The Barry Shipman papers MSS 90 |
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The Barry Shipman papers, filling 42 boxes and occupying 18 feet of shelf space, document the long career of a Hollywood scriptwriter who wrote and produced feature films, serial cliffhangers, television westerns, and technical films. They also document the role he played in the revival of interest in the career of his mother, silent filmmaker Nell Shipman. The gift of Barry Shipman and later of his family, they are part of the Special Collections Department in Boise State University's Albertsons Library.
The collection is divided into ten series, outlined below, with links to the descriptions of the series and an inventory of their contents.
Biographical Sketch of Barry Shipman
Series I: Biographical and personal papers
Series II: Subjects
Series III: Correspondence
Series IV: Nell Shipman-related materials
Series V: Photos
Series VI: Video and Tape Recordings
Series VII: Works for Television (Scripts and stories)
Series VIII: Screenplays for Motion pictures and Serials
Series IX: Miscellaneous story outlines, Short stories, and Scripts
Series X: Air Force and Navy Scripts and Production papers
Series 1: Biographical and Personal Papers
A long list of Barry Shipman's film credits is found in Box 1, Folder 3 (Resume, Film credits). Other notable items in this series include brief biographical essays (Recollections) covering specific incidents in Shipman's life and career (particularly some of his childhood experiences with his mother, Nell Shipman, in California, Spokane, Washington, and at Priest Lake, Idaho); rough drafts of federal employment applications, with a detailed record of his education and work history; various publicity news clippings over the years; and papers relating to Shipman's patents (particularly the Sun Tan Tree), his World War II military service, and the Western Caravan film festival in Knoxville at which he was to be honored in 1994. The "Screenwriting" files include letters, reviews and other papers relating to his well-received screenplay, "Stranger at My Door" (1956), as well as studio correspondence revealing Barry Shipman's role in the writing of the "Lone Ranger" serials for Republic Pictures in the 1930s. Among the many poems Shipman wrote are three that offer a wry look at the experiences of extras and other lesser actors in the Hollywood studios in the 1930s (Box 2, Folder 1).
Box 1: Biographical and Personal Papers
Folder 1 Obituaries and tributes (1994)
Folder 2 Birth certificate (1912)
Folder 3 Resumes, Film credits
Folder 4 Corporate employment applications (1962-1963)
Folder 5 Federal employment application: Form 57 (1962)
Folder 6 Federal employment application: Security questionnaire, Form 4 (1962)
Folder 7 Federal employment application: Rough draft (1962)
Folder 8 Federal employment application: Statement of personal history, Form 398 (1967)
Folder 9 Employment application: Writing samples (1965)
Folder 10 Recollections: Bio letter upon reaching 40 (1952)
Folder 11 Recollections: Beeswax
Folder 12 Recollections: Christmas Eve 1923 (1993)
Folder 13 Recollections: The Dogs of 921 East Wilson Avenue
Folder 14 Recollections: Foreword (1992)
Folder 15 Recollections: I Remember Tonto
Folder 16 Recollections: Laddie
Folder 17 Recollections: Miscellaneous
Folder 18 Recollections: Putting Me Over (ca. 1928)
Folder 19 Recollections: Untitled, pp. 7-36
Folder 20 Recollections: West Avenue 43
Folder 21 Recollections: Where are The Good Guys? (1994)
Folder 22 Recollections by Harriet Kyle, “The Doctor’s House”
Folder 23 Musical compositions: Copyright registration, Contracts (1936-1938)
Folder 24 Publicity clippings: Barry and Beulah Shipman (1932-1937)
Folder 25 News clippings (1912-1994)
Folder 26 UCLA Department of Cinema (1942)
Folder 27 Fortean Society (1941)
Folder 28 Military service: Documents (1942-1963)
Folder 29 Military service: Rosters
Folder 30 Screenwriting: Daredevils of the Red Circle: Publicity (1939)
Folder 31 Screenwriting: The Lone Ranger (1937-1969)
Folder 32 Screenwriting: Serials, Miscellaneous
Folder 33 Screenwriting: Stranger at My Door: Correspondence (1956-1993)
Folder 34 Screenwriting: Stranger at My Door: Publicity, Reviews (1956-1988)
Folder 35 Screenwriting: Reviews, Miscellaneous (1947-1953)
Folder 36 Screenwriting: Motion picture code, 1934
Folder 37 Screen Writers Guild (1954-1955)
Folder 38 Writers Guild of America (1960-1981)
Folder 39 Navy: Appreciations (1964-1966)
Folder 40 Air Force: Appreciations (1969-1976)
Folder 41 Air Force: Personnel matters (1967-1979)
Folder 42 Air Force: Miscellaneous (1977-1986)
Folder 43 “Our World” Television appearance (1987)
Folder 44 Brownie Bear Club (1987)
Folder 45 Sister Cities project (San Bernardino-Mexicali) (1987)
Folder 46 Barry Shipman papers: University of Wyoming solicitation (1979-1984)
Folder 47 Film Festivals: Palm Springs, 1990 (1989)
Folder 48 Film Festivals: Knoxville, 1994 (Western Film Caravan) (1994)
Folder 49 Film Festivals: Knoxville, 1994: Shoenberger, Jim (1993-1994)
Folder 50 Film Festivals: Knoxville, 1994: Smith, Harold (1993-1994)
Folder 51 Film Festivals: Knoxville, 1994: Franklin, Grady (1993-1994)
Folder 52 Film Festivals: Knoxville, 1994: Fan mail (1994)
Folder 53 Film Festivals: Knoxville, 1994: Miscellaneous
Folder 54 Miscellaneous
Box 2: Biographical and Personal Papers
Folder 1 Poems by Barry Shipman
Folder 2 Poems by Barry Shipman (1925-1944)
Folder 3 Poems by Barry Shipman (1930s)
Folder 4 Poems by Barry Shipman (1930s)
Folder 5 Poems by Barry Shipman (1930s)
Folder 6 Poems by Barry Shipman : Later poems
Folder 7 Poems: The First Laugh (1934)
Folder 8 Poems: Friend (1934)
Folder 9 Poems: La Meuse Illusive (1933)
Folder 10 Poems: So Glad It’s You (1931)
Folder 11 Poems: Thymesta
Folder 12 Poems: Thymesta
Folder 13 Poems: To Beula
Folder 14 Shipman, Beulah McDonald: Journal entries, Typescript (1933)
Folder 15 Shipman, Beulah McDonald: Contract with Paramount (1935)
Folder 16 Shipman, Beulah McDonald: Publicity, Miscellaneous
Box 3: Biographical and Personal Papers
Folder 1 Inventions: Sound effects patent (1947)
Folder 2 Inventions: Sun Tan Tree: Correspondence (1958-1961)
Folder 3 Inventions: Sun Tan Tree: Correspondence: Marjorie Walker (1958-1959)
Folder 4 Inventions: Sun Tan Tree: Descriptions, Press releases, Clippings
Folder 5 Inventions: Sun Tan Tree: Design patent (1959)
Folder 6 Inventions: Sun Tan Tree: Mechanical patent application (1959-1960)
Folder 7 Inventions: Sun Tan Tree: Marketing, Manufacturing (1958-1961)
Box 15: Biographical and Personal Papers: Publications
[together with Nell Shipman items, see Series IV]
Writers Guild of America, Directory of Members 1984-1985
Action-Packed Cliffhangers Viewer’s Guide, by Doug E. Nye (1983)
Daily Variety (Oct 3, 1947) with review of “Riders of the Lone Star” p. 3
The Hollywood Reporter (Oct 3, 1947) with review of “Riders of the Lone Star” p. 3
The Hollywood Reporter (Mar 14, 1951) with review of “Fort Savage Riders” p. 4
The Hollywood Reporter (June 4, 1952, p. 3) with review of “Montana Territory”
Daily Variety (June 4, 1952, p. 3) with review of “Montana Territory”
Daily Variety (Oct 8, 1953) with review of “Night in the Museum” p. 8
Screen Stories (June 1956) with review of “Stranger at My Door” p. 20
Screenland (July 1956) with review of “Stranger at My Door” p. 74
The Hollywood Reporter (Apr 17, 1956) with review of “Stranger at My Door” p. 3
Boxoffice (April 21, 1956) with review of “Stranger at My Door” last page
Under Western Skies (January 1978) with filmography of Smiley Burnette (BS credits)
The World of Yesterday (October 1978) with article on Lone Ranger
The World of Yesterday (February 1979) with filmography of Ralph Byrd (BS credits)
The Journal of the Writers Guild of America, West (February 1994) with BS article, “Where are the Good Guys”
How to Become an Actor in Television Commercials, by Nina Shipman (1975)
Box 47 (Oversize): Biographical and Personal Papers
2 congratulatory sketches (1943) in color, presented to Shipman by Marine Corps colleagues on birth of twin sons and promotion to rank of captain
[together with motion picture advertising pressbooks]
Oversize drawers
Plans, Sun Tan Tree
Color magazine clippings, Sun Tan Tree
Papers in the subject files include notes, articles, and clippings on people and topics of interest. They reveal Shipman's early interest in both metaphysics and hard science, family history, and the careers of some of his colleagues. Files relating to Nell Shipman are found in Series IV.
Box 3: Subjects
Folder 8 Actors, Colleagues (mainly obituaries)
Folder 9 Carey, MacDonald (1989-1994)
Folder 10 Drake, Oliver (1991)
Folder 11 London, Jack: Jack London and the Movies, by Robert S. Birchard
Folder 12 Metaphysics: Barry Shipman compilation (1931-1933)
Folder 13 Metaphysics: Dorothy Yost letter (ca. 1933)
Folder 14 Metaphysics: Horoscopes (ca. 1933)
Folder 15 Metaphysics: Meditations (1941)
Folder 16 Metaphysics
Folder 17 Metaphysics
Folder 18 Parker, William H.: Death, 1966
Folder 19 Republic Pictures Corp.: Jack Mathis (1976-1991)
Folder 20 Science notes
Folder 21 Science notes
Folder 22 Science notes (1939)
Folder 23 Science notes (1940)
Folder 24 Science notes (ca. 1941)
Folder 25 Shipman, Ernest: Chronology, by D.J. Turner
Folder 26 Shipman, Ernest: Shipman Enterprises, by D.J. Turner
Folder 27 Shipman, Ernest: Films
Folder 28 Shipman, Ernest: Films: The Foreigner / Edna Shipman
Folder 29 Shipman, Ernest: Films: One Hundred Years of Mormonism
Folder 30 Shipman, Ernest: Miscellaneous papers (Photocopies) (1911-1930)
Folder 31 Shipman, Ernest: Articles by Peter Morris
Folder 32 Shipman, Ernest: Shipman – Curwood correspondence (1918-1922)
Folder 33 Shipman, Ernest: Shipman – Jack London correspondence (1915)
Folder 34 Shipman, Ernest, Jr. (half-brother)
Folder 35 Shipman, Lani (granddaughter)
Folder 35 Shipman, Nina, and Noel and Michael Shipman (children)
Folder 36 Shipman family history
Folder 37 Valerie, Joan (1992)
Folder 38 Walker, Joseph B.
Folder 39 Walker, Joseph B.: Zoom lens controversy (1947-1990)
Folder 40 Warfield, Marjorie (1991)
Barry Shipman’s correspondents include members of his large extended family, lifelong friends, colleagues from the film business, and researchers interested in his career and that of his mother’s. Most of the correspondence preserved in the collection dates from Shipman’s retirement years (after 1979), though there are a few letters from earlier dates scattered throughout. Quite a few, if not most of the files, contain reminiscences of his life and work, the most extensive of which are the letters exchanged with Mike Newton (Box 6), a fan of the serials, who peppered Shipman with questions about the making of the cliffhangers, and Tom Trusky (Box 9), the Boise State professor who was instrumental in Nell Shipman’s “revival.” Both sides of the correspondence are represented, as Shipman kept not only the letters he received, but copies of his own letters as well, which he churned out at a prolific rate on his word processor in the study of his San Bernardino home.
Among the correspondents represented are his lifelong friend Dick Diaz, who joined the Nell Shipman entourage as a teenager in the 1920s in New England and accompanied them to Florida and California; Barry's half brother and sister, Charles Douglas Ayers and Daphne Ayers Feldman, children of Nell Shipman and Charles Austin Ayers; his half-brothers on the Shipman side of the family, Robert and Ernest Shipman, Jr., with whom he did not become acquainted until he was an adult; Priest Lake friends Lloyd Peters, Dorothy Winslow Overmyer, and Loie Pierson (his school teacher); World War II Marine Corps colleagues Frank Adreon and Julian “Bud” Lesser; Linda Stirling (who starred in many of the cliffhangers) and William Witney (who directed many); and a host of other friends, associates, film fans and scholars. Correspondence with Douglas Bankson, relating to their collaborative screenplay about Nell Shipman, is located in Series IV.
The letters in the folders marked with an asterisk (*) relate mainly to Nell Shipman’s life and career. Many of those correspondents are also represented in the Tom Trusky papers. Barry Shipman’s own extensive correspondence with his mother, dating back to 1933, is found in the Nell Shipman collection (MSS 81). Many of those letters he received from his mother, and some he sent her in return, have been published in Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman, Selected Correspondence and Writings, 1912-1970 (Boise State University, 2003).
Box 4: Correspondence
Folder 1 Adreon, Frank (1942, 1991)
Folder 2 Alba, Consuelo de (1941)
Folder 3* Anderson, Kathryn (1992-1994)
Folder 4* Armatage, Kay (1977-1994)
Folder 5 Ayers, Charles Douglas (half-brother): 1976-1990
Folder 6* Boise State University: Miscellaneous (1987-1992)
Folder 7* Boise State University Library: Hansen, Ralph (1987-1988)
Folder 8* Boise State University Library: Virta, Alan (1988-1989)
Folder 9* Boise State University Library: Virta, Alan (1990-1994)
Folder 10* Brownlow, Kevin (1987-1993)
Folder 11* Burgess, Audrey Ayers (cousin): 1988 ?
Folder 12 Cannavan, Jack (1989)
Folder 13* Chenault, Cynthia (1993)
Folder 14* Chenault, Robert (1992-1994)
Folder 15* Chenault, Robert: Proposals
Folder 16* Butterfield, David (1989-1990)
Folder 17 Butts, R. Dale (1987-1992)
Folder 18* Codelli, Lorenzo (1987-1988)
Folder 19* Cork, Marylyn (1985-1994)
Folder 20* Covert, Nancy Wolff (1990-1994)
Folder 21 Creacy, Don (1993-1994)
Folder 22* Cunningham, John (1986-1993)
Folder 23 Diaz, Richard Alden (1967-1994)
Folder 24 Dudzak, A.L. (“Nicky”) and Mary Lou (1954-1992)
Folder 25 Dudzak, Maria (1993-1994)
Folder 26 Eby, Lois (1992-1993)
Folder 27* Eldridge, Judy (1988-1994)
Folder 28* Everson, William (1988-1992)
Box 5: Correspondence
Folder 1 Feldman, Daphne Ayers (half-sister): 1941-1987
Folder 2 Feldman, Daphne Ayers (half-sister): 1988-1990
Folder 3 Feldman, Daphne Ayers : Enclosures
Folder 4 Feldman, Edmund (brother-in-law): 1990-1992
Folder 5 Finnegan, Diane (1991)
Folder 6* Forster, Annette (1994)
Folder 7* Fox, Stanley (1990-1992)
Folder 8* Fulbright, Thomas (1968-1988)
Folder 9 Gene Autry Museum (1990-1992)
Folder 10* Gibson, Frank and Laura (1987-1992)
Folder 11* Gregory, Mollie (1986-1990)
Folder 12 Gupta, Deshbandhu (1948-1949)
Folder 13 Hathcock, Luther (1988-1989)
Folder 14* Holbrook, Paul (1988-1994)
Folder 15* Hollywood Studio Museum (1992)
Folder 16* Idaho Dept. of Parks and Recreation: Just, Rick (1986-1993)
Folder 17* Japenga, Ann (1990-1994)
Folder 18* Kaye, Janice (1992)
Folder 19* Lacher, Gary (1986-1987)
Folder 20* Lasky, Betty (1987-1993)
Folder 21 Lesser, Julian “Bud” (1979-1991)
Folder 22 Lesser, Julian “Bud” (1992-1993)
Folder 23 Lesser, Julian “Bud” (1993-1994)
Box 6: Correspondence
Folder 1 Letters to the Editor
Folder 2 Lord, Stephen (1986-1993)
Folder 3 Magers, Boyd and Donna (1991-1994)
Folder 4* Maltin, Leonard (1992-1994)
Folder 5 Mathis, Jack (1971-1994)
Folder 6 McDonald, Bertha Bingham (mother-in-law): 1941
Folder 7* Morris, Peter (1973-1988)
Folder 8* Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.): Mancia, Adrienne (1988-1989)
Folder 9 Myers, Eugene Ekander Duncan (1987-1991)
Folder 10* Naked Eye Productions (Jane Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio): 1990-1994
Folder 11* Nelson, Harold G. (1991)
Folder 12* Nelson, Morlan (1987-1990)
Folder 13 Newton, Mike (1987-1991)
Folder 14 Newton, Mike (1992-1994)
Folder 15 Newton, Mike (undated; incomplete)
Folder 16 Newton, Mike: Articles
Folder 17 Newton, Mike: Original letters by Barry Shipman (1989-1993)
Folder 18 Newton, Mike: From Beulah and Nina Shipman (1994-1997)
Folder 19 Nielsen, Ray (1989-1993)
Folder 20* Oakman, Jack (1982-1985)
Folder 21* Oderman, Stuart (1989-1994)
Folder 22* Oldfield, Barney (1987-1994)
Folder 23* Overmyer, Dorothy Winslow (1987-1989)
Box 7: Correspondence
Folder 1* Peters, Lloyd (1968-1988)
Folder 2* Peters, Lyma (1988-1993)
Folder 3 Pettijohn, Hal and Jill (1931, 1988-1993)
Folder 4* Pierson, Loie (1984)
Folder 5* Priest Lake State Park (Idaho): Townsend, Larry (1987-1995)
Folder 6 Robertson, Thelma (1941)
Folder 7 Scott, Warren and Terry (1942-1987)
Folder 8 Sherwood, Deborah (Deborah LaScala): 1986-1993
Folder 9 Shipman, Beulah (wife): 1945, 1973, n.d.
Folder 10 Shipman, Ernest, Jr. and Joyce (half-brother): 1977-1990
Folder 11 Shipman, Lani (Lani Beth Walrod) (granddaughter): 1982-1991
Folder 12 Shipman, Nina (daughter): 1981-1989
Folder 13 Shipman, Nina (daughter): 1990-1993
Folder 14 Shipman, Robert (half-brother): 1987-1990
Folder 15 Shipman family, Miscellaneous (1977-1993)
Folder 16* Simpson, Claude (1972-1992)
Folder 17* Skikavich, Moira (1991-1993)
Folder 18 Smith, Jack (newspaper columnist): 1987-1991
Folder 19* Smith, Liz (newspaper columnist): 1993
Folder 20 Stadey, Mauricia / Bob Waldmire (1993-1994)
Folder 21* Sparling, Gordon (1976-1994)
Folder 22 Stirling, Linda (1991-1993)
Folder 23 Taylor, Jesse Kinyon (1954-1956)
Folder 24* Turner, D. John (1976-1993)
Folder 25* Vallejo, Joan (1988-1994)
Folder 26* Wachtman, Glenn A. (1988-1990)
Box 8: Correspondence
Folder 1 Walker, Joseph and Juanita (1977-1992)
Folder 2 Walker, Marjorie (1987-1994)
Folder 3 Walker, Marjorie: Publicity (1987-1992)
Folder 4* White, Jeff (Starwil Talent Agency): 1988-1989
Folder 5 Witney, William (1991-1994)
Folder 6* Williams, Betty Jane (1986-1994)
Folder 7* Zainfeld, Morton (1989-1994)
Folder 8 General, Miscellaneous: A-G
Folder 9 General, Miscellaneous: H-R
Folder 10 General, Miscellaneous: S-Z
Folder 11* Nell Shipman-related, Miscellaneous: A-M
Folder 12* Nell Shipman-related, Miscellaneous: N-Z
Folder 13 Serials and Westerns, Miscellaneous
Folder 14 First name only
Folder 15 Fragments and unidentified
Box 9: Correspondence with Tom Trusky
Folder 1 Trusky, Tom (1984-1985)
Folder 2 Trusky, Tom (1986 Jan-Jul)
Folder 3 Trusky, Tom (1986 Aug-Dec)
Folder 4 Trusky, Tom (1987 Jan-Jun)
Folder 5 Trusky, Tom (1987 Jul-Dec)
Folder 6 Trusky, Tom (1988 )
Folder 7 Trusky, Tom (1989)
Folder 8 Trusky, Tom (1990)
Folder 9 Trusky, Tom (1991)
Folder 10 Trusky, Tom (1992)
Folder 11 Trusky, Tom (1993)
Folder 12 Trusky, Tom (1994)
Folder 13 Trusky, Tom: Enclosures
This series contains material about Nell Shipman written or collected by Barry Shipman. It includes memorabilia from the dedication of Nell Shipman Point, 1977; letters and other papers (1993-1994) chronicling the discovery that the Doctors’ House museum in Glendale, California, was once the home of Nell Shipman; papers about Nell Shipman film screenings, especially ones Barry Shipman attended; and various writings by Barry about Nell in the form of play scripts, film treatments, proposals, and the like. There is a large body of correspondence back and forth between Barry Shipman and his childhood friend from Spokane, Douglas Bankson , who collaborated on a screenplay (never produced) called “Nell.” The earliest Nell Shipman-related proposal (“Nell Shipman Presents,” Box 12, Folder 14) is dated about 1936, for a series of films based on her works. There is also documentation of a one-woman multi-media play based on Nell’s life presented in Boise, Idaho, by Jenny Sternling in 1993. Like one of Barry’s own works, it was entitled “Between Pictures.” Barry's version of “Between Pictures” was produced in Hawaii in 1991 and starred Nina Shipman as Nell. A videotape of the production is in Series VI.
The general correspondence files (Series III) also contain much correspondence relating to Nell Shipman.
Box 10: Nell Shipman
Folder 1 Nell Shipman Chronology, by Barry Shipman
Folder 2 Nell Shipman, A Resume of Her Career, by Barry Shipman and Tom Fulbright (1976)
Folder 3 The Professor Done Right by Our Nell (ca. 1987)
Folder 4 Extracts from Nell Shipman’s writings
Folder 5 Nell Shipman papers (1978-1981)
Folder 6 Doctors’ House: Correspondence: Richman, Terry (1993-1994)
Folder 7 Doctors’ House: Glendale Historical Society (1993-1994)
Folder 8 Doctors’ House: Nell Shipman publicity (1993-1995)
Folder 9 Festivals: Ottawa, 1982: Canadian Women Filmmakers (1982)
Folder 10 Festivals: Boise, 1987: Nell Shipman Silent Film Festival (1986-1987)
Folder 11 Festivals: Paris, 1988
Folder 12 Festivals: Victoria, B.C., 1989
Folder 13 Festivals: Screenings, Miscellaneous (1982-1990)
Folder 14 Films, etc.: Film summaries
Folder 15 Films, etc.: Back to God’s Country
Folder 16 Films, etc.: The Grub-Stake
Folder 17 Films, etc.: Lady Marines
Folder 18 Films, etc.: Pianophiends
Folder 19 Films, etc.: Something New
Folder 20 Films, etc.: The Story of Mr. Hobbs
Folder 21 Films, etc.: Vaudeville and stage work
Folder 22 Nell Shipman Awards (Boise) (1993)
Folder 23 Nell Shipman Awards (Seattle) (1991-1993)
Folder 24 Nell Shipman Point dedication, 1977 (1977)
Folder 25 Nell Shipman Point dedication, 1977: Correspondence (1975-1984)
Folder 26 Nell Shipman Point dedication, 1977: Publicity (1977-1991)
Folder 27 Silent Screen & My Talking Heart: Boise State University
Folder 28 Silent Screen & My Talking Heart: Afterword (1986)
Folder 29 Silent Screen & My Talking Heart: Afterword, Lillian Leighton (1986)
Folder 30 Silent Screen & My Talking Heart: Reviews (1987-1990)
Folder 31 Miscellaneous
Folder 32 Subjects: Barham family in Victoria, B.C., 1891-1899
Folder 33 Subjects: Big Bear Valley Historical Society (1987)
Folder 34 Subjects: Coolin, Idaho (1977-1990)
Folder 35 Subjects: Priest Lake, Idaho (1981-1994)
Folder 36 Subjects: Priest Lake, Idaho: Lionhead Lodge map and description by BS (1986)
Folder 37 Subjects: Priest Lake, Idaho / Lloyd Peters (1968-1988)
Folder 38 Subjects: Priest River, Idaho (1990-1993)
Folder 39 Subjects: Serrao, Amerigo
Folder 40 Nell Shipman postcard design by Michael Shipman (1987)
Box 11: Productions about Nell Shipman
Folder 1 Between Pictures
Folder 2 Between Pictures (Hawaii, 1991)
Folder 3 Between Pictures (Boise, 1993): Correspondence: Jenny Sternling (1989-1992)
Folder 4 Between Pictures (Boise, 1993): Correspondence: Jenny Sternling (1993-1994)
Folder 5 Between Pictures (Boise, 1993): Correspondence: Vera Cederstrom (1993-94)
Folder 6 Between Pictures (Boise, 1993): Personnel
Folder 7 Between Pictures (Boise, 1993): Publicity (1993)
Folder 8 Between Pictures (Boise, 1993): Script
Folder 9 The Girl From God’s County, by Barbara Sapergia
Folder 10 The Girl From God’s County: Correspondence: Barbara Sapergia (l991-1994)
Folder 11 The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart: Barbara Martineau (1976-1980)
Folder 12 Tales of Priest Lake, by Betty Vitousek (1975-1981)
Box 12: Works about Nell Shipman by Barry Shipman
Folder 1 Abandoned Trails (Treatment)
Folder 2 Audition (Monologue sketch)
Folder 3 The Ballad of Faith Diggs (Photo story) (1987)
Folder 4 Between Pictures (Play script): Draft
Folder 5 Between Pictures (Play script): Draft 1 (March 1989)
Folder 6 Between Pictures (Play script): Draft 2 (April l989)
Folder 7 Between Pictures (Play script )(1991)
Folder 8 Borderline Tales (Treatment)(1991)
Folder 9 East of God’s County (Treatment)
Folder 10 The Girl From God’s Country (Play script)
Folder 11 The Grubstake (Photo story)
Folder 12 Nell: Preliminary treatment / Synopsis
Folder 13 Nell: Treatment
Folder 14 Nell Shipman Presents (Prospectus) (ca. 1936)
Folder 15 Remember Nell? (Drafts for documentary)
Folder 16 The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart (Autobiography): Afterword (1986)
Folder 17 The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart (Monologue)
Folder 18 Silent Star: Treatment (115 pages) (1988)
Folder 19 Silent Star: Treatment (73 pages)
Folder 20 This Little Bear Went Hollywood (Documentary script) (1992)
Folder 21 Thoughts (1987)
Box 13: “Nell” by Barry Shipman and Douglas Bankson
Folder 1 Prospectus (1989)
Folder 2 Synopsis (1992)
Folder 3 Draft fragments
Folder 4 Draft fragments
Folder 5 Corrected draft (195 pages) (Nov. 1991)
Folder 6 Script (185 pages) (July 1992)
Folder 7 Douglas Bankson: Biographical information
Folder 8 Douglas Bankson: Contracts (1989-1990)
Folder 9 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1987-1989)
Folder 10 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1990 Jan-Feb)
Folder 11 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1990 Mar-Apr)
Folder 12 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1990 May-Jun)
Box 14: “Nell” by Barry Shipman and Douglas Bankson
Folder 1 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1990 Jul-Aug)
Folder 2 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1990 Sept)
Folder 3 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1990 Oct-Dec)
Folder 4 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1991 Jan-May)
Folder 5 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1991 Jun-Dec)
Folder 6 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1992 )
Folder 7 Correspondence with Douglas Bankson (1993-1994)
Folder 8 Letters from Douglas Bankson: Undated and fragments
Folder 9 Letters by Barry Shipman: Undated and fragments
Folder 10 Letters from Douglas Bankson: Enclosures
Box 15: Nell Shipman
[together with Barry Shipman items, See Series I]
Guestbook for dedication of Nell Shipman Point, 31 August 1977
Incredible Idaho magazine (Spring 1978) with article, “Nell Shipman Point” by Claude Simpson
There are fewer than 100 photos in the collection, most of which are miscellaneous snapshots, publicity photos for Barry Shipman's invention, the "Sun Tan Tree," and photos from his work for the Air Force in the 1960s and 70s. Photos of Barry and his mother Nell can be found in the Nell Shipman collection (MSS 81).
Box 16: Photographs
5x7 or smaller
Photos 001-006 Personal (ca. 1917-1932)
Photos 007-009 Forest Lodge remnant (1977?)
Photos 010-012 Barry Shipman, Beulah Shipman, Judy Eldridge
Photos 013-017 Sun Tan Tree (1960)
Photos 018-020 Doctors House, Glendale, CA
Photos 021-022 Air Force production, with Barry Shipman
Photos 023-024 Barry and Beulah Shipman, 1950s and 1987 (digital)
Photos 025 Barry before portrait of Nell Shipman (color clipping)
Mainly 8 x 10
Photos 101-103 World War II colleagues
Photos 104-105 Roland Reed; Women’s banquet
Photos 106 Portrait, ca. 1952
Photos 107-111 Sun Tan Tree; Nina Shipman (ca. 1960)
Photos 112-117 Sun Tan Tree; Nina Shipman (ca. 1960)
Photos 118-123 Sun Tan Tree; Nina Shipman (ca. 1960)
Photos 124-125 Bob Hope show, Alaska , with Barry Shipman (1971)
Photos 126-128 Air Force production photos, with Barry Shipman (color)
Photos 129-137 Air Force production photos (color)
Photos 138-150 Air Force production photos (b/w)
Photos 159-167 Air Force photos; Vietnam 1965; Lyndon Johnson
Photos 168 Crackerjack, We Love You: title slide
Series VI: Videos and Tape recordings
This series contains videos of motion pictures and serials scripted by Barry Shipman, several other motion pictures featuring his wife Beulah (as Gwynne Shipman), and videotapes of an appearance by Barry Shipman on the "Our World" television interview program in 1987, among others. It also includes a videotape of a production of "Between Pictures," the story of Nell Shipman by Barry and Nina Shipman, and a tape recording of Nell Shipman reading the story "Doraleen," also by Barry and Nina Shipman. (Scripts for "Between Pictures" and "Doraleen" are located in Series IV and Series IX, respectively.) A notable addition to the collection in 2009 was a somewhat blurry but still viewable VHS copy of "Lady Marines," a World War II film produced by Barry Shipman while serving with the Marine Corps Photographic Section. It features a voiceover by his mother, Nell Shipman.
Boxes 17a and 17b: Videos and Tape recordings
"Barry Shipman" no. 1-4 (four 3/4-inch VHS recordings of interviews with Barry Shipman conducted by Tom Trusky, 1987, and filmed by University Television Productions, Boise State University)
“Doraleen, a Musical Adventure” (tape cassette; featuring voice of Barry Shipman’s eight-year old granddaughter Westerly as Doraleen, ca. 1975)
“Doraleen” read by Nell Shipman (2 tape cassettes)
"AAARK! Something About Communication" (VHS of U.S. Air Force film written by Barry Shipman in 1968)
“Between Pictures” starring Nina Shipman (Hilo, Hawaii, 1991) (VHS)
"Lady Marines" (VHS of World War II Marine Corps film produced by Barry Shipman with voiceover by Nell Shipman)
“Nell Shipman: The Girl From God’s Country” by Tom Trusky (VHS); with Leonard Maltin’s Entertainment Tonight segment, “Cliffhangers”
“Our World” [see Box 1, Folder 43] and “Stranger at My Door” (VHS)
“The Republic Pictures Story” (VHS) with mention of “Stranger At My Door”
“Shipman family album” (VHS) containing excerpts from motion pictures starring Nell Shipman, Gwynne (Beulah) Shipman, and Nina Shipman, and other family media appearances.
Box 43: Videos (Commercially-produced and distributed; donated by Mike Newton)
These videos (in VHS format) are also individually cataloged in the Library’s catalog.
Dick Tracy (Burbank Productions) 5 cassettes
Dick Tracy Returns (serial) (VCI) 2 cassettes
Dick Tracy Returns (feature) (VCI)
Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (VCI) 2 cassettes
Dick Tracy’s G-Men (VCI) 2 cassettes
Lone Star Raiders (3 Mesquiteers) (Republic Pictures Home Video)
Mysterious Mr. M. 2 cassettes
The Painted Stallion (Republic Pictures Home Video)
Robinson Crusoe on Clipper Island (Video Treasures) 2 cassettes
S.O.S. Coast Guard (Republic Pictures Home Video) 2 cassettes
Trail Dust (Cumberland). Starring Gwynne (Beulah) Shipman
Zorro Rides Again (Republic Pictures Home Video) 2 cassettes
Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic Pictures Home Video) 2 cassettes
Boxes 44-46: Videos donated by Mike Newton
Films scripted by Barry Shipman, home-recorded in VHS format by Mike Newton. Also a few television appearances by Nina Shipman. Consult the archivists for a complete list.
Series VII: Works for Television
This series contains scripts (teleplays) and story outlines written for television by Barry Shipman. The name of the television series is listed first, followed by the name of the particular episode. Unless otherwise indicated, a script is represented; story outlines and other papers (correspondence, etc.) are identified when they occur. While a few of the scripts are Barry Shipman's own typewritten versions, most are mimeographed shooting scripts prepared by the studio. Barry Shipman did not copyright these scripts in his own name; they became the property of the studios when accepted for production. The earliest work in the series is the script for a pilot for a proposed Hoosier Hot Shots television series, 1949 (Box 25, Folder 3); the latest are scripts for the Lassie series.
Box 18: Works for Television
Folder 1 Adventures of Charlie Chan: The Great Salvos (1957)
Folder 2 Bronco Layne: Destinies West (1961)
Folder 3 Bronco Layne: Land purchase story: Story outline
Folder 4 Chevron Theatre: Night in the Museum (1953)
Folder 5 Coronado 9: While Ramon Burned (1959, 1960)
Folder 6 Coronado 9: Double Crossing: Story outline
Folder 7 Cornoado 9: Yo Ho Homicide: Story outline
Folder 8 Death Valley Days: The $275,000 Sack of Flour (1962)
Folder 9 Death Valley Days: The $275,000 Sack of Flour: Correspondence (1993)
Folder 10 Death Valley Days: The Lion of Idaho (1962) [William E. Borah]
Folder 11 Death Valley Days: Loss of Faith (1962)
Folder 12 Death Valley Days: Phantom Procession (1962)
Folder 13 Death Valley Days: Research
Folder 14 Death Valley Days: Story ideas
Folder 15 Death Valley Days: Story submissions
Folder 16 Gunslinger: The Death Seeker: Story outline
Folder 17 Kit Carson: Fragments
Folder 18 Kit Carson #30: Border City (1952)
Folder 19 Kit Carson # 32: The Broken Spur
Box 19: Works for Television
Folder 1 Kit Carson #37: The Curse of the Albas
Folder 2 Kit Carson #47: Trouble in Tuscadora
Folder 3 Kit Carson #137: Savage Outpost
Folder 4 Kit Carson #138: Marshal of Guntown
Folder 5 Kit Carson #140: Outlaw Army
Folder 6 Kit Carson #141: Haunted Hacienda
Folder 7 Kit Carson #147: Law of Boot Hill
Folder 8 Kit Carson #152: Powdersmoke Law
Folder 9 Kit Carson #153: Phantom Uprising
Folder 10 Kit Carson #154: Mission to Alkalil
Folder 11 Kit Carson #155: Frontier Empire
Folder 12 Kit Carson #156: The Judge of Black Mesa
Folder 13 Kit Carson #157: Valiant Outlaw
Folder 14 Kit Carson #158: Devil’s Remuda
Folder 15 Kit Carson #159: Eyes of the Outlaw
Folder 16 Kit Carson #160: Overland Stage
Folder 17 Kit Carson #161: Ghost Town Garrison
Folder 18 Kit Carson #162: Renegades of Rejo
Folder 19 Kit Carson #163: Stampede Fury
Folder 20 Kit Carson #164: The Golden Ring of Cibola
Folder 21 Kit Carson #165: Bullets of Death
Folder 22 Kit Carson #168: Frontier Challenge
Box 20: Work for Television
Folder 1 Kit Carson #169: The Gatling Gun
Folder 2 Kit Carson #170: Powder Depot
Folder 3 Kit Carson #171: The Hermit of Indian Ridge
Folder 4 Kit Carson #172: Riders of the Hooded League
Folder 5 Kit Carson: Phantoms of Ghost Town
Folder 6 Kit Carson: Synopses (not by Barry Shipman)
Folder 7 Laramie: Lawless Legacy (1961): Story outline
Folder 8 Laramie: Slaughter’s Stallion: Story outline
Folder 9 Lassie: Analysis (“Basic Ingredients”)
Folder 10 Lassie: Contract, Residual statements (1966-1967)
Folder 11 Lassie #6414: Lassie Works a Miracle (1964)
Folder 12 Lassie #6424: Lassie Meets a Challenge
Folder 13 Lassie #6513: In the Eyes of Lassie
Folder 14 Lassie #6617: Lassie Baits a Bear (1966)
Folder 15 Lassie: Courage of Lassie: Story outline
Folder 16 Lassie: The Heart of Lassie: Story outline
Folder 17 Lassie: Lassie Keeps a Promise (1966): Story outline
Folder 18 Lassie: The Old Man and the Forest (1964): Story outline
Folder 19 Lassie: Realm of the Wild (1964): Story outline
Folder 20 Lassie: Wild Hyacinth: Story outline
Box 21: Works for Television
Folder 1 Last of the Mohicans: Winter Passage (1956)
Folder 2 Mickey Spillane: Black Blossoms (1959)
Folder 3 Mickey Spillane: Blunder Buss (1959)
Folder 4 Mickey Spillane: Doll Trouble
Folder 5 Mickey Spillane: My Fair Deadly (1958)
Folder 6 Mickey Spillane: Wedding Morning (1959)
Folder 7 Mickey Spillane: Story submissions
Folder 8 Overland Stage: Bad Man from Bitter Creek: Story outline
Folder 9 Overland Stage: First Stage to Denver (1959)
Folder 10 Overland Stage: First Stage to Denver (1959)
Folder 11 Overland Stage: Pilot script, by Samuel A. Peeples (1959)
Folder 12 Ramar of the Jungle: Crocodile God of Kaa: Story outline
Folder 13 Ramar of the Jungle: The Mark of Shaitan
Folder 14 Roy Rogers: Toss Up (1956)
Folder 15 S.A.-7: Jason and the Double Fleece (1959)
Folder 16 S.A.-7: The Bogus Bonds of Balaam (1959)
Folder 17 S.A.-7: Stone Deaf (1959)
Box 22: Works for Television
Folder 1 Shotgun Slade: Freight Lane (1959)
Folder 2 Shotgun Slade: Noose Brand Frame-Up (1959)
Folder 3 Shotgun Slade: A Plate of Death (1959)
Folder 4 Shotgun Slade: The Pool Shark (1959)
Folder 5 Shotgun Slade: Roman Creek (1959)
Folder 6 Shotgun Slade: The Smell of Money (1959)
Folder 7 Shotgun Slade: Shotgun Trail (1959)
Folder 8 Shotgun Slade: A Flower for Jenny (1960)
Folder 9 Shotgun Slade: Woman from Wyoming (1960)
Folder 10 Shotgun Slade: Widow of El Dorado (1960)
Folder 11 Shotgun Slade: A Gun and a Prayer (1961)
Folder 12 Shotgun Slade: Crossed Guns
Folder 13 Shotgun Slade: The Phantom Noose: Story outline
Folder 14 Shotgun Slade: Set-Up for a Gundown: Story outline
Folder 15 Shotgun Slade: Sing a Song of Six-Guns: Story outline
Folder 16 Shotgun Slade: Story submission
Folder 17 Soldiers of Fortune: The City of Doom
Box 23: Works for Television
Folder 1 Soldiers of Fortune: Escort to Namtok (1955)
Folder 2 Soldiers of Fortune: The General (1955)
Folder 3 Soldiers of Fortune: Hatchet Man (1956)
Folder 4 Soldiers of Fortune: Hatchet Man (1956): Contracts, etc.
Folder 5 Soldiers of Forunte: The Monster of Loch Macgora (1956)
Folder 6 State Trooper: Dangerous Honeymoon (1957)
Folder 7 State Trooper: The Sniper (1957)
Folder 8 State Trooper: Stay Lost Little Girl (1958)
Folder 9 State Trooper: Firebug (1958)
Folder 10 State Trooper: Still Water Runs Red (1958)
Folder 11 State Trooper: No My Darling Daughter (1958)
Folder 12 State Trooper: The Woman Who Cried Wolf (1958)
Folder 13 State Trooper: Joker’s Dead (1958)
Folder 14 State Trooper: When the Cat’s Away (1958)
Folder 15 State Trooper: Crisis at Comstock (1958)
Folder 16 State Trooper: The Trap that Jack Built (1958)
Folder 17 State Trooper: Lonely Valley (1958)
Folder 18 State Trooper: Excitement at Milltown (1958)
Folder 19 State Trooper: The Silver Spiral (1958)
Folder 20 State Trooper: The Judas Tree (1958)
Folder 21 State Trooper: The Choker (1959)
Folder 22 State Trooper: The Choker (1959)
Folder 23 State Trooper: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1959)
Box 24: Works for Television
Folder 1 Tall Man: Story proposals
Folder 2 Tall Man: Night Train to Tularosa (1960)
Folder 3 Tall Man: Death or Taxes (1960)
Folder 4 Tall Man: Death or Taxes
Folder 5 Tall Man: Maria’s Little Lamb (1960)
Folder 6 Tall Man: Ransom of a Town (1960)
Folder 7 Tall Man: Notes
Folder 8 Tom Sawyer: Cap’n Jack’s Ordeal: Story outline
Folder 9 Tom Sawyer: A Night on Sand Island: Story outline
Folder 10 Tom Sawyer: Quiet Sunday (1960)
Folder 11 U.S. Marshal: Tarnished Star (1959)
Folder 12 U.S. Marshal: Short Cut to Hell (1959)
Folder 13 U.S. Marshal: Dial ‘O’ for Danger (1960)
Folder 14 U.S. Marshal: Root of Evil: Story outline
Folder 15 Whirlybirds: Fire Flight (1956)
Folder 16 Whirlybirds: Incident at Wilke’s Bight (1956)
Folder 17 Whirlybirds: Fury Canyon (1957)
Folder 18 Wild Bill Hickok: Meteor Mesa (1957)
Box 25: Works for Television
Folder 1 Adventures of Dr. Fu-Manchu: Prisoner of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1955)
Folder 2 Adventures of Dr. Fu-Manchu: The Delegate from Hell (1955)
Folder 3 Hoosier Hot Shots Show: Pilot (1949)
Folder 4 The Judy Canova Show # 1
Folder 5 The Judy Canova Show
Series VIII: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
The screenplays in Series VIII are scripts and treatments for both feature films and serials. As in the case of the television scripts, a few (including Dick Tracy, Episode One, 1937) are Barry Shipman's own typewritten versions, but most are duplicated shooting scripts prepared by the studios. Several films are represented by more than one version of the script. The dates following the names of the scripts are the dates on the scripts themselves, and not necessarily the dates the films were released.
Barry Shipman's most acclaimed film, Stranger at My Door (1956), is represented by two treatments and several versions of the script. The treatments and early versions are filed under the original working title, "Jesse James Was My Neighbor" (Box 26), based on the book of the same name. Only the final version was entitled "Stranger at My Door" (Box 28, Folder 1). The James family estate objected to Shipman's depiction of Jesse James in the script, so the name of the lead character was changed to Clay Anderson. (Barry Shipman to Alan Virta, 9 February 1989, in Box 4, Folder 8).
The shooting schedule for the Durango Kid serial episode, Prairie Roundup (Box 30, Folder 8), reveals the expeditious pace at which these serials were filmed. Prairie Roundup, featuring Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid, was shot at the Columbia Ranch in Burbank and the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth in seven days in July 1950. A few of the Durango scripts are not Shipman's, but were written by others.
Box 25: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
Folder 6 Adventures of Daniel Boone: Treatment (1955)
Folder 7 Carolina Cannonball (Judy Canova) (1954)
Folder 8 Dick Tracy: Episode One (1936)
Folder 9 Feudin’ Rhythm (Eddy Arnold) (1949)
Folder 10 Gene Autry Untitled: Treatment (1942)
Folder 11 Hoedown (Eddy Arnold) (1949)
Folder 12 Home in San Antone (Roy Acuff) (1948)
Folder 13 Hot Heiress / Untamed Heiress (Judy Canova) (1952)
Folder 14 Hot Heiress / Untamed Heiress (Judy Canova) (1953)
Folder 15 Hot Heiress / Untamed Heiress (Judy Canova) (1953)
Box 26: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
Folder 1 Hot Heiress / Untamed Heiress (Judy Canova) (1953)
Folder 2 Jesse James Was My Neighbor / Stranger at My Door: Treatment (1953)
Folder 3 Jesse James Was My Neighbor / Stranger at My Door: Treatment (1953)
Folder 4 Jesse James Was My Neighbor / Stranger at My Door (1953)
Folder 5 Jesse James Was My Neighbor / Stranger at My Door (1954)
Folder 6 Jesse James Was My Neighbor / Stranger at My Door (1954)
Folder 7 Jesse James Was My Neighbor / Stranger at My Door (1955)
Folder 8 Latin Quarter (1954)
Folder 9 Lay That Rifle Down: Treatment (1954)
Folder 10 Lay That Rifle Down (1954)
Folder 11 Lay That Rifle Down (1954)
Box 27: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
Folder 1 Montana Territory (1951)
Folder 2 Montana Territory (1951)
Folder 3 Montana Territory: Production papers (1951)
Folder 4 The Painted Stallion: Episode One (1936)
Folder 5 The Renegades and the Woman (1955)
Folder 6 Rose of Santa Rosa (Hoosier Hot Shots) (1947)
Folder 7 Santa Fe Sunset / Out California Way: Treatment (1945)
Folder 8 Singing Spurs (Hoosier Hot Shots) (1948)
Folder 9 Smoky Mountain Melody (Roy Acuff) (1948)
Folder 10 Smoky Mountain Moon (Roy Acuff) (1948)
Folder 11 Smoky River Serenade (Hoosier Hot Shots) (1947)
Folder 12 S.O.S. Coast Guard: Episode One (1937)
Folder 13 Song of Idaho (Hoosier Hot Shots) (1947)
Box 28: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
Folder 1 Stranger at My Door (1955)
Folder 2 Swing the Western Way (1946)
Folder 3 Texas Sandman (Hoosier Hot Shots) (1948)
Folder 4 Texas Sandman (Hoosier Hot Shots) (1948)
Folder 5 Three Mesquiteers: Panhandle story (Treatment) (1939)
Folder 6 Three Mesquiteers # 1116: Treatment (1941)
Folder 7 Three Mesquiteers # 1117: Story outline (1941)
Box 29: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
Folder 1 Durango Kid: Riders of the Lone Star (1946)
Folder 2 Durango Kid: Six-Gun Law (1947)
Folder 3 Durango Kid: West of Sonora (1947)
Folder 4 Durango Kid: Trail to Laredo (1947)
Folder 5 Durango Kid: Laramie (1948)
Folder 6 Durango Kid: The Blazing Trail (1948)
Folder 7 Durango Kid: Horseman of the Sierras (1949)
Folder 8 Durango Kid: Trail of the Rustlers (1949)
Folder 9 Durango Kid: Texas Dynamo (1949)
Box 30: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
Folder 1 Durango Kid: Riders of Black Mesa (1949)
Folder 2 Durango Kid: Streets of Ghost Town (1949)
Folder 3 Durango Kid: Streets of Ghost Town (1949)
Folder 4 Durango Kid: Across the Badlands (1949)
Folder 5 Durango Kid: Across the Badlands (1949)
Folder 6 Durango Kid: Lightning Guns (1950)
Folder 7 Durango Kid: Prairie Roundup (1950)
Folder 8 Durango Kid: Prairie Roundup: Shooting schedule (1950)
Folder 9 Durango Kid: Lightning Guns: Cast sheet / Crew sheet (1950)
Folder 10 Durango Kid: Raiders of Tomahawk Creek (1950)
Folder 11 Durango Kid: Rings of Death (1950)
Folder 12 Durango Kid: Ridin’ the Outlaw Trail (1950)
Box 31: Screenplays (Motion Pictures and Serials)
Folder 1 Durango Kid: Snake River Desperados (1950)
Folder 2 Durango Kid: Fort Savage Raiders (1950)
Folder 3 Durango Kid: Bonanza Town (1950)
Folder 4 Durango Kid: Cyclone Fury (1950)
Folder 5 Durango Kid: Desert Vigilante (1950)
Folder 6 Durango Kid: Whiphand (1951)
Folder 7 Durango Kid: The Kid from Amarillo (1951)
Folder 8 Durango Kid: Smoky Canyon (1951)
Folder 9 Durango Kid: The Rough, Tough West (1951)
Box 32: Screenplays (Motion pictures and Serials)
Folder 1 Durango Kid: Laramie Mountains (1951)
Folder 2 Durango Kid: Junction City (1951)
Folder 3 Durango Kid: The Kid from Broken Gun (1952)
Folder 4 Durango Kid: Panhandle Territory (1952)
Folder 5 Durango Kid: Gunpowder (1952)
Box 33: Screenplays (Motion pictures and Serials)
The Painted Stallion: Episodes 1 – 12 (1936)
Box 34: Screenplays (Motion pictures and Serials)
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island: Episodes 1 – 12 (1936)
Box 35: Screenplays (Motion pictures and Serials)
S.O.S. Coast Guard: Episodes 1-12 (1937)
Box 47 (Oversize): Screenplays (Motion pictures and Serials)
Advertising pressbooks for:
The Arkansas Swing
Feudin’ Rhythm
Frontier Outpost
Hawk of the Wilderness
Song of Idaho
Trail to Laredo
Republic Confidential (book), by Jack Mathis
Series IX: Story outlines, Short stories, and Scripts
With one exception, the works in this series are not known to have been produced or published. They include short stories, story ideas, radio plays, proposals and scripts for feature films, documentaries, and television, and other works of an unidentified or miscellaneous nature. Almost all are in typescript form. The earliest works in the series appear to be two short stories, "And So to Bedlam" (written in 1930, when Barry was 18), and "The Personal Adventures of a Guinea Pig," which may be even earlier. Other early works include stories coauthored with his mother, Nell Shipman, in the 1930s, and some written for producer Nat Levine. Television proposals in this series include story ideas pitched to the producers of the Bonanza, Cheyenne, and Jetsons series. One of Shipman's unfulfilled projects attracted press attention. The Los Angeles Herald of February 8, 1936, featured a story about his research on the religious society of Penitentes and its alleged link to the murder of writer Carl Taylor in New Mexico (clipping included in the file on "The Penitentes"). He was planning to write a screenplay about the subject.
The one work in this series that is known to have been produced is the musical fantasy "Doraleen," which Shipman wrote with his daughter, Nina Shipman. It was produced by Nina Shipman at the University of Hawaii Hilo in 1986.
Box 36: Story outlines, Short stories, and Scripts
Folder 1 Research and Ideas
Folder 2 Abur Muchacho !
Folder 3 And So to Bedlam (Short story) (1930)
Folder 4 Anchor Ridge (Short story)
Folder 5 Animals, Simulated conversation (Story outline, Nat Levine)(1940)
Folder 6 Bad Angel
Folder 7 Battle of Dabbit Run
Folder 8 Big Dick (Short story)
Folder 9 The Black Door (Short story) (1934)
Folder 10 Blood donor documentary (1952)
Folder 11 Bonanza: Angel with Amnesia
Folder 12 Bonanza: Jampenny
Folder 13 Bonanza: A Taste of Eden
Folder 14 Byron Court
Folder 15 Captain Rickelberry and the Red Baron (1970)
Folder 16 Chateau Darsac ’21 (with Lois Eby)
Folder 17 Cheyenne: The Rogue Morgan
Folder 18 Cheyenne: Story proposals
Folder 19 The Clarinet, the Goldfish in the Bowl, and the Clock
Folder 20 Coffee Break
Folder 21 Cold War Marines (with Russell Hayden)
Folder 22 Colt
Folder 23 Crazy as a Coot (with Rex Taylor)
Folder 24 Credo in 2 / 4 Time (Short story)
Folder 25 The Dangerous Way
Folder 26 Doraleen (“Pilot script”)
Folder 27 Doraleen (Script) (with Nina Shipman)
Folder 28 Doraleen: Lyrics
Folder 29 Doraleen: Transcript of Nell Shipman recording (1969)
Folder 30 Doraleen: Correspondence: Luanne Burkett (1981-1982)
Folder 31 Doraleen: Correspondence: Tony La Scala (1981-1982)
Folder 32 Doraleen: Correspondence: Miscellaneous (1980-1993)
Folder 33 Doraleen and Fuzzy Vague (Novel)
Folder 34 Double-Check (with Lois Eby)
Folder 35 Drikung (Partial story) (1980)
Folder 36 The Dumkopf Report
Folder 37 Dwight’s First Birthday (Radio skit)
Folder 38 Es La Cosa (Short story)
Folder 39 The Explorer (with Nell Shipman)
Box 37: Story outlines, Short stories, and Scripts
Folder 1 The Face of Freedom / P.O.W. (1978)
Folder 2 The Face of Freedom / P.O.W.) (1978)
Folder 3 Face of the West
Folder 4 Faro
Folder 5 A Father is Missing
Folder 6 Fibber McGee and Molly (Script) (ca. 1952)
Folder 7 The Film Hunter
Folder 8 Floating Bridge
Folder 9 Four Horsemen (Script, pp. 1-70)
Folder 10 Four Horsement (Script, pp. 71-161)
Folder 11 Four Horsemen – Outlaws (Script for Nat Levine)
Folder 12 Genesis Recycled
Folder 13 Girls’ Dormitory
Folder 14 Gold Mine in the Sky (Estimating script)
Folder 15 Golden Shivada
Folder 16 Got a Match, Buddy: Correspondence (1939)
Folder 17 The Greatest Name
Folder 18 A Harbor is a Good Thing
Folder 19 Helicopter salvage documentary: Correspondence (1960-1991)
Folder 20 The Helmet (Radio play)
Folder 21 High Adventure
Folder 22 Hit the Ceiling
Folder 23 Hopalong Cassidy untitled
Folder 24 Hopalong Cassidy untitled
Box 38: Story outlines, Short stories, and Scripts
Folder 1 Horace de Vere Cole gag
Folder 2 Iberian Adventure (ca. 1957)
Folder 3 Interplanetary Navigation (Script) (1964)
Folder 4 Jetsons
Folder 5 Jim Clark’s War Diary
Folder 6 Kid Bolivar
Folder 7 The Ladakh Story
Folder 8 Little Audrey
Folder 9 The Lone Vigilante
Folder 10 The Love Doctor
Folder 11 The Lumberjack(with Nell Shipman) (ca. 1934)
Folder 12 The Lonesome Bell (ca. 1936)
Folder 13 The Magic Arena (Short story)
Folder 14 Magic Television Set (1972)
Folder 15 Magnolia
Folder 16 Man’s Best
Folder 17 A Martian Bed-Time Story
Folder 18 Mother Goose (1984)
Folder 19 Murder in the Stars (with Nell Shipman) (ca. 1937-38)
Folder 20 National Offensive Order of the Undershirts
Folder 21 Operation Moon Map
Folder 22 The Outcasts of Purity
Folder 23 The Packman (1961)
Folder 24 Penitentes
Folder 25 The Personal Memoirs of a Guinea Pig (Short story)
Folder 26 Pied Piper of the Pentagon
Folder 27 Point and Counter Point
Folder 28 Ponce de Leon, Ltd.
Folder 29 Power Play (Monologue)
Folder 30 The Prima Donna and the Cowboy (with Marina Koshetz)
Folder 31 The Prime of Your Life (with Thom Keith)
Box 39: Story outlines, Short stories, and Scripts
Folder 1 Protection for People (Script) (1962)
Folder 2 Rebel in Blue (Script)
Folder 3 Rebel in Blue (Script) (1951)
Folder 4 Robinson Crusoe of Ku Ku Island (with Nina Shipman) (Script)
Folder 5 Shadows
Folder 6 Shame Town / Silver Platter
Folder 7 The She Stallion (1987)
Folder 8 The Slipping Clutch (Short story)
Folder 9 Something is Laughing
Folder 10 Song My Mother Taught Me (with Marina Koshetz) (1966)
Folder 11 The Star Monster
Folder 12 The Star Monster (Script)
Folder 13 The Star-Setter
Folder 14 Sub Chaser (with Rex Taylor) (ca. 1941)
Folder 15 Swamp Devil
Folder 16 Sweet Sweet Charity (Monologue)
Folder 17 Tag of Identification (Short story) (1938)
Folder 18 A Tale of a Dog
Folder 19 Ten Years in January
Folder 20 Texas Renegades
Folder 21 This is Your Dream
Folder 22 Those Verworn Ghosts (with Rex Taylor)
Box 40: Story outlines, Short stories, and Scripts
Folder 1 Timber Giant
Folder 2 Timber Giant (with Thorpe Babcock) (ca. 1936)
Folder 3 Time Bomb in a Brick Foxhole (Tribute to Richard Brooks) (1992)
Folder 4 The Two Worlds of Nellie Bly
Folder 5 A Typical Den Meeting (Script)
Folder 6 Wall Paper (Short story)
Folder 7 War Hawk (1954)
Folder 8 The Widow from Wyoming
Folder 9 The Wine of Karma (Short story)
Folder 10 Year of the Dragon
Scripts by others
Folder 11 The Circus (Frontier Doctor), by Al Martin
Folder 12 Ladies in Mink, by Clyde Bruckman
Folder 13 The Execution of Lazerus (Anonymous)
Series X: Air Force and Navy Scripts
Included in this series are scripts and production papers for films Barry Shipman wrote, directed, or produced while working as a consultant with the U.S. Navy (1964–1966 ) and as a civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force (1967–1979). Many of the scripts are shooting scripts, with camera directions as well as dialogue. Production papers may include memos, travel schedules, shooting schedules, and commendations. The titles, particularly those on early script versions and production papers, may not be those under which the film was released. A number of the films relate directly to the Vietnam War; some films relate to aircraft piloting.
Box 41: Air Force films (Scripts, production papers, etc.)
Folder 1 AAAARK! Something About Communication (SFP 1876) (1968): Script [Film produced as AAARK!]
Folder 2 AAARK! Something About Communication (SFP 1876) (1968)
Folder 3 Air Force Academy film (1967)
Folder 4 Black Man (SFP 2096): Script
Folder 5 Bob Hope show (Alaska) (1971)
Folder 6 C-141 Category Two ILS Approach Procedures (TF 6633) (1972): Script
Folder 7 Coping with Violations of the Public Trust (SS 306) (1979): Script
Folder 8 Coronet Organ (SFP 2239) (1972)
Folder 9 Coronet Organ (SFP 2239) (1972)
Folder 10 The Court Martial Process (TS 1220): Script
Folder 11 Crackerjack, We Love You (FR 771) (1969): Script
Folder 12 Crackerjack, We Love You (FR 771) (1970)
Folder 13 Crackerjack, We Love You (FR 771) (1970): Vietnam trip
Folder 14 Effective Commander’s Calls (AVR 77): Script
Folder 15 Energy Management (TF 6668): Script
Folder 16 Energy Management: Energy Maneuverability class transcript (1973): pp 1-89
Folder 17 Energy Management: Energy Maneuverability class transcript (1973): pp 90-193
Folder 18 Exercise Focus Retina [Korea] (1969)
Folder 19 The Eyes and Ears of the Arctic [DEW line] (FR 1344) (1973): Script
Folder 20 The Eyes and Ears of the Arctic [DEW line] (FR 1344) (1973, 1994)
Folder 21 Get the Message, the AFCS Reserve Forces (FR 1282) (1975): Script
Folder 22 The Gift of America (AFN 80) (1976): Script
Box 42: Air Force films (Scripts, production papers, etc.)
Folder 1 Helicopter (AVA 824)
Folder 2 Homecoming (1973)
Folder 3 Integrated Logistics Support (AVR 71) (1976): Script
Folder 4 It’s Your Skin (TF 6317) : Script
Folder 5 Know Your Cargo (TS 98) (1975): Script
Folder 6 Mission North [North Vietnam] (SFP 1705) (1967): Script
Folder 7 Mission North [North Vietnam] (SFP 1705) (1967): Script
Folder 8 Mission North [North Vietnam]
Folder 9 The Modern Treatment of Decompression Sickness (TF 6845) (1975): Script
Folder 10 The Modern Treatment of Decompression Sickness (TF 6845) (1975): Script
Folder 11 Single Management of Audio-Visual Resources (SFP 1878) (1969)
Folder 12 Visual Illusions (TS 1414) : Script
Folder 13 Westward the Eagles (FR 981) (1968): Script
Folder 14 With Tender Loving Care (TF 6538) (1972)
Box 42: Navy films (Scripts, production papers, etc.)
Folder 15 The $75,000 Pick Up [Underwater recovery vehicles]: Script
Folder 16 100,000 Pound Igloo Test (1964): Script
Folder 17 100,000 Pound Igloo Test (1964)
Folder 18 Dolphin Hydrodynamic Studies (1965): Script
Folder 19 Models and Missiles of the Magic VAT: Script
Folder 20 To Catch a Shadow [Submarine warfare] (1966): Script
Folder 21 To Catch a Shadow (1966): Script
Folder 22 To Catch a Shadow (1966)
Folder 23 Twenty-Fifth Hour (1964): Script
Folder 24 Twenty-Fifth Hour (1964): Script