The Harry Ransom Center (in Austex) is growing its collection of 20th c.e. artifacts.
Ransom Center: We are pleased to announce that actor, director, producer Robert De Niro has donated his remarkable collection of film-related materials to the Harry Ransom Center. With materials from the late 1960s to the present, the archive includes annotated scripts, notes, research materials, and an extensive collection of the costumes De Niro wore in his films.The paper portion of the collection, more than 100 boxes, includes scripts and books with handwritten notations, correspondence with film notables such as Martin Scorsese and Elia Kazan, background research, and the notebooks De Niro kept while working on his films, all showing the evolution from text to moving image. The costume portion of the collection includes more than 3,000 individual costume items and props from many of De Niro’s films.more details on the collection here
As an aside, while an undergrad, I sometimes went to the HRC and read from their collection of Philip K Dick (and other sci-fi writers) first edition paperbacks, some of which were out-of-print at the time. I pretended to be a researcher, took the yellow legal pad and pencil, and whiled away afternoons instead of studying. Good way to get into air conditioning.
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