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

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Series IV: Personal recordings and digital media, 1917-2011, undated, bulk circa 1930s-2011



Box 167 Item BF4138 Fass family home movies and commercial films, circa 1917, 1930s, 1 film reels (16mm)

Begins with very brief home movie clip, followed by Charles Chaplin in "Easy Street" Pt 2 [:13-2:33], Felix the Cat in "Felix Plays Nurse" (Novelty Film Co., Inc.) [2:39-5:04].



Box 162-163 Item BF4134 Fass family home movies and commercial films, circa 1930s, 1 film reels (16mm)

Brief clip of Popeye cartoon, followed by snippets of home movies


Box 162-163 Item BF4128 Fass family home movies, circa 1933-1940, 1 film reels (16mm)

A child getting haircut, playing, and walking a dog (Fass family movies, 1930s?)


Box 162-163 Item BF4129 Fass family home movies, circa 1933-1940, 1 film reels (16mm)

Footage of beach, sightseeing in Fort Pierce, Florida, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere (Fass family movies, 1930s?)


Box 162-163 Item BF4127 Fass family home movies, circa 1933-1940, 1 film reels (16mm)

Woman holding and playing with baby (Fass family movies, 1930s?)



Box 168 Item BF4139 Fass family home movies, circa 1933-1940, 1 film reels (16mm)

Home movie with family scenes (Fass family movies, 1930s?)



Box 162-163 Item BF4131 Fass family home movies, circa 1933-1940, 1 film reels (16mm)

Children playing on sidewalk, family in front yard (Fass family movies, 1930s?)


Box 162-163 Item BF4130 Fass family home movies, circa 1933-1940, 1 film reels (16mm)

Mother on street with child in baby carriage, child indoors being fed by mother (Fass family movies, 1930s?)


Box 162-163 Item BF4132 Home movie, circa 1940, 1 film reels (16mm)

Bobby, Murry [illegible], Mal Friedman.



Box 89 Item BF2957 Audio Letter From Dick Fass to Private Bob Fass, 1958, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Box 89 Item BF2960 Audio Letter from Jacob Fass to Private Bob Fass, 1958, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Box 89 Item BF2976 Audio Letter from Jacob Fass to Private Bob Fass, circa 1958, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mailed from Jacob J Fass 1070 Park Ave New York City NY TO Private Bob Fass Hq Det Spec War Center Fort Bragg NC



Box 280 Item BF6112 Cummings, 1962, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Unidentified woman reads poems by e.e. cummings; Fass is audible at times



Box 86 Item BF2914 Birthday party for a child named Sarah, circa 1970s, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

Children playing.



Box 85 Item BF2872 Compilation including video of The Session by Ambrose Clancy, circa 1970s, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#6: Various snippets: television footage (Master Control program on Channel 21, topic: 0.5" video tape), home movies of mountain road trip, Fass speaking to camera inside domestic setting, filmed stage play (The Session by Ambrose Clancy)


Box 85 Item BF2891 Driving footage, circa 1970s, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#27: Driving in Kentucky en route to Memphis, various people and a cat appear in film.


Box 85 Item BF2870 Home movie footage, circa 1970s, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#23: Driving and hanging out at a lake.



Box 270 Item BF6754 Shanti violin, circa 1970s, 1 audiocassettes

Shanti was Bob Fass's girlfriend in the 1970s.



Box 85 Item BF2876 Unidentified man and Bob Fass phone call to Bill, circa 1970s, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#10: Unidentified man reads from notebook on-screen and leaves, Fass appears and makes a phone call to Bill.



Box 86 Item BF2917 Video of trees, sky, grass, etc., circa 1970s, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#19.



Box 103 Item BF3291 Excerpts on Watergate, circa 1972, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob Fass and a woman reading excerpts from a book or article about Watergate



Box 270 Item BF6765 First things I can remember , 1974 February 22, 1 audiocassettes



Box 85 Item BF2874 Unidentified, circa 1975, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#25: Start of video to 26:50: abstract video images or Cablevision news feed (one item: Hurricane Eloise, 1975) with drone singing in background. Rest of video: woman talking to the camera with Bob Fass's voice heard offscreen.


Box 85 Item BF2894 Box 86 Item BF2908 Engagement Party, 1976, 2 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#17: Engagement party for Bernard Kaplan and Sheila Parnes.



Box 291 Item BF6462 Yoko Ono, circa 1982, 1 audiocassettes

Recording of Bob Fass calling Yoko Ono.



Box 185 Item BF4420 West Beth, 1983 March 1, 1 audiocassettes



Box 291 Item BF6485 Yoko Ono interview discussion, 1983 April 4, 1 audiocassettes

Not a radio broadcast: a taped conversation with Fass, Revland, and others talking about their encounter with Yoko during the interview.



Box 116 Item BF3616 Fass home movies, circa 1987 September, 1 videocassettes (video8)

Home movies of Fass and others, mostly in the countryside



Box 160 Item BF4109 Unidentified apartment tour, 1988 December, 1 videocassettes (video8)

Man giving a video tour of his apartment to be sent to his daughter



Box 225 Item BF5440 Halloween, circa 1990s, 1 videocassettes (video8)


Box 225 Item BF5443 Jennifer, [?] Paint in kitchen, 17th Street, circa 1997, 1 videocassettes (video8)


Box 225 Item BF5432 Aruba, Halloween, 1998 October 25, 1 videocassettes (video8)

Home movies of trip to Aruba, including longer segment of live steel drum music; trick-or-treaters coming to the door



Box 116 Item BF3610 Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C., 1999 June 20, 1 videocassettes (video8)

Bob Fass at Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C.



Box 153 Item BF3951 Steve's Party, circa 2000, 1 videocassettes (VHS)



Box 225 Item BF5429 80th Birthday, circa 2002-2010, 1 videocassettes (video8)



Box 161 Item BF4113 Trucks, 2011 February, 1 videocassettes (video8)

Footage of trucks



Box 298 Item BF6531 Aruba, undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 270 Item BF6767 In Dad's cassette machine, undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 87 Item BF2929 IRS Giant Tax Form, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass flirts with a woman quietly in the background while she asks him to turn the recorder off



Box 270 Item BF6705 Phone message, undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 178 Item BF4296 Phone Tape, undated, 1 audiocassettes

around time of Loft sale



Box 270 Item BF6715 Plane ride etc., Chelm, undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 161 Item BF4111 Sidewalk repair, undated, 1 videocassettes (video8)

Truck footage and footage of a man fixing the sidewalk in Staten Island


Box 161 Item BF4124 Box 161 Item BF4112 Trucks, undated, 2 videocassettes (video8)

Footage of trucks



Box 63 Item BF2093 When less is sometimes more, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A short tape of Fass repeating the phrase "Less is sometimes more."



Box 85 Item BF2883 Working Class #4, undated, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")