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Herman G. Weinberg collection

Title
  1. Herman G. Weinberg collection, 1929-1983.
Author
  1. Weinberg, Herman G.

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Description
  1. 12.38 linear feet (49 boxes)
Summary
  1. The Herman G. Weinberg collection consists of scrapbooks containing clippings, correspondence, halftones, photographs, radio scripts and assorted film festival material. Of particular significance are hundred of letters that he exchanged with such film notables as Kenneth Anger, Jean George Auriol, Marice Bessy, Eleanor Boardman, Peter Bogdanovich, Louise Brooks, Kevin Brownlow, Luis Buñuel, James Card, René Clair, Thomas Q. Curtiss, Fitzroy Davis, Thorold Dickinson, Lotte Eisner, Robert Florey, Charles Ford, Leatrice Joy Fountain, Ludwig Gesek, John Griggs, Nelly Kaplan, Aleksandr Karaganov, Arthur Kleiner, John Kobal, Fritz Lang, Henri Langlois, Lily Latté, Jay Leyda, Pierre Lherminier, Anita Loos, Mary Loos, Herbert Luft, Denis Marion, Adolfas Mekas, Jonas Mekas, Ivor Montagu, Liam O'Leary, Flavia Paulon, Vladimir Petrić, Samson Raphaelson, Walter Reisch, Jean Renoir, Hans Richter, Paul Rotha, Marie Seton, Seymour Stern, Denise Vernac, King Vidor, Josef von Sternberg, Erich von Stroheim, Richard Watts, Jr., Fay Wray, and Basil Wright, as well as the British Film Institute and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.).
Subject
  1. Motion pictures
  2. Motion pictures > Europe
  3. Film festivals
  4. Latté, Lily 1891-1984
  5. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
  6. Zolotow, Maurice, 1913-1991
  7. Wright, Basil
  8. Wray, Fay, 1907-2004
  9. Watts, Richard, 1898-
  10. Vidor, King, 1894-1982
  11. Vernac, Denise, 1916-1984
  12. Truffaut, François
  13. Stern, Seymour
  14. Seton, Marie
  15. Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984
  16. Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979
  17. Reisch, Walter
  18. Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983
  19. Petrić, Vlada
  20. Paulon, Flavia
  21. O’Leary, Liam
  22. Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984
  23. Mekas, Adolfas, 1925-2011
  24. Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019
  25. Marion, Denis, 1906-2000
  26. Luft, Herbert G., 1907-1992
  27. Loos, Mary
  28. Correspondence
  29. Motion pictures > History
  30. Motion pictures > 20th century > History and criticism
  31. Scrapbooks
  32. Motion pictures > Translating
  33. Foreign films
  34. Writers
  35. Editors
  36. Motion pictures > Europe > History > 20th century
  37. Programs
  38. Translators
  39. Historians
  40. Photographs
  41. Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985
  42. Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
  43. Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969
  44. Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957
  45. Anger, Kenneth
  46. Auriol, Jean-Georges, 1907-1950
  47. Bessy, Maurice, 1910-1993
  48. Boardman, Eleanor, 1898-1991
  49. Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022
  50. Brownlow, Kevin
  51. Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983
  52. Card, James, 1915-2000
  53. Clair, René, 1898-1981
  54. British Film Institute
  55. Curtiss, Thomas Quinn
  56. Davis, Fitzroy
  57. Dickinson, Thorold
  58. Eisner, Lotte H
  59. Florey, Robert, 1900-1979
  60. Ford, Charles, 1908-1989
  61. Gesek, Ludwig, 1904-1994
  62. Griggs, John
  63. Joy, Leatrice, 1893-1985
  64. Kaplan, Nelly
  65. Karaganov, A (Aleksandr)
  66. Kleiner, Arthur
  67. Kobal, John
  68. Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976
  69. Langlois, Henri, 1914-1977
  70. Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988
  71. Lherminier, Pierre
  72. Loos, Anita, 1893-1981
Genre/Form
  1. Correspondence.
  2. Photographs.
  3. Programs.
  4. Scrapbooks.
Call number
  1. *T-Mss 1980-003
Note
  1. For a detailed inventory of the contents of the scrapbooks and a list of all correspondents in the separated correspondence, please email theatre@nypl.org.
Access (note)
  1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Terms of use (note)
  1. The author/creator retains copyright of materials.
Biography (note)
  1. Herman G. Weinberg was an American writer, foreign film translator, teacher, and film historian working from the 1920s to the 1980s. Born in New York City on August 6, 1908, he entred the motion picture indutry in 1927 as a musical consultant in the scoring of foreign silent films and then worked as U.S. correspondent for various European film periodicals. He was a theatre manager in Baltimore and New York during the 1930s and 1940s. Weinberg achieved acclaim for his English subtitles for numerous major foreign films, including La Strada, Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief, and Shoeshine. He also wrote articles and film criticism for many periodicals and taught film history at City College in New York City. His books include The Lubitsch Touch, Saint Cinema, The Complete 'Greed', Stroheim: a Pictorial Record, The Complete 'Wedding March', and A Manhattan Odyssey, his autobiography. Weinberg died in New York City on November 7, 1983.
Author
  1. Weinberg, Herman G.
Title
  1. Herman G. Weinberg collection, 1929-1983.
Restricted access
  1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Biography
  1. Herman G. Weinberg was an American writer, foreign film translator, teacher, and film historian working from the 1920s to the 1980s. Born in New York City on August 6, 1908, he entred the motion picture indutry in 1927 as a musical consultant in the scoring of foreign silent films and then worked as U.S. correspondent for various European film periodicals. He was a theatre manager in Baltimore and New York during the 1930s and 1940s. Weinberg achieved acclaim for his English subtitles for numerous major foreign films, including La Strada, Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief, and Shoeshine. He also wrote articles and film criticism for many periodicals and taught film history at City College in New York City. His books include The Lubitsch Touch, Saint Cinema, The Complete 'Greed', Stroheim: a Pictorial Record, The Complete 'Wedding March', and A Manhattan Odyssey, his autobiography. Weinberg died in New York City on November 7, 1983.
Terms of use
  1. The author/creator retains copyright of materials.
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Occupation
  1. Editors.
  2. Historians.
  3. Translators.
  4. Writers.
Research call number
  1. *T-Mss 1980-003
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