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Norman Klenman fonds

  • MsC-101
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1946]-2011

Fonds consists of correspondence, scripts, screenplays, newsletters, articles, films and other records created or accumulated by Norman Klenman over the course of his career as a journalist, film and television writer and producer, and the joint owner of the CKVU television station. The records include draft and final version scripts and screenplays and related records for radio, television, and film (both produced and unproduced). Also included is correspondence, agreements and financial and project-related records of various production companies of which Klenman was a joint owner, in particular Galanty Productions Limited (Galanty Limited). The fonds also contains some personal records; these include correspondence pertaining to Klenman’s career, as well as articles and other writings by Klenman. The records have been arranged into the following six series: Personal records (2002-2010); Articles and general writings (1986-2006); Business files (1952-2004); General scripts, screenplays and related records ([ca. 1946]-2010); Television scripts, screenplays and related records (1956-2010); Film scripts, screenplays and related records (1953-2008); and CKVU records (1958-2011).

Klenman, Norman

Personal records

Series consists of articles, correspondence, and other material pertaining to the career and projects of Norman Klenman, his family and his colleagues. Includes material relating to CKVU television, his partnerships with Daryl Duke and William (Bill) Davidson, and the film "Now that April’s Here." Series also contains some autobiographical material written by Klenman, with emphasis on the chronology of his career.

Miscellaneous stuff – recent

File includes correspondence, pages from Klenman’s “The Write Company” website, an article titled “Before the Beginning: William Davidson’s & Norman Klenman’s 'Now That April’s Here'” by Peter Morris (Take One, July/August 2002) and a draft article by Daryl Duke (2003). Correspondence pertains to Klenman’s former projects, including CKVU television, "The Starlost" and "Ivy League Killers".

Articles and general writings

Series consists of articles and other writings by Norman Klenman. Includes drafts of the "Salt Spring Island Tatler" and the "Salt Spring Island Spectator", as well as copies of the “Diamond Jim Brady” columns he wrote in the 1990s.

Stories

File consists of printed copies of “Sam Johnson, Freelance Writer” and “The Diamond is a Fan’s Best Friend: Baseball Fantasies and Memoirs,” both written by Norman Klenman.

Business files

Series consists of correspondence, agreements, project-related records, financial statements and other records pertaining to Klenman’s involvement with various film companies, in particular Galanty Productions Limited (Galanty Limited), The Canadian Kinetoscope Company Limited, Solenty Limited, Bull & Bear Films Limited and the Canadian Talking Picture Company Limited.

The Toronto Film Years cont’d, Toronto 1974. Notes, letters, legal docs. on Galanty Ltd., Bull & Bear Ltd., The Cdn [Canadian] Kinetiscope Co., The Cdn [Canadian] Talking Pictures Co., Galanty Ltd., Partners Duke, Klenman and Cowan

File includes agreements, financial statements, minutes of Board of Directors meetings and correspondence concerning the financial situation of Galanty Limited, the termination of the Galanty partnership and the development of other production companies.

Old writing contracts

File includes business contracts and related records of Norman Klenman and Galanty Limited. Includes contracts with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 20th Century Fox and Glen-Warren Productions Limited.

Correspondence for the Galanty years in Toronto

File includes correspondence and related records of Norman Klenman, Daryl Duke and Edgar Cowan concerning Galanty Limited business dealings, finances and projects, in particular “The Weekend Man” and “Midas Compulsion.”

Galanty letters early 1970 to July 1971

File consists of correspondence of Norman Klenman, Daryl Duke and Edgar Cowan pertaining to Galanty Limited business dealings, financial matters and projects, particularly "The Ecstasy of Rita Joe".

Recent Galanty

File includes correspondence pertaining to the finances and current and proposed projects of Galanty Productions Limited / Galanty Limited.

Galanty letters # 7 1971-1972

File consists of correspondence of Norman Klenman, Daryl Duke and Edgar Cowan pertaining to Galanty Limited business dealings, financial matters and projects, particularly The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. Correspondence also relates to their interest in CITY-TV as founding shareholders. Inscription on the inside of the front cover of the original file folder read: “Norman Klenman: Hasselblad and Film Correspondence.”

A lot of old co. [company] correspondence from Toronto film days…Solenty Ltd, Bull & Bear Productions, Cdn [Canadian] Talking Pictures Co., etc. etc. A lot of promotions that went nowhere!

File includes correspondence and agreements pertaining to various projects of Galanty Limited, Canadian Talking Picture Company Limited and Bull and Bear Films Limited, including “The Ecstasy of Rita Joe,” “The Bind,” “The Hard Knock,” “Woodsman of the West,” “Maquinnah” and “The Weekend Man.” File also includes correspondence concerning an application by Klenman and Duke for a television station in Vancouver (CKVU).

General scripts, screenplays and related records

Series consists of radio play scripts and various screenplays for film and television, including many in draft format, as well as story outlines, project notes and research, and a few articles written by Norman Klenman.

Old radio plays

File includes the following scripts, articles and other material written by Norman Klenman: “Deadline” (n.d.); “The Ghost of Marlowe” (n.d.); “Is Dr. Leslie Bell a Vulture for Culture” (letter) (n.d.); "British Columbia Digest" articles “The Fabulous Jokers” (August 1946) and “No Comment” (July 1947); “The Word for Sonia” ([ca. 1948]); various articles in "The U.B.C. Thunderbird" ([ca. 1946]); “I go to Chicago : a radio play” (n.d.); “The Red-haired Boy” (New Liberty Contest, 1952); “The Truth of Marshal” (n.d.); “The Footnote” (n.d.); and “The Dark Patterns of Night and the Rain” (n.d.).

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