Weston Nishimura papers, 1968-1995

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• Description: Donor provided inventory and biographical information
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Education

  Resumes, student and parent feedback, evaluations, professional commendations, Weston address to NEA Asian conference, applications, writings, card and photographs from Ivanhoe Elementary, correspondence, and teaching materials

  Dates: approximately 1970s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Change the US Olympic Organization approach to Educating Athletes

  Publications and notes

  Dates: approximately 1970s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Church Youth Group

  Correspondence, notes, photographs

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Educational notes and ideas

  Articles and notes

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Landmark Coaching of Coaches
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Art, Music, and Photography

  Art, music lyrics and notes, copies of photographer credentials

  Dates: approximately 1970s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Writings

  Articles, notes, correspondence, and a manuscript

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Sequim Bay Craft Village

  Correspondence, reports, and maps

  Dates: approximately 1970s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Baking Machine

  Advertisements

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Media Mall

  Articles, advertisements, notes, budgets, and reports

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Videospace

  Copies of photographs, advertisements, articles, publications, clippings, correspondence

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Illustrations
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Industry

  Agenda, presentation notes, articles, and VHS manual

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Video Systems

  Proposal, notes, and correspondence

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Video Hardware

  Notes, correspondence, advertisements

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Videospace Ads
  Dates: approximately 1978-1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Video Magazines
  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 1
• Description: Advertisement

  Receipts, notes, type faces, clip art, and publications

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Videospace proposal
  Dates: 1980
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Videospace

  Notes, ads, and correspondence

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Video Shorts and Festivals
  Dates: 1980-1981
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Operations

  License, correspondence, advertisements, notes, budgets, ad mock-ups, manuals, resumes, contact lists, insurance information, forms, and reports

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Training

  Publications, advertisements, articles, Videospace manuals and notes, and sales training materials

  Dates: approximately 1980-1982
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Personnel

  Resumes, correspondence, publications, and blank employment applications

  Some files restricted, should be reviewed before access

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Ramsey/Tucker Consulting

  Reports and articles

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 2
• Description: General Business Vendors: Forms, Catalogs

  Catalogs

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Legal

  Lease agreements, correspondence, and court documents

  Dates: 1980-1982
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Videospace

  Early inventory, proposals, information regarding the game store, franchise information, and advertisements

  Dates: approximately 1980-1983
  Container: Box 2
• Description: Equipment

  Advertisements, manuals, receipts, and warranties

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Info

  Clippings, articles, and advertisements

  Dates: approximately 1979-1980
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Tacoma Mall and Crossroads

  Correspondence

  Dates: 1980
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Addresses

  Correspondence, VSDA registrant lists, address lists for press outlets, address lists for local companies, and notes

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Film Info

  Clippings and articles

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Future

  Advertisements and articles

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Videospace Expansion

  Reports, advertisements, notes, correspondence, maps and plans

  Dates: approximately 1980-1985
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Videospace Limited Partnership Fund Raising

  Reports, articles, and business plans

  Dates: 1984
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Video One Video Newsletters

  Includes mailings, advertisements, articles, and mock-ups

  Dates: 1980-1986
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Video One Racking

  Advertisements, forms, inventory, notes, price lists, invoice, and press release

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Systems and Equipment

  Advertisements, invoices, agreements, articles, and Video One Video financial reports and equity proposal

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Video Rack

  Forms, advertisements, notes, movie lists,

  Dates: approximately 1980
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Operations

  Workflow charts, notes, articles, employee salary information, advertisements, and Video One Video sales information

  Dates: approximately 1980-1985
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Video One Video General Information

  Correspondence and advertisements

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Video Projects

  Background on Video One Video, notes, and articles

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Video One Video LTD

  Information on Video One Video in Canada

  Dates: 1980-1981
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Sale of Video One Video
  Dates: 1981-1983
  Container: Box 3
• Description: Independent Video Source
  Dates: 1984-1985
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Video Finance

  Includes articles, brochures, publications, business plan, Video One Video brochure, and Independent Video Source financial reports

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Video Sources

  Advertisements, catalogs, Vestron prospectus, and Cinema Concepts, Inc. papers

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Adult Films

  Advertisements, catalogs, price lists, and notes about obscenity laws

  Dates: approximately 1985
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Video Industry Info

  Articles and newsletters

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 4
• Description: VSDA: Video Software Dealers Association

  Articles, newsletters, membership list, memos, writings, correspondence, includes materials related to issues of first sale, meeting minutes, newsletters, and bylaws

  Dates: 1981-1985
  Container: Box 4
• Description: NAVD: National Association of Video Distributors

  Membership lists, Nishimura address, agendas, budgets, and Nielsen reports

  Dates: approximately 1980s
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Blank Tape Plus presentations
  Dates: 1990
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Appleseed

  Fact sheets, management biographies, advertisements, price list, business plan, and reports

  Dates: approximately 1984-1985
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Blank Tape Plus

  Includes statements of purpose and other business documents

  Dates: 1988-1992
  Container: Box 4
• Description: Blank Tape Plus

  Advertisements, business plans, plans for box covers, coupons, booklets, forms, presentations, organizational chart, poster, correspondence, script drafts, and meeting minutes

  Some files restricted

  Dates: 1988-1995
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Videotape Catalog volume I

  Includes Video Shorts poster

  Dates: 1980-1985
  Container: Box 5
• Description: "We Live in a Media Culture" by Weston Nishimura
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Publications by Weston

  Includes a guide to Seattle

  Dates: 1973-1975
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Alphacine Film File
  Dates: undated
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• Description: Bellevue

  By Weston for the city of Bellevue

  Dates: undated
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• Description: "The Video Studies Book" by Weston Nishimura

  Manuscript

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 5
• Description: "Film Studies" by Weston Nishimura

  Manuscript

  Dates: undated
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• Description: Manuscripts by Weston Nishimura
  Dates: approximately 1976
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• Description: "Thinking Person's Guide to Television" by Weston Nishimura

  Photocopy of manuscript

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Photography Manual
  Dates: 1973
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Photo ideas- "Photography" by Weston Nishimura
  Dates: undated
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• Description: "What was Today" by Weston Nishimura

  Manuscript

  Dates: 1968
  Container: Box 5
• Description: "Tomorrow's Memory Faded" by Weston Nishimura

  Manuscript

  Dates: 1968
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Poetry

  Manuscript

  Dates: 1969
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Unpublished and Unread

  Manuscripts

  Dates: 1970
  Container: Box 5
• Description: "Two is Beautiful" by Weston Nishimura

  Manuscript

  Dates: 1970
  Container: Box 5
• Description: "The Inner Gladness" by Weston Nishimura

  Manuscripts

  Dates: 1970-1971
  Container: Box 5
• Description: "A Somewhat Collection" by Weston Nishimura

  Manuscripts

  Dates: 1969-1973
  Container: Box 5
• Description: Interlake High School

  "Notes, ideas from year Weston coached and taught drama at Interlake HS Bellevue, WA"

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 5
• Description: "Books of an Innocent Mind" by Weston Nishimura

  List of books of interest

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Biographical information

  Includes articles and correspondence

  Dates: approximately 1981-1985
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Book proposals for New York agent

  Manuscripts

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Yearbooks: Leden, Odle Junior High, Bellevue, WA
  Dates: 1970-1971
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Appleseed Video Programming Catalog volume 1
  Dates: 1985
  Container: Box 6
• Description: GCC Home Video Market Business Plan
  Dates: 1991
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Seattle Software's Explanation of Micro Pro International's WordStar and MailMerge

  Manual

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Outcalt Retail Workshop
  Dates: approximately 1980
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Videospace: Video Insider

  Newsletters

  Dates: 1983
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Appleseed Presentation Manual
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Paul Kagen Seminar: VCR Economics

  Includes booklet and 4 audio tapes of a seminar where Nishimura was a panelist

  Dates: 1985
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Videospace/ Video One Video: Marketing Communications Plans
  Dates: 1980
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Independent Video Source: Policy and Procedure Manual
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Videospace III
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Independent Video Source
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Blank Tapes Plus

  Notebooks, including corporate notebook

  Dates: approximately 1993-1995
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Address

  Articles and notes with industry information and addresses

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 6
• Description: Blank Tapes Plus

  Notebooks

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 7
• Description: Career Advantage Materials

  Tapes and documents published by Career Advantage, edited by Weston Nishimura

  Dates: 1987-1988
  Container: Box 7
• Description: Video industry photographs

  17 photographic prints
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: "Weston"

  4 photographic prints

  Headshots of Nishimura, contact sheets

  Dates: 1984
  Container: Box 8
• Description: "Weston"

  32 color slides

  Videospace interiors

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Videospace

  19 photographic prints

  Videospace interior and exterior, Nishimura at work

  Dates: 1984
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Video and film equipment

  30 photographic prints
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Appleseed: Your Video Future

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: 1985
  Container: Box 8
• Description: VSDA Convention Highlights

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: 1985
  Container: Box 8
• Description: For You: More Customers and More Money

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Job of Your Dreams

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: 1987
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Video Shorts: The First National Video Shorts Festival

  1 VHS videocassette

  "Temple" by Vibeke Sorensen, "Instant This - Instant That" by Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn, "Morning" by Karen Helmerson, The Story of Arts" by Brian Roberts, "The Shot Heard Around the World" by Peter Keenan and Teddy Dibble, "Change" by Doris Chase, "The Cough" by P. Keenand and T. Dibble, "The Truth about my Love..." by Diane Mikula, "Landing on Lakes Unknown" by Tom DeWitt and V. Sorensen, "Lotus and Sevens" by Bill Swenson, "L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird" by John Rauh

  Videospace sponsored the 1980 Video Shorts Festival. 78 entries were received and the 11 winning programs were screened at the Seattle Center in July 1980.

  Dates: 1980
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Video Shorts II

  1 VHS videocassette

  "Mouth Music" by Alan Babbitt, "Aquarelles" by Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen and Dean Winkler," "Skippy Peanut Butter Jars" by Copper Giloth, "The Buck Stops Here" by A. Babbitt, "One Minute Movies" by Ralph Records, "The Longest Poem in the world" by Peter Brownscombe, "Mondo Xmas" by Tom Adair, "Black Doctors in History: Charles Drew" by Dr. John Straub and Faye Herbert, "Deadline" by Max Almy, "Sign Off" by Shalom Gorewitz

  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Blank Tape Plus Marketing Tape

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: 1992
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Blank Tapes Plus: Fishing the Baja

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Blank Tapes Plus: Oven Fried Chicken

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Blank Tapes Plus: Great Weddings

  1 VHS videocassette
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
• Description: Videospace Member Mailing List
  Dates: 1980
  Container: VF:oversize OSVF 183