Bell, Maria. Maria Bell film collection, 1939-2005 (hfa00038): Guide.
Overview
Maria Arena Bell, is President and co-Founder of Vitameatavegamin Productions and former head writer and executive producer of The Young and the Restless. The collection consists of 58, 35mm prints of feature films, released from 1939 to 2005. The films are spread across multiple genre and features eleven IB Technicolor prints.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-2005
Access Restrictions
Access by appointment only. Applications to consult this material should be directed to the staff of the Harvard Film Archive.
Film prints are made accessible in close consultation with HFA staff. Although materials do not circulate for individual use, students, filmmakers, artists, and researchers are encouraged to use the collections on-site.
Use Restrictions
Reproduction and/or publication of materials subject to copyright requires written permission from a) the copyright owner, his/her heirs or assigns and from b) the Harvard Film Archive, owner of the original material.
Extent
58 motion pictures (visual works)This collection features 35mm prints of feature films, released from 1939 to 2005, with the bulk released in the 1970s through early 2000s. The majority of the older films are reissues and are not original prints. The films are spread across multiple genres, from Hollywood classics such as Gone with the Wind, to recent family favorites like Shrek. Highlights of this collection are the eleven IB Technicolor prints. Technicolor IB was a film dye-transfer process, utilized between circa 1928 through 2002, which employed the use of dyes which are more stable and permanent than ordinary color processing.
Biographical Note
Maria Arena Bell, is President and co-Founder of Vitameatavegamin Productions, novelist, freelance writer, and is best known for her work as former head writer and executive producer of the daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Before writing for television, Bell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Northwestern University and worked as a fashion designer for a Los Angeles based garment manufacturer.
Bell serves on the boards of many art-related non-profit/philanthropic organizations. She is also currently an instructor at the Harvard Extension School, were she is teaching “Advanced TV Writing: The One-Hour Drama Pilot and Serialized Storytelling.” Bell resides in Los Angeles with her husband, William Bell, Jr., and their two children.
Arrangement
Films in this collection are arranged alphabetically by title.
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated to the Harvard Film Archive by Maria Arena Bell in 2018.
Processing Information
Preliminary processing was conducted by Robert Vaszari and Ashley Thomas. Arranged and encoded by Ashley Thomas, October 2018.
Genre / Form
- Title
- Bell, Maria. Maria Bell film collection, 1939-2005 (hfa00038): Guide.
- Status
- in_progress
- Author
- Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University
- Date
- October 31, 2018
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hfa00038
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Library, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard Film Archive is one of the largest university-based motion picture collections in the United States, with a collection of 40,000 audio visual items, a growing number of manuscript collections, and nearly one million still photographs, posters, and other promotional materials from around the world and from almost every period in film history. The HFA's collection of paper materials, including the documentation of individual filmmakers as well as promotional materials such as posters, film stills, and ephemera are accessible to Harvard affiliates as well as to outside researchers.
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