University of Wyoming
Motion picture music -- Sound discs -- 33 1/3 rpm.
Motion picture music -- Reel-to-reel audiotapes.
Stein, a composer and arranger, worked with various orchestras during the 1930s and 1940s. He was a staff composer for Universal Pictures from 1951-1958, where he wrote music for numerous motion pictures including the Ma and Pa Kettle and Abbott and Costello series, "Creature from the Black Lagoon," "Destry," "It Came from Outer Space," and "The Incredible Shrinking Man." Stein also composed music for various episodes of the television series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," "Lost in Space," "Daniel Boone," and "Gunsmoke."
Collection contains over 100 manuscript sketches and scores for Universal Pictures productions of the 1950s and 36 phonograph records and 30 audiotapes of motion picture music.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Herman Stein at the date of processing.
This material was received from Herman Stein from 1968-1970 and David Schecter in 2021.
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