Editing notebook for the film Surviving Picasso : autograph manuscript.

Notebook kept by James Ivory while editing the film Surviving Picasso. The notebook includes several leaves of notes, business cards and ephemera laid in.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the upper cover: "Surviving Picasso 1996."
Surviving Picasso was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Huffington; the film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in September 1996.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.