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For researchers (and really intense fans), the best sources for Rod Serling
information are several Special Collections housed in libraries around the country:
two
in the East, two in the Midwest, and one in the West. There you can access primary
sources -- candid correspondence, original drafts of scripts, photos, and more.
Fortunately for scholars, Rod Serling saved everything that came across his
desk, and much of it is available for study.
Online, the comprehensive Twilight Zone Archives
has a page of Serling correspondence.
- Ithaca College
Special Collections, Ithaca, NY -- From the school where Serling taught in the early
70's, a collection including teleplays, screenplays, unproduced scripts, published works,
and secondary materials. Teleplays span 1952-1970, covering 23 series and 64
shows. Unfortunately, the unpublished and unproduced material is closed for general
research, although all of Serling's 92 Twilight Zone
scripts, housed at Ithaca College, are being published
in a limited-edition series.
- Rod Serling Memorial Foundation,
Binghamton, NY -- A large collection of memorabilia, photographs, scripts, films and tapes
(including kinescopes). The material is not all housed in the same location, so
researchers are advised to contact the foundation ahead of time to make
arrangements to access it.
- Wisconsin Center
for Film and Theater Research, Madison -- Rod Serling himself donated to Madison what is easily the
largest collection of primary sources. Over 80 boxes of material, including
correspondence, scripts (produced and unproduced), speeches, fan mail, financial records,
articles, reports, press releases, clippings, and audiotapes.
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