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C. Larry Roberts independent film collection, 1961-1989

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Roberts, C. Larry
Title
C. Larry Roberts independent film collection
Dates
1961-1989 (inclusive)
Quantity
111 16mm film
8 u-matic
2 vhs
1 audiocassette
1 reel-to-reel audiotapes
Collection Number
A1184
Summary
C. Larry Roberts was a Utah independent filmmaker. His collection consists of elements and print versions of his films and KUTV's Extra segments he worked on. This collection is not yet digitized.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

C. Larry Roberts was a Utah independent filmmaker. During the late 1970s, Mr. Roberts was a producer with "EXTRA," the news magazine which ran on Salt Lake television station KUTV.

Mr. Roberts taught in the film department of the University of California, Santa Cruz; California Institute of the Arts; and San Francisco State University. He was an artist-in-residence at the Utah Media Arts Center.

At the time of his death he was preparing to make a feature movie about Everett Ruess, a young artist who disappeared near Escalante, Utah, in 1934. Mr. Roberts, along with colleague Diane Orr, received a Guggenheim Fellowship to produce the film. He was also working on a personal film, "The Divine Abyss." Mr. Roberts' "SL-1," also a collaboration with Orr, won the Josef von Sternberg Prize at the International Film Week festival in Mannheim, Germany. The documentary recounts an accident in 1961 at the military nuclear reactor in Idaho. It was aired on New York's public-television station, WNET.

C. Larry Roberts passed away in 1988.

Biographical information taken from Roberts' obituary.

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Content Description

The C. Larry Roberts independent films collection consists of 111 16mm film reels, 8 U-Matic tapes, 2 VHS tapes, 1 audiocassette tape, and 1 reel-to-reel audiotape. Includes elements and print versions of his films and KUTV's Extra segments he worked on. His films are mostly experimental, and they include titles such as "Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles", "Muskrats", and "I Was a Teenage Travelogue". This collection is not digitized. Contact Special Collections if interested.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The C. Larry Roberts films' copyrights are held by Diane Orr.

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Item Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Materials are arranged roughly by subject and separated by films.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from A0832 Trent Harris and A0428 Diane Orr collections in 2015.

Processing Note

Processed by Special Collections staff.

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Related Materials

Forms part of the Utah Independent Film Archive (UIFA).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Love Story - Muskrats - Alaska 1943

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 1
  • Description: Tomorrow is Now (Diamond/Roberts) - Color Print State Board of Vocational Education - "William Christensen" (Ballet West)

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 2
  • Description: Pres. Eisenhower's Last News Conference

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 3
  • Description: President Kennedy's News Conference #6

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound
    Dates: 08 March 1961
    Container: Reel 4
  • Description: I was a Teenage Travelogue

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    A teenager travels from Salt Lake City to New York City and visits different places and events, such as the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, and the New York Film Festival. Experimental film.

    Dates: 1975
    Container: Reel 5
  • Description: Calamus

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Experimental film.

    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 6
  • Description: Calamus - D-Roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 7
  • Description: Inside Football

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 8
  • Description: Inside Football

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 9
  • Description: Calamus - C-Roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 10
  • Description: Calamus

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 11
  • Description: Calamus

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 12
  • Description: Untitled

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 13
  • Description: Calamus - 16mm Mag Track

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Note: "Negative: DEL-181773". 16mm magnetic soundtrack.

    Dates: 23 September 1977
    Container: Reel 14
  • Description: Calamus - INT

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Producer: Beecher Films. Internegative.

    Dates: 06 April 1989
    Container: Reel 15
  • Description: Calamus - OPT

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Producer: Beecher Films. 16mm optical soundtrack.

    Dates: 06 April 1989
    Container: Reel 16
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Original Release Print

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Note: "For 5 Wind Color Negative + W/O". Experimental film.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 17
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Work Print

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Note: "All from the film - W/P Outs - W/P Prints - W/P Trims (sorted out)".

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 18
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Orig B/W

    16mm (photographic film size)
    black and white, sound

    Note: "Emulsion Out"

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 19
  • Description: Calamus A, B, C, D rolls part 1

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Producer: Beecher Films.

    Dates: 06 April 1989
    Container: Reel 20
  • Description: Calamus A, B, C, D rolls part 2

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Producer: Beecher Films.

    Dates: 06 April 1989
    Container: Reel 21
  • Description: Tomorrow is Now #7

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Note: "Diamond/Roberts. Mr. C? KUED print or Larry's".

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 22
  • Description: Mr. Utah Contest Original (Extra)

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 23
  • Description: Mother Infants Interaction Pt 2 / Happy Hunting Ground Heritage

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Two titles, one on the film can and another on the leader.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 24
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1985
    Container: Reel 25
  • Description: X-5-1 Series: Herbert Hoover

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Note: "Program #1 Obituary film".

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 26
  • Description: X-3-1 Series: The Man From Independence

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Note: "Harry Truman obituary, copy QQ".

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 27
  • Description: Original "Mr. Utah" for Transfer

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 28
  • Description: The Farmer

    16mm (photographic film size)
    black and white, sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 29
  • Description: Untitled

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 30
  • Description: Punk Rock

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Experimental film.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 31
  • Description: Punk Rock

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 32
  • Description: KUTV Documentary "Gay Cover"

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 33
  • Description: Harvey Milk - "Gays" (Original)

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Title from film can.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 34
  • Description: I was a Teenage Travelogue - First Trial Print

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1975
    Container: Reel 35
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Original Outs

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 36
  • Description: I was a Teenage Travelogue

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound
    Dates: 1975
    Container: Reel 37
  • Description: The Smara

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Note: "C.W.G. Print, Acetate, N/C. The Smara, Eureka/My home town".

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 38
  • Description: Muskrats - B roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 02 March 1976
    Container: Reel 39
  • Description: Muskrats - A roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 02 March 1976
    Container: Reel 40
  • Description: Muskrats - C roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 02 March 1976
    Container: Reel 41
  • Description: Muskrats - Mag. Track

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound
    Dates: 02 March 1976
    Container: Reel 42
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - Mag. Track

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound
    Dates: 22 October 1975
    Container: Reel 43
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - A roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 44
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - B roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 45
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - C roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 46
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - D roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 47
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - E roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 48
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - F roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 49
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - A-Negative Optical Sound

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 50
  • Description: I Was a Teenage Travelogue - A-Wind Internegative

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound
    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 51
  • Description: The Smara - A roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 52
  • Description: The Smara - B roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 53
  • Description: The Smara - C roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 54
  • Description: The Smara - B Wind Positive Optical Track

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 55
  • Description: The Smara - Internegative

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 56
  • Description: The Smara - A-Negative Optical Sound

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 57
  • Description: In Search of the Virgins - Optical Sound

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Note: "Eureka! Search of the Virgins / My Home Town / Land Opus Dance Film / M-ID's, City and Co. Building".

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 58
  • Description: Calamus - Effects

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 59
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Music Mag #1

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Magnetic full coat audio.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 60
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Music Mag #2

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Magnetic full coat audio.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 61
  • Description: Muskrats - INT

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Internegative.

    Dates: 31 March 1989
    Container: Reel 62
  • Description: Muskrats - OPT SND

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Optical sound.

    Dates: 31 March 1989
    Container: Reel 63
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 64
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Master Reversal B+W

    16mm (photographic film size)
    black and white, no sound
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 65
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - A roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 66
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - B roll

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 67
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - OPT Soundtrack

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Optical sound.

    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 68
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Note: "A/P".

    Dates: 22 March 1989
    Container: Reel 69
  • Description: Muskrats

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Note: "KUTV, KUED, etc".

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 70
  • Description: Alaska 1943

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Optical sound.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 71
  • Description: Love Story

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Note: "With sound. Never viewed, only copy!"

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 72
  • Description: The Smara

    16mm (photographic film size)
    black and white, sound

    Note: "Utah Media Arts Center". Optical sound. Experimental film, monologue.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 73
  • Description: I was a Teenage Travelogue

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Note: "Condition: Scratched".

    Dates: 1975
    Container: Reel 74
  • Description: Strong Willed Women - Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 75
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Includes promotional card amd a paper with more information about the film from Beecher Productions, including awards and where it was screened. Review from the New York Times: "The 11-minute SWWSSR by Roberts mixes sound and sight of 1940's bathing beauties with views of alligators" and other reviews.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 76
  • Description: Strong Willed Women - Internegative, A-Neg Opt

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Beecher Films.

    Dates: 23 March 1989
    Container: Reel 77
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - MAG

    16mm (photographic film size)
    sound

    Magnetic full coat audio.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 78
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Work Print, Master, Outs

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Reel 79-81
  • Description: "Gong Show" Produced by Larry Roberts

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    KUTV Extra labels on films.

    Dates: May 1978
    Container: Reel 82-85
  • Description: "Patti in Kansas" C. Larry Roberts - KUTV Documentary

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Beecher Films.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 86
  • Description: Extra Sun Stuff Orig. - Larry Roberts

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Note: "Partridge Family Promos." Probably filmed for KUTV.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 87-88
  • Description: Mama - Extra Segment

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Produced by Roberts, probably for KUTV Extra.

    Dates: April 1977
    Container: Reel 89-90
  • Description: Mama - Audio Mix - Sound and Picture

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Produced by Roberts, probably for KUTV Extra.

    Dates: 20 April 1977
    Container: Reel 91
  • Description: Mama - Extra Segment - W/P

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Produced by Roberts, probably for KUTV Extra.

    Dates: 20 April 1977
    Container: Reel 92-94
  • Description: "SLC Gays" - Original

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Notes: "Parade - Outs" and "Parade KUTV".

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 95-97
  • Description: "Gays" - Original - Interviews for Harvey Milk Piece

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Notes: "Advocate Office". Produced by Roberts, with KUTV Extra logos.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 98-99
  • Description: Harvey Milk - "Gays" (Original)

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Produced by Roberts, with KUTV Extra logos.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 100-101
  • Description: Harvey Milk - "Gays" (Original)

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, no sound

    Produced by Roberts, probably for KUTV Extra.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 102
  • Description: "Gays" - SLC - Original

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Produced by Roberts, with KUTV Extra logos.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 103-105
  • Description: Harvey Milk - A, B, W/P

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Produced by Roberts, with KUTV Extra logos.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 106-108
  • Description: Harvey Milk (Original)

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    Produced by Roberts, with KUTV Extra logos.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Reel 109-110
  • Description: 8 Films in one (check description)

    16mm (photographic film size)
    color, sound

    List of films according to the notes: "0. Still of Gay, Rick Horne, Tests; 1. Harvey Milk Original; 2. Harvey Milk Copy; 3. Sacramento March; 4. Gay Parade 78 Extra bad shots (Mandingo); 5. Gay Parade 79; 6. Noe Street Fair; 7. Gay Parade 80 (Bulldog Man) (good shots!); 8. Tricycle race 81.

    Dates: 1978-1981
    Container: Reel 111
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - C. Larry Roberts

    U-Matic (TM)
    color, sound

    Beecher films. Dupe, not air quality.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Cassette 112
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles; The Muskrats - Midwest Film Conference

    U-Matic (TM)
    color, sound

    Muskrats part 1 and 2.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Cassette 113
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    U-Matic (TM)
    0:11:00, color, sound

    Includes one post card from the film, and a paper with information about the film.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Cassette 114
  • Description: Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles - Atlanta Independent Film Festival

    U-Matic (TM)
    color, sound
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Cassette 115
  • Description: Calamus and Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    U-Matic (TM)
    color, sound
    Dates: 1968-1982
    Container: Cassette 116
  • Description: The Muskrats; Smara

    U-Matic (TM)
    color, sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Cassette 117
  • Description: Shaun Cassidy; Punk Rock; Mama

    U-Matic (TM)
    color, sound

    Probably recorded for KUTV Extra. Carrie Cochran, Serge Moore.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Cassette 118
  • Description: Special Projects Work Tape - Roberts

    U-Matic (TM)
    color, sound
    Dates: undated
    Container: Cassette 119
  • Description: Remember My Name - Project Quilt - Video Documentary, KUTV

    VHS
    color, sound

    Quilt project about AIDS visits Utah. At the end, there is an interview in which Diane Orr talks about Larry Roberts, and shows his last trip with Trent Harris to Mount Rushmore.

    Dates: 17 March 1989
    Container: Cassette 120
  • Description: Larry Roberts Obituary - KUTV

    VHS
    color, sound

    KUTV's tribute to C. Larry Roberts. Includes footage of his trip to Mount Rushmore with Trent Harris, three months before he passed away.

    Dates: 1988
    Container: Cassette 121
  • Description: No On 6-1

    audiocassette
    sound

    Audio is very bad. Sounds like a conference.

    Dates: 04 November 1978
    Container: Cassette 122
  • Description: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Master for Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles

    open reel audiotape
    sound

    Notes: "15 IPS/285. Tones at head 1k; 15k; 100 HZ. Ralph Vaughn Williams. Performed by Utah Symphony".

    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 123

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