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Scrap books

(1) Scrapbook of news cuttings featuring Sharp, 1962-1965
(2) 'Ethels’ scrapbook’: digitised news cuttings featuring Sharp, 1962-1975

Letters to Ethel Foote

Personal letters from Sharp to his birth mother, Ethel Foote, including unopened and returned letter addressed to Harry Craig. Also envelope containing letter and photographs of Sharp's house and children in Los Angeles

'Cat Chaser'

(1) Screenplay, from the novel of Elmore Leaonard, December 1983
(2) Ms screenplay, marked 'continued', nd

'Little Treasure'

[Written and directed by Sharp]
(1) Ms production script
(2) Ms shooting script
(3) Journal, mostly of the production of 'Little Treasure'

'The Man who kept Secrets'

Loose draft ms and typescript pages of screenplay from the biography [of Peter Lawford] by James Spada, with note to 'Barbara' about the scenes, [1990s]

'The President's Child'

(1) Untitled Acts 1-IV [incomplete] screenplay, nd
(2) Screenplay 'based on the book by Fay Weldon' nd
(3) Memorandum of notes from Granada Television on Sharp’s script Acts I-IV, July 1991
(4) Memorandum of notes from Granada Television on Sharp’s second draft script, August 1991
(5) Draft outlines of Act One-Four and Act One- Seven

‘Above the mountain’

(1) First draft screenplay for Citadel Entertainment, April 1991
(2) [Fax?] rough draft on ‘Robeson notes’ sent from Judy Ranan to David R Ginsberg/Tom Patricia, July 24 1991, with relevant copies of the hearings by the Committee on Un-Amercian Activities
(3) [Fax?] from Judy Ranan to Alan Sharp of outline divided in to seven acts, 26 July 1991

‘Tom Mix and Pancho Villa’

Set in 1923 and featuring Tom Mix
(1) 'Tom Mix and Pancho Villa' screenplay, with sections highlighted, nd
(2) 'Tom Mix and Pancho Villa' screenplay, 1994

‘Rob Roy’

(1) Fourth draft screenplay for United Artists Corporation Ltd, 16 June 1994, including revisions of 23 July 1994
(2) 7 marketing posters for the film featuring different scenes, 1996
(3) Marketing programme, 1995

‘A Blindman on a Galloping Horse’

(1) Chapters one and two, ‘The Sabbath Seige’ and ‘The War’
(2) Chapter contents and notes
(3) Volume titled ‘Don’t Cry It’s only a Picture Show’. Inside titled ‘A Blindman on a Galloping Horse a novel of childhood’, containing chapters one, 'Summer 1944' to chapter twenty
(4) Notebook, of 'Blind Man on a Galloping Horse and imagined biography', containing notes and treatments, nd

‘Vain Glory’

(1) 'Vain Glory' first draft screenplay, March 1996
(2) Second draft screenplay for Galloping Horse Productions [pdf print]

‘Naples 44’

(1) Notes on how to approach the project, nd
(2) Draft screenplay 'based on the memoir by Norman Lewis', nd
(3) Incomplete 2nd draft screenplay, 15 September 1999

‘You can't catch death’

(1) Draft screenplay 'based on the writings of Richard Brautigan', nd
(2) Draft screenplay 'based on the writings of Richard and Ianthe Brautigan', nd
(3) Draft screenplay 'based on the writings of Ianthe and Richard Brautigan', nd
(4) Pages of draft screenplay 'based on the writings of Richard Brautigan and Ianthe Brautigan', nd
(5) Electronic documents: brautigan.fdr and brautigan2.fdr [inaccessible]

‘Dissolution’

(1) Draft outline and scenes, nd
(2) Untitled typescript screenplay, parts 1 and 2, nd
(3) Untitled draft screenplay [in 2 notebooks], nd
(4) ‘Dissolution’ draft screenplay 'from the novel by CS Sansam' (sic), nd
(5) Notes on motivation and plot, nd
(6) 60'_Dissolution_-_4th_draft_-_part_one.fdx [inaccessible]

‘Reversible Errors’

(1) Printed email from Scott Turow of notes on the teleplay, May 2003
(2) 'Reversible Errors (The First Night)...based on the novel by Scott Turow', second revision screenplay, 27 June 2003
(3) 'Reversible Errors (The Second Night)' screenplay, second draft, 27 June 2003
(4) Second revision, full pink locked for Mike Robe Productions, 19 September 2003

'Dark fire'

(1) Draft screenplay, nd
(2) Dark Fire electronic folder: 60’_Dark_Fire_-_Part_Two.fdx; DARK FIRE-1st Draft-Part One.fdx; Dark Fire outline.fdx; Darkfire.fdx

‘A Thousand Calvaries’

(1) Outline, pp 35-42 of the massacre in the story, nd
(2) ‘A Thousand Calvaries, A Storyline by Alan Sharp', nd
(3) Second draft revision, annotated screenplay, 17 August 2005
(4) Notes on the culture, history, people and politics of Rwanda , nd

‘The Fifth Quarter’

(1) ‘The 5th Quarter extended', unfinished draft screenplay, nd
(2) ‘The Fifth Quarter’ teleplay, pink revised, 14 November 2005
(3) Turner Network Television pack for 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes from the Stories of Stephen King' with publicity shots, cast and crew lists and interviews for each episode, including Sharp’s ‘The Fifth Quarter’, 2006

'The Apprentice'

(1) Draft storyline and draft letter to Ruth [2006]
(2) Electronic folder containing apprentice1.fdr, aprentice3.fdr [inaccessible]

The World Cup

(1) Reports on the matches of the World Cup
(2) Description of the Portugal v England match
(3) Ticket for the Czech Republic-Ghana match

‘Ties that Bind’

(1) Website downloads relating to Chicago Police Dept., racial incidents, crime statistics, 26 June 2006
(2) Family tree of characters, nd
(3) Storyline and character synopsis based on material supplied by Bill Haber [2 x copies], nd
(4) First draft teleplay based on a story by Bill Haber, 26 April 2007
(5) Copy of email re the series, 27 April 2007
(6) ‘Party Politics’ story line of first episode, nd
(7) Ties that bind electronic folder:
ties that bind.doc Characters outline [unfinished], nd;
Ties That Bind.fdr [inaccessible];
TTB Ep01 04 May09.pdf teleplay Episode One – Jamie, nd;
TTB Ep02 first bit.pdf teleplay Episode Two – Frank, nd

‘My talks with Dean Spanley’

(1) Memoir of the development of Dean Spanley from Sharp’s original 1980s drafts, [c2008?]
(2) Dean Spanley electronic folder: Dean spanley.fdx;
dean spanley.pdf ‘My Talks with Dean Spanley’ first draft, nd;
dean spanleyau17.fdr;
dean spanleyaug17.pdf ‘My Talks with Dean Spanley based on the novel by Lord Dunsanay’, second revised draft, 11 April 2007
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