Earl I. Sponable papers, 1928-1968

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Series VII: Cinemascope



Box 86 A


Box 86 Abbott, Wm., 1955


Box 86 Addresses, foreign, 1953-1954


Box 86 Aft, Albert E., 1955-1956


Box 86 Affair to Remember, 1957


Box 86 Africa, 1958


Box 86 AGA Bausch & Lomb (Sweden)


Box 86 AGAScope, 1958-1959


Box 86 Agreements and contracts


Box 86 Allied States Association (Abram F. Myers), 1953-1954


Box 86 Altec Service Corporation, 1953-1957


Box 86 Ampex Corporation, 1953-1957


Box 86 Aperture size - general


Box 86 Aperture size projection, for optical prints


Box 86 Apertures (camera - 55am; projectors), 1956-1957


Box 86 Argentina, 1956-1957


Box 86 Armoride, Ltd. (screens), 1953-1954


Box 86 ArnoId and Richter, 1956-1960

Film sample removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 86 Ascarelli, G., 1956-1957


Box 86 Ashcraft Co.


Box 86 Astro Cinematogrdica (lenses), 1953-1954


Box 86 Australia, 1953-1957


Box 86 Avenard (screen), 1953-1954

Screen material removed; see Box 125.



Box 87 B


Box 87 Ballantyne Co., 1953-1954


Box 87 Balzers, 1956-1960


Box 87 Bauer, Eugen, 1955-1957,1968


Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.


Box 87 before 1950


Box 87 1951


Box 87 1952-1953

Film sample removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 87 1952-1955



Box 88 1962-1963


Box 88 Adjustable camera lens, 1960


Box 88 Camera lens orders, 1954-1955

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 88 Drawings - camera lens


Box 88 1954


Box 88 1955


Box 88 Drawings - combination


Box 88 Drawings - new lens, 1954


Box 88 Lens, camera, 55mm, 1956-1957



Box 89 Lens modification, 75mm, 1959


Box 89 Lenses, auxiliary, 1956-1957


Box 89 Lenses, projection, 1956-1957


Box 89 Lenses, 16mm, 1959


Box 89 Miscellaneous, 1956-1960


Box 89 Printers, 1955-1960


Box 89 Shipments, 1956-1957


Box 89 Sixteen millimeter


Box 89 Viewfinderg


Box 89 Bavaria Filmkunst, 1956-1957


Box 89 Beckley Perforating Co. (screens), 1953-1954


Box 89 BeeLand-King Film Productions, 1954



Box 90 Bell & Howell Co., 1953-1957


Box 90 Benecke (screen), 1953-1954


Box 90 The Big Show, 1957


Box 90 Bistagne, Pedro (Spain), 1953-1954


Box 90 Blumenfeld, Herman, 1955-1960

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Bragg, H.E.


Box 90 1953-1955

Screen material removed; see Box 125.


Box 90 1956-1961


Box 90 Brakeli, Gordon R., 1953-1957


Box 90 British Acoustic Films, Ltd., 1953-1957


Box 90 British Thomson-Houston Export Co. Ltd., 1953-1957


Box 90 Brockliss-Simplex, S.A., 1953-1957


Box 90 Brush Electronics Co., 1953-1954


Box 90 C


Box 90 Carmen Jones, 1956-1957


Box 90 Carousel, 1956


Box 90 Carpenter, L.E., 1953-1957


Box 90 Century Projector Corporation, 1953-1957

Film sample removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.



Box 91 Chretien, Henri, 1952-1957


Box 91 Cinemeccanica, 1956-1957


Box 91 Cinepanoramic (lenses)


Box 91 Columbia Broadcasting System, 1957


Box 91 Columbic Pictures, 1953-1954


Box 91 Compagnie Radio-Cinema, 1953-1954


Box 91 Contracts, 1953-1959


Box 91 Contracts-striping and sound


Box 91 Cornfield, Albert



Box 92 D


Box 92 Daddy Long Legs, 1955


Box 92 Debrie, Andre - Manufacturing Corporation, 1954-1957


Box 92 Degausser (Movietone), 1957


Box 92 DelRiccio, Lorenzio, 1953


Box 92 Demonstration, 1953-1955


Box 92 Demonstrations, Foreign, 1956-1957


Box 92 Demonstrations, U.S. and Canada


Box 92 Denmark, 1953-1954


Box 92 Desiree, 1954


Box 92 DeVry Corporation, 1953-1954


Box 92 Doerschel, G., 1956-1957


Box 92 Dornbusch, 1953


Drawings


Box 92 numbered, 022-1739E, 27 folders



Box 93 numbered, A3575 - E3986, 19 folders


Box 93 unnumbered, C - F, 6 folders

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.



Box 94 unnumbered, P - Z and miscellaneous, 12 folders


Box 94 Dubbing, 1953-1954


Box 94 Eastman Kodak Company, 1953-1957

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 94 Editer, 1953-1954


Box 94 Einfeld, Charles, 1953-1954


Box 94 Employment, 1953-1954


Box 94 Eprad Company - sound, 1953-1954


Box 94 Equipment


Box 94 Exchanges



Box 95 F


Box 95 Faulkner, Carl


Box 95 Fedi, Ing. Angiolo, 1953-1957


Box 95 Film, miscellaneous


Box 95 Film and equipment, 55mm, before 1962

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 95 Film design, 1954-1955


Box 95 Filters


Box 95 Fragments [paper badly damaged in storage]


Box 95 Futter, Walter


Box 95 G


Box 95 Galileo


Box 95 Gaumont-Kalee, 1957


Box 95 Gehring, W.C.


Box 95 General Electric


Box 95 General Precision Lab

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 95 Geraetebau-Anstalt


Box 95 Goldfarb, Henry



Box 96 Gordon, James, 1956-1957


Box 96 Gottschalk (Panavision), 1958


Grignon, Lorin D.


Box 96 before 1955

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 96 1956-1958

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 96 H


Halprin, Sol


Box 96 1953-1955

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 96 1956-1960



Box 97 History, 1956-1960


Box 97 India, 1956-1957


Box 97 Indonesia, 1959


Box 97 Invoices, 1956-1957


Box 97 ISCO, 1956


Box 97 Israel


Box 97 Italy (Cinecitta, etc.), 1954-1959


Box 97 J


Box 97 Japan


Box 97 K


Box 97 Katkoff, N.


Box 97 The King and I


Box 97 Kupper, William J.


Box 97 L


Box 97 Lake Placid Club


Box 97 Lamps, arc, etc.


Box 97 Laube, Grover, 1955


Box 97 LaVezzi Machine Works, 1955-1957


Box 97 LeFebre, John, 1953-1957


Box 97 Leitz lenses, 1953-1956


Box 97 Lens bench (alignment fixture), 1959

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 97 Lens (foreign) commitments and sales


Box 97 Lens orders (theatres, etc.), 1953-1954


Box 97 Lens sales, 1953-1957


Lenses


Box 97 Auxiliary, 1962


Box 97 Camera (Europe), 1959


Box 97 Camera - proposed new designs, 1960-1961


Box 97 Dyaliscope and zoom, 1962-1964


Box 97 Elgeet Optical Co., 1963-1964


Box 97 Modification of camera attachment, 1961


Box 97 Projection (16mm), 1962


Box 97 Rank Organization, 1964



Box 98 Zeiss, Carl


Miscellaneous


Box 98 1953-1955


Box 98 1956-1960, 2 folders

(both folders include photographs)


Box 98 1961-1964



Box 99 various dates, 2 folders


Box 99 Leslie, Fred, 1953-1957


Box 99 Lichtman, Al, 1953-1954


Box 99 Lightboards, 1956-1957


Box 99 Lippspringe (screen), 1953-1954


Box 99 Litchfield, B., 1953-1954


Box 99 The Longest Day, 1962


Box 99 M-Mc


Box 99 McAuley Manufacturing Company, 1953-1954


Box 99 McCullough, R.K., 1953-1957


Box 99 McFarland, E.H., 1953-1954



Box 100 Magnascreen, 1953-1954


Box 100 Magnasyne Manufacturing Company, 1953-1957


Box 100 Magnetic tape and film


Box 100 Manufacturers, foreign, 1953-1954

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 100 Marechal (screen)


Box 100 Martin, R.L., 1953-1954


Box 100 Mersay, Harry


Box 100 MGM (Love's), 1953-1954


Box 100 Michel, W.C., 1953-1954


Box 100 Microphones, 1953-1954


Box 100 Microtecnica, 1953-1954


Box 100 Miller, Jack J., 1953-1961


Box 100 "Millionaire" (i.e., How to Marry a Millionaire), 1953-1954


Box 100 Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., 1953-1954

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 100 Miscellaneous, 1953-1955


Box 100 Mitchell Camera Company, 1956-1957


Box 100 Moller Optische (lenses), 1953-1957



Box 101 Molnlydke (textile - Mr. Nessim), 1953-1954


Box 101 Mosalk-Film (J.H. Henkel), 1953-1957


Box 101 Motiograph, 1953-1954


Box 101 Motion Picture Research Council, 1953-1957


Box 101 Movietone, 1963


Box 101 Movietone, British, 1953-1954


Box 101 Munich (Gerd Oswald), 1953-1954


Box 101 Music Hall, 1955


Box 101 Muth, Jack, from 1953


Box 101 N


Box 101 National Theatre Supply Company, 1953-1954


Box 101 Nessim, Nils, 1953-1954


Box 101 Netherlands, 1956-1957


Box 101 New Horizons (French short subject), 1953-1954


Box 101 Newcomer, H. Sidney, 1953-1954

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 101 Newmade Products Corporation, 1953-1954


Box 101 Newsreel, 1956-1957


Box 101 Nibbling, 1956-1957



Box 102 Norwegian Cinemascope, 1956


Box 102 Nygren, Sven, 1953-1954


Box 102 O


Box 102 Oude Delft, de - lenses (Old Delft Optical Company), 1953-1957


Box 102 Oray, Societe (screen), 1955


Box 102 P


Box 102 Paillard Productions, 1953-1954


Box 102 Palace Theatre, Netcong, N.J., 1955


Box 102 Palace Theatre, N.Y., 1959


Box 102 Panon Camera Co., Ltd., 1955-1957


Box 102 Paramount Theatre


Box 102 Patent Copies, Record



Box 103 Patent Copies, Index


Box 103 Patents (with related technical papers)


Box 103 Patents - Chretien, Newcomer, Hurley, miscellaneous, 1953-1955


Box 103 Patents, German


Box 103 Pathe Laboratories, 1953-1954


Box 103 Pattinson, J., 1953-1957


Box 103 Pelsen (plastic reel), 1954


Box 103 Perfectone, 1953-1954


Box 103 Perkins Electric Company, 1953-1954


Philips (sound)


Box 103 1953-1955



Box 104 1956-1959


Box 104 Photographs


Box 104 general


Box 104 degaussing section, "Information for Theatre" 3rd revision


Box 104 lenses, 1954-1957


Box 104 lenses and soundheads, 1954 June 30

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 104 printers, 1956-1957


Box 104 WC Projections Room, 1957


Box 104 Photo-sonics, Inc., 1962


Box 104 Pi-Erne-Ci, 1955


Box 104 Pilgrim Theatre, 1955


Box 104 La Precision Cinematographique, 1953-1954


Box 104 Prevost (soundheads), 1953-1954


Box 104 Prince Valiant, 1953-1954


Printers


Box 104 Cinemascope and SuperCinemascope, 1953-1954

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 104 55-70mm; 70mm; 55-35mm, 1961


Prints and printing


Box 104 1953-1955

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.



Box 105 1956-1969; 1962

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 105 Problems

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 105 Test prints

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 105 Productions, 1956-1957


Box 105 Produit Perfectone, S.A., 1956-1957


Box 105 Projection, 1955-1959


Box 105 Projection Aperture Chart, 1956-1957


Box 105 Projection cue sheets (surround track), 1953-1957


Box 105 Projection, Rear


Box 105 Projectormatic, 1957

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 105 Projectors, 55-35mm, 70mm, 1957-1959

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 105 Projectors, Miscellaneous, 1956-1957


Publications and papers


Box 105 general, 1955-1957


Box 105 screens



Box 106 technical, 1953-1957

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 106 Publicity


Box 106 General, undated

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 106 1953-1954


Box 106 1955-1956


Box 106 1957-1964

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 106 Addresses and papers

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.



Box 107 "The Cinema" (booklet, by E.H. McFarland), 1955


Box 107 Fame Award, 1956-1957


Box 107 "Information for the Theatre"


Box 107 Correspondence re: distribution


Box 107 mailing lists and miscellaneous files


Box 107 Information Packet (manual, technical drawings, etc.), 1953


Box 107 MagOptical Sound (booklet)


Outside



Box 108 1953, undated


Box 108 1954


Box 108 1955-1956


Box 108 1957-1960



Box 109 Photographic Techniques (booklet)


Box 109 Promotional packets

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 109 Requests for information


Box 109 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers


Box 109 Pyral, 1953-1957

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 109 Q


Box 109 R


Box 109 RCA, 1953-1954

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 109 RKO Theatres, 1953-1954


Box 109 Radio Cinema, 1953-1954


Box 109 Reef (i.e. Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef), 1953


Box 109 Reels, 55 and 35mm, 1957


Box 109 Reeves Soundcraft, 1953-1957


Box 109 Reisman, William, 1955


Box 109 Rembusch, Trueman T., 1953-1954


Box 109 Report on 55mm, 1956-1958


Box 109 Reproducer, 55-35mm, 1958



Box 110 Rider, L.F. (London), 1953-1962


Box 110 Rivoli Theatre, 1959


Box 110 The Robe, 1953-1962


Box 110 Roehlen Engraving (screen), 1953-1954


Box 110 Rogell, Sid, 1953-1957


Box 110 Roots of Heaven, 1958


Box 110 Rotafilm (Spain)


Box 110 Roxy Theatre, 1953-1957


Box 110 Ruhe, L., 1956-1957


Box 110 Russia, pictures for, 1959


Box 110 S


Box 110 Scanoscope (Scanoptic, Inc.), 1957


Box 110 Schneider-Cinegon (lenses), 1953-1954


Box 110 Schreiber, Lew, 1953-1954


Box 110 Schumann, Max (screen), 1953-1954

Screen material removed; see Box 125.


Screens


Box 110 ordered and supplied, 1953-1954


Box 110 replacements, 1953-1954


miscellaneous


Box 110 1953-1955

Screen material removed; see Box 125.



Box 111 1956-1960

Screen material removed; see Box 125.


Box 111 Seeley, E.S., Jr., 1959


Box 111 Sehm (screen), 1953-1954

Screen material removed; see Box 125.


Box 111 Selznick, David O., 1957-1958


Box 111 September Storm, 1960


Box 111 Shipments, 1956-1957


Box 111 Shipping notices, invoices and related correspondence


Box 111 Short Subject No. 5-A, 1953-1954


Box 111 Short Subjects No. 9 and 10, 1954


Box 111 Short Subjects - Cypress, Crete, Rhodes, 1954


Box 111 Sichelman, Ira, 1954-1955


Siemens & Halske


Box 111 1953-1954



Box 112 1955

Screen material removed; see Box 125.


Box 112 1956-1968


Box 112 Siemens Bros. (London)


Box 112 Silverstone, Murray, 1953-1954


Box 112 Sixteen millimeter, 1953-1962


Box 112 Skouras, George, 1953-1954


Box 112 Skouras, Spyros P., 1953-1957


Box 112 Smith, Robert (London), 1953-1954


Sound


Box 112 Magnetic and optical and miscellaneous, 1956-1957

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 112 MagOptical, 1956-1957

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.



Box 113 MagOptical Bulletins, 1957


Box 113 On/Off control effects, 1953-1954


Box 113 Peyton Place and other films, 1958


Box 113 Six-track 55mm composite release, etc., 1956-1959

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 113 Standards, 1959


Box 113 Surround Sound


Box 113 Westrex, Altec, RCA, GPL, etc., 1956-1959

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Soundheads


Box 113 General, 1953-1954

(includes photographs)


Box 113 Alfenol, Thermenol, Permalloy, 1954


Box 113 ferrite magnetic, 1953-1954


Box 113 Splicing machines


Box 113 Spoerri & Co., E.H. (screen), 1953-1954


Box 113 Sprockets, 1955-1959


Box 113 Stan White, Inc., 1955


Box 113 Stancil-Hoffman, 1956-1957


Box 113 Standards, 1955


Box 113 Stellini (screen)


Box 113 Stone, Thomas & George M. (screen), 1953-1954


Box 113 Striping, 1953-1954

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 113 Strong Electric Corporation, 1954-1957


Box 113 SuperCinemascope, 1955


Box 113 Sylvania Electric Products, 1956-1957


Box 113 T


Box 113 Taylor, Taylor & Hobson, Ltd. (lenses), 1953-1954


Box 113 Technicolor Corporation, 1953-1962



Box 114 Teleprompter Corporation


Box 114 Terrytoons, 1955


Test film


Box 114 General, 1953-1954


Box 114 General, 1956-1964

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Box 114 Drive-ins, 1953-1954


Box 114 Theatre and equipment companies, and stockholder inquiries,, 1953-1954


Box 114 Theatre installations


Box 114 domestic (U.S. and Canada), 1953-1957


Box 114 foreign, 1953-1955



Box 115 foreign, 1956-1957


Box 115 inspections, 1953-1954


Box 115 miscellaneous, 1953-1954


Box 115 Theatre projection (sprockets, leaders, lenses, etc.), 1953-1955

Film removed; see Boxes 123 and 124.


Theatres - drive-ins


Box 115 1953-1955


Box 115 1956-1957


Box 115 Theatres, miscellaneous


Box 115 There's No Business Like Show Business, 1954


Box 115 Trademark, 1953-1957


Box 115 Twentieth Century Fox Films - feature pictures, 1961-1962



Box 116 U


Box 116 UFA (Mr. Kenna), 1953-1954


Box 116 Universal - international, 1953-1954


Box 116 Unsqueezing for television


Box 116 V


Box 116 Ventarc Lamps


Box 116 VurpiIIot, M. George, 1956


Box 116 Wallace, T.M. (Tim), 1953-1954


Box 116 Warner Brothers, 1953-1957


Box 116 Webb, Jerry, 1953-1957


Box 116 Welker, W., 1953-1957


Box 116 Westrex Corporation, 1953-1957


Box 116 Whitmore, R.D., 1954


Box 116 Wilding Pictures, 1953-1954


Box 116 Wollensak (lenses), 1953-1954


Box 116 X-Y-Z


Box 116 The Young Lions, 1958


Box 116 Zanuck, Darryl F., 1953-1960


Box 116 Zeiss lenses and sound (Opton, Icon, Carl Zeiss), 1953-1954

Screen material removed; see Box 125.


Box 116 Zonal Film Facilities, Ltd., 1953-1954