Hal Pereira Film Sketches Collection
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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8zp46qh No online items Hal Pereira Film Sketches Errol Stevens, Clay Stalls William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 Los Angeles, CA 90045-8200 Phone: (310) 338-5710 Fax: (310) 338-5895 Email: [email protected] URL: http://http://library.lmu.edu/collections/archivesandspecialcollections/ © 2012 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Hal Pereira Film Sketches 010 1 Hal Pereira Film Sketches Collection Collection Number: 010 William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California Processed by: Errol Stevens, Clay Stalls Encoded by: Clay Stalls © 2012 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Hal Pereira Film Sketches Collection Dates: 1952-1968 Collection number: 010 Creator: Hal Pereira Collection Size: 23 archival document boxes (9.6 linear feet) Repository: Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90045-2659 Abstract: The Hal Pereira Film Sketches Collection consists chiefly of the film sketches that art director and designer Hal Periera created for Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s. Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University. Publication Rights Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or executors. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Series number, Box and Folder number, Hal Pereira Film Sketches Collection, 010, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University. Acquisition Information Gift of Mrs. Miriam Pereira, 1984. Accession number: 1995.15 Biography Hal Pereira (1905-1983) was a notable art director for Hollywood films from the 1940s through the 1960s. Born in Chicago, Pereira started out in theater design in that same city before moving to Los Angeles and working for Paramount Studios as a unit art director. In 1944 he was art designer for the great film noir Double Indemnity. By 1950, he was supervising art director for the studio, working on such films as the classic Western Shane and The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Oscar for Best Picture. In 1955 Pereira won the Oscar for best art direction for a black and white film for The Rose Tattoo. In addition, he was the art director on almost all of the important Alfred Hitchcock films of the 1950s. Pereira also worked in television, most notably for the one of the longest running shows in the history of that medium, the Western Bonanza. In 1968, Pereira left the entertaniment industry to join the architectural firm of his brother William Pereira as a consultant on design. Hal Pereira Film Sketches 010 2 On his death in 1968, Hal Pereira's obituary in Variety praised him as "one of the top designers," who influenced a move towards more detailed and expressive sets that helped establish a greater "realism" in American cinema of the post World War II era. Scope and Content of Collection The collection consists of sketches for film and television sets, research files for sketches, and negatives of sets, all related to the work of Hal Pereira as an art director for Hollywood film and television. The sketches included in this collection contain some of the most important films that Pereira worked on, including, Shane, Vertigo, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Lacking, though, are other such films as Rear Window. The research files (Series 3) consist of photographs and descriptions of persons and topics that Pereira used to design his sets. Arrangement This collection is arranged into three series: Series 1: Movies Series 2: Television Programs Series 3: Research Files Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Artists' preparatory studies -- United States Motion pictures -- Art direction Motion picture art directors -- United States. Pereira, Hal (1905-1983) Series 1: Movies. 1952-1967 Physical Description: 18 archival document boxes. Scope and Content Note This series consists of sketches of sets for movies that Hal Pereira developed. The sketches are arranged alphabetically, by title. The date assigned to the sketches is that of the movie itself, since the sketches themselves are undated. Movies that could not be identified are dated as "undated." Box 1, Folder 1 Alias Jesse James. 1959 Box 1, Folder 2 All in a Night's Work. 1961 Box 1, Folder 3-66 Assault on a Queen number 1. 1966 Box 1, Folder 7 Black Orchid. 1958 Box 1, Folder 8 Blue. 1968 Box 1, Folder 9 Blue Hawaii. 1961 Box 1, Folder 10 Boeing-Boeing. 1965 Box 1, Folder 11 Botany Bay. 1953 Box 2, Folder 12 Breakfast at Tiffany's. 1961 Box 2, Folder 13 Buccaneer, The. 1958 Box 2, Folder 14 Busy Body, The. 1967 Box 2, Folder 15 But Not for Me. 1959 Box 2, Folder Caper of the Golden Bulls. 1967 16-19 Box 2, Folder Conquest of Space number 1: Continuity Sketches. 1955 20-21 Box 3, Folder Conquest of Space number 2: S.P.D. Sketches. 1955 22-23 Box 3, Folder 24 Desire Under the Elms. 1958 Box 3, Folder 25 Desperate Hours. 1955 Box 3, Folder 26 Disorderly Orderly. 1964 Box 3, Folder 27 Donovan's Reef. 1963 Box 3, Folder 28 Easy Come, Easy Go. 1967 Box 4, Folder 29 Eldorado. 1966 Hal Pereira Film Sketches 010 3 Series 1: Movies. 1952-1967 Box 4, Folder Errand Boy. 1961 30-31 Box 4, Folder Escape from Zahrain. 1962 32-33 Box 4, Folder 34 An Eye for an Eye. 1966 Box 4, Folder 35 Family Jewels. 1965 Box 4, Folder 36 For Those Who Think Young. 1964 Box 4, Folder 37 Fun in Acapulco. 1963 Box 4, Folder 38 Funny Face. 1957 Box 5, Folder 39 G.I. Blues. 1960 Box 5, Folder 40 Geisha Boy. 1958 Box 5, Folder 41 A Girl Named Tamiko. 1962 Box 5, Folder 42 Girls, Girls, Girls. 1962 Box 5, Folder Girls of Pleasure Island. 1961 43-44 Box 5, Folder 45 Gladiators. undated Box 5, Folder 46 Good Times. 1967 Box 5, Folder 47 Graduate, The. 1967 Box 5, Folder 48 Great Race. 1965 Box 5, Folder 49 Gunfight at the OK Corral. 1957 Box 5, Folder Harlow. 1965 50-51 Box 5, Folder 52 Hatari. 1962 Box 5, Folder 53 Hell is for Heroes. 1962 Box 6, Folder 54 Heller in Pink Tights. 1960 Box 6, Folder Here Come the Girls. 1953 55-56 Box 6, Folder 57 Hollywood or Bust. 1956 Box 6, Folder 58 Horla. 1966 Box 6, Folder 59 Hot Spell. 1958 Box 6, Folder 60 A House is Not a Home. 1964 Box 6, Folder 61 Houseboat. 1958 Box 6, Folder 62 Hud Bannon. 1963 Box 7, Folder In Harm's Way. 1965 63-64 Box 7, Folder It's Only Money. 1962 65-66 Box 7, Folder 67 Jayhawkers. 1959 Box 7, Folder Joker is Wild. 1957 68-69 Box 7, Folder 70 Just for You. 1952 Box 8, Folder Ladies Man. 1961 71-75 Box 8, Folder 76 Last of the Secret Agents. 1966 Box 8, Folder 77 Last Train from Gun Hill. 1959 Box 8, Folder 78 Li'l Abner. 1959 Box 8, Folder 79 Li'l Abner--Sadie Hawkins Ballet. 1959 Box 8, Folder 80 McLintock. 1963 Box 8, Folder 81 Man Who Knew Too Much. 1956 Box 8, Folder 82 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. 1962 Box 9, Folder 83 Man's Favorite Sport. 1964 Box 9, Folder 84 Maracaibo. 1958 Box 9, Folder 85 Matchmaker. 1958 Box 9, Folder 86 Mountain, The --Ext. Restaurant and Hotel. 1956 Box 9, Folder 87 Mountain, The--Ext. Roadside and Village. 1956 Box 9, Folder 88 Mountain, The--Base of Mountain. 1956 Box 9, Folder 89 Mountain, The--Start of Climb. 1956 Box 9, Folder 90 Mountain, The--Comp. Shot of Ext. Rock Cliff and Ledge. 1956 Hal Pereira Film Sketches 010 4 Series 1: Movies. 1952-1967 Box 9, Folder 91 Mountain, The--Composite Shot of Ext. Chimney. 1956 Box 9, Folder 92 Mountain, The--Chimney Seq.. 1956 Box 9, Folder 93 Mountain, The--Composite Long Shot of Ice Fields. 1956 Box 9, Folder 94 Mountain, The--Ext. Ridge and Plane Wreck. 1956 Box 9, Folder 95 Mountain, The--Start Down Mountain from Plane Wreck. 1956 Box 9, Folder 96 Mountain, The--Steep Rock Outcropping. 1956 Box 9, Folder 97 Mountain, The--Glacier and Glissade Seq.. 1956 Box 9, Folder 98 Mountain, The--Crevasse Seq.. 1956 Box 9, Folder 99 Mountain, The--Base of Mountain (Return Seq.). 1956 Box 9, Folder 100 My Geisha. 1962 Box 9, Folder 101 My Six Loves. 1963 Box 9, Folder Naked Jungle [1 and 2 of 4]. 1954 102-103 Box 10, Folder Naked Jungle [3 and 4 of 4]. 1954 104-105 Box 10, Folder A New Kind of Love. 1963 106 Box 10, Folder Nutty Professor. 1963 107-110 Box 10, Folder On the Double. 1961 111 Box 10, Folder Oscar, The [1 and 2 of 4]. 1966 112-113 Box 11, Folder Oscar, The [3 and 4 of 4]. 1966 114-115 Box 11, Folder Papa's Delicate Condition.