View Document

printer-friendly version

Guide to the Bruce Campbell Dalton Trumbo Ephemera Collection (MS 303), 1970-1980

University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

Email: spc@colorado.edu
URL: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/specialcollections/index.htm



© 2007

University of Colorado



Collection Summary

Title Bruce Campbell Dalton Trumbo Ephemera Collection
Dates (Bulk) 1970-1980
Creator Campbell, Bruce, 1958-
Abstract This collection includes materials relating to the movie, "Johnny Got His Gun," written by CU alumnus Dalton Trumbo and produced by Bruce Campbell. The movie, set in 1918, is about a soldier who becomes a quadruple amputee.
Collection Number MS 303
Size 1 box (.25 linear feet)
Repository University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Languages English

History

Actor, writer, and producer Bruce Campbell's ephemera collection related to the promotion of the 1971 anti-war film "Johnny Got His Gun," based on Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel of the same name.


Scope and Content

Ephemera related to the anti-war movie, "Johnny Got His Gun."


Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print materials is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.


Preferred Citation

Bruce Campbell Dalton Trumbo Ephemera Collection. MS 303. [Item, Box number, Folder number], Special Collections Dept., University Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder.


Processing Information

Collection processed and finding aid created and encoded by Tegan Davis, July 2007.


Separated Material

The poster related to the movie, "Johnny Got His Gun," is housed separately in Map Case 1 in the drawer labeled "Manuscript Oversize."


Access Terms

Anti-war films.

Campbell, Bruce, 1958-

Johnny got his gun (Motion picture)

Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.

War films.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.


Contents List

Description Container

"Johnny Got His Gun" / "The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada" balloon; no date. [An archival photocopy replaces the balloon.] 

Box 1 Folder 1

"Johnny Got His Gun" / "The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada" button; no date. 

Box 1 Folder 2

"Johnny Got His Gun" button; no date. 

Box 1 Folder 3

"Johnny Got His Gun" matchbook; no date. 

Box 1 Folder 4

Promotional material for "Johnny Got His Gun." September 3, 1980. 

Presskit. A bound book of photocopies of articles, reviews, and a synopsis on "Johnny Got His Gun." Also a PR photo.

Box 1 Folder 5

Johnny Got His Gun (Bantam Books, June 1980) 

1980 Bantam paperback edition of Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun."

Box 1 Folder 6

"Johnny Got His Gun" poster.  

Location: MS OS Map Case 1

Box 1 Folder 7

Bruce Campbell envelope for delivery of ephemera to Kristina Baumli; no date. 

Box 1 Folder 8

Correspondance from Susan Dean to Bruce Campbell; January 26, 1993. 

Box 1 Folder 9

Bibliography

Special Collections also houses the following books by or about Dalton Trumbo:

Trumbo, Dalton. Eclipse London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1935. Call #: UNCAT 94-3-201

Trumbo, Dalton. Harry Bridges; a discussion of the latest effort to deport civil liberties and the rights of American labor. Hollywood: League of American Writers, 1941. Call #: HD8073 B7 T73

Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny got his gun. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippencott company, 1939. Call #: PS3539 R928 J6

Manfull, Helen, Ed. Additional dialogue; letters of Dalton Trumbo. New York: M. Evans, 1970. Call # PS3539 R928 Z53

Trumbo, Dalton. The biggest thief in town; comedy in three acts. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1949. Call #: PS3539 R928 B5

Trumbo, Dalton. The devil in the book. Los Angeles: California Emergency Defense Committee, 1956 ("No. 369 of a limited, signed edition of 750 copies). Call #: HX91 C3 T7

Trumbo, Dalton. The remarkable Andrew, being the chronicle of a literal man. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott company, 1941. Call #: PS3539 R928 R4 1941

Trumbo, Dalton. The Time of the Toad; a study of inquisition in America by one of the Hollywood ten. [Hollywood? Calif., 1950?]. Call #: PN1993.5 U6 T75

Trumbo, Dalton. Washington Jitters. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1936. Call #: PS3539 R928 W3


 
 
Sponsors: National Endowment for the Humanities University of New Mexico - Center for Regional Studies University of New Mexico Libraries
 
   

© 2006, University of New Mexico