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TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee, 1986-2004

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Wixon, Vincent; Markee, Mike
Title
TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee
Dates
1986-2004 (inclusive)
Quantity
16.5 cubic feet, (31 boxes)
Collection Number
OLPb021WIX
Summary
This collection includes raw footage, production notes, and final edited footage of four films about writing and poetry featuring Lawson Inada in What It Means to be Free and William Stafford in What the River Says; The Life of the Poem; and The Methow River Poems. The films were produced and directed by Mike Markee and Vince Wixon of TTTD Productions, Ashland, Oregon.
Repository
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

The documentaries produced from this collection of video footage focus on two of the most significant Oregon poets of the second half of the twentieth century.

Lawson Fusao Inada was born in Fresno, CA in 1938, the grandchild of Japanese immigrants. He spent the war years with his family in concentration camps in Arkansas and Colorado, among the ten thousand Japanese Americans to be interned. At Fresno State University he was encouraged to write poetry by Philip Levine. He has been strongly influenced by his great passion, jazz, which informs his preference for poetry in performance. His collections of poetry include Before the War: Poems As They Happened (1971), Legends from Camp (1992), which won the American Book Award, and Drawing the Line (1997), winner of the Oregon Book Award. Among his other publications is Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese-American Internment Experience (2000). He taught at Southern Oregon University until his recent retirement. He is currently poet laureate of Oregon.

William Stafford was born in 1914 in Hutchinson, Kansas, and worked during the Depression years at a variety of jobs (in sugar beet fields, in construction, and in an oil refinery). He received his bachelor’s degree shortly before the war from the University of Kansas, and returned there to complete his master’s in 1947. A committed pacifist, he was interned between 1942 and 1946 interned in Civilian Public Service camps in California and Arkansas. After the war he was employed at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon till his retirement. He spent 1950 to 1952 at the University of Iowa, where he received his doctorate in 1954. He is the author of almost seventy volumes, including the poetry collections Traveling through the Dark, winner of the National Book Award in 1963, and the two volumes of selected poems Stories that Could Be True (Harper & Row, 1977) and The Way It Is (Graywolf Press, 1993). He is also the author of four books of prose essays in the Michigan University Press Poets on Poetry series and of the prose memoir Down in My Heart (1947), the account of his experiences in CPS camp. Between 1970 and 1971 he was Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress, and was appointed poet laureate of Oregon in 1975. He died in August 1993.

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Content Description

This collection includes original raw footage (3/4 inch video tape), edited footage (VHS tape, 3/4 inch video tape, and beta master), final productions (VHS and DVD), and manuscript production notes.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

The TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee, #OLPb021WIX, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in four series by film production:

Series 1, Lawson Inada, "What It Means to be Free,” 1993-2004;

Series 2, William Stafford, "What the River Says,” 1986-1989;

Series 3, William Stafford, "The Life of the Poem,” 1991-1992;

Series 4, William Stafford, "Methow River Poems,” 1996-1997.

Footage within each series is organized chronologically.

Location of Collection

Special Collections

Acquisition Information

Donated to the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections by Mike Markee and Vince Wixon in September 2007.

Processing Note

Processed in October 2007.

Bibliography

For more information about Lawson Inada see: Shawn Holliday, Lawson Fusao Inada (Boise, ID: Boise State University Press, 2003).Linda Cullum, Contemporary American Ethnic Poets (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004).

For more information about William Stafford see: Judith Kitchen, Understanding William Stafford (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989).Kim Stafford, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2002).

Related Materials

See Lewis and Clark College Special Collections website for related poetry collections, http://library.lclark.edu/specialcollections/

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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Subject Terms

  • World War 1939 1945 Prisoners And Prisons Japanese
  • Poetry

Personal Names

  • Markee, Mike
  • Wixon, Vincent--Archives

Corporate Names

  • TTTD Video Productions

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Inada, Lawson Fusao (creator)
    • Stafford, William, 1914-1993 (creator)

Jeremy Skinner, Paul Merchant, and Nathalie Figueroa
2007

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