Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 02-208
Smithsonian Productions
Production Records, 1968-2002
Descriptive Entry
This accession includes records documenting the film, video, and radio production activities of John P. Meehan, Audio-Visual Production Specialist; Jacquie Gales Webb, Producer; and Paul B. Johnson, Director. Material consists of correspondence, memoranda, and notes; performer's licenses; production logs; contracts and releases; music cue sheets; blueprints; interview transcripts; grant information; audio scripts; photographs and slides; drawings; budget summaries; meeting agenda; proposals; and information on the Smithsonian Video Collection.
Productions documented in these records include "Piano Grand!," "Black Radio: Telling it Like it Was," "Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington," "The Sawyer and His Mill," "Creatures Great and Small," "Celebrating a Century: The 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition," "The Last Wheel Works," "Smithsonian Quest," "Smithsonian World," "Yorktown," "The First Ladies," "Engines of Change," "Beyond the Ocean, Beneath the Leaf," "River of Song: Music Along the Mississippi," "Piano 300," "Jazz Smithsonian," "What in the World," "Science in American Life," "Jazz in Paris: 1914-1940," and "Smithsonian Minutes."
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Beyond Category: The Music of Duke Ellington (Video recording)
- Beyond the Ocean, Beneath the Leaf (Video recording : 1982)
- Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was (Radio program : 1995)
- Celebrating a Century: The 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition (Motion picture : 1976)
- Creatures Great and Small (Video recording : 1989)
- Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860 (Video recording : 1987)
- First Ladies (Video recording : 1989)
- Jazz Age in Paris: 1914-1940 (Video recording : 1998)
- Jazz Smithsonian (Radio program : 1993)
- Johnson, Paul B.
- Last Wheel Works (Motion picture : 1974)
- Meehan, John P.
- Piano 300 (Video recording : 2000)
- Piano Grand! (Television program : 2000)
- Sawyer and His Mill (Motion picture : 1969)
- Science in American Life (Video recording : c. 1992)
- Smithsonian Minutes (Television program : c. 1995)
- Smithsonian Quest (Television program : 1986)
- Smithsonian World (Television program : 1984-1991)
- Smithsonian video collection
- The Mississippi: River of Song (Television program : 1999)
- Webb, Jacquie Gales
- What in the World (Television program : 1977)
- Yorktown (Motion picture : 1982)
Subject
- Budget
- Contracts
- Documentary films
- Documentary television programs
- Documentary videos
- Intellectual property
- Motion pictures -- Production and direction
- Radio programs
- Television -- Production and direction
- Video recordings -- Production and direction
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-208, Smithsonian Productions, Production Records