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Moedred

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While waiting for this collection acquired 2 years ago to be "made accessible once it is processed and cataloged," I tried their search function to at least know what they're hoarding. Who else besides the University of Texas at Austin might have an interesting collection like this?

Smith, Thomas G.
(Thomas Graham), 1938-
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
-Effects boards, 1980
-Production storyboards "Bantu Winds" and "The Chase," 1980
-Production storyboards "The Chase," 1980
-Production storyboards "Int. Raven," 1980
-Production storyboards "Peru Temple," 1980
-Publicity Packet with 8x10 Black and White Photo, circa 1980
-Screenplay, fourth draft by Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas,1980
-Raiders of the Lost Ark #229, invitation to screening, 1981
-Satirical article in Mad magazine, 1982
-American Cinematographer magazine, 1981
-Collectors' Album of Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
-Japanese fan magazine, Raiders of the Lost Ark, circa 1981
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (Temple of Death)
-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death story by George Lucas, screenplay by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, 1983
-Visual effects storyboards, circa 1983
-Credit list, 1984
-American Cinematographer, 1984
-San Francisco Examiner feature article on George Lucas, 1980
-Temple of Doom, Japanese publication, 1984

Warren Skaaren
Highlighted outline of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, nd
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom sales manual for the Paramount Distribution Department, Aug. 1983

Stoppard, Tom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade --Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, story by George Lucas, Menno Meyjes, with revisions by Stoppard
-Typescript revision pages with holograph revisions, nd
-Photocopy typescript revision pages, 15 May 1988. With holograph revision, nd
-Review, 1989
-Correspondence, 1988-89 With faxes of automated dialogue replacement, 30 Dec. 1988

Hare, David, 1947-
Young Indiana Jones
 
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micsteam

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Congressional Library !!?? Are these copies of the originals or are they original ?? If so (original) why Austin, unless they are on a tour for mulitple cities ?? I am blown away by this, nice discovery Moedred !! How did you come by this ?? Very startled, didn't expect this and then Austin, TX gets this ??. Let me know, thnx :hat:
 

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Tom Stoppard

Here and here is an incredibly thorough essay on the early 1988 changes Stoppard made to Boam's draft of Crusade, with charts like this:

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My first thought was the author had unearthed Stoppard's draft from some library collection, but he used the published transcript. Stoppard's UTexas collection, detailed here and here, deserves a closer look. Spielberg gave input on an Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats feature? Anyway, here's a closer look at the correspondence, 19 out of 153 boxes. Most of this is probably about Empire of the Sun:
Amblin Entertainment (Firm) ( Sarah Bowman , Marty Cohen , Barbara Harley , Cathy Konrad , Kathleen Kennedy , Frank Marshall , Kathleen Miranda , Deborah Jelin Newmyer , Bonne Radford , Mary Radford , Jo Shilling , Alex Siskin , Steven Spielberg , Mary Webb )--8.5-7, 69.19-20, 83.10, 84.11, 94.4, 112.1, 125.3, 125.6, 129.3, 143.7, 144.5
Spielberg, Steven, 1947- --8.2, 8.6, 57.3, 69.19-20, 77.11, 83.4, 83.6, 84.11, 94.4, 124.4, 125.6, 128.1, 138.1
Kennedy, Kathleen --8.5, 69.20, 77.10, 84.11, 90.5-6, 94.4, 117.3, 124.2, 124.5, 125.3, 125.6, 145.2
Marshall, Frank --8.5, 94.4, 124.2, 125.6
Kennedy/Marshall Company (Lori Connolly) --66.7, 128.3
Lucasfilm, Ltd. (Colin Wilson) --94.4
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Revisions of the screenplay by Jeffrey Boam)--94.1-4
It's all classified "Access Open for research." It seems it would be just as easy to scan as categorize.

Edit: The UTexas Photoduplication Order Form says "digital copies may also be ordered, with fees assessed on a cost-recovery basis. The Center will consider requests for duplication of materials on a case-by-case basis." Not sure if a script would count as one or many PDFs.
 
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Moedred

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Hermione Lee's 1000 page biography "Tom Stoppard: A Life" is out, also a 38 hour audio book, might skip to the Indy chapter(s). He finds script doctoring "frustrating, burdensome and time-wasting, especially if it cut across play-writing," but he remained "pragmatic about his film work and idealistic about his plays." He made $2 million for Last Crusade.
Films Sir Tom Stoppard worked on behind the scenes:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), My Mom's A Werewolf (1989), Beethoven (1992), Chaplin (1992), Schindler's List (1993), A Dangerous Woman (1993), Sleepy Hollow (1999), 102 Dalmatians (2000), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Golden Compass (2007), Robin Hood (2010)
More about his improvements to Last Crusade, and his dramatic origins:
Stoppard was born Tomás Straüssler, in 1937, in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. In 1939, his parents, nonpracticing Jews, fled the Nazi invasion to Singapore. His father was killed in 1942 when the Japanese Air Force bombed Singapore, and Stoppard has no memory of him; Tom, his mother Marta, and his brother succeeded in reaching India, where he lived until 1946.
For his third marriage, "the father-of-four married Sabrina Guinness, a brewery heiress who was once romantically linked to Prince Charles, in 2014. Ms Guinness, a charity entrepreneur who is 19 years his junior, is one of the best connected people in the world, counting everyone from U2 to the Rothschilds among her friends."
 

Moedred

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Stoppard's biography is very thorough, which I suspect was produced with beer money (his which was once yours). Borrow the audiobook and skip to Chapter 22, "Script Doctor," for the Indy stuff. Stoppard went to Writer's Guild arbitration against Menno Meyjes for credit on Empire of the Sun. After rewriting Meyjes again in Crusade, he considered Ford for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and sued Connery for backing out. The film lost money so contractually, writer/director Stoppard did also. Then he worked with Connery on Russia House after their public spat. He went on to advise Spielberg on projects through the 90s.

The oddest surprise was Stoppard's 1988 play Hapgood, where the titular spy has a child with sleeper agent Kerner, who is passing Star Wars secrets to the Soviets. Here's the summary.
 
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