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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], "Stories and Plays Owned by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation" Summaries, Ms1989-018, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The "Stories and Plays Owned by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" Summaries were acquried by by Special Collections and University Archives prior to 1990.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the "Stories and Plays Owned by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" Summaries commenced and was completed in July, 2022.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of three binders containing summaries of more than 1100 stories owned by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, likely used by production teams during the 1930s in selecting new or previously produced stories for development into films. For each of the titles, the summaries include a note on the story's genre; its production status (unproduced or year of prior production); a one-sentence overview of the plot; source of the story (whether original or from a published source); the production title; the release title and date (when applicable); the name of the writer; and a lengthier synopsis, generally consisting of three paragraphs. The release dates noted for produced films range from 1915 to 1936.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Motion pictures

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the "Stories and Plays Owned by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" Summaries by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).