![]() ![]() The archive, which took two years to catalogue to the folder level, is now the Center’s largest collection. In 1980, when the cost of commercial storage grew too great, his children donated the collection to the Ransom Center. Selznick collection, which comprises more than 5,000 boxes worth of papers, plus paintings, films, costumes and other materials from the legendary producer’s life and work. ![]() “Let’s dig in and see what’s really there.” “I thought, I have the entire archive on the other side of the wall from my office,” he recalls. That was the question facing Steve Wilson, curator of film at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, as the 75th anniversary of the 1939 release of Gone With the Wind approached. How do you put together an exhibition about one of the most famous films in Hollywood history without repeating what’s already been said and done? ![]()
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