Document: correspondence - General correspondence 1982 - General correspondence file relating to pre-production, research, music costings, future sales, 1982 - - HAB-1-129-2-11
Document: correspondence - General correspondence 1983 - General correspondence file relating topics including:
production progress; music [Boris Karadimchev]; commentary; editing costings; importance of screenings to raise further investment in the project
also:
- an agreement between EFC and Kaledone Limited, 5 April 1983 - - HAB-1-129-2-12
Document: correspondence - General correspondence 1984 - General correspondence file relating to topics including:
- Italian version of the film; letters of congratulation; reaction of Italian art historians to the film; distribution; US marketing; possible screening at the V&A
January - December 1984 - - HAB-1-129-2-13
Document: correspondence - Italian version - correspondence - File containing correspondence relating to the Italian version of the film including discussions about translation of the text; dubbing; music and effects; transfer of material; transportation problems; screening in Florence; Florence Film Festival
December 1983 - May 1984 - - HAB-1-129-2-10
Document: post-production - Music cue sheet - File containing:
- Music cue sheet [giving brief description of the film and music used], no date c. 1984
- correspondence regarding music including a copy of letter to Boris Karadimchev from John Halas inviting him to compose the music for the film, 31 August 1982
- - HAB-1-129-2-5
Document: pre-production - Budget breakdown - File containing:
- 'Estimated budget'
- expected revenue for the first three years
- costings for lab processing, September 1982 - - HAB-1-129-2-4
Document: production - New Vision: The Life and Work of Botticelli / Botticelli - First in the Great Masters series of films. Examing the life and work of Italian artist Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510)
Written & directed by John Halas; animation: Harold Whitaker, Gary Powell, Brian Borthwick; narration: Robin Ellis;
music: Boris Karadimchev
Papers include, scripts, press & publicity, correspondence and stills - - HAB-1-129-2
Document: publicity - Press & publicity - File containing:
- draft press-sheets
- pressbook
- - HAB-1-129-2-8
Document: publicity - Press screenings - File containing material relating to press previews and private screenings of the film including:
- draft invitations
- invitation to first private showing at Financial Times Cinema, Cannon Street, London, 22 September 1983
- invitation to press screening a Financial Times Cinema, Cannon Street, London 3 November 1983
- letters of acceptance to attend screenings
- letters declining invitation to screenings
- guest lists of invitees
- viewer survey [blanks] - - HAB-1-129-2-9
Photograph - Photographs of Florence - File containing three photographs [c. 1910] of Florence
- Piazza Manin col monumente omonimo
- Chiesa di S. Maria Novella terminata da Jacopo Talenti [two different views]
Probably used for research
- 3 items - HAB-1-129-2-7
Photograph - Stills and transparencies - File containing:
- Seven colour stills [mainly of Dante's Inferno]
- one black & white still of the young Botticelli being tutored in the studio of Fra Fillipo Lippi
- five colour transparencies
- - HAB-1-129-2-6
Script - Commentary script [Italian language version] - Commentary script [Italian language], no date c. 1984 - - HAB-1-129-2-3
Script - Script [French language] - Commentary script [French language version] , no date c. 1984 - - HAB-1-129-2-2
Script - Scripts - File containing various script commentary versions:
- 'Provisional theme for narration', 6 October 1982
- 'Narration', 1983
- 'Narration as Recorded', no date c. 1983 [two copies] - 4 items - HAB-1-129-2-1