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{"value"=>"24581", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*T-Vim 2018-006", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b22396755", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1950-1980s", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1950/1989"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"J. Peter Happel photographs"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"90 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"55.08 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 moving image recordings", "unit"=>"moving_image_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"J. Peter Happel was an American photographer known for his work photographing mid-20th century television productions. The J. Peter Happel photographs includes negatives, proofs, and prints from across his career, with emphasis on his work covering early CBS television productions including <span class=\"title\">The Jackie Gleason Show</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Garry Moore Show</span>."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Happel, J. Peter", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>J. Peter Happel (1922-2015) was a freelance photographer known for his work photographing theater and television productions. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Happel fled to the United States in 1936 with his mother and sister. During World War II he served in the US Navy. After the war he studied at the New School for Social Research where his photographs were noticed by Herbert Berghof, co-founder of HB Studio, who hired Happel to photograph his work. This introduction led to work with Yul Brynner and Jackie Gleason, documenting their early work in television. Happel's association with Gleason in particular led to work documenting the growing television medium of the 1950s and early 1960s, including extensive work for CBS photographing shows such as <span class=\"title\">The Jackie Gleason Show</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Garry Moore Show</span>, <span class=\"title\">Camera Three</span>, <span class=\"title\">The United States Steel Hour</span>, and a number of network variety shows and specials. In addition to his work in television, Happel also photographed theater productions, cityscapes, art shows, commercial products, weddings and events, and portraits. Happel continued to work into his eighties. He died in Port Washington, New York in 2015.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The J. Peter Happel photographs largely cover Happel's work photographing television and stage productions in New York City. The bulk of this work was done for CBS Television from the early 1950s through the late 1960s.</p> <p>Productions that are well documented include <span class=\"title\">The Garry Moore Show</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Jackie Gleason Show</span>, <span class=\"title\">The United States Steel Hour</span>, <span class=\"title\">Camera Three</span>, <span class=\"title\">Studio One</span>, <span class=\"title\">You Are There</span>, <span class=\"title\">Omnibus</span>, various Carol Burnett productions and more.</p> <p>Included in the files on <span class=\"title\">Omnibus</span>, <span class=\"title\">You Are There</span>, <span class=\"title\">Danger</span>, and other early 1950s productions are shots of Yul Brynner and Sidney Lumet directing on set.</p> <p>Other productions of note include Harry Belafonte's 1959 special, <span class=\"title\">Tonight with Belafonte</span>, which includes shots of both Belafonte and Odetta performing; the 1962 television production of Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine's <span class=\"title\">Noah and the Flood</span>; and the first televised production of <span class=\"title\">The Nutcracker</span> on a 1957 episode of <span class=\"title\">The Seven Lively Arts</span>.</p> <p>Also documented is the personal and professional life of Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen, the founders and principle teachers of HB Studio. Happel's close association with the couple lead to shots from their acting and teaching careers, in addition to their home and family life.</p> <p>Images of Berghof and Hagen include photographs and negatives documenting the Sea Cliff Summer Theatre series with emphasis on the 1951 summer season. Located in Sea Cliff on the north shore of Long Island, the Sea Cliff Summer Theatre was a 1950s summerstock favored by many stars of the day for its close proximity to New York City.</p> <p>In addition to Happel's work in television, he worked extensively as a portrait photographer collaborating with models, agencies, and businesses to capture personal portraits and headshots. As a freelance commercial photographer, Happel worked in advertising, producing shots for brands such as Lipton, Revlon, Canada Dry and more. Other commercial work includes photography for his alma mater, the New School for Social Research, and shots documenting public art works created by metal fabricators, Milgo Art Systems.</p> <p>Other examples of Happel's work represented in the collection include travel, New York cityscapes and street shots, landscapes, and still life photography, in addition to his work as a wedding and social gathering photographer.</p> <p>The physical state of the collection is represented through 8x10\" prints, 2x3\" proofs, slides, oversized prints (both matted and unmatted), color negatives, negative strips, and negative rolls.</p> <p>The material is arranged in the following groups: Television and Stage Productions, Portraits, Commercial Work, Weddings and Social Gatherings, and Travel, Landscape, Still Life. Within groups subjects are arranged alphabetically; at the item level material is arranged chronologically.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection was donated by Sing Tom Happel in 2018.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Christopher Arena</span> in <span class=\"date\">2020</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Inquiries regarding audio and moving image materials in the collection may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio and moving image materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.</p>"}
- date_start
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1950
- keydate
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1950
- date_end
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1989
- date_inclusive_start
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1950
- date_inclusive_end
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1989
- extent_statement
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55.08 linear feet (90 boxes). 2 moving image recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"J. Peter Happel photographs, *T-Vim 2018-006. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}