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Seems like old times : screenplay and shooting call

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
F0848
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
  • 1 item (151 pages)
  • 1 item (2 pages)
  • 1 item (1 page)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0848, Neil Simon, Seems like old times : screenplay and shooting call, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1980 april (inclusive)
Creator:
Simon, Neil
Form:
Screenplays, Schedules (time plans), and Memorandums
Abstract:
A photographically reproduced typescript of Neil Simon's revised final draft of his screenplay, Seems Like Old Times, has laid in a shooting call for the first day of filming.

Award winning American playwright Neil Simon was born July 4, 1927, in the Bronx, New York.

"Neil Simon." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed December 2007).

A photographically reproduced typescript of Neil Simon's revised final draft of his screenplay,

Seems Like Old Times , has laid in a shooting call for the first day of filming. Bradbound in Rastar Studio wrappers, the title page is labeled "Revised final draft" and dated April 1980. The cover bears the inked name "Traxel" and is likely photographer Mel Traxel, who served as still photographer for several Simon films. Laid in the screenplay is a two-page Columbia Pictures shooting call for April 7, 1980, the first day of filming, with an attached inter-office memorandum from Michele Panelli.

Box 59, F0848: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, May 2009.

Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, June 2009. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

MSS 0485, Richard Hoffman Neil Simon collection.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2009 June 11
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Collection Inventory

Seems Like Old Times : screenplay, 1980 April.
Box 59 Folder F0848
Scope and Contents

Photographically reproduced typescript labeled "Revised final draft" and dated April 1980.

Physical Description

1 item (151 p.)

Seems Like Old Times : shooting call, 1980 April 7.
Box 59 Folder F0848
Scope and Contents

A two-page Columbia Pictures shooting call for April 7, 1980 (the first day of filming) with an attached memorandum.

Physical Description

2 items (2 p., 1 p.)

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