Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Finding Aid for the CBS Inc. Film and Television Collection
1955-1991
PASC 72-M
PASC 72-M
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: CBS Inc. Film and Television Collection
Collection number: PASC 72-M
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Extent:
3101 boxes (1550.5 linear ft.)
Date (inclusive): 1955-1991
Abstract: The collection consists of music manuscripts, books, printed music, sound recordings and business papers relating to CBS productions.
Also included are logs, music manuscripts, books, and printed music related to four types of CBS productions: features films,
television series, television specials, and television movies, The productions fall under the CBS Television Network, CBS
Entertainment Division, CBS Productions Network, and, in a few cases, earlier manifestations of these divisions. The collection
includes materials in the form of: manuscript scores, parts, and a few Ozalid masters of both scores and parts for film and
television productions; printed sheet music and folios of popular music; publishers catalogs, brochures; published books about
music; and published silent film music. The collection includes materials by composers such as Jeff Alexander, Bill "Rocky"
Conti, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Lyn Murray, Alex North, Fred Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman,
and John Williams. Productions represented include TV series such as Gilligan's Island, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel,Hawaii
5-0, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Twilight Zone, and Wild Wild West. Also included is music for feature films such as The April Fools,
Little Big Man, The Reivers, Rio Lobo, and Table For Five. A highlight of the collection are many scores for live Playhouse
90 dramas. The collection is currently being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
Creator:
CBS Inc.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. 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 CBS Inc., 1988.
[Identification of item], CBS Inc. Film and Television Collection (Collection Number PASC 72-M) UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS) is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. The name is derived
from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name.
The network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations that was bought by
William S. Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one
of the largest radio networks in the United States and then one of the big three American broadcast television networks. In
1974, CBS dropped its full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired the network
in 1995 and eventually adopted the name of the company it had bought to become CBS Corporation. In 2000, CBS came under the
control of Viacom, which coincidentally had begun as a spin-off of CBS in 1971. In late 2005, Viacom split itself and reestablished
CBS Corporation with the CBS television network at its core. CBS Corporation and the new Viacom are controlled by Sumner Redstone
through National Amusements, the parent of the two companies.
The CBS Inc. Television and Film Music Collection consists of music manuscripts, logs, books, printed music, sound recordings
and business papers relating to documentaries, features films, mini series, television programs and made for television movies.
The productions fall under the CBS Television Network, CBS Entertainment Division, CBS Productions Network, and, in a few
cases, earlier manifestations of these divisions.
The collection includes materials in the form of: manuscript scores, parts, and select Ozalid masters of both scores and parts
for film and television productions; printed sheet music and folios of popular music; publishers catalogs, brochures; financial
and business records, recording logs, and sound recordings.
Included in the collection are materials by composers such as Jeff Alexander, Bill "Rocky" Conti, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard
Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Lyn Murray, Alex North, Fred Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, and John Williams.
Productions represented include TV series such as Gilligan's Island, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Hawaii 5-0, Perry Mason,
Rawhide, Twilight Zone, and Wild Wild West. The collection also includes music for feature films such as The April Fools,
Little Big Man, The Reivers, Rio Lobo, and Table For Five. Also included are many scores for live Playhouse 90 dramas.
The collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
Arranged in the following series:
- Series 1. Documentaries
- Series 2. Feature Films
- Series 3. Mini Series
- Series 4. Television Programs
- Series 5. Television Movies
- Series 6. Unidentified Programs, Films, etc.
- Series 7. Business Papers
- Series 8. Clippings, 1976-1988. 1 folder
- Series 9. Radio Programs
- Series 10. Published Music
- Series 12. Recording Logs
- Series 13. Sound Recordings -- Unprocessed
- Series 14. Radio
- Series 15. Unidentified Materials
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
CBS Inc. --Archives.
Motion picture music --Scores and parts.
Television music --Scores and parts.
Music --Manuscripts.