Scope and Content Note
The George and Mildred Schaefer collection consists of scripts, photographs, and memorabilia from George Schaefer's career, including a complete set of teleplays from Schaefer's many productions for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television program.
Series I, Scripts, consists of scripts for Schaefer's many television, stage, and feature film productions. Many of the scripts are bound together in omnibus hardcovers. Highlights include a complete set of works directed by Schaefer for the Hallmark Hall of Fame and the Dallas State Fair Musicals. The majority of scripts are heavily annotated and supplemented with stage directions, set sketches, etc.
The following subseries fall under Series I, Scripts:
Feature Films
Television Productions
Stage Productions
Miscellaneous and Unproduced Scripts
Series II, Photographs, consists primarily of set photos from television and stage.
The following subseries fall under Series II, Photographs:
Production stills from on set
Photographs of George Schaefer
Series III, Memorabilia, consists of programs, playbills, and other ephemera from Schaefer's career.
Series IV, Monographs, consists of Schaefer's published autobiography, From Live to Tape to Film, an academic thesis on Schaefer's television direction, and a manuscript for an unpublished book on Katherine Hepburn.