March 29, 2012, Filed Under: Film"Empire Strikes Back" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Visual Effects Producer Thomas Smith donates collection Thomas Smith (b. 1938), visual effect producer for such films as Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back (1980) and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982), has donated his archive to the Ransom Center. Smith was hired by George Lucas as the first head of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and worked on… read more
March 28, 2012, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsStories from the Sueltas: Cataloger sheds light on gems in the Spanish comedias sueltas collection Cataloging of the approximately 14,000 titles in the Texas collection of comedias sueltas at the Harry Ransom Center is well underway, funded by a grant received from the Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program. Appropriately named, this program seeks to support “libraries, archives,… read more
March 27, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingVideo: The undergraduate visitor at the Ransom Center Each year, thousands of undergraduates come to the Harry Ransom Center to visit with a class, attend one the Center’s programs, or view an exhibition.
