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{"value"=>"1947-1986", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1947/1986"}
{"value"=>"1961-1963", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1961/1963"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"title\">Masters of the Dew</span>"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".6 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
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{"value"=>"<p>The files for the screenplay Masters of the Dew, include Nemiroff's outline of the third draft, copies of the first and third drafts (Nemiroff did not retain a copy of the second draft), Hansberry's revisions, and a master scene script with primary shot indications. Hansberry wrote several drafts of the screenplay adapted from the 1947 novel Masters of the Dew by Haitian author Jacques Roumain. Although Nemiroff worked on the third draft as late as 1982, the film did not come to fruition. Hansberry's screenplay was written between November 1961 and 1963 for a company called MO-PIX, but the company later dropped the project. The third draft as annotated by Nemiroff in 1982 and an undated one is included in the collection. A copy of the novel with Hansberry's notes is also filed here. Materials document a lawsuit initiated by Hansberry against the producers MO-PIX and its president Henry R. Benjamin in 1963, and include records of the pre-trial examination as well as correspondence between Hansberry and Nemiroff and their lawyers and others involved in the case (1961-1963). A 1986 letter written by Nemiroff explains the background of Hansberry's involvement with the screenplay and the lawsuit.</p>"}
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1947
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1947
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1986
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1947
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1986