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Archives (sometimes university archives) do preserve whatever is on paper, film or tape. The three dimension objects (costumes, furniture, models...) or huge ones (cycloramas, curtains...) are a real problem that can be solved only by museums which usually hesitate to get involved besause they are difficult to preserve (mold, worms...). There is a theatre museum in Germany and we came close to have one in Montreal, where only McCord Museum collects some of these three dimension memories (although most of them are not related to theatre). We should indeed make efforts to create more of these theatre museums or help some playhouses to preserve their memories. Andre G. Bourassa <[log in to unmask]> http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/c2545/theatral.html On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Steve Urnowitz wrote: > A thought about archiving and recording productions of early drama: Are there > any guides for directors or production groups for ways of making their records > of productions available? > > Prompt-books, director's or dramaturg's research files, costume designs, proper > ty lists, actors' journals, set designs, production photographs, production vid > eotapes, advertising copy, programs, budgets . . . any or all of these would pr > ovide guidance for future producers and aids to visualization and study by scho > lars, players, and students of the drama. > > What to save? Handy guides to lively videotaping of plays? Website architectur > e to link stuff to stuff? I have a video of Heywood's Play of the Four PP sitt > ing on my shelf gathering dust. What to do? > Steve Urkowitz, English, CCNY >