Gunsmoke (1955 - 1975) - PR Material, Workprint Frame
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:61925374 | Modified Item: No |
| Industry: Television | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
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From the files of a journalist, deceased in 1996, who covered Hollywood periodically from 1932 as a foreign correspondent, exclusively from 1...945 as Editor of the Hollywood Foreign Bureau of the United Press, and from 1969 as Hollywood correspondent for various periodicals in Europe. The sources of the multiple materials offered here were many and varied -- movie studios, TV networks, production companies, agencies, PR firms, his own photographers and sometimes himself -- and were used to illustrate his articles in the case of the pix and as background data in the case of the textual publicity material.
Having originally been auctioned off one individual piece at a time several years ago, these batches of multiple materials are now offered either as Lots or as lower priced individual items.
The following Lot of Original PR material from the long-running GUNSMOKE (1955 - 1975) TV Series which starred JAMES ARNESS, AMANDA BLAKE (1-19), DENNIS WEAVER (1-9), MILBURN STONE, KEN CURTIS (9-20), BURT REYNOLDS (8-10), ROGER EWING (11-12), BUCK TAYLOR (13-20), TOM BROWN (14-17), BERT RUMSEY (1-4) and GLENN STRANGE (7-18) is described in some detail below:
1) One one-page CBS FYI re upcoming 16th Season, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 2) one one-page CBS Biography of JAMES ARNESS, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 3) one one-page CBS Biography of AMANDA BLAKE, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 4) one one-page CBS Biography of MILBURN STONE, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 5) one one-page CBS Biography of KEN CURTIS, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 6) one one-page CBS Biography of BUCK TAYLOR, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 7) one one-page CBS Cast & Credits for upcoming 16th Season Premiere Episode featuring guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN, dated Fall 1970; 8) one two-page CBS Feature re actress MIRIAM COLON guest starring in 16th Season Premiere Episode, stapled, undated; 9) one 16mm frame taken from workprint of 16th Season Premiere Episode in a scene featuring JAMES ARNESS with guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN; 10) one two-page RKO Biography of JAMES ARNESS, printed on 8-1/2x13 paper, stapled, dated 24 February 1956.
Pic#1 shows the one-page CBS FYI re the upcoming 16th Season, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#2 shows the one-page CBS Biography of JAMES ARNESS, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#3 shows the one-page CBS Biography of AMANDA BLAKE, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#4 shows the one-page CBS Biography of MILBURN STONE, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#5 shows the one-page CBS Biography of KEN CURTIS, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#6 shows the one-page CBS Biography of BUCK TAYLOR, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#7 shows the one-page CBS Cast & Credits for the upcoming 16th Season Premiere Episode featuring guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN, dated Fall 1970; Pic#8 shows the first page of the stapled two-page CBS Feature re actress MIRIAM COLON who was guest starring in the 16th Season Premiere Episode, undated; Pic#9 shows the second page of same; Pic#10 shows the one 16mm frame taken from the workprint of the 16th Season Premiere Episode featuring a scene with JAMES ARNESS and guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN (Episode Title: CHATO, Original Airdate: 14 September 1970); Pic#11 shows the first page of the stapled two-page RKO Biography of JAMES ARNESS, printed on 8-1/2x13 paper and dated 24 February 1956 (It’s folded because the original filing system started in the 1940s put all text into letter-sized manila envelopes. I don’t know why -- probably a space-saving measure.); and Pic#12 shows the second page of same. NOTE: On Magenta Shift -- This is what happens to some lesser quality film stock with the passage of time. As you may know, movies and TV shows used to be shot on the highest quality negative film stock the budget could afford. The first step for the editors was to transfer what was on the negative stock to some cheap, crappy positive stock known as the “workprint” so they could play around with it until a satisfactory cut was achieved. Then the original negative would be carefully and painstakingly cut to match the “workprint” and the necessary copies for public consumption would be run off from that. Quality costs money; and since workprints would never be seen by anyone other than editors, directors, producers, who cared about color quality or color stability? The reason we have this frame is that the poor Publicity guy on GUNSMOKE were so tired of being begged for PR product that they just didn’t have, that one of the more enterprising of them simply ran over to the editing bay and grabbed something out of the trash bin up there. Even the best color film stock is subject to change over time, but it’s all digital now so how that’s going to work out 50+ years from now, nobody can say. As far as storage is concerned, our digital archives are all just one Carrington Event away from total and utter loss. Sorry for longwinded Cinema 101. Discoloration, if any, is due to oxidation of the paper from having been tightly pressed up against umpteen newsprint clippings and tearsheets of dubious origin in a manila file folder stuffed in an overloaded file cabinet over a period of some 50+ years.
If you plan on treating these poor old items as artifacts worthy of preservation, I can recommend the Archival Print Preservers made by PrintFile, and by way of full disclosure -- I don’t in any way work for them, nor do I receive compensation. Wish I did, but I don’t.
If you happen to live in the Los Angeles area and wouldn’t mind a trip out to Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley, then come on by, pick it up in person and the USPS postage charge will be waived. Just email me whatcha wanna do.
From the files of a journalist, deceased in 1996, who covered Hollywood periodically from 1932 as a foreign correspondent, exclusively from 1...945 as Editor of the Hollywood Foreign Bureau of the United Press, and from 1969 as Hollywood correspondent for various periodicals in Europe. The sources of the multiple materials offered here were many and varied -- movie studios, TV networks, production companies, agencies, PR firms, his own photographers and sometimes himself -- and were used to illustrate his articles in the case of the pix and as background data in the case of the textual publicity material.
Having originally been auctioned off one individual piece at a time several years ago, these batches of multiple materials are now offered either as Lots or as lower priced individual items.
The following Lot of Original PR material from the long-running GUNSMOKE (1955 - 1975) TV Series which starred JAMES ARNESS, AMANDA BLAKE (1-19), DENNIS WEAVER (1-9), MILBURN STONE, KEN CURTIS (9-20), BURT REYNOLDS (8-10), ROGER EWING (11-12), BUCK TAYLOR (13-20), TOM BROWN (14-17), BERT RUMSEY (1-4) and GLENN STRANGE (7-18) is described in some detail below:
1) One one-page CBS FYI re upcoming 16th Season, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 2) one one-page CBS Biography of JAMES ARNESS, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 3) one one-page CBS Biography of AMANDA BLAKE, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 4) one one-page CBS Biography of MILBURN STONE, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 5) one one-page CBS Biography of KEN CURTIS, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 6) one one-page CBS Biography of BUCK TAYLOR, three-hole punched, dated ’70/’71; 7) one one-page CBS Cast & Credits for upcoming 16th Season Premiere Episode featuring guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN, dated Fall 1970; 8) one two-page CBS Feature re actress MIRIAM COLON guest starring in 16th Season Premiere Episode, stapled, undated; 9) one 16mm frame taken from workprint of 16th Season Premiere Episode in a scene featuring JAMES ARNESS with guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN; 10) one two-page RKO Biography of JAMES ARNESS, printed on 8-1/2x13 paper, stapled, dated 24 February 1956.
Pic#1 shows the one-page CBS FYI re the upcoming 16th Season, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#2 shows the one-page CBS Biography of JAMES ARNESS, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#3 shows the one-page CBS Biography of AMANDA BLAKE, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#4 shows the one-page CBS Biography of MILBURN STONE, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#5 shows the one-page CBS Biography of KEN CURTIS, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#6 shows the one-page CBS Biography of BUCK TAYLOR, three-hole punched and dated ’70/’71; Pic#7 shows the one-page CBS Cast & Credits for the upcoming 16th Season Premiere Episode featuring guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN, dated Fall 1970; Pic#8 shows the first page of the stapled two-page CBS Feature re actress MIRIAM COLON who was guest starring in the 16th Season Premiere Episode, undated; Pic#9 shows the second page of same; Pic#10 shows the one 16mm frame taken from the workprint of the 16th Season Premiere Episode featuring a scene with JAMES ARNESS and guest star RICARDO MONTALBAN (Episode Title: CHATO, Original Airdate: 14 September 1970); Pic#11 shows the first page of the stapled two-page RKO Biography of JAMES ARNESS, printed on 8-1/2x13 paper and dated 24 February 1956 (It’s folded because the original filing system started in the 1940s put all text into letter-sized manila envelopes. I don’t know why -- probably a space-saving measure.); and Pic#12 shows the second page of same. NOTE: On Magenta Shift -- This is what happens to some lesser quality film stock with the passage of time. As you may know, movies and TV shows used to be shot on the highest quality negative film stock the budget could afford. The first step for the editors was to transfer what was on the negative stock to some cheap, crappy positive stock known as the “workprint” so they could play around with it until a satisfactory cut was achieved. Then the original negative would be carefully and painstakingly cut to match the “workprint” and the necessary copies for public consumption would be run off from that. Quality costs money; and since workprints would never be seen by anyone other than editors, directors, producers, who cared about color quality or color stability? The reason we have this frame is that the poor Publicity guy on GUNSMOKE were so tired of being begged for PR product that they just didn’t have, that one of the more enterprising of them simply ran over to the editing bay and grabbed something out of the trash bin up there. Even the best color film stock is subject to change over time, but it’s all digital now so how that’s going to work out 50+ years from now, nobody can say. As far as storage is concerned, our digital archives are all just one Carrington Event away from total and utter loss. Sorry for longwinded Cinema 101. Discoloration, if any, is due to oxidation of the paper from having been tightly pressed up against umpteen newsprint clippings and tearsheets of dubious origin in a manila file folder stuffed in an overloaded file cabinet over a period of some 50+ years.
If you plan on treating these poor old items as artifacts worthy of preservation, I can recommend the Archival Print Preservers made by PrintFile, and by way of full disclosure -- I don’t in any way work for them, nor do I receive compensation. Wish I did, but I don’t.
If you happen to live in the Los Angeles area and wouldn’t mind a trip out to Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley, then come on by, pick it up in person and the USPS postage charge will be waived. Just email me whatcha wanna do.
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