Alan Parker Film and Television Work (1970-2003)

Material related to Alan Parker's professional work as a screenwriter, director and producer covering shorts, film, documentaries and television programmes. It also covers Parker's relationships with the British film industry and related organisations.

Include articles, photographs, publications, correspondence, scripts, preproduction, production and post production documents and photography relating to individual projects and Alan Parker's film career.

Material relating to Alan Parker's commercials including television work is not in this section but in PKR-2.
N.B. The majority of the collection was created during 1970-2003, there is some earlier original material which was acquired to use as props in films and later material relating to marketing, distribution, re-releases, merchandising, exhibition and events as well as research into Parker's work and career.

The majority of this collection was transferred during 2014-2016, the material had selected for transfer by the donors from amongst items they had stored in their London and LA offices, and homes as well as a UK offsite storage facility. The material arrived in bankers boxes, poster rolls and portfolio cases containing a few file folders and many loose items identified by post-it notes and handwritten labels on clear plastic folders. Each accession came with a box list detailing the title and sometimes the date of the items. The box lists were in alphabetical order by film title. It was decided when cataloguing this collection to change the alphabetical order which had been created for the transfer to a chronological one for film project to better reflect the order in which they were originally created and used as well as the progression of Alan Parker's career. Within each film project the arrangement reflects the lifecycle of a film – pre-production, production, post production etc with the exception that all of the scripts are kept together from early drafts to release/continuity scripts. In some of the later films there are correspondence and diaries files which cover the more than production period to avoid splitting what may be an original file these are in the one section which seems to best fit their contents which cross references to other relevant sections.

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