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Norman Klenman fonds
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Film scripts, screenplays and related records

Series consists of scripts and screenplays written by Norman Klenman, alone and in collaboration with others, for feature and short films, both produced and not produced, as well as related records. Additional material includes related notes, correspondence, contracts, research material, and moving images. The series has been arranged into the following three sub-series: Film scripts, screenplays and related records – general, "The Swiss Conspiracy" screenplays and related records, and “Woodsmen of the West” screenplays and related records.

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".

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.

Recent Galanty

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

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".

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).

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.”

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.).

Indian legend scripts

File contains the following scripts: “Jack Bill Long River: I. The Star Maiden”; “Jack Bill Long River: II. The Maize Spirit”; “Onondaga and the Queen of the Winds”; and “Tales of the Red Indians: II. Nekumonta and the Healing Waters”.

[Draft scripts]

File contains the following draft scripts: “The Fifth of November,” a half hour mystery play [ca. 1950?]; “The Trench,” a radio play by Mario Prizek and Norman Klenman [ca. 1950?]; “Number 5 Flight : A Kind of Memoire” [ca. 1952-1954]; and “The Medical Student and the Model” [n.d.]

“Hero of the People”

File contains scripts for “Hero of the People: A play for television by Norman Klenman” and “Hero Dobrovny: A new play for radio by Norman Klenman”.

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