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Title: Mainerd Baker Collection of Scripts,
Date (inclusive): 1940s-1970s
Collection number: 274
Creator: Baker, Mainerd
Extent: 3 boxes (3.25 linear ft.)
Abstract: Mainerd Baker was a musician and music copyist in Hollywood from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. The collection
consists mostly of radio and television scripts either collected by or related to the career of Baker
Language: Finding aid is written in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Performing Arts Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of C. Plath, 2003.
[Identification of item], Mainerd Baker Collection of Scripts (Collection 274). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
There is very little biographical information available about Mainerd Baker. He was a musician and music copyist in Hollywood
from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. Baker worked at many studios and networks and for many arrangers over the years.
The collection consists mostly of radio and television scripts related to the career of musician and music copyist Mainerd
Baker. The scripts are from productions in which Baker may have been involved with in some capacity and/or scripts that were
given to him by friends from the entertainment business who knew of his interest in collecting scripts. Included are scripts
from
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre,
Inner Sanctum Mysteries, and
This is Your Life.
The scripts are arranged alphabetically by program title.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Baker, Mainerd -- Archives.
Television scripts -- Archival resources.
Radio scripts -- Archival resources.
television scripts
radio scripts