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Herman G. Weinberg collection
- Title
- Herman G. Weinberg collection, 1929-1983.
- Author
- Weinberg, Herman G.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 49 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 49 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 48 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 48 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 47 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 47 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 46 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 46 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 45 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 45 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 44 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 44 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 43 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 43 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 42 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 42 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 41 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 41 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 40 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 40 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 39 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 39 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 38 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 38 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 37 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 37 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 36 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 36 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 35 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 35 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 34 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 34 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 33 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 33 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 32 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 32 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 31 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 31 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 30 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1980-003 Box 30 | Offsite |
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.).
- Subjects
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures > Europe
- National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
- British Film Institute
- Zolotow, Maurice, 1913-1991
- Wright, Basil
- Wray, Fay, 1907-2004
- Watts, Richard, 1898-
- Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957
- Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969
- Vidor, King, 1894-1982
- Vernac, Denise, 1916-1984
- Truffaut, François
- Stern, Seymour
- Seton, Marie
- Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984
- Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
- Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979
- Reisch, Walter
- Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983
- Petrić, Vlada
- Paulon, Flavia
- O’Leary, Liam
- Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984
- Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019
- Motion pictures > 20th century > History and criticism
- Historians
- Photographs
- Correspondence
- Motion pictures > History
- Scrapbooks
- Foreign films
- Editors
- Programs
- Writers
- Motion pictures > Translating
- Motion pictures > Europe > History > 20th century
- Translators
- Anger, Kenneth
- Auriol, Jean-Georges, 1907-1950
- Bessy, Maurice, 1910-1993
- Boardman, Eleanor, 1898-1991
- Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985
- Brownlow, Kevin
- Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983
- Card, James, 1915-2000
- Clair, René, 1898-1981
- 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
- Latté, Lily 1891-1984
- Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988
- Lherminier, Pierre
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981
- Loos, Mary
- Luft, Herbert G., 1907-1992
- Marion, Denis, 1906-2000
- Mekas, Adolfas, 1925-2011
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Programs.
- Scrapbooks.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1980-003
- OCLC
- 864035622
- 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