Louis De Rochemont papers

Louis De Rochemont papers, 1899-2004

Overview of the Collection

Creator: De Rochemont, Louis, 1899-1978
Title: Louis De Rochemont papers
Dates: 1899-2004 (inclusive)
18992004
Quantity: 19.72 cubic ft. (40 boxes) + sound recordings
Collection Number: 05716
Summary: Louis de Rochemont was a film producer best known for creating The March of Time, a series of short subjects introducing pictorial journalism to the screen. He made several feature movies dramatizing real life stores. He also made many educational films. He made four movies using wide-screen Cinerama camera technology. This collection contains production files for his numerous film projects. There are also biographical materials, phono recordings, and scrapbooks.
Repository: American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions: Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
Languages: English, French, German, Norwegian
Sponsor: The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid was made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Louis Clark de Rochemont was perhaps best known as the first producer of The March of Time. He produced numerous documentary, commercial and educational films as well as feature films. He was an imaginative and energetic non-Hollywood filmmaker.

De Rochemont was born in 1899 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He started making movies when he was in high school, filming people on the streets and selling his films to the local movie house. He joined the U.S. Navy at the close of World War I, earned a naval commission and remained on active duty until August, 1923. He made recruitment films for the Navy until he retired from the Naval Reserve in 1928. In 1929, de Rochemont married Virginia Shaler in New York City. The couple honeymooned in India and Southeast Asia where de Rochemont worked for Fox Movietone News. He continued with Fox after returning to New York in 1930.

In 1934 De Rochemont and Roy Larsen of Time, Inc. conceived the idea for The March of Time, a visual news magazine. The March of Time was awarded an Oscar in 1936. De Rochemont made The Ramparts We Watch in 1940 as the European war was reaching out towards the United States. Louis de Rochemont’s brother Richard took over the reins of The March of Time in 1943 when Louis left Time, Inc. to work as a producer for Darryl Zanuck at Twentieth Century Fox. While there, de Rochemont produced the Academy Award winning The Fighting Lady (1944), the story of the U.S.S. Yorktown, an aircraft carrier at war; House on 92nd St. (1945), based on an FBI operation; 13 Rue Madeleine (1946), a story of OSS operations in Nazi-occupied France; and Boomerang (1947), a story of a potential miscarriage of justice.

De Rochemont left Twentieth Century Fox to form Louis de Rochemont Associates in New York City. Within this framework, and three other related companies, de Rochemont produced Lost Boundaries (1949), which explored racial issues; The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951), showing both sides of labor/management problems; Walk East on Beacon (1952), an anti-Communist statement; Martin Luther (1953), a dramatic presentation of a man who sought freedom from religious tyranny; and Animal Farm (1955), an animated version of George Orwell’s anti-Communist book. Following these were Cinerama Holiday (1956), which traveled with Swiss and American couples as they visited each other’s countries; Windjammer (1959), which chronicled the voyage of a Norwegian square-rigger; Man On a String (1960), a drama of espionage in the U.S. and Russia; and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), an adaptation of the Tennessee Williams novel. In addition, the de Rochemont companies produced numerous commercial, educational and public service films, including The Earth and Its Peoples (1948) and Parlons Francais (1960). Louis de Rochemont was involved with writing, shooting, editing, and directing many of these films.

While most of Louis de Rochemont’s career centered in New York City, he and his wife renovated an old family house in Newington, New Hampshire, called Blueberry Bank. They had two children, Louis III and Virginia. In the early 1950s de Rochemont united many citizens of Newington and the Seacoast Region in an ultimately unsuccessful battle against the construction of Pease Air Force Base. Louis de Rochemont retired to Blueberry Bank and died there in 1978.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection contains production files for both completed and uncompleted projects. The files include correspondence, contracts, outlines and drafts, scripts, publicity, photographs, and other materials related to production and marketing. Some projects are covered in detail, while others contain only partial documentation. There are individual project files for most of de Rochemont’s feature films. Short films are often grouped by genre: commercial, educational, FBI shorts, public health, U.S. Navy, etc.

Extended educational projects are filed by individual title. These include Parlons Francais, which taught French to grade school children, and The Earth and Its Peoples, a course in geography. In the 1950s, de Rochemont’s company contracted to develop film projects for the governments of Burma and Indonesia, which are to be found under the names of the respective countries. Some projects, such as those produced for New Hampshire State government or Lutheran Film Associates, are filed by client name.

In the 1960s de Rochemont attempted to develop a number of different projects based on World War II espionage stories. He corresponded with a number of prominent figures including Allen Dulles, William Donovan (head of the OSS), Gero Gaevernitz, and Christabel Bielenberg. None of these projects resulted in completed films. However, the files offer insight into war-time undercover operations. These materials are grouped under the heading Spy Stories.

In addition, there is biographical information including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. Information on de Rochemont’s Navy career includes photographs of the rescue by the U.S. Navy of survivors from a burning French hospital transport off Constantinople in 1922. A number of photographs chronicle Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean in the 1920s and India and Southeast Asia in 1930. There are many files covering de Rochemont’s opposition to the creation of Pease Air Base in New Hampshire. Also included are some recordings and sheet music of compositions by de Rochemont or connected to his films.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Louis de Rochemont Papers, 1899-2004, Collection Number 05716, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Related Materials

There are Louis de Rochemont papers at Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire. There is much information on the production of Lost Boundaries and The Whistle at Eaton Falls which were both made in New Hampshire. There are some related materials at Northeast Historic Films in Bucksport, Maine. In addition, Jack Glenn Papers, 1922-1981, Collection number 09059, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, includes personal and professional correspondence (1922-1981) between Glenn and de Rochemont, most of it relating to The March of Time series.

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated by Louis de Rochemont’s wife, Virginia, in 1979-1985. His daughter, Virginia, added supplementary material in 2004-2006.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by D.C. Thompson in September 2004 and revised by D.C. Thompson in May 2009.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Biographical, 1899-2004, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Sub-series 1. Chronological
Box	Folder
1	1	Childhood	1908-1919, 1958
Folders
2-5		Navy	1917-1928
Folder
6		Navy – Concord Voyage Narrative	1923-1924
7		Navy – Photograph Captions	1922-1923, no dates
8		Navy – Photographs	1921-circa 1928
9		Navy – Service Record	1988
10		Navy – ZR-1 Dirigible Flight	1923
11		Marriage, India, Southeast Asia	1929-1932
12		Marriage, India, Southeast Asia – Photographs,	1929-1930
13		Blueberry Bank (Home)	1940-1988
14		Blueberry Bank (Home) – Photographs	circa 1940s, undated
Folders
15-17		Newington (Pease) Air Base	1951-1952
Box	Folders
2	1-11	Newington (Pease) Air Base	1951-1954
3	1-9	Newington (Pease) Air Base	1951-1955
Folder
10		Obituaries, Burial, Memorial Service	1978-1979, 1997
11		Later Material	1978-2000
		Sub-series 2. Alphabetical
Box	Folder
4	1	Awards and Honors	1912-1979
Folders
2-3		Biographical Information	1943-2004
Folder
4		Biographical Information – Scrapbook Photocopy,	1947-1988
Box	Folder
39	1-2	Bouvier des Flandres (Dogs)	1939-1942
4	5-7	Correspondence	1930s-1980s
39	3-6	Correspondence	1935-1975
Folder
8		Correspondence – VIP	1926-1968
Box	Folder
39	7	Free World Association of Hollywood	1944-1945
4	9	Newspapers Clippings	1937-1989
5	1	Photographs – Cameras, Locations, etc.	circa 1928-circa 1958
Folder
2		Photographs – Friends and Colleagues	circa 1935-circa 1958
3		Photographs – Louis de Rochemont and Family,	1899-1996
Box	Folder
39	8	Photographs – Louis de Rochemont and Family	1909-1951, undated
5	4	Speeches and Statements of Philosophy	1948-1951

Series II. Production Files, 1930s-2004, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Sub-series 1. General
Box	Folders
5	5-8	Twentieth Century Fox	1943-1947
Folder
9		De Rochemont Companies – Agreements and Memos,	1941-1963
Box	Folders
6	1-5	De Rochemont Companies – Correspondence	1947-1973
Folder
6		De Rochemont Companies – Correspondence – Promotional,	1952-1967
7		De Rochemont Companies – Correspondence – Reis,	1943-1950
8		De Rochemont Companies – Invitations Declined,	1949-1954
Folders
9-10		De Rochemont Companies – Proposals	1945-1954
Folder
11		De Rochemont Companies – Prospects	1965-1967
12		De Rochemont Companies – Prospectus	1961
Box	Folder
7	1	De Rochemont Companies – Publicity	1950-1967
Folders
2-4		De Rochemont Companies – RD-DR Corp.	1945-1953
		Sub-series 2. Individual Projects
Box	Folder
39	9	13 Rue Madeleine - Sy Bartlett Material	1945-1946
	Folders
7	5-7	13 Rue Madeleine – Correspondence	1945-1947
Folder
8		13 Rue Madeleine – Outlines	1945
Box	Folder
39	10	13 Rue Madeleine - Retrospective	circa 1973
7	9	13 Rue Madeleine – Reviews	1947
Folders
10-11		13 Rue Madeleine – Scripts	1946
Box	Folder
8	1	Albert Schweitzer	1957
Folder
2		All the World’s a Stage – Correspondence	1955-1965
3		All the World’s a Stage – Ideas and Outlines,	1955-1964
Folders
4-5		Animal Farm	1950-1956
Box	Folder
39	11	Animal Farm	1953
8	6	Animal Farm	1966-2003
38	26	Animal Farm - DVD	undated
39	12	Animal Farm - Retrospectives	1998-2004
8	7	Animal Farm – Screen Treatments	1950-1954
Folder
8		Animal Farm – Script	1951
9		Avengers	1963-1964
10		Boomerang	1945-1947
Folders
11-12		Boomerang – Correspondence – Zanuck	1945-1947
Folder
13		Boomerang – Reviews	1947
Box	Folder
9	1	Boomerang – Script	1946
Folders
2-3		Burma	1951-1953
Folder
4		Burma – Agreements and Proposals	1951-1952
5		Call Me Yankee Doodle – Outline	1954
6		Call Me Yankee Doodle – Script	1956
7		Cardinal	1950-1955
8		Cardinal – Script	1960
9		Charlotte’s Web	1953, 1961
Box	Folder
10	1	Cinemiracle	1955-1961
Folder
2		Cinemiracle – Certificate of Incorporation and Minutes,	1955-1957
Folders
3-4		Cinemiracle – Ideas and Outlines	circa 1955
Folder
5		Cinemiracle – National Theaters Correspondence,	1956-1958
6		Cinemiracle – Philadelphia Fire Department	1956-1958
7		Cinemiracle – Philadelphia Fire – Photographs	1956-1958
Box	Folder
39	13	Cinemiracle - Philadelphia Fire - Photographs	1956-1958
10	8	Cinemiracle – Photographs	1956-1958
Folder
9		Cinemiracle Showboat	1956
10		Cinemiracle Showcase	1956
11		Cinemiracle Showcase – Scripts	1956
Box	Folder
11	1	Cinerama – Correspondence	1953-1966
Folder
2		Cinerama – Dimension 150	1963-1968
3		Cinerama – Ideas and Outlines	1954-1955
4		Cinerama – Later Stories	2003
5		Cinerama – Newspaper Clippings	1953-1965
6		Cinerama – Speech	1954
7		Cinerama – Stanley-Warner Corp.	1953-1954
8		Cinerama Holiday	1953-1954
Folders
9-11		Cinerama Holiday – Ideas and Outlines	1953-1954
Folder
12		Cinerama Holiday – Newspaper Clippings	1954-1957
Box	Folder
11	13	Cinerama Holiday – Production Instruction and Analysis,	1953-1954
12	1	Cinerama USA	1955
Folder
2		Commercial – Automobile	1952-1956
3		Commercial – Crowell-Collier (publisher)	1947
4		Commercial – Dupont Cavalcade	1953
5		Commercial – Insurance	1953-1963
Folders
6-7		Commercial – Liquor	1956-1966
Folder
8		Commercial – Minute Maid	undated
9		Commercial – Petroleum	1950-1962
10		Commercial – Squibb (drugs)	1949-1950
11		Commercial – Tobacco	1943-1951
Box	Folder
13	1	Commercial – Tobacco	1949-1953
Folder
2		Commercial – Tobacco – Fifth Freedom	1950-1951
Folders
3-4		Commercial – Tobacco – Outlines and Treatments,	1948-1951
Box	Folder
39	14	Commercial - Tobacco - Tobaccoland, U.S.A.	1942
13	5	Commercial – Various	1948-1968
Folders
6-7		Composer’s Lives – Bach – Scripts	1955
Folder
8		Composer’s Lives – Grieg	1957-1961
9		Composer’s Lives – Strauss – Script	undated
10		Composer’s Lives – Sibelius – Outline	1947
11		Dormitory Seven	1949-1974
Box	Folder
14	1	Dormitory Seven	1950-1951
Folder
2		Dormitory Seven – Reactions	1950
Folders
3-4		Dormitory Seven – Scripts	1950, 1955
5-6		Earth and Its Peoples	1945-1953
Folder
7		Earth and Its Peoples – 4th Grade	1948
8		Earth and Its Peoples – 5th Grade	1948
Folders
9-10		Earth and Its Peoples – 6th Grade	1948
Folder
11		Earth and Its Peoples – Study Guides	1948
Box	Folder
15	1	Educational	1945-1970
Folder
2		Educational – Challenge of Change	1962
3		Educational – Child Care	1955
4		Educational – Man Builds	1965-1967
5		Educational – Music and the Emotions	1952
6		Educational – Television	1953
7		Educational – Vive la France, Vive l’Amerique,	1964
8		Educational – Wonderful World of Tomorrow	1956
Folders
9-10		Educational – World Affairs Are Your Affairs,	1951-1953
Folder
11		FBI Shorts	1942-1956
12		FBI Shorts – A Day With the FBI	1950-1959
13		FBI Shorts – Eight Ball	1950
14		FBI Shorts – Fugitive	1950
15		FBI Shorts – Slavery:	1949
16		FBI Shorts – Stumper	1950
Box	Folders
16	1-3	Fighting Lady	1944-1946, 1979
Folder
4		Fighting Lady – Breakdown List of Material Shot,	1944
Box	Folder
39	15	Fighting Lady - British Version	1944-1945
16	5	Fighting Lady – Contract	1944
Folder
6		Fighting Lady – Credit Titles	1944
Box	Folder
38	26	Fighting Lady - DVD	undated
39	16	Fighting Lady - Navy Photographic Services	1944
16	7	Fighting Lady – Newspaper Clippings	1944-1945, 1958
Folder
8		Fighting Lady – Outlines and Treatments	1944
Folders
9-13		Fighting Lady – Photographs	circa 1944-circa 1945
Folder
14		Fighting Lady – Research and Map Data	undated
15		Fighting Lady – Script	1944
Box	Folder
39	17	Fighting Lady - Technical Director	1945-1946
17	1	Great Adventure	1955
Folder
2		Helen Keller In Her Story	1957-1960
Folders
3-7		House On 92nd St. – Correspondence	1944-1945
Folder
8		House On 92nd St. – Outline	circa 1944
9		House On 92nd St. – Photographs	1945
10		House On 92nd St. – Script	1945
Folders
11-12		Indonesia	1952-1961
Box	Folder
18	1	Indonesia – Agreements	1954-1958
Folder
2		Indonesia – Indonesia Laboratory Project Photo Album,	1953-1958
3		Jazz Man – Script	1956
4		John Knox – Correspondence	1960-1964
Folders
5-6		John Knox – Scripts	1963
Folder
7		Juggernaut – Outline	1953
8		Knuckle Sandwich – Drafts	undated
9		Lord Keep Me Wicked Till I Die (Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet) – Correspondence	1962-1965
10		Lord Keep Me Wicked Till I Die – Script	1965
Box	Folder
38	26	Lost Boundaries - DVD	undated
18	11	Lost Boundaries – Script	1948
19	1	Lost One – Outline	1954
Folder
2		Lutheran Film Associates – Correspondence	1959-1962
3		Lutheran Film Associates – In My Father’s House – Script	1960
4		Lutheran Film Associates – Scripts – Various,	1957, undated
5		M.D.: the U.S. Doctor – Correspondence	1948-1951
6		M.D.: the U.S. Doctor – Scripts	1950
7		Man On a String	1958-1964
8		Man On a String – Comments	1958-1959
9		Man On a String – Newspaper Clippings	1959-1960
10		Man On a String – Outlines and Notes	1958-1959
Box	Folders
20	1-2	Man On a String – Scripts	1958-1959
	Folder
38	1	March of Time - British Editions	undated
20	3	March of Time – Correspondence	1938-1949
38	2	March of Time - Correspondence	1940-1943
38	25	March of Time - DVDs	undated
38	3	March of Time - Episode Lists	1940
38	4	March of Time - General	1938-1943
20	4	March of Time – Interview with Louis de Rochemont on Nazi Germany	1940
38	5	March of Time - Itineraries	1942
20	5	March of Time – Men of Norway	1941
Folder
6		March of Time – Navy Photography School	circa 1940-1951
Box	Folder
38	6	March of Time - Navy Photography School	1941-1945
20	7	March of Time – Newspaper Clippings	1934-1953
Folder
8		March of Time – Personnel and Publicity	1940-1944
9		March of Time – Photographs	1930s-1940s
10		March of Time – Photographs – India	circa 1940s
11		March of Time – Photographs – Mexico	circa 1930s
Box	Folder
38	7	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 1	1935
38	8	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 2	1936
38	9-10	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 3	1936-1937
38	11-12	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 4	1937-1938
38	13-14	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 5	1938-1939
38	15-16	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 6	1939-1940
38	17-18	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 7	1940-1941
38	19-20	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 8	1941-1942
38	21-22	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 9	1942-1943
38	23	March of Time - Production Outlines, Vol. 10 (no.1 only)	1943
20	12-15	March of Time – Retrospectives	1957-2004
21	1	March of Time – Retrospectives	1968
Folder
2		March of Time – Richard de Rochemont	1944-1965
Folders
3-4		March of Time – Synopses	1972, undated
Box	Folder
38	24	March of Time - Synopses	undated
21	5	March of Time – Time Inc. Archives	1939-1952, 1989
Folders
6-8		Martin Luther	1951-1955
Box	Folder
38	26	Martin Luther - DVD	undated
21	9	Martin Luther – Newspaper Clippings	1952-1972
Folder
10		Martin Luther – Promotional	1953-1955
Folders
11-12		Martin Luther – Scripts	1951, 1953
Box	Folder
22	1	Miracle of Todd-AO	1955-1956
Folders
2-4		Murder at Smutty Nose – Scripts	1955, 1966, no date
5-6		Natty Bumppo – Outlines	1954-1955
Folder
7		New England – Outlines	1947-1963
8		New Hampshire State Government	1950
9		New Hampshire State Government – Outlines	1950
10		Orbit – Television Series Proposals	circa 1964
Box	Folder
23	1	Orbit – Television Series Proposals	1964
Folder
2		Paris Herald	1945-1951
Folders
3-4		Parlons Francais	1960-1962
Folder
5		Parlons Francais – Master Plan	1962
6		Parlons Francais – Newspaper Clippings and Publicity,	1961-1965
7		Parlons Francais – Photographs	circa 1960
Folders
8-9		Parlons Francais – Study Guides	1959-1965
Folder
10		Peer Gynt – Treatment	undated
Box	Folder
24	1	Playboy	1956
Folder
2		Pop’s Boy – Correspondence	1949-1953
Folders
3-4		Pop’s Boy – Scripts	1950
Folder
5		Public Health	1948-1968
Folders
6-7		Public Health – Asian Flu	1961-1962
Folder
8		Public Health – Drug Addiction	1966-1967
9		Public Health – Mental Health	1965
10		Public Health – Venereal Disease	1964-1965
Box	Folder
39	18	Public Health – Venereal Disease	1965-1967
40	1	Public Health – Venereal Disease - Contracts	1965
40	2	Public Health – Venereal Disease - Releases	1964-1965
25	1	Ramparts We Watch	1940
40	3	Ramparts We Watch - Budget	1939
40	4	Ramparts We Watch - Production Outline	1940
40	5	Ramparts We Watch - Script	1939
38	26	Return to Keene - DVD	undated
25	2-3	Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	1960-1969
Folder
4		Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone – Newspaper Clippings,	1961-1975
5		Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone – Scripts	1960
Folders
6-8		Spy Stories	1965-1971
Folder
9		Spy Stories – Past Is Myself – Correspondence and Contracts	1969-1972
Folders
10-11		Spy Stories – Past Is Myself – Drafts	1967, undated
Folder
12		Spy Stories – Past Is Myself – Kelley, J. William,	1970-1971
Box	Folder
26	1	Spy Stories – Past Is Myself – Last Night We Were Young,	1969
Folder
2		Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Background,	1945-1970
3		Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Correspondence,	1967-1969
Folders
4-6		Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Correspondence – Gaevernitz, Gero	1945-1947, 1967-1971
7-9		Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Drafts	undated
Folder
10		Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Interview Transcript,	undated
11		Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Outlines	1967
Box	Folder
27	1	Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Screen Treatment,	1968
Folder
2		Spy Stories – Secret Surrender – Synopses	1968
3		Spy Stories – Spymaster	1955
4		Suez Canal	1953-1956
5		Tempest (cartoon treatment)	undated
6		U. S. National Guard	1948-1949
7		U. S. Navy	1958-1965
8		U. S. Navy – Machines Don’t Laugh	1960
9		U. S. Navy – Mister Push-a-Button	1961
10		U. S. Navy – Navy Men	1960-1961
11		U. S. Navy – Sea Orbit	1965-1966
12		U. S. Navy – Sea Power	1958
13		U. S. Navy – Summer Incident	1958-1960
Box	Folder
40	6	U.S. Navy Training Films	1940s
40	7	U.S. Navy Training Films - Comments	1943
40	8-9	U.S. Navy Training Films - Production Outlines	1940s
27	14	U. S. State Department	1947-1960
28	1	U. S. State Department – American Architecture,	1951-1954
Folder
2		U. S. State Department – History of Communism,	1951
3		U. S. State Department – Negro in American Life,	1951
Box	Folder
40	10	U. S. State Department – Negro in American Life	1951
40	11-12	U. S. State Department – Negro in American Life - Production Outlines	1951
28	4-7	Walk East on Beacon	1951-1953, 1961
Folder
8		Walk East on Beacon – Newspaper Clippings and Publicity,	1951-1956
9		Walk East on Beacon – Photographs	circa 1952
10		Walk East on Beacon – Production Notes	1951-1952
Folders
11-12		Walk East on Beacon – Scripts	1951
Box	Folders
29	1-2	We Are the Marines	circa 1942, 1990
	Folder
40	13	We Are the Marines	1942-1944
29	3	Whistle At Eaton Falls	1950-1952
38	26	Whistle At Easton Falls - DVD	undated
29	4	Whistle At Eaton Falls – Script	1951
Folders
5-10		Windjammer	1956-1985
Folder
11		Windjammer – Books	1958
12		Windjammer – Christian Radich and Crew	1956-1976
13		Windjammer – Credits	1958
Box	Folder
30	1	Windjammer – Drafts	1956
Folder
2		Windjammer – Invitational Screenings	1958
3		Windjammer – Music	1958-1959
4		Windjammer – National Theatres and Rhoden Enterprises,	1956-1959
Folders
5-6		Windjammer – Outlines and Synopses	1956-circa 1957
Folder
7		Windjammer – Photograph Captions	1957
8		Windjammer – Photographs – Captain’s Birthday (Miami),	1957
9		Windjammer – Photographs – Caribbean	1957
10		Windjammer – Photographs – Christian Radich (ship),	1957
11		Windjammer – Photographs – Christian Radich – Life Aboard	1957
12		Windjammer – Photographs – Cinemiracle Cameras and Production	1957
13		Windjammer – Photographs – de Rochemont, Louis,	1957
14		Windjammer – Photographs – Madeira	1957
15		Windjammer – Photographs – Miami and Key West,	1957
16		Windjammer – Photographs – Miscellaneous	1957
17		Windjammer – Photographs – Musicians	1957
18		Windjammer – Photographs – Musicians – “The Windjammers”	circa 1958-1960
19		Windjammer – Photographs – New York, D.C., New England,	1957
20		Windjammer – Photographs – Norway and Danmark Race,	1957
21		Windjammer – Photographs – Presentations, 1958,	undated
Box	Folder
31	1	Windjammer – Photographs – Publicity	circa 1958
Folder
2		Windjammer – Photographs – U.S. Navy	1957
3		Windjammer – Photographs – Viking Sword and Axe,	1957
4		Windjammer – Photographs – Weegee	1957
5		Windjammer – Press Packet	1957
6		Windjammer – Press Releases	1958
Folders
7-8		Windjammer – Publicity	1957-1958
Folder
9		Windjammer – Publicity – French and German	1958
10		Windjammer – Publicity – Newspaper Clippings,	1955-1959
11		Windjammer – Publicity – Norwegian	1956-1958
12		Windjammer – Publicity – Reviews	1958-1960
13		Windjammer – Script	circa 1958
Box	Folder
32	1	Windjammer – Script	circa 1958
Folder
2		Witnesses	1951-1952
3		Youth Vocational Training	1963-1972
4		Youth Vocational Training – Division for Youth (New York)	1963
5		Youth Vocational Training – Job Opportunities,	1967-1970
6		Youth Vocational Training – Neighborhood Youth Corps,	1968
7		Youth Vocational Training – Proposals	1968
Box	Folder
33	1	Youth Vocational Training – Summaries	1968-1969
Folder
2		Youth Vocational Training – University of the Street,	1967
3		Youth Vocational Training – When I’m Old Enough, Goodbye	1962
4		Youth Vocational Training – Youth Opportunity Center (New York)	1965-1966

Series III. Oversize, 1920s-1978, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Books:
Box
34	Fielding, Raymond: The March of Time 1935-1951,	1978
	Lee, Robert E. A.: Question 7, Novel based on de Rochemont film, with film stills.	1962
	Orud, Hilmar and Rolf Engesland: Kappseilas Med Christian Radich, Norwegian language, with film stills from Windjammer.
	Orwell, George: Animal Farm, With illustrations by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, collaborators on de Rochemont film version.	1954
	Time, Inc.: Four Hours a Year, Picture book regarding March of Time	1936
	Williams, Tennessee: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, With film stills from de Rochemont film	1961
	Sheet Music:
Box
34	Gee, Honey, Won’t It Be Swell, by Harold E. Fisher, manuscript, voice and piano	undated
	March of The Years, by Louis de Rochemont and Walter H. Bransen, printed, orchestral score,	undated
	Ricksha Rhythm, by Louis de Rochemont, printed, voice and piano	1932
	Sing an American Song, by Gordon Beecher, manuscript, voice and piano	undated
	Artwork:
Box
35	Biographical; Portrait of Louis de Rochemont with cartoon, How They Started,
	Cinerama Holiday; Street in Paris; Swiss village	undated
	Parlons Francais, Classroom – interior; French shops – exterior; French shop – interior; Race car – Grand Prix	no dates
	Windjammer; Map of Christian Radich route Used as endpaper for book	undated
	Certificates:
Box
35	Naval Commissions	1921-1922
	Windjammer certificate of appreciation	circa 1958
Box
35	Movie Poster: Martin Luther,	1953
	Press Book: Walk East on Beacon,	1953
	Scrapbook: The Fighting Lady,	1945
	Script: Der Gehorsame Rebell, (Martin Luther) German language	undated
Box
36	Photograph Album: U.S. Navy – Constantinople, Athens, Refugees, etc.	1920s
	Scrapbooks:
Box
36	de Rochemont’s career 2 items	1936-1947
37	de Rochemont’s career	1946-1947
	House on 92nd St.,	1945-1946
	Phonograph Disk Recordings:
Audio-Visual Storage	Biographical: Louis de Rochomont, University of New Hampshire, Presentation conferring honorary degree, 78 rpm	Dec. 17, 1944
Audio-Visual Storage	Fighting Lady: E.R. Murrow speaking at Governors’ Conference in Portsmouth, NH, 3 disks, 78 rpm,	undated
Audio-Visual Storage	Ramparts We Watch: 4 disks of music, 1 disk of interview with de Rochemont for radio, 78 rpm	1940, undated
Audio-Visual Storage	We Are the Marines: 2 disks, 78 rpm	undated
Audio-Visual Storage	Windjammer: Soundtrack, 33 1/3 rpm	undated
Audio-Visual Storage	Windjammer: “The Windjammers,” 33 1/3 rpm	1960

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Advertising -- Tobacco.
Advertising -- Motion pictures.
Documentary films -- United States.
Education -- Audio-visual aids.
Language -- Study and teaching.
Motion picture industry -- United States.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States.
Newsreels.

Corporate Names

Cinerama.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
United States. Navy.
United States. Office of Strategic Services.

Geographical Names

Indonesia -- 20th century.
Burma -- 20th century.

Occupations

Motion picture producers and directors.

Titles within the Collection

13 rue Madeleine (Motion picture).
Animal farm (Motion picture).
Boomerang (Motion picture).
Cinerama holiday (Motion picture).
Fighting lady (Motion picuture).
House on 92nd st. (Motion picture).
Man on a string (Motion picture).
March of time (Newsreel).
Martin Luther (Motion picture).
Roman spring of Mrs. Stone (Motion picture).
Walk east on Beacon (Motion picture).
Windjammer (Motion picture).

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Gaevernitz, Gero von.
- Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-.
Corporate Names
- Louis De Rochemont Associates.

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