Cecile Starr papers, 1925-2001
Cecile Starr papers, 1925-2001
Summary Information
Abstract
Personal documents, correspondence, photographs, audiocassettes, and printed material of the filmmaker, film writer, and educator Cecile Starr (1921-2014).
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1191
- Bib ID:
- 4079913 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Starr, Cecile
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 15 linear feet (36 manuscript boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
- 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.
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Two folders of the collection contain medical records of Cecile Starr and possibly other individuals. These are closed to researchers until 2089.
This collection is located on-site.
Some unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Description
Summary
Personal and professional papers of the filmmaker, film writer, and educator Cecile Starr (1921-2014). Material formats include personal documents, photographs, audiocassettes (primarily interviews of Starr and others), and printed material. The content includes family and personal correspondence; professional correspondence; materials relating to Southern writers including James Agee and Randall Jarrell; materials related to Starr's secondary, college, and university education; teaching materials regarding filmmaking courses taught at Columbia University, the New School, and elsewhere; and manuscripts and preparation materials for published and unpublished articles. There are also records related to Starr's film distribution activities and the Women's Independent Film Exchange (W.I.F.E.), which Starr co-founded and co-directed.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in ten series.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
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.
Two folders of the collection contain medical records of Cecile Starr and possibly other individuals. These are closed to researchers until 2089.
This collection is located on-site.
Some unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
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.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Cecile Starr papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Four additions to the collection were received in 2009, 2011, and 2014. These materials are located in Boxes 12-36.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Cecile Starr, 1998.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Starr, Cecile. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1998. Accession number--M-1998.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers Added to RLIN HR 05/30/2002.
The four additions to the collection were physically integrated during processing. Components of the additions were intellectually integrated into Series I, II, and VII. They also make up the entirety of Series X: Subject files. These materials were processed by Jennifer B. Lee, June 2021.
Container list uploaded and front matter edited by Celeste Brewer, June 2021.
Revision Description
2009-03-05 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
2021-06-24 Finding aid updated to incorporate additions to the collection. CLB
Biographical / Historical
Filmmaker, film writer, and educator Cecile Starr (1921-2014) was born in Nashville, Tennessee on July 14, 1921, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received a B.A. in Romance Languages from Louisiana State University in 1941 and a masters degree in Adult Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1952. She then taught film history and criticism in Columbia's Graduate Film department from 1955 until 1961.
Starr worked as non-theatrical writer and editor for the quarterly "Film Forum Review" from 1946 until 1949 and the weekly "Saturday Review" from 1949 until 1959. She also published freelance articles in "The New York Times" and various film journals, sometimes on highly controversial subjects. Starr wrote or edited four books: "Ideas on Film" (1951); "Film Society Primer" (1956); "Discovering the Movies" (1972); and "Experimental Animation", with Robert Russett (1976, revised 1988). As a scriptwriter and producer, her films include the award-winning "Fellow Citizen, A. Lincoln" and "Islamic Carpets."
For 35 years Starr worked as a part-time, home-based distributor, renting and selling films on behalf of friends and colleagues, including Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Bute, Hans Richter and others. In 1977 she founded and became co-director of the Women's Independent Film Exchange (W.I.F.E.), and in 1991 she received one of the Anthology Film Archive's Film Preservation awards.
Starr married filmmaker Aram Boyajian in 1957. They had two children and one grandson. Cecile Starr died in Vermont in December 2014.
Subject Headings
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Series I: Starr Family
Box 1 Folder 1
Alfred and Elizabeth Starr. Correspondence (Elizabeth) and clippings. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1952-1997 6 pages t.l.s. 3 p.c.s. 14 pages photocopies 6 pages, 1952-1997
(Newspaper and periodical clippings related to the career and death of Alfred Starr. Includes controversial public debate over subject of "pay T.V.")
Box 1 Folder 2
Starr, Carrie and Cecile Starr. Letter to Starr and Lightman families. New York 29 March 1997 3 pages t.l.s, March 1997
(Descriptive letter regarding funeral of Carrie Lightman Starr (mother) and Starr burial site in Nashville, TN.)
Box 1 Folder 3
Starr, Jacob. Copies of marriage and obituary clippings; copy of will. Nashville, TN [n.d.], 30 April 1932 1 page photocopy 2 page t.ms Note: Father of Cecile Starr., April 1932, (Poor quality copy of newspaper clippings.)
Box 1 Folder 4
Starr, Milton and Goldie "Zaro" Starr (Mrs. Milton). To: Cecile Starr [v.p.] [n.d.] 1934-1996 21 pages a.l.s. 1 page t.l.s. 1 p.c.s, 1934-1996
(Paternal uncle and aunt of Cecile Starr.)
Box 1 Folder 5
Starr, Milton. Obituary and memorial tributes by William R. MacKaye and Michael Wolf[v.p.] 1976 1 page photocopy 5 pages t.ms., 1976
Box 1 Folder 6
Freud, Sigmund. Biography by Ernest Jones The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol III. Page 233. [n.p.] [n.d.] 1 page photocopy
(References to Milton Starr's financial support of psychoanalysis periodical "Imago.")
Box 1 Folder 7
Lowell, Robert. Robert Lowell: A Biography by Ian Hamilton. Pages 47, 66. [n.p.] [n.d.] 2 pages photocopies
(References to Milton Starr's financial support of the American poet.)
Box 1 Folder 8
Waters, Ethel. Excerpts from Waters autobiography His Eye is on the Sparrow. Pages 156, 160, 170-171. [n.p.] 1950 2 pages t.ms., 1950
(Excerpts typed onto separate sheets. Description of Milton Starr's support of African American artists)
Box 1 Folder 9
Bijou Amusement Company Partnership. To Cecile Starr. Stock certificates. [n.p.] 29 December 1960 3 pages t.l.s, December 1960
(See also "The Reluctant Capitalist"; file 74.)
Box 1 Folder 10
Starr, Mike. To Cecile Starr [n.p.] [n.d.] 3 pages a.l.s.
Box 1 Folder 11
Starr, Sarah Lusky. Clippings of obituaries. [n.p.] 4 December 1925 1 page photocopy, December 1925
(Paternal grandmother of Cecile Starr.)
Box 1 Folder 12
Starr, Bessie. To Cecile Starr [n.p.] 23 Oct 1985 28 Jan 1986 1 p.c.s. 1 page t.l.s, 1985, 1986
(Paternal aunt of Cecile Starr and wife of David Starr. Includes letter from Jeanne Starr Loeb regarding death of Bessie Starr.)
Box 1 Folder 13
To Cecile Starr Tennessee 25 January 1980 1 p.c.s, January 1980
(From "Mary Jane" [Coleman] inquiring about relation to Afred Starr)
Box 1 Folder 14
Starr, Joseph (J.D.). To Cecile Starr. Includes correspondence between Cecile to J.D. Starr [v.p.] [n.d.] 1934-1998 1 p.c.s. 94 pages a. and t.l.s. 15 pages a. and t.l.s, 1934-1998
(Brother to Cecile Starr.)
Box 1 Folder 15
Starr Joseph (J.D). Miscellaneous personal items: birth certificate, confirmation program, business card, newspaper clippings; New Yorker article regarding "Pennies from Heaven"; funeral condolences. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1929-1999 3 items 5 pages photocopies 1 page periodical 3 a.l.s., 1929-1999
Box 1 Folder 16
Loeb, Jeanne Starr. Letters and newspaper clippings; paraphernalia [v.p.] [n.d.] 1985-2000 1 Folder 2 pages, 1985-2000
(Cousin to Cecile Starr.)
Box 1 Folder 17
Letters and paraphenalia regarding activity of children and grandchildren of Milton and Zaro Starr. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1972-2000 1 Folder, 1972-2000
Box 1 Folder 18
Letters and paraphenalia regarding children and grandchildren of Alfred Starr. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1 Folder
Box 1 Folder 19
Starr Carrie (Lightman). Memoir written by Carrie Starr with notes by Cecile Starr [n.p.] [n.d.] 55 t.ms. 26 a.ms. 1 Folder 2 note pages a.ms.s.
Box 1 Folder 20
Starr Carrie (Lightman). To Cecile Starr; letters from Cecile to Carrie Starr; funeral mementos. [n.p.] [n.d.] 1944-1984 1 Folder, 1944-1984
(Mother of Carrie Starr.)
Box 1 Folder 21
Correspondence to Cecile and Carrie from members of the Lightman family. [v.p.] 1937-1997 2 Folder inserts, 1937-1997
(Includes clippings and publicity items.)
Box 1 Folder 22
Lightman, Alan. Photocopies of correspondence with Cecile Starr [v.p.] 1984-1998 1 Folder, 1984-1998
(Cousin to Cecile Starr.)
Box 1 Folder 23
Lightman, Alan. Photocopies of book reviews by and of Alan Lightman; paraphernalia [v.p.] 1982-2001 1 Folder, 1982-2001
Box 12
Amy Clampitt
Box 12
Alan Lightman
Box 12
M. Lounsbury (teacher)
Box 12
Jerry Lynas
Box 12
Joyce McDougall
Box 12
Carrie Lightman Starr
Box 12
J. D. Starr - Family - Cecile Starr Letters to Juanita
Box 12
Sara Starr Wolff
Daughter of Milton Starr.
Series II: Cecile Starr
Box 2 Folder 24
Starr Cecile . Personal documents: copy of birth certificate, wedding invitation, wedding license, resume, personal will, financial and legal documents; typed memoir with corrections. [v.p.] New York [n.d.] 1957-1995 1 Folder 5 pages t.ms., 1957-1995
Box 2 Folder 25
Starr Cecile. School records; detailed childhood and contemporary recollections handwritten by Starr; McMain High School annual (1937); mementos. New Orleans, LA 1921-1942 1 Folder, 1921-1942
(Filed by Cecile Starr "New Orleans 1921-1937.")
Box 2 Folder 26
Joseph, Eleanor Cohen. Correspondence with Cecile Starr. [n.p.] 1944-1996 1 Folder, 1944-1996
(Distant Lightman cousin of Cecile Starr.)
Box 2 Folder 27
Louisiana State University. Personal and administrative correspondence; diploma Baton Rouge, LA, 1937-1941
(Correspondence with friends extends beyond college years.)
Box 2 Folder 28
Fritsch, Peter. Correspondence with Peter Fritsch; articles and clippings regarding Fritsch, Mia Fritsch and James Agee. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1940-1990 1 Folder, 1940-1990
Box 2 Folder 29
Correspondence and clippings regarding Southern writers including James Agee, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1953-1989 1 Folder, 1953-1989
(Filed by Cecile Starr "Growing Up in the Literary South.")
Box 11 Folder 103
Stafford, Jean. Varies items include articles, photocopies of two way correspondence; correspondence with rare book collectors, clippings, excerpts of Stafford's writing, personal accounts by Starr. [v.p.] 1978-1998 1 Folder, 1978-1998
(Original copies of correspondence and materials purchased by the University of Colorado at Boulder.)
Box 13
Cecile Starr birthday cards and letters received
Box 13
Cecile Starr notices received
Most from women film makers.
Box 13
Cecile Starr correspondence, circa 1990s
Box 13
Cecile Starr correspondence regarding films -- United States, circa 2000s
Box 13
Criticism
Box 13
"How To Be Your Own Movie Critic"
Box 13
Early films
Box 13
Feature script
Box 13
"Fellow Citizen, A. Lincoln" film
Box 13
"Horses, Horses, Horses" film project
Box 13
Cecile Starr "Introduction + Ideas"
For a planned book on women film makers.
Box 13
Cecile Starr photos
Box 13
Cecile Starr rejected articles
Box 14
Cecile Starr education
Box 14
Cecile Starr film book reviews
Box 14
Out-of-date flyers
Box 14
Film rentals, 2001
Box 14
Harvard, Houghton Library, 2004-2006
Box 14
Harvard, Houghton Library, 2005-2010
Box 14
Harvard and University of Colorado
Box 14
Cecile Starr, "My Psychiatrists"
Box 14
Cecile Starr correspondence with people with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)
Box 14
Cecile Starr medical (New York City)
Box 14
Childhood sexual abuse (Mount Sinai)
Series III: Aram Boyajian
Box 3 Folder 30
Boyajian, Aram. Correspondence and materials regarding early film projects; personal notes. [v.p.] 1922-1970 1 Folder, 1922-1970
(Previously organized by Cecile Starr:"Aram Boyajian to 1970." Includes personal account of Emmy Award Ceremony 1964 won by Boyajian for editting "The Kremlin.")
Box 3 Folder 31
Boyajian, Aram. Professional correspondence, clippings, personal accounts. Published volume of poetry: The Man Who Wrote the World's Longest Haiku, Crossing Press, NY. 1973. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1970-1996 1 Folder 1 volume bd, 1970-1996
(Previously organized by Cecile Starr "Aram Boyajian from 1970 on.")
Box 3 Folder 32
Boyajian, Aram. ABC-TV. Published volume based on ABC-TV documentary "Africa" produced by Boyajian and others. [n.p.] [n.d.] 1 vol., bd.
Box 3 Folder 33
Boyajian, Aram. ABC-TV. Materials regarding documentary "Kitty Genovese." New York, 1978-1979
(Includes personal correspondence between Boyajian and convicted murderer Winston Moseley; photocopy of childhood memoir.)
Box 3 Folder 34
ABC-TV. Clippings of reviews and materials regarding documentary "The American Indian" written and produced by Boyajian. [n.p.] 1972 1 Folder, 1972
Box 3 Folder 35
HBO and Consumer Reports.. Correspondence regarding documentaries "Earth to Kids" and "Unsafe at Any Race." New York 1984, 1991 1 Folder, 1984, 1991
Box 3 Folder 36
Boyajian family correspondence. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1971-1993 1 Folder, 1971-1993
Box 3 Folder 37
Boyajian, Suzanne. Correspondence and miscellaneous items. [v.p.] 1980-1996 1 Folder, 1980-1996
(Daughter of Cecile Starr and Aram Boyajian)
Box 3 Folder 38
Boyajian, Marco. High school diploma, resume; correspondence; clippings regarding store Showtime Video in Burlington, Vermont. [v.p.] New York, Vermont 1978-1997 1 Folder, 1978-1997
(Son of Cecile Starr and Aram Boyajian.)
Box 3 Folder 39
Boyajian, Marco. Film reviews by Marco Boyajian. [v.p.] 1969-1998 1 Folder Note: Son of Cecile Starr and Aram Boyajian., 1969-1998
Series IV: New York Film, 1940s-1950s
Box 4 Folder 40
Jack Ellis. Film Council of America. Correspondence to and from Starr; incomplete manuscript of autiographical materials [author unclear]. Evanston, IL and Vermont 1981-1997 1 Folder, 1981-1997
Box 4 Folder 41
Clippings, flyers, personal correspondence regarding filmmakers Julien Bryan, Ken Snelson, Francis Thompson. New York 1970s-1980s 1 Folder Note: All filmmakers who began careers in New York during the 1940s and 1950s., 1970s-1980s, 1940s
(Previously arranged by Cecile Starr.)
Box 4 Folder 42
Clippings regarding film careers of Jim Davis and James Broughton. New York 1940s-1950s 1 Folder Note: Includes published volume "Jim Davis: The Flow of Energy" inscribed to Cecile Starr., 1940s-1950s
(Previously filed as "Rosalind Kossoff" by Starr.)
Box 4 Folder 43
Thomas Brandon and Leo Dratfield. Correspondence and personal notes. New York 1967-1982 1 Folder Note: Note by Starr regarding relationship between filmmaker and distributor., 1967-1982
(Previously filed by Starr.)
Box 4 Folder 44
Lillian Wachtel. Film News. Clippings and correspondence regarding periodical "Film News" and film publisher and editor Rohana Lee. Vermont and New York [n.d.]; 1965, 1997 1 Folder, 1965, 1997
Box 4 Folder 45
Wachtel, Lillian. Clippings and correspondence with Cecile Starr. [n.p.] 1999-2001 1 Folder, 1999-2001
Box 4 Folder 46
Austrailian News and Information Bureau. Correspondence, clippings, and personal notes. New York 1942-1977 1 Folder Note: Cecile Starr's employer from 1942-1945. Includes correspondence between Cecile Starr and Australian filmmaker Ronald Maslyn Williams to 1977 with references to Jean Stafford, wife of poet Robert Lowell. References regarding office environment and newswriters during World War II., 1942-1977, 1977
Box 4 Folder 47
Affiliated Film Producers. Personal correspondence and accounts, clippings regarding Starr's working acquaintance with Willard Van Dyke, Irving Jacoby, and Helen Grayson; obituary for Irving Jacoby written by Starr published in EFLA Newsletter. New York 1967-1997 1 Folder, 1967-1997
Box 4 Folder 48
Film Council of America. "A Symposium: Sixty Years of 16 mm Film" and "A Guide to Film Services of National Associations." Practical Offset Inc.: Des Plaines IL 1954 220 pages bd. 146 pages bd, 1954
(Cecile Starr on the editorial board.)
Box 4 Folder 49
Film Council of America. Correspondence, programs, t.ms. of essay by Starr published in memorial flyer (1996). New York 1959-1996 1 Folder, 1959-1996
(Personal accounts regarding activities in the 1940s and 1950s Cecile Starr on the editorial board)
Box 4 Folder 50
National Film Board of Canada. Flyers, correspondence, personal accounts. New York and Montreal 1956-1979 1 Folder, 1956-1979
Box 4 Folder 51
Sophie Hohne (Reu). March of Time. Correspondence, flyers, clippings, photographs of building where former office stood. New York 1970-1997 1 Folder, 1970-1997
Box 4 Folder 52
Miscellaneous events and projects 1940s-1950s. Correspondence, clippings; study guides and articles for Encyclopedia Britannica by Cecile Starr. New York 1940-1950 1 Folder, 1940-1950
Series V: Teaching at Columbia University, 1955-1961
Box 5 Folder 53
Correspondence and clippings regarding former students: Alfred Appel, Jr.; Timothy Asch; John Frazer; Gordon Hitchens; George Manupelli; Roger Sandall; Don Gunn. New York, 1955-1961
(Correspondence extends into later years.)
Box 5 Folder 54
Correspondence to and from former students: James Watters, Howard Worth, Merle Worth, Herbert Reynolds [not a student, an acquaintence]. New York 1955-1961 1 Folder, 1955-1961
(Filed by Starr: "First class of M.A. Film and TV students at Columbia.)
Box 5 Folder 55
Bogdonavich and De Palma. Correspondence, personal accounts, and materials regarding former students Peter Bogdonavich and Brian de Palma New York 1955-1975 1 Folder, 1955-1975
(Correspondence with Bogdonavich 1972-1975)
Box 5 Folder 56
Educational records and correspondence New York 1947-2001 1 Folder, 1947-2001
(Includes written statement regarding disagreement with Erik Barnouw and leave of absence to go to Paris with husband. Filed by Cecile Starr "Columbia University-miscellaneous.")
Box 5 Folder 57
Teaching materials including typed notes include student notes from Starr's history of the motion picture course (1960), correspondence, film periodical clippings, programs, and flyers. New York 1955-1961 1 Folder, 1955-1961
(Correspondence extends into later years.)
Box 5 Folder 58
Life. Published articles by Jim Watters. Time, Inc.: Chicago February 1980 May, 1986 2 vol. bd, 1980 May, 1986
(Former student of Cecile Starr.)
Series VI: Film Criticism
Box 6 Folder 59
Kael, Pauline. Articles; clippings; one incomplete typed ms. regarding film critic. [v.p.] 1968-1989 1 Folder, 1968-1989
Box 6 Folder 60
Gerstein, Evelyn. Notes, correspondence between film critic Gerstein and Starr, handwrittten manuscript, clippings, photocopies of Gerstein's film reviews. [v.p.] New York [n.d.] 1961-1986 1 Folder, 1961-1986
Box 6 Folder 61
Agee, James. Personal account by Starr on her acquaintance with Agee; periodical and book excerpts, handwritten notes. [v.p.] New York [n.d.] 1959-1984 1 Folder, 1959-1984
Box 6 Folder 62
Correspondence, notes, clippings regarding critics including Archer Winstein and Virgil Thomson. [v.p.] 1960-1997 1 Folder, 1960-1997
(Filed by Starr "American Film Critics and Writers.")
Box 6 Folder 63
Notes and papers for class on Film Criticism taught by Starr. New York [1960s-1970s] 1 Folder
(Drawn from courses taught at the New School, Columbia University, and elsewhere.)
Box 6 Folder 64
Movie reviews by students of Cecile Starr at the New School. New York 1974-1980 1 Folder, 1974-1980
Box 6 Folder 65
Thompson, Howard. Personal accounts by Cecile Starr; clippings of articles by film columnist and longtime acquaintance. Book inscribed to Starr by Howard: The Female Approach by Ronald Searle. Knopf, NY. 1954. [v.p.] New York 1944-1997 1 Folder, 1944-1997
(Film writer for the New York Times.)
Box 6 Folder 66
Notes, clippings. New York 1956-1987 1 Folder, 1956-1987
(Information on film critics at the New York Times including Mordaunt Hall, Vincent Canby, Frank Nugent, and Bosley Crowther.)
Series VII: Articles (with related correspondence)
Box 7 Folder 67
Levitt, Helen. Notes, materials, drafts, and clipping of articles written by Cecil Starr. Appeared in two publications: "Center Quarterly," Summer 1985. Vol. 6, No. 4. Book Review, "Sightlines," Winter 1986/87. 2 published volumes: "Helen Levitt" and "Helen Levitt: Photographies." [v.p.] France, New York 1977-1988 3 Folders, 1977-1988
Box 7 Folder 68
Deren, Maya. The New York Times. Correspondence and notes regarding Cecile Starr article: "The Mother of the American Avant-Garde Film," 2 May 1976. New York 1976 1 Folder, 1976
Box 7 Folder 69
The New York Times. Typed ms. (draft), notes, correspondence, photocopy and clipping of article by Cecile Starr: "Is the Government Subsidizing Sexism in Film" in The New York Times?" 9 January 1977. New York 1977 1 Folder, 1977
Box 7 Folder 70
House Beautiful. Notes, correspondence and sample copy of column by Cecile Starr: "Flowers and Films for Spring" January 1953. Vol. 95, No. 1 Hearst Corp.: New York 1953-1954 1 Folder, 1953-1954
(Starr wrote a film column from 1953-1954. Correspondence with editor Joseph Barry dates into the 1980s.)
Box 7 Folder 71
American Film Institute.. Clippings and articles. Printed letter from Cecile Starr: "Film Artists Fear AFI Will Go Hollywood," in Readers and Writers, April-May 1967. Subsequent correspondence. [v.p.] New York 1967-1981 1 Folder, 1967-1981
(Starr's critical letter regarding the vision of the Film Advisory Council of the National Council of the Arts--Hollywood/entertainment vs. art received a wide public response. Correspondence includes photocopy of a letter from Council member and actor Gregory Peck (29 May 1967).)
Box 7 Folder 72
Anthology Film Archive Jonas Mekas Film Culture. Flyers, announcements, letters, and correspondence regarding article by Cecile Starr: "New York Letter" in Sight and Sound, Winter 1961/62. New York 1961-1998 1 Folder, 1961-1998
(Personal account of Cecile Starr's Preservation Award and ceremony given her by Anthology Film Archives in 1992.)
Box 7 Folder 73
The Saturday Review. Notes, correspondence, clippings, photograph of former office site. New York 1949-1959 1 Folder, 1949-1959
(Cecile Starr worked for The Saturday Review 1949-1959. Includes what she considered her ten best columns. Correspondence extends through 1997.)
Box 7 Folder 74
The New York Times. Notes and correspondence regarding Starr article: "The Reluctant Capitalist" printed 15 October 1995. [v.p.] New York 1950-1995 1 Folder, 1950-1995
Box 11 Folder 97
Mazursky, Paul. Correspondence from and to Starr. Notes and materials for Starr's two publications regarding Mazursky's "An Unmarried Woman." Twentieth Century Fox, "Talking Cinematically re. Films," 1978. "Women in Film: Weill and Mazursky," Fire Island News, August 19, 1978. New York 1978 1 Folder, 1978
Box 11 Folder 101
Richter, Hans. Personal correspondence with Richter; correspondence regarding Richter's estate; announcements and flyers relevant to the filmmaker's career. [v.p.] 1974-1998 1 Folder, 1974-1998
Box 8 Folder 76
Brakhage, Stan. Correspondence and clippings regarding filmmaker Brakhage. New York 1979-1998 1 Folder, 1979-1998
Box 11 Folder 98
Posner, Bruce. Correspondence; clippings regarding Posner's filmaking career. [v.p.] 1983-1998 1 Folder, 1983-1998
Box 11 Folder 102
Richter, Hans. Correspondence (includes letter from Jonas Mekas), notes, transcripts of tapes, drafts, writings by Richter, and photocopies of Starr writings regarding Richter. "Richter on Film: An Independent Film about an Independent Filmmaker," Art & Cinema, December 1978. "Notes on Hans Richter in the U.S.A.," No. 79, Winter 1996. "Hilla Rebay and the Guggenheim Nexus," [no source information.] [v.p.] New York 1977-1996 1 Folder, 1977-1996
Box 15
Cecile Starr printed articles: House Beautiful and pre-1960 film articles
Box 15
Cecile Starr printed articles: Saturday Review
Box 15
Cecile Starr printed articles: Laserdiscs -- Reviews of Cecile Starr books
Box 16
Cecile Starr printed articles, circa 1960s-1990s, 3 folders
Box 17
Cecile Starr printed articles
Including Film Forum Review, International Documentary, and Filmmakers Newsletter.
Series VIII: Film Activities, 1980s-1990s
Box 8 Folder 75
Kertesz Project Paris 1986-1987 1 Folder, 1986-1987
Box 8 Folder 77
Museum of Modern Art. Clippings, notes, and inventory lists; correspondence. New York 1980-1997 1 Folder, 1980-1997
Box 8 Folder 78
Southern filmmakers; correspondence, critiques, rosters of film festivals. [v.p.] 1975-1982 1 Folder, 1975-1982
Box 8 Folder 79
Correspondence, loose pages from published script, typed draft for article on movie: "Tattoo." [v.p.] 1959-1983 1 Folder Note: Article never published. Filed by Starr: "Tattoo article-Bob Brooks.", 1959-1983
Box 8 Folder 80
Centre Georges Pompidou. Correspondence, contract, and draft of Starr article on Stephanie Maxwell Paris and Vermont 1993-1997 1 Folder, 1993-1997
Box 8 Folder 81
American Federation of the Arts. Copy of distribution agreement, correspondence, flyer for film festival in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge [n.d] 1977-1989 1 Folder, 1977-1989
Box 8 Folder 82
Boyajian Starr Associates. Notes, Employer Identification Number, financial records. New York 1979-1985 1 Folder, 1979-1985
Box 8 Folder 83
Correspondence and related items for various film periodicals. [n.p.] 1961-1985 1 Folder Note: Includes "Spiral," "Film Quarterly," and "Cantrills.", 1961-1985
Box 8 Folder 84
Receipts from personal sale of used film related books, videos, and posters. [v.p.] New York 1989-1994 1 Folder, 1989-1994
Box 8 Folder 85
Curtis, David. Arts Council of Great Britain. To Cecile Starr England 1981-1984 1 Folder, 1981-1984
(Regarding film program notes and project proposals.)
Box 8 Folder 86
Miscellaneous film correspondence 1990s New York [n.d.] 1995, 1998 1 Folder Note: Includes Maxine Haleff, Vachel Blair, Sally Mason-Robinson, Paula Kotis., 1990s, 1995, 1998
Box 8 Folder 87
Clippings and correspondence regarding film education and teaching positions. [v.p.] 1980-1999 1 Folder, 1980-1999
Box 8 Folder 88
Lye, Len. Clippings, correspondence, and materials regarding career of the kinetic sculptor and experimental filmmaker Len Lye (1901-1980). [v.p.] 1936-1991 1 Folder, 1936-1991
(Photocopy of letter to Starr signed "Len.")
Box 9 Folder 89
Lincoln Center programs and exhibition notes; t.ms. of talk given by Starr during 1967-1968 school year. New York 1967-1989 1 Folder, 1967-1968, 1967-1989
(Includes correspondence regarding "Fantasy in Film" public school project developed by Cecile Starr.)
Box 9 Folder 90
Laser disc information: flyers, clippings, correspondence, photographs. [v.p.] 1988-19941 Folder
Box 9 Folder 91
Correspondence and clippings regarding non-film friends. [v.p.] New York 1980-1998 1 Folder, 1980-1998
Box 9 Folder 92
Fire Island related clippings. New York 1979-1992 1 Folder, 1979-1992
Box 9 Folder 93
Grierson, John. Clippings, correspondence, and Starr's personal account of meeting the film critic. Photocopy of Starr book review for Grierson on the Movies (1981) in "Sightlines, Fall 1981. [v.p.] 1955-1981 1 Folder, 1955-1981
Box 9 Folder 94
Receipts, reviews, and correspondence regarding film related books purchased by Starr. [v.p.] 1966-1998 1 Folder, 1966-1998
Box 9 Folder 95
Kaufman, Boris. Materials, correspondence, and manuscript of article written by Starr. Starr's printed review of Dziga Vertov: A Guide to References and Resources printed in "Sightlines" Spring 1981. [v.p.] 1980-1981 1 Folder, 1980-1981
Box 11 Folder 99
Harvard Film Archives. Clippings, programs, and reviews regarding film retrospective Starr participated: "The Emergence of Abstract Film in America." Cambridge, MA 7-11 December 1995 1 Folder, December 1995
Box 11 Folder 100
Reiniger, Lotte. Personal correspondence, accounts by Starr, clippings, obituary regarding the film animator. [v.p.] 1981-1997 1 Folder, 1981-1997
(Reference to Starr's organizing Reiniger retrospective at the American Film Festival in 1980.)
Box 11 Folder 104
Stearns, Monteagle and Toni. To Cecile Starr (and Aram Boyajian). Article by Antonia Stearns in House Beautiful, December 1994. [v.p.] 1977-1995 1 Folder, 1977-1995
Box 11 Folder 105
Wright, Basil. Information regarding British documentary filmmaker. Correspondence between Starr, Wright, and others. [v.p.] 1974-1985 1 Folder, 1974-1985
Box 11 Folder 106
Correspondence and clippings regarding years spent in France. Includes Starr article reprint from the Saturday Review of Literature (1955). Personal accounts by Starr. [v.p.] 1962-1988 1 Folder, 1962-1988
Series IX: Cassette Recordings
Box 9 Folder 96
Cecile Starr's notes and list of cassettes catalogued in Box 10, 1977
Written notes refer tape #7 and #14
Audiocassettes labeled by Cecile Starr
Box 10
1) AFA-Wilder Green and Steve Aronson with Cecile Starr, April 1977
Box 10
2) Alexeieff & Parker (Paris) with Starr, June 1980
Box 10
3) Blair, Vachel with Starr, March 1997
Box 10
4) Blair, Vachel with Starr, April 1997
Box 10
5 and 6) Canby, Vincent with Starr, April 1981
Box 10
7) Canemaker's Animation Group, December 1977
Box 10
8) Dockum Film, Starr narration, undated
Box 10
9) Canadian Animators: Drouin and Bindon, November 1992
Box 10
10) Griffin, George, 1977
Box 10
11) Feferman, Linda
Box 10
12) Jarnow, Al with Starr, 1977
Box 10
13) Malle, Louis with Starr, 1978
Box 10
14) Selwood, Maureen - Animators, November 1977
Box 10
15) Mazursky, Paul with Starr, 1978
Box 10
16) Munro, Grant with Starr, November 1990
Box 10
17) NFB Animators: Patel and Hoedeman with Starr, November 1990
Box 10
18) Petric, Vlada, December 1995
Box 10
19) Reiniger with Starr and others, 1978
Box 10
20) Richter on film with Starr, undated
Box 10
21) Rickey, Carrie with Starr, May 1981
Box 10
22) Snelson, Ken with Starr, 1979
Box 10
23) Starr, Cecile on Len Lye (Donnell), 1985
Box 10
24) Starr, Cecile on the New School "Film Criticism", February 1976
Box 10
25) Thacher, Anita (Metropolitan Museum)
Box 10
26) Whitney, John phone conversation (Russett and Starr), October 1987
Box 10
27) Spiral Anthology (special production), 1985
Box 10
28) Wright, Basil with Starr, 1985
Miscellaneous Cassettes
Box 10
Cecile Starr re. Randall Jarrell, William Pritchard interview
Box 10
Robert Graeff regarding Werner Graeff No. 1 and No. 2. Michael Pressman with Cecile Starr, 1979
Box 10
Archer Winsten with Cecile Starr, No. 1 and No. 2, 1981
Box 10
Stewart Klein and Cecile Starr, 1981
Box 10
Cecile Starr on N.H. radio talk re W.I.F.E.
Series X: Subject Files
Subseries X.1: Names
Box 18
Agee
Box 18
Agee -- Caroline Blinder
Box 18
Anderson, Erica
Box 18
Anderson, Erica (and Vonnegut)
Box 18
Anderson, Madeline
Box 18
Ascher, Robert
Box 18
Barry, Iris
Box 18
Bartosch, Berthold -- correspondence
Box 18
Bartosch, Berthold -- Cecile Starr promotion
Box 18
Bartosch, Berthold -- "The Idea" -- income
Box 18
Bartosch, Berthold -- "The Idea"
With CD of Arthur Honegger music created for the film, Gallo CD-880.
Box 19
Bartosch, Berthold -- stills and negatives
Box 19
Bartosch, Berthold -- printed matter
Box 19
Benacerraf, Margot
Box 19
Berg, Gretchen
Box 19
Berg, Gretchen / Weinberg
Box 19
Berkley, Busby
Box 19
Bogdanovich, Peter -- correspondence and articles
Box 19
Bogdanovich, Peter -- articles
Box 19
Bontemps, Arna
Box 19
Brakhage, Stan
Box 19
Breer, Robert
Box 19
Bryan, Diana
Box 19
Burgess, Lee (Dick / Bechwith)
Box 20
Bute, Mary Ellen -- Cecile Starr interview with Sandra Naumann
Box 20
Bute, Mary Ellen
Box 20
Cameron, Donna
Box 20
Cantrill, Arthur and Corinne
Box 20
Charlton, Maryette
Box 20
Chase, Doris
Box 20
Clarke, Shirley
Box 20
Crockwell, Douglass, 2 folders
Box 20
Damonte, Devon
Box 20
D'Avino, Carmen
Box 20
De Hirsch, Storm
Box 21
Dery, Jo
Box 21
Dreyer, Carl and Scandinavian Films
Box 21
Eames, Charles and Ray
Box 21
Ehrlich, David
Box 21
Ellis, Jack
Box 21
Emshwiller, Ed
Box 21
Eggeling, Viking
Box 21
Eggeling, Pictures
Box 21
Engel, Jules
Box 21
Engel, Jules and Janeann Dill
Box 21
Flaherty, Frances
Box 21
Flaherty Photos
Box 21
Furniss, Maureen
Box 21
Gaynor, Janet
Box 21
Glabicki, Paul
Box 21
Glushanok, Peter
Box 22
Grant, Dwinell, circa 1970s-1990s
Box 22
Grant, Dwinell, 1975-1991
Box 22
Grant, Dwinell, 2 folders
Box 22
Grant, Dwinell -- In His Own Words
Box 22
Grayson, Helen -- letters
Box 22
Grayson, Helen -- Cecile Starr notes
Box 22
Grayson, Helen -- articles
Box 22
Grayson, Helen -- miscellaneous
Box 22
Grayson, Helen / Jacob Lawrence
Box 23
Griffin, George
Box 23
Griffin, Richard -- Museum of Modern Art booklets
Box 23
Guy-Blache, Alice, 2 folders
Box 23
Guy-Blache, Alice / P. Green
Box 23
Guy-Blache, Alice -- T-shirt "Be Natural"
Box 23
Haleff, Maxine
Box 23
Hammid, Alexander
Box 23
Hartley, Elda
Box 23
Hill, Jerome
Box 24
Hofacker / Richter / Eggeling
Box 24
Hoshino, Marvin
Box 24
Iimura, Taka
Box 24
Jacobs, Lewis
Box 24
Jacoby, Irving
Box 24
Jacoby, Irving -- Office of War Information
Box 24
Jacoby, Oren
Box 24
Jarnow, Al
Box 24
Jarvis, Lucy
Box 24
Johnson, Osa
Box 24
Kain, Richard
Box 24
Kaufman, Boris
Box 24
Kaufman, Boris / Jean Vigo
Box 25
Keefer, Cindy -- Center for Visual Music, 2005-2010
Box 25
Keefer, Cindy -- Center for Visual Music Promotion
Box 25
Keefer, Cindy -- Iota Center
Box 25
Kitchen, Diane -- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Box 25
Kravitz/Subotnick
Box 25
Lambart, Evelyn
Box 25
Langer, Mark
Box 25
Leacock, Ricky
Box 25
Levine, Charles
Box 25
Leyda, Jay
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Europe, 2000
Box 26
Levitt, Helen, 2010
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- "In the Street", 2010-2011
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Barcelona -- Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Bolzano, Italy - "I.T.S."
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Light Cone
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Pip Chodorov (Re-Voir, Paris)
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Pompidou (Paris)
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- 16mm prints, copyright, etc.
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- pictures, cards, etc.
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- books
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- cards and letters
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Harper's Books
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- Glenn Horowitz
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- other films
Box 26
Levitt, Helen -- film friends and photographers
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Recollections of Levitt, Cecile Starr interviews, Dylan Morgan transcriptions
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Cecile Starr agreements
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Distribution (Starr)
Box 27
Levitt, Helen / Starr
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Anthology (Mekas)
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Arthouse (Koh)
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- British Film Institute
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Lille (France), 2010-2011
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Metropolitan Museum
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Lawrence Miller Gallery
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Stanford, CA, "In the Street"
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- miscellaneous
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- Janice Loeb, "The Quiet One"
Box 27
Levitt, Helen -- photographs
Box 28
Lorentz, Pare
Box 28
MacDonald, Dwight
Box 28
McDougall, Joyce
Box 28
McLaren, Norman
Box 28
McLaren, Norman -- materials
Box 28
McLaren, Norman -- stills
Box 28
Mamoulian, Rouben
Box 28
Maxwell, Stephanie, 2000
Box 28
Montanaro, Carlo
Box 28
Morse, Deanna
Box 29
Mouris, Frank and Caroline
Box 29
Munro, Grant
Box 29
Olitzky, Seth
Box 29
Orkin, Ruth -- Cecile Starr
Box 29
Orkin, Ruth
Box 29
Peck, Gregory -- and American Film Institute
Box 29
Pennebaker -- Daybreak Press, 1975-2010
Box 29
Peterson, Vicki
Box 29
Pickford, Mary
Box 29
Poser, Mimi
Box 29
Posner, Bruce
Box 29
Priestley, Joanna
Box 29
Rebay, Hilla
Box 30
Reiniger, Lotte
Box 30
Reiniger, Lotte -- letters
Box 30
Reiniger, Lotte -- stills
Box 30
Richter, Hans -- Europe, 2000-2010
Box 30
Richter, Hans -- United States, 2000-2010
Box 30
Rose, Kathy
Box 30
Russett, Robert
Box 30
Russett, Robert -- index
Box 30
Ruttman, Walter -- promotion
Box 31
Scher, Jeff
Box 31
Schwartz, Lillian
Box 31
Selwood, Maureen
Box 31
Snelson, Ken
Box 31
Stoney, George, 2 folders
Box 31
Thompson, Francis
Box 31
Ungerer, Walter
Box 31
Van Dyke, Barbara
Box 31
Ward, Tracy (Virginia Bell)
Box 31
Watters, Jim
Box 31
Weill, Claudia
Box 31
Whitney, John
Box 31
Wright, Basil
Box 31
Zwerin, Charlotte
Subseries X.2: Topics
Box 32
Australia / New Zealand
Box 32
Canada
Box 32
England / Scotland
Box 32
Other countries
Box 32
Abstract art and film
Box 32
Animation stills
Box 32
Animation -- letters about
Box 32
Animation -- letters from animators
Box 32
Animation -- "Frames" letters, etc.
Box 32
Arthouse / Koh, 2000-2007
Box 32
"Ballet Mechanique"
Box 32
Bute-Arsenal Experimental, Germany, 2007-2009
Box 33
Da Capo Press
Box 33
Disney
Box 33
Documentary -- miscellaneous
Box 33
Flipbooks and optical toys
Box 33
Flipbooks -- Ruth Hayes
Box 33
Flipbooks -- show, 2005
Box 33
Light Cone, Paris, 2000-2009, 2 folders
Box 33
Linz, Austria -- "Rhythm in Light" and "Abstronic", 2009
Box 33
Movie stills
Box 33
Re:Voir, 2000-2009
Box 34
Women animators, 4 folders
Box 34
Women filmmakers
Box 34
Women Artist Filmmaker Group
Box 34
Women film -- specialists
Box 34
Women filmmakers -- foreign
Box 34
Women filmmakers -- foreign (Leni Riefenstahl)
Box 35
Women's articles -- miscellaneous
Box 35
Women filmmakers -- original materials
Box 35
Women filmmakers -- photographs
Box 35
Women's Independent Film Exchange (W.I.F.E.)
Box 35
W.I.F.E. -- original research
Box 35
W.I.F.E. -- originals
Box 35
W.I.F.E. -- special projects
Box 35
W.I.F.E. -- expenses and income, until 1990
Box 35
W.I.F.E. -- fundraising
Box 36
W.I.F.E. -- programs, 1970s-1989
Box 36
W.I.F.E. -- programs, 1984 and earlier
Box 36
W.I.F.E. -- programs, 1985 and later
Box 36
W.I.F.E. -- profiles
Box 36
W.I.F.E. -- Black members
Box 36
Cecile Starr -- programs
Box 36
Cecile Starr -- film students