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- 28 July 1969-28 July 1973 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence between Adrian Malone (director) and Bronowski or Sylvia Hodgson/Fitzgerald.
Subjects include: discussion of content, scripts and suggestions of additions and edits ("treatments" of the scripts); updates on a meeting at the BBC about 'The Ascent of Man'; Bronowski visiting London (1970); Bronowski sending expanded scripts, "treatments" of scripts, and "sync pieces"; arrangements for filming including travel and clothing; and reactions to 'The Ascent of Man' being shown on television.
Also includes: transcriptions of tapes made by Adrian Malone about locations research in Turkey and Samos (Greece); copies of notes for a meeting between Malone and Peter Roebeck at Time-Life Films; and notes, scripts with columns for vision, footage and sound [sync scripts], and a transcription of the soundtrack, all for programme 6 'The Starry Messenger'.