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Box 409, LLB, 3, SCA Main Stacks, Industrial Shelf [Aisle: 7, Section: 1, Shelf: 3], MS--01036, Howard Hughes Film Production Records, Series IV.

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Archival objects in this container:

  1. Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Robert Sparks, and James R. Wilkinson inter-department communications regarding film soundtrack , 1950 November 11 to 1950 December 06
  2. Obsolete promotional artwork, grayscale transparencies, His Kind of Woman, 1950 December 20
  3. Screening notes from Robert Sparks, Jerry Wald, and James R. Wilkinson, 1950 November 07
  4. Cutting instructions from Howard Hughes to James R. Wilkinson, 1950 November 17
  5. Ektachrome offset press mock-ups of Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum, annotated with processing notes, approximately 1950 to 1951
  6. Ektachrome offset press mock-ups of Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum, grayscale photographic transparencies, approximately 1950 to 1951
  7. Notes from early screenings of His Kind of Woman, 1950 December 05 to 1951 January 15
  8. Ektachrome offset press mock-ups of Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum, gray scale, first and second group, with annotations, photographic transparencies, approximately 1950 to 1951
  9. Handwritten notes with edit suggestions, 1950 December 07 to 1951 July 11
  10. Ektachrome offset press mock-ups of Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum, gray scale, set up number 3, with annotations, photographic negatives, approximately 1950 to 1951
  11. Noah Dietrich, J. R. Grainger, and Howard Hughes on the distribution of Disney-produced films for Hansel and Gretel, 1954 April 01 to 1954 October 20
  12. Scene edits made prior to Joseph Breen's office approval, 1951 January 11
  13. Harold Melkiner and Robert Sparks inter-department communications regarding approval of added scenes from Joseph Breen's office, 1951 January 11
  14. Dailies assembled for continuity, 1951 February 05
  15. Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum: photographic print and transparencies, approximately 1950 to 1951
  16. Revised footage per reel, 1951 April 18
  17. Audience reviews from screening at Broadway Theater in Santa Ana, California, 1951 July 03 to 1951 July 14
  18. Reviews in The Film Daily, The Hollywood Reporter,, and Variety, 1951 July 09 to 1951 July 13
  19. Audience reception to screening at WKO Proctor's Theater in New Rochelle, New York, 1951 July 17
  20. Roadshow, changes to film, and contacting media outlets, 1951 August 06
  21. Notes on film openings, 1951 August 07 to 1951 August 15