The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1B, 2-46. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Correspondence, scripts, manuscripts, and reports regarding his activities in the American radio and film industries. Included are papers regarding projects for the United State Government, the Indian film industry, various television and radio networks, and private ventures. Also included is material regarding the Center for Mass Communications of Columbia University, in which Barnouw figured prominently and files for the books he has written.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Box 1-1A: Cataloged correspondence; Boxes 1B-29: 1974 gift; Box 30: 1979 gift; Box 31-37: 1984 gift; Box 38: 1985 & 1992 gifts; Boxes 39-40: 1993 gift; Boxes 41-46 Addition (Unprocessed).
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1B, 2-46. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Erik Barnouw papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Peal S. Buck letter is also on: microfilm.
W.H. Auden letters are also on: microfilm.
Gift of Erik Barnouw, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1992& 1993.
Source of acquisition--Barnouw, Erik. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--04/08/74. Accession number--M-74-04-08.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Barnouw, Erik. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--11/04/92. Accession number--M-92-11-04.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Barnouw, Erik. Method of acquisition--Gift; Accession number--M-93-01-28.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed HR 04/--/85.
Papers Processed HR 01/28/93.
Papers Processed HR 01/29/93.
2009-07-07 File created.
2012-03-28 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Professor of Dramatic Arts at Columbia University, author, and editor.
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(Theatre Guild on the Air, radio, sponsored by U.S. Steel U.S. Steel Hour, television, produced by Theatre Guild)
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(Theatre Guild on the Air, radio, sponsored by U.S. Steel U.S. Steel Hour, television, produced by Theatre Guild)
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("Includes revealing autobiographical notes by a number of different writers, most of whom were little known at the time, Manv later became celebrated in other media, but were, in the early 1940s mainly concerned with radio...Other contributors to the anthology were writers prominent in other media but occasionally drawn to radio, especially during World War II...The anthology was reprinted several times, remaining in print until the late 1950s and widely used in College and university courses."- Erik Barnouw)
These are photocopies of original manuscripts held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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(Per E. Barnouw, these files "are from my personal files as editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia. The official files are at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania. The 4-vol encyclopedia was published by Oxford University Press in 1989.")
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(Per E. Barnouw, "Supplementing the original Hiroshima-Nagasaki file, this file records continuing reactions to the film, 1973-88; the evolution of various articles about the film in journals; and of the video The Case of the A-Bomb Footage.")
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(Organization and history of (a) the 1989 Glasnost Film Festival tour of USA; (b) the 1990 Flaherty Film Seminar in Riga, Latvia, and follow-up visits to USSR documentary studios; and (c) the 1990 USSR tour of the American Showcase (d) Documents supplementing these, including the final Showcase report)
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(Evolution of the one-volume condensation and updating of the 3-volume History of Broadcasting in the United States (A Tower in Babel, The Golden Web, and The Image Empire).)