- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1998-027", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18937", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b20639304", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1960-1980", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1960/1980"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1960
- date_inclusive_end
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1980
- keydate
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1960
- date_start
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1960
- date_end
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1980
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Michael Pye research files on the entertainment industry"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.3 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"THE", "value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Michael Pye (born 1946) is a writer who reported on business for The Sunday Times of London and has authored many books. The Michael Pye research files contain documentation of the film and entertainment industries compiled by Pye while reporting for the Sunday Times, and during the writing of his two books on the entertainment industry."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Michael Pye research files on the entertainment industry, *T-Mss 1998-027. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Pye, Michael, 1946-", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Michael Pye (born 1946) is a writer who reported on business for The Sunday Times of London in the 1960s and 1970s. He has also authored many books, two of which are about the entertainment industry: The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took Over Hollywood (with Lynda Myles, 1979), and Moguls: Inside the Business of Show Business (1980).</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Michael Pye research files on the entertainment industry contain documentation of the film and entertainment industries compiled by Pye while reporting for The Sunday Times of London, and during the writing of his two books on the entertainment business. Dating from 1960 to 1980, they include annual reports of several film studios; brochures; press releases; financial statements; clippings; film souvenir publications; correspondence between Pye and studio publicists; and Pye's notes.</p> <p>The files cover major film studios such as Columbia Pictures, Gulf and Western Industries (former owners of Paramount Pictures), MGM Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, United Artists/Transamerica Corporation, Universal Pictures/MCA, and Warner Brothers. They also document smaller American and British studios; the Star Wars Corporation (formed by George Lucas to produce the first Star Wars film); and other entertainment concerns such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and companies owned by Robert Stigwood. The Star Wars Corporation file includes production information, copies of production sketches, and edited essays by Richard Edlund and John Dykstra describing special effect techniques used in Star Wars. The file on Twentieth Century Fox holds a typed draft of an article by Pye on the company.</p> <p>Also present is a file of legal papers regarding a lawsuit involving Coppola FM Company, a radio production venture owned by Francis Ford Coppola (Pye was not a party to the lawsuit); a file on Norman Lear containing a biographical press release and a 1978 address Lear delivered at the Edinburgh Festival; files of brochures and clippings regarding film financing and technology; and a file of industry box office figures dating from the mid to late-1970s.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The files are arranged by subject.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Michael Pye, 1998</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Matthew Snyder</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Theatre Division at theatre@nypl.org.</p>"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- extent_statement
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1.3 linear feet (3 boxes)