Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 594
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
Production Records, circa 1985-1991
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications |
Title: | Production Records |
Dates: | circa 1985-1991 |
Quantity: | 18.58 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box) |
Collection: | Record Unit 594 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records primarily document the planning for University of the Air (after 1988 Smithsonian Project Discovery) and The Buried Mirror. Many of the records were created by Elizabeth S. Brownstein, media project development specialist, Office of Telecommunications (OTC). Also included are files of Adrian Malone, production chairman, and Edward W. Bastian, project manager and director for University of the Air. The records include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, prospectus, reports, research information, budgets, illustrations, photographs, scripts, articles, newspaper clippings, audio tape recordings of music, video discs, and marketing information. Also included are information files maintained by OTC on Smithsonian museums, bureaus, staff, and miscellaneous topics. |
Historical Note
In 1986, the Smithsonian Institution began planning two major educational television projects. University of the Air, a joint project of the Smithsonian, WETA Television, and Adrian Malone Productions, proposed to investigate the lives of major twentieth century intellectuals and the basic themes that connected their work. In 1988, the title of the project was changed to Smithsonian Project Discovery. The Buried Mirror was a proposed ten-part television series on the history and culture of Iberia and Latin America to be produced by Malone Gill Productions in association with the Smithsonian. Both projects were terminated because of funding difficulties.
Descriptive Entry
These records primarily document the planning for University of the Air (after 1988 Smithsonian Project Discovery) and The Buried Mirror. Many of the records were created by Elizabeth S. Brownstein, media project development specialist, Office of Telecommunications (OTC). Also included are files of Adrian Malone, production chairman, and Edward W. Bastian, project manager and director for University of the Air. The records include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, prospectus, reports, research information, budgets, illustrations, photographs, scripts, articles, newspaper clippings, audio tape recordings of music, video discs, and marketing information. Also included are information files maintained by OTC on Smithsonian museums, bureaus, staff, and miscellaneous topics.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Adrian Malone Productions Ltd.
- Bastian, Edward W.
- Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith, 1930-
- Buried Mirror (Proposed television program)
- Malone Gill Productions
- Malone, Adrian
- Smithsonian Project Discovery (Proposed television program)
- University of the Air (Proposed television program)
- WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Documentary films
- Documentary television programs
- Documentary videos
- Intellectual property
- Motion pictures -- Production and direction
- Television -- Production and direction
- Video recordings -- Production and direction
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 594, Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications, Production Records
Container List
Box 1
University of the Air
Articles of Incorporation
Davis, William Morris: Biographical Information
Press Correspondence, 1986-1987
Production Questions
Michelson, Albert Abraham: Biographical Information
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus
Interactivity Proposal
Interactivity Outline
Interactivity Articles
Albert Einstein Series: Concept Papers
Documents: Programming Summary
Albert Einstein Series: Besso Letters
Bohr, Niels: Biographical Information
Berlin Opera Scenes
Albert Einstein in Hollywood
Albert Einstein Legacy
Rilke and Einstein
Holton, Gerald: On Trying to Understand Scientific Genius
Newspaper Clippings on Einstein, 1989
Albert Einstein Series: Possible Locations
Versailles Treaty
Music Map: Stray Ideas, Pedagogical Devices, Connections to Other Great People, Musical Themes, Geographical Areas, Music and Society, Journeys, Stray Anecdotes, Music and Self.
Armstrong Louis
Light
Project Athena, 1987.
Interactive Research Consortium
National Demonstration Lab
National Science Foundation
Bank Street Interactive
C Seal - Wanner Interactive
Interactive Projects: Miscellaneous
Mythological Creatures
Genetic Engineering: Notes, Correspondence, Articles
Life Story Questionnaire
University of the Air: Prospectus, 1987
Sickle Cell Anemia Story: Illustrations (drawings)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1988
Design Specifications for Historical Figures
Sickle Cell Anemia Story: Background Information
Box 2
Sickle Cell Anemia Story: Teachers Workshop
Project Discovery: DNA Project
DNA: Narrative and Visuals for Molecule Section of Demo
NOVA Interactive
University of the Air: Show Format Outline
Sequence of Events for Live Demonstration
Franklin, Rosalind E.
Sayre, Ann
DNA Project: Background Information
Apple Link Network Agreements
Wyatt (photographs)
Whispering Interface
Briar Artwork: Amino Acid Chains
McClintock, Robert
National Endowment for the Humanities: Grant Proposal, 1987
National Science Foundation: Materials Development
Box 3
Show Format Comparison: Smithsonian vs. Apple
Project Athena: Impact Study Report, 1986-1987
Preliminary Discussion Materials for Construction of a Demonstration Tape for the University of the Air
DNA Project: Media Production
Dieudonne, Annette
Boulanger, Nadia: Working Papers
Schroeder Interview
Roger Sessions
Keynes, John Maynard: Interactivity
Socio-Economics Information
Wittgenstein: A Life
Boulanger, Nadia: Newspaper Clippings
Cambell, Donald: Words of the Master Teacher
Paris (The Musical Kaleidoscope)
Bernstein, Leonard
Rodriguez, Robert
Spyckette, Jerome: Biography of Nadia Boulanger
Boulanger, Nadia: Phillip Glass
Monsaigeon, Brund: Conversations
Mademoiselle: "Conversations with Nadia Boulanger"
Virginia Woolf
Albert Einstein Series: Bibliography, Articles, Summary Versions, Black & White Imagery
Episode Two: Philosopher/Economist (Keynes)
Episode Three: Debt (Keynes)
Episode Four: Griffith, David Wark
Rodin, Auguste: The Burghers
Cassette Tape Recordings: The Dark Lady of DNA
Videotape: Nadia Boulanger/A Woman of Note
Box 4
University of the Air: Working Papers
Episode Two: Adolph Hitler
Episode Three: Versailles
Episode Four: Dance
Pablo Picasso and Art
Historical Information
Malone, Adrian: A Documentary About Einstein
Programming Summary for Project Discovery
Draft Outlines of Documentaries
Albert Einstein Series: General Information
Keynes, John Maynard: Drama
Episode One: Prince Rudolf Mystery
Randall, Cooper: Suicide Notes
Extracts of Letters: Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric
Science & Technology: Heisenberg and Albert Abraham Michelson
Heisenberg Documentary
Bibliography for Documentary/Smithsonian Library Locations
Episode Two: Drafts
Vendor Invoice Forms, 1988-1989
Panafax
The Stationers
Regis McKenna Incorporated
Washington Consortium
University of the Air: Precis
Miscellaneous: Boulanger Drama, "Harmonic Relations"
Heisenberg, Werner: Draft Synopsis of Dramatic Treatment
The Music Map
Boulanger, Nadia: Freedom from Choice
Meeting Notes
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Promotional Tape Information
Articles: Pablo Picasso
University of the Air
Smithsonian Project Discovery: National Endowment for the Humanities
Box 5
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Researchers
Prospectus for a New Division
Kellogg Foundation Proposal
Robinson III, James D.: American Express
The Annenberg/CPB Prject
British Broadcasting Corporation
Center for Communications, Inc.
Mission Statement: Center for Electronic & Film Media
Overview of Accomplishments, Phase I, 1987
Goals for Phase II, January 1988-June 1989
Phase III, Long Term Goals
Summary of Adrian Malone-Smithsonian Deal, 1987-1988
Advisory Groups, 1987
Princeton Collaboration
Business Projections
Adrian Malone Productions Writers (Proposed) Contracts
Budgetary Information Albert Einstein Series
Boulanger, Nadia: Eastern Europe
Communication Research Trends
University of the Air: Purpose and objectives; Budget, 1985
The University of the World
International Telecommunication Services, Inc.
University of the Air: Correspondence, 1986
Equipment: Correspondence, 1986
Apple Computer Inventory
Trade References and Bank Information
National Academy of Sciences: Demonstration, 1988
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Demonstration Dinner, 1988
Estimated Monthly Expense Budget
Funding: Sources Corporations
Smithsonian Productions
Honig, Hon. William
Hershfield, Allan
Exhibition: The Living Map of the 20th Century
Global Studies Center
International Business Corporation
Legal Articles of Incorporation
National Endowment for the Humanities: Correspondence, 1985-1988
Geography Information
National Geographic, 1987
Articles: Computer Technology
University of the Air: Printed Materials
The Molecule
Preliminary Sales Projections
Original Art Work/Charts
Graphic Specifications
Disc Consortium
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Proposal
Box 6
Project Reports, 1987
Albert Einstein Series: Television Budget
Malone, Adrian: Budget Meetings
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Flow Chart for Demonstration
University of the Air: Budget, 1988
Smithsonian Television Council, 1987
Chronological File: Correspondence, 1986-1988
Faxed Messages, c. 1985-1988
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Silver, Andrew: Correspondence, 1986-1987
In Honor of Women
University of the Air: Prospectus
Malone, Adrian: Notes
Drama Characters
Boulanger, Nadia: Draft Synopsis of Dramatic Treatment
Albert Einstein Series: Possible Structure for Drama
Keynes, John Maynard: Biographical Information
Heisenberg, Werner: Draft Synopsis of Dramatic Treatment
Box 7
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Budget/Dox and Dramas
Miscellaneous Notes and Memoranda, 1986-1988
University of the Air: Prospectus
The Holy Bible
Miscellaneous Material: The Death of History, 1988
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Demonstration Script
Box 8
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Drafts and Notes
Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man
Looking for Rainer Maria Rilke
Divisions on the Ground
Williams, Earline: University of the Air
Einstein: As Myth and Muse
Boulanger, Nadia: Draft Synopsis of Dramatic Treatment
Freud and His Early Circle: The Struggles of Psycho-Analysis
History of Music
Keynes, John Maynard: Biography
Cosmos: The Making of the Series
Malone, Adrian: A Documentary About Einstein
Michelson, Albert Abraham: The Mast of Light
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Grant Proposal
Hooper, Kristina: Correspondence, 1988
University of the Air: Project Summary
Bastian, Edward: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1988-1989
Abdy, Balantine
Docudrama Production Schedule, 1988
EXCEL Notes
Monthly Expense Budget, 1988-1989
Bibliography: Episode Three
Box 9
Valery, Paul: The Universal Self
Einstein, Albert: A Centenary Volume (three parts)
Boulanger, Lili: The, Life and Works (two parts)
Schrodinger, Erwin: An Introduction to His Writings (1967)
Planck, Max: The Dilemmas of an Upright Man
Copland, Aaron: Biography
Szilard, Leo: The Facts According to Leo Szilard
Boulanger, Nadia: A Life Devoted to Music/The Tender Tyrant
Heisenberg, Herman Werner: Biography
Edel, Leon: Bloomsbury - House of Lions
The Drama of the Life of Albert Einstein
Haber, Fritz: Biography
Smithsonian Project Discovery: Bibliographical Information
Box 10
THE BURIED MIRROR
Program Scripts:
Contracts
Sogetel Issues
Production Schedule/Music
Script Review and Planning, 1990
Program Script Drafts
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1990-1991
Final Commentary Script and Cassette Review Comments
Budget: Books and Educational Material, 1991
Videotape Information
Program Three: Pilot Recording Script
Program Four: Previews
Music for The Burned Mirror
Memoranda and Notes, 1989
Fuentes, Carlos
Program Script/Presentation of Series 1: The Virgin and the Bull
Publicity Photographs
Newspaper Articles
Financial Planning and Program Development
Miscellaneous Information: Reviews
Box 11
Holman Communications
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1989
Inquiries
Latino Consortium/KCET
Production Budget
The Buried Mirror: Picture Research
Script Reviews (4 folders)
Museum Subject Files
African-American Museum (NAAM)
African Art Museum (NMAfA)
Air and Space Museum (NASM)
Albert Einstein Spacearium
Astrophysics, Laboratory for (NASM)
Airplane Museums
American Art, National Museum of (NMAA)
Anthropological Film Center
Anthropological Archives, The National (NAA)
American History, National Museum of (NMAH)
American Indian, National Museum of the (NMAI)
Anacostia Museum
Box 12
Archives of American Art (AAA)
Archives Center (NMAH)
Attendance Statistics
Black Americans at the Smithsonian Institution
Building Museum, National (NBM)
Carrie Bow Cay
Castle Building (Smithsonian Institution)
Computer Services at the Smithsonian Institution
Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design
Educational Advisory Council
Folklife Festival
Folkways Records and Film
Fort Pierce Smithsonian Marine Station
Freer Gallery
Front Royal
Harbor Branch Foundation, Inc.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG)
Insect Zoo
International Activities, Office of
Interdisciplinary Studies, Office of
Libraries - Smithsonian Institution
Magazines - Smithsonian Institution
Maryland Science Center
Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT)
Museum Programs, Office of
Box 13
Museum Support Center
Music at the Smithsonian Institution
National Archives and Records Administration
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Natural History, National Museum of (NMNH)
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
New Yorker: Article on the Smithsonian Institution
Press: Smithsonian Institution
Quadrangle
Quincentenary Planning at the Smithsonian (Columbus Voyages)
Radiation Biology Laboratory
Radio Smithsonian
Regents
Renwick Gallery
Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) (3 folders)
Box 14
Scientific Event Alert Network (SEAN)
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) (5 folders)
Smithsonian Theatre
Smithsonian Tidbits
Splendors of Nature
Tropical Biology Conference
United States Geological Survey
Women at the Smithsonian Institution
National Zoological Park (NZP) (2 folders)
Zoos Outside the Smithsonian
Box 15
Smithsonian People Files
Adams, McC. Robert
Abdy, Sir Valentine
Iraqi Embassy
Adey, Walter H.
Archambault, JoAllyn
Atil, Esin
Beach, Milo C.
Beck, Ben
Behrensmeyer, Anna K.
Benson, Richard
Bertness, Mark
Beschloss, Michael
Billington, James Hadley
Bird Jr., William L.
Brooks, Alison S.
Broun, Elizabeth
Brown, Claudine K.
Burnette, Alice
Camp, Kimberly
Case, Mary
Challinor, David
Coddington, Johnathan
Cohn, Anna R.
Corn, Joseph J.
Cornell Jr., James C.
Crew, Spencer
Crocker, William H.
Crouch, Thomas
Daniel, Peter
Davies, Ronald
Del Vecchio, Margo
Demetrion, James T.
DeVorkin, David H.
Dillon, Wilton S.
Dressier, Robert
Dupree, Andrea
Early, James
Eberhard, William G.
Eklund, Jon
Box 16
Erwin, Terry L.
Evelyn, Douglas E.
Falk, John
Fazio, Giovanni G.
Fern, Alan
Field, George B.
Finn, Bernard
Fiske, Richard S.
Fitzhugh, William W.
Fletcher, Valerie J.
Flint, Richard
Freudenheim, Thomas L.
Garber, Paul Edward
Geller, Margaret J.
Gingerich, Owen
Glynn, Peter
Goldberg, Stanley
Goldstein, Jeffrey
Grant, Richard E.
Green, Rayna
Haines, Gary
Handley, Charles O.
Hanle, Paul A.
Harshbarger, John C.
Hart, C. William
Harwit, Martin O.
Heyer, W. Ronald
Higgins, Robert P.
Hindle, Brooke
Hobbs, Horton
Hoffmann, Robert S.
Hueber, Francis M.
Hyatt, Vera
Jacobberger, Patricia A.
Jacobs, Madeleine
Jones, Meredith L.
Kaeppler, Adrienne
Karp, Ivan
Karr, James
Kennedy, Roger G.
Kidwell, Claudia
Klapthor, Margaret
Kleiman, Devra G.
Knight, Canton
Kotkin, Amy
Kulik, Gary B.
Laughlin, Robert
Lawless, Benjamin
Lawrence, Sidney
Lawton, Thomas
Laybourne, Roxie
Lessios, Harilaos A.
Lightman, Alan
Box 17
Linares, Olga
Littler, Mark and Diane
Lopez, Donald S.
Lovejoy, Thomas E.
Lowry, Glenn D.
Lynch, James F.
Marcellini, Dale L.
Marsden, Brian
Marvin, Ursula B.
Maxwell, Ted A.
McClelland, Donald
Mecklenburg, Virginia
Meggers, Betty
Melder, Keith
Melson, William
Merrill, William
Merzbach, Uta C.
Milton, Katharine
Miller, Lillian
Molella, Arthur P.
Montgomery, Gene
Morris, James
Morton, Eugene S.
Moynihan, Martin
Noble, David F.
Norris, James
Nowicke, Joan W.
Oakes, Claudia M.
Olson, Storrs
Ortner, Donald
Ostroff, Eugene
Pachter, Marc
Park, Edwards
Perrot, Paul N.
Pierce, Lucia Buchanan
Pilgram, Dianne H.
Post, Robert Charles
Rand, Harry
Reagon, Bernice Johnson
Reed, Theodore
Reingold, Nathan
Reinhardt, John
Reutzler, Klaus
Rice, Mary E.
Rifkin, Ned
Rinzler, Ralph
Roberts, Miles
Robinson, Michael
Roper, Clyde
Rose, Eileen
Roubik, David
Box 18
Rubinoff, Ira
Ruffins, Fath Davis
Russell, James
Sandved, Kjell
Schneps, Matthew H.
Seitel, Peter
Seidensticker, John
Shannon, Joseph
Shapiro, Irwin
Sharrer, Terry
Shetler, Stanwyn
Solinger, Janet W.
Stanley, Daniel
Stephens, Carlene
Sturtevant, William
Simkin, Thomas
Smith, Bruce D.
Smith, Neal
Smithson, James
Stanley, Daniel
Stanford, Dennis
Sues, Hans
Talbot, Frank H.
Taylor, Paul
Towe, Kenneth M.
Trefil, James S.
Trousdale, William B.
Tuttle, Merlin D.
Tyler, James
Ubelaker, Douglas H.
Van Beek, Gus
Vandiver, Pam
Vessot, R. F. C.
Vogel, Robert
Viola, Herman J.
Warner, Deborah Jean
Washburn, Wilcomb
Weaver, James
Weil, Stephen E.
Wemmer, Christopher
Werner, Dagmar
West, W. Richard, Jr.
Whipple, Fred L.
White, Roger B.
Williams, Martin
Williams, Sylvia
Woodside, Patricia A.
Yellis, Kenneth
Zug, George
Miscellaneous Subject Files
Tell Jemmeh
Past Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution
Rizzo Program Information
Music at the Smithsonian Institution
Box 19
Life Laser Video Discs (four disks)
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