Production Notes and Lab Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Neff, Tom, 1953-
setName: label: See more items in
content: Audiovisual materials relating to the documentary Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear Feet (Box 2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nefftom, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series includes script notes, shot lists, editing notes, detailed editing logs, camera reports, and lab records including work orders for dailies, effects such as titles and superimpositions, and documentation of the final print. 

Partial scripts contain an overview of the main sections of the documentary in narrative form with an indication of footage to be used for each section, and a partial transcript for an unidentified fragment of the documentary. 

Records in this series that are especially helpful in linking the content of film footage with their identifying numbers include camera reports, negative logs, and shot lists. Negative logs provide the most comprehensive link between the camera roll numbers and the negative roll numbers, which match the numbers used on film cans and in this finding aid. Negative roll numbers are listed in the first column under the heading "N.R.#," and camera roll numbers are found in the far right column under the heading "comments." 

Camera reports, although they do not exist for every roll of film, contain dates, camera roll numbers, and often contain brief notes on the content of the film roll. Shot lists provide detailed content description for silent location footage and footage of photographs and artwork. 

Lab work orders for dailies (the term for unedited camera rolls processed by the lab each day of shooting) also contain brief notes by lab technicians on the general content of the film rolls, although these notes are generic and are not made by people familiar with the subject of the film. For instance, close up footage of Beatrice Wood is simply identified as "C.U. Lady." Nevertheless these notes are helpful in distinguishing between interview footage, silent location footage, and footage of photographs and artwork.