C. Larry Roberts independent film collection
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1961-1989
Creator
- Roberts, C. Larry (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical Note
C. Larry Roberts was a Utah independent filmmaker. During the late 1970s, Mr. Roberts was a producer with "EXTRA," the news magazine which ran on Salt Lake television station KUTV.
Mr. Roberts taught in the film department of the University of California, Santa Cruz; California Institute of the Arts; and San Francisco State University. He was an artist-in-residence at the Utah Media Arts Center.
At the time of his death he was preparing to make a feature movie about Everett Ruess, a young artist who disappeared near Escalante, Utah, in 1934. Mr. Roberts, along with colleague Diane Orr, received a Guggenheim Fellowship to produce the film. He was also working on a personal film, "The Divine Abyss." Mr. Roberts' "SL-1," also a collaboration with Orr, won the Josef von Sternberg Prize at the International Film Week festival in Mannheim, Germany. The documentary recounts an accident in 1961 at the military nuclear reactor in Idaho. It was aired on New York's public-television station, WNET.
C. Larry Roberts passed away in 1988.
Biographical information taken from Roberts' obituary.
Extent
111 16mm film
8 U-matic
2 VHS
1 Audiocassette
1 reel-to-reel audiotapes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Arrangement
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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Creator
- Roberts, C. Larry (Person)
- Title
- C. Larry Roberts independent film collection
- Author
- Finding aid written by Special Collections staff.
- Date
- 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The finding aid was written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu