77"

1977

4

6

"Lassie! The New Beginning." First draft. Lassie television feature script.

1977

4

7

"Lassie. Challenge of the Mountain. Part I & II" 3 copies.

N. D.

4

8

Bonita Granville Wrather notes re scripts. Location reports

N. D.

4

9

"Lassie, My Lassie." Final draft 3 copies.

1977

5

1

Correspondence and memoranda re "That Small Town Feeling." Originally in folder entitled "Correspondence." (carbon copies)

1977

5

2

Songsheets and songbooks from "The Magic of Lassie."

1978

5

3

Publicity cards for "The Magic of Lassie"

1978(?)

5

4

Correspondence, clippings re "Magic of Lassie" and benefit for Kennedy Child Study Center (St. John's Hospital)

1978

5

5

"Magic of Lassie" publicity packet, with photographs, cast biographies, production notes

1978(?)

5

6

Cast sheets, scene numbers and camera shots, sketches for sets re "Lassie, My Lassie"

1977

7ov

--

Lassie script in leather binder with embossed name of Bonita Granville Wrather

N.D.

8ov

--

"Lassie, My Lassie." Jack Wrather copy

1977

8ov

--

"The Magic of Lassie" song score

N.D.



Series 2. Subseries E: Lassie Television Productions  back to top

BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES

1

1

Incoming fan correspondence re Lassie television program; Bonita Granville Wrather and administrative assistant responses. Originally in folder entitled "Lassie fan mail" (copies and originals)

1961-1979 (dates broken)

1

2

Bonita Granville Wrather memoranda, business and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, publicity sheets re Lassie television program. Copies and originals. Originally in folder entitled "BGW--Lassie File 1960-1974" (1 of 2: 1960-1969)

1960-1974
(dates broken)

1

3

Bonita Granville Wrather memoranda, business and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, publicity sheets re Lassie television program. Copies and originals. Originally in folder entitled "BGW--Lassie File 1960-1974" (2 of 2: 1970-1974)

1960-1974
(dates broken)

1

4

Memoranda, correspondence re licensing and other contractual agreements between Wrather Corporation and Rudd Weatherwax. Publicity card with photograph of R. Weatherwax and Lassie. R. Weatherwax publicity biographical sheet. Originally in folder entitled "Rudd Weatherwax 1973-1979"

1973-1979 (dates broken)

1

5

Correspondence, information sheets re Lassie television program distribution agreement with Samuel Goldwyn Television. Originally in folder entitled "Tom Seehof-Samuel Goldwyn TV Lassie Distribution Proposal 1974"

1974

1

6

Promotional narration for Lassie television episodes. Originally in folder entitled "Lassie--Promos"

N.D.

1

7

Awards list, correspondence re Lassie television program. Originally in folder entitled "List of Lassie Awards."

1972

1

8

Invitations, memoranda, expense lists, guest lists re party for nineteenth year of production of Lassie television program. Originally in folder entitled "Mrs. Wrather Lassie part @ D. H. Sept 23, 1972"

1972

1

9

Title lists of Lassie television programs and features; some with running times, and casts. Originally in folder entitled "Lists of Shows."

N.D.

1

10

Newspaper clippings re Lyman Dayton. Revenue projections for "Home is Where the Heart Is." Originally in folder entitled "Lassie--Promos"

1976

2

1

Memoranda, revenues sheets, royalty schedules, product labels, incoming and outgoing correspondence re Lassie merchandising. Originally in folder entitled "Lassie Merchandising ..."

1974-1982 (dates broken)

2

2

Correspondence, memoranda, treatments, Bonita Granville Wrather notes re "Lad, Son of Lassie," by Earl Hamner, Jr.

1975

2

3

Incoming correspondence from Braille Institute of America re Lassie television program and promotion. From folder entitled "Braille Institute"

1969

2

4

Memoranda, incoming correspondence re copyright, contracts, federal regulation of television and other miscellany of Lassie television program

1959-1971 (dates broken)

2

5

Memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence re Lassie TV, Inc., advertising with advertising Campbell Soup Company. commercial storyboards, scripts, and sketches

1958-1972 (dates broken)

2

6

Promotional spots for Lassie television program

1971-1972

2

7

Memoranda, production budgets, publicity cost reports re Lassie television program

1970-1972

3

1

Advertising company of Oglivy & Mather, Inc.: "Lassie Network" clearance and ratings reports, correspondence (1 of 2)

1971-1972

3

2

Advertising company of Oglivy & Mather, Inc.: "Lassie Network" clearance and ratings reports, incoming correspondence (2 of 2)

1971-1972

3

3-4

Fan mail and outgoing responses, incoming and outgoing business correspondence, memoranda, photographs, writers' contracts re Lassie television program and other. Originally in folder entitled "Miscellany (2 folders)

1959-1972

3

5

Incoming correspondence, memoranda, contracts re Lassie television program contracts for writers and studio rental agreements

1962, 1965, 1968-1969

3

6

Scripts, production cost estimates, incoming correspondence, memoranda, story synopses, camera shots for "Lassie's Great Adventure," produced by Lassie Television, Inc.

1962

3

7

Outgoing and incoming correspondence, newspaper clippings re production of Lassie television program in Hawaii

1966

3

8

Trailers and promotional spots for "Lassie--The Journey". Cf. 4ov, Folder 1

N.D.

4

1-3

Public relations firm of Rogers, Cowan & Brenner, Inc: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, expense sheets and invoices, newspaper clippings, promo kits, publicity releases for Lassie Network and Lassie Television, Inc.

1971-1972

4

4

"Day and Night" log, outgoing correspondence, laboratory timing guide sheet, memorandum, laboratory time sheet, newspaper clipping re "Lassie--the Journey"

1963

4

5

Folder for Bonita Granville Wrather, containing advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather clearance reports, ratings, and correspondence

1973

4

6

Public relations firm of Rogers, Cowan & Brenner, Inc: reports, incoming and outgoing correspondence, promo kits

1972-1973

4

7

William Shay correspondence and memoranda

1959-1972
(dates broken)

4

8

Advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather, Inc: reports, incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, promo kits, publicity packet with publicity photographs, program schedules and synopses, and fact sheets

1972-1973

4

9

Memoranda of terms, memoranda, outgoing correspondence, contracts re actors for Lassie television program

1958-1972 (dates broken)

4

10

Outgoing correspondence for Haldon Harrison

1971

5

1

Memoranda, appellant's reply brief, outgoing correspondence from law firm of Kaplan, Livingston, et al. re Lassie Television legal matters

1962-1969 (dates broken)

5

2

Incoming correspondence to Lassie Television, memoranda re Rudd Weatherwax

1960-1962, 1969-1972

5

3

Memorandum, incoming correspondence re CBS-TV and Lassie television program

1965, 1970

5

4

Budget sheets, production costs for Lassie television special: "To Lassie, with Love"

1973

5

5

Invoices, memoranda for Lassie television special: "To Lassie, with Love"

1974-1975

5

6

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, invoices, ratings, newspaper clippings, memoranda, narration re Lassie television special: "To Lassie, with Love"

1973-1975

5

7-8

Lassie television special: "To Lassie, with Love" scripts. Five copies, including revision, for which see Folder 7

N.D.

5

9

Press kits (3) for Lassie television program; one from Gray-Schwartz Enterprises, Inc.

N.D.

5

10

Bonita Granville Wrather narration for Lassie television special: "To Lassie, with Love." Originally with materials in Box 5, Folders 7-8

N.D.

5

11

Lassie television movie pilot "Lassie! The New Beginning": Outgoing correspondence, memoranda, budgets, first draft script notes, series/movie synopsis

1977-1979

6

1

Production schedule, list of performers, shooting schedule, daily production report

1978

6

2-3

Syndication of Lassie television program, Stanley Stunnel executive in charge: actual revenue figures and revenue projections, memoranda, outgoing and incoming correspondence, lists of markets, list of residuals

1973-1983

6

4

List of Wrather Corporation television properties

1973

6

5

Syndicast Services, Inc. status report on syndication of Lassie television program

1976

6

6

Press releases from Gray-Schwartz Enterprises, Inc. with story synopses of Lassie television programs and television movies

N. D.

6

7

Press kits (3) from Gray-Schwartz Enterprises, Inc. for syndication of Lassie television programs

N.D.

6

8

Lassie television program miscellany: incoming and outgoing correspondence with fans, memoranda, revenue and production estimates, Screen Actors Guild reporting forms for production grosses

1975-1983

6

9

Lists of episodes, features movies, and "multi-part" programs, memoranda, crew lists re Lassie Television program

1965, 1972, 1977

6

10

Lassie television program story synopses

1957(?)-
1962(?)

7

1-9

Lassie television program story synopses

1965-1972

7

10

Lassie television series outlines, by Stanley Stunell

1975

7

11-13

New Lassie television programs: treatments, scripts, incoming and outgoing correspondence

1973, 1975-1976

7

14

Articles, newspaper clippings re television trends, Lassie. Cf. Box 3ov, Folder 5

1960, 1973-1978 (dates broken)

3ov

4

Articles; publicity plans, press releases, and photographs re Lassie

1969-1972

3ov

5

Articles, newspaper clippings re television trends

 1975-1978

4ov

1

Draft of "Showtime" front cover for Lassie television program. 2 copies

N.D.

4ov

2

"Valley News and Pictorial", with photographs of locale shooting of Lassie television movie

1978


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