Earl I. Sponable Papers 1928-1968.
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Creator:
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Sponable, Earl I., 1895-1977. |
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Phys. Desc:
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ca. 75,000 items (123 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 1 pkg. nitrate film) |
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Call Number:
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Ms Coll\Sponable |
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Location:
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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Biographical Note
Chemist, Chief Engineer and Director of Research for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and its subsidiaries, 1926-1962.
Sponable received a bachelors degree in chemistry from Cornell University, 1916, and was active in many aspects of research
and development in broadcast and movie media, particularly in early sound film.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, laboratory notebooks, technical drawings, film samples, screen samples, photographs, and
printed material of Sponable. The collection is almost entirely technical and commercial in nature and relates especially
to Movietone News and to the Fox laboratories' work with color film, television, theater television and the Eidophor System,
and Cinemascope. Also, files relating to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, of which Sponable was a member
and officer. There is cataloged correspondence from Sir Edward Gordon Craig, Lee deForest, Samuel Lionel Rothafel, Spyros
P. Skouras, and Darryl F. Zanuck.
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