BIB_ID
414517
Accession number
MA 9313
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, screenwriter.
Display Date
New York, New York, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006-2007.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
Description
1 item (148 leaves), unbound ; 29.7 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Shooting script of 148 leaves (typed on the rectos and many with handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated by James Ivory throughout. Script is preceded by insertions, including final title page listing dates of various revisions through January 31, 2007 (12 pages, stapled and paperclipped). and followed by additional revisions dated "Double Green Page Revisions 08/21/08" (10 pages, paperclipped). A DVD titled in an unknown hand ""City" Locations 3 10/10/06" is laid in. Title page is dated October 12, 2006 and includes address for Merchant Ivory Productions in New York, as well as James Ivory's mark of ownership. Script is typed primarily on white leaves, but also on a few yellow leaves dated variously 10/12/06 and 12/14/06. Script is laid (was probably once partially post bound) in mylar covers. Script is enclosed in a light brown 5 Star Office paper file envelope.
Location of creation inferred from contents of the script.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the file envelope: "Jim's Script "City..." from production" and an additional label: "City of Final Destination 2010."
The screenplay for City of Your Final Destination was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the novel of the same title by Peter Cameron. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in 2010.
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.
Location of creation inferred from contents of the script.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the file envelope: "Jim's Script "City..." from production" and an additional label: "City of Final Destination 2010."
The screenplay for City of Your Final Destination was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the novel of the same title by Peter Cameron. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in 2010.
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.
Provenance
Gift of James Ivory, 2017.
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