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HU OSA 356-1
Fonds 356: Personal Papers of Pál Schiffer
Subfonds 1: Saját filmjeinek dokumentációja

Magyarul (in Hungarian)

Date(s) 1965-1995

Extent and medium

26 Archival boxes, 3 linear meters
1 Archival card boxes, 0.32 linear meters
1 Plastic card box, 0.25 linear meters

Scope and content

The collection includes paper and photo documentation of Pál Schiffer's activities as a film director from his early works through non-fiction television works; sociological classics; and historical documentary films. Titles include “Cséplő Gyuri” (Gyuri Cseplo), “Black Train” (Fekete vonat), “Probationer” (A pártfogolt), “By the Danube” (A Dunánál), “Fractions” (Törésvonalak). Research materials to his sociological films, oral history interviews, scripts, dialogue lists, field work essays, viewers reviews, film festival catalogues with his film synopses in them, and other non-textual documents of the filmmaker, mainly photographs relating to his films and promotional photos form part of the sub-fonds, too.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

Conditions governing access Open to the public

Language/scripts of material Hungarian

Date(s) of descriptions

Description by Zsuzsa Zádori, April 2008.
Online version updated 19 April 2012
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