Herman G. Weinberg collection
- Title
- Herman G. Weinberg collection, 1929-1983.
- Author
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Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 49 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 49 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 48 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 48 | Item locationOffsite |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 45 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 45 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 44 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 44 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 43 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 43 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 42 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 42 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 41 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 41 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 40 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 40 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 39 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 39 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 38 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 38 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 37 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 37 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 36 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 36 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 35 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 35 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 34 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 34 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 33 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 33 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 32 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 32 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 31 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 31 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 30 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1980-003 Box 30 | Item locationOffsite |
Details
- Description
- 12.38 linear feet (49 boxes)
- Summary
- 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
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures > Europe
- Film festivals
- Latté, Lily 1891-1984
- National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
- Zolotow, Maurice, 1913-1991
- Wright, Basil
- Wray, Fay, 1907-2004
- Watts, Richard, 1898-
- Vidor, King, 1894-1982
- Vernac, Denise, 1916-1984
- Truffaut, François
- Stern, Seymour
- Seton, Marie
- Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984
- Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979
- Reisch, Walter
- Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983
- Petrić, Vlada
- Paulon, Flavia
- O’Leary, Liam
- Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984
- Mekas, Adolfas, 1925-2011
- Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019
- Marion, Denis, 1906-2000
- Luft, Herbert G., 1907-1992
- Loos, Mary
- Correspondence
- Motion pictures > History
- Motion pictures > 20th century > History and criticism
- Scrapbooks
- Motion pictures > Translating
- Foreign films
- Writers
- Editors
- Motion pictures > Europe > History > 20th century
- Programs
- Translators
- Historians
- Photographs
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985
- Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
- Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969
- Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957
- Anger, Kenneth
- Auriol, Jean-Georges, 1907-1950
- Bessy, Maurice, 1910-1993
- Boardman, Eleanor, 1898-1991
- Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022
- Brownlow, Kevin
- Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983
- Card, James, 1915-2000
- Clair, René, 1898-1981
- British Film Institute
- Curtiss, Thomas Quinn
- Davis, Fitzroy
- Dickinson, Thorold
- Eisner, Lotte H
- Florey, Robert, 1900-1979
- Ford, Charles, 1908-1989
- Gesek, Ludwig, 1904-1994
- Griggs, John
- Joy, Leatrice, 1893-1985
- Kaplan, Nelly
- Karaganov, A (Aleksandr)
- Kleiner, Arthur
- Kobal, John
- Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976
- Langlois, Henri, 1914-1977
- Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988
- Lherminier, Pierre
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Programs.
- Scrapbooks.
- Call number
- *T-Mss 1980-003
- Note
- 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)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Terms of use (note)
- The author/creator retains copyright of materials.
- Biography (note)
- 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
- Weinberg, Herman G.
- Title
- Herman G. Weinberg collection, 1929-1983.
- Restricted access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- 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
- The author/creator retains copyright of materials.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Editors.
- Historians.
- Translators.
- Writers.
- Research call number
- *T-Mss 1980-003