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Producers' ass'n

File consists of a notice from the Association of Television Producers and Directors (Toronto) to its membership.

Publicity : pix and copy

File includes a photograph of Rita Greer Allen in a kitchen, used for promotion of "Take 30" episode "The funny fat game". Photograph by Robert C. Ragsdale.

Publicity : reviews and promos

File consists of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, promotional materials, memoranda, notes and correspondence pertaining to Rita Greer Allen and her television and writing work. File includes studio portraits of Rita Greer Allen taken by CBC photographer Henry Fox in 1963, a photograph of Rita with an unidentified woman taken at a formal event, an April 1959 promotional photograph (2 copies) of Rita and Kathie McNeil for "One of a kind" taken by Herb Nott & Co.

Pyramid

File consists of lists and instructions for a pyramid scheme.

Queen Charlottes

Item is a draft script written by Rita Greer Allen titled "A visit to the Queen Charlotte Islands".

Radio script in storyland

File consists of 1939 scripts for children's radio program "Storyland" presented by Rita Weyman for the Vegetable Products Company on CKCL,as well as a program for a Toronto Repertory Theatre 1939 production of "Elizabeth the queen" featuring Rita and Ronald Weyman and a 1945 radio script written by Rita for the "Round-up spot" about the Queen's Radio Institution in Kingston.

Re: Japan

File consists of correspondence with the Canadian government regarding Japanese immigration to Canada.

Reindeer

File consists of outline, research materials, notes and a radio script for an episode of CBC's "Wednesday night".

Reindeer 1960

File consists of notes, "A Christmas musical" outline, a script for "Round dance for Christmas" for CBC "Wednesday night".

"Report card"

File consists of research notes and draft scripts for the "Report card" episode of "As children see us".

Research materials

File contains a lecture by Daryl Sharp titled "Jungian psychology today: the opportunity and the danger", a transcript of CBC radio program "Ideas" titled "Angels among us", and an article from "The Atlantic" titled "Shame" by Robert Karen.

Rex's funeral

File consists of correspondence and a copy of the eulogy given by Hugh Nicolas Weyman, son of Rita Greer Allen's brother Rex Weyman, at Rex's funeral. Included is an audio cassette recording of the memorial service.

Rita Greer Allen fonds

  • F0596
  • Fonds
  • [1930?]-2005

Fonds consists of records created and maintained by Rita Greer Allen pertaining to her career as a freelance writer, researcher and broadcaster for radio and television, her work as an artist and sculptor, and her interest in and research about Jungian psychology. These records document Greer Allen's writing of dramatic and documentary scripts for radio and television in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, particularly her adaptations of short stories, novels and plays. Radio scripts written in the 1940s in collaboration with her husband, Robert Greer Allen, are also part of this fonds, as are scripts, audio recordings, interview transcripts and research materials pertaining to Greer Allen's writing, production and on-screen presenting work in the 1960s and 1970s for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television program "Take 30". Correspondence and contracts pertaining to her work are included in the fonds and illustrate the long-term freelance nature of Greer Allen's radio and television writing for the CBC, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and others. The fonds documents Greer Allen's lifelong interest in art, particularly her work in the 1970s and 1980s as an artist and sculptor of raku pottery. Personal records, correspondence, research files and records pertaining to Greer Allen's travels are also included. Records in this fonds are correspondence, scripts, transcripts, notes and notebooks, photographs, audio recordings, day planners, artwork, research materials, newspaper clippings, posters, and personal memorabilia.

Greer Allen, Rita, 1918-2010

Rita's studio contents

File consists of newspaper clippings, illustrations, notices for Rita Greer Allen's pottery exhibitions, sketches and notes, and photographs of sculpture and pottery on display.

Rochelle

File consists of correspondence from Rochelle, a psychic, to Rita Greer Allen.

Role of father : "Take 30"

File includes interview transcripts with Peter Gzowski for this episode of the program. Included are photographs from a contact sheet of images taken of one subject of the episode, Peter Gzowski, at home with his four children and wife.

"Romance"

File consists of a draft script for the "Romance" episode of "As children see us".

"Romance"

File consists of draft scripts and notes for the "Romance" episode of "As children see us".

School files and yearbooks

Series consists of lecture notes, yearbooks and other materials created and maintained by Rita Greer Allen during her high school and university education at East York Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and Mount Allison University respectively in the 1930s and 1940s. Also included are notes prepared by Greer Allen for an English course she taught at Sir George Williams College in Montreal.

Scripts

File consists of annotated scripts from the Playwrights' Studio Group, accumulated and annotated by Rita Greer Allen.

Scripts and work files

Series consists of records pertaining to Rita Greer Allen's career as a freelance researcher, screenwriter, producer and broadcaster for Canadian radio and television between the 1940s and the 1970s. The records in this series include scripts written by Rita, research materials, notes, newspaper clippings, interview transcripts, correspondence, photographs and production materials used in the creation of and pertaining to programs for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television and for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Also included in this series are manuscripts for Greer Allen's chapter written for the Marion Woodman book "Leaving my father's house: a journey to conscious femininity"(1993). Programs documented in this series include "As children see us", a CBC radio program; "Barometer rising", a CBC radio adaptation of Hugh MacLennan's novel that was later written as a television script; educational radio plays for in-school listening, created for the Departments of Education of the Provinces of British Columbia and Ontario in co-operation with the CBC and for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); CBC television programs "CBC Thursday night", "Of all people", and "Take 30"; original television drama "The raku fire" (1976); as well as many one-off drama adaptation or documentary projects for radio and television. Many radio scripts written in the 1940s were co-authored with Rita's husband, Robert Greer Allen, and correspondence and writing by Robert appear in some files in this series.

Sheldon

File consists of transcripts of an interview with William Sheldon, a script outline, a notebook and research materials for a "Take 30" episode.

Sheridan

File consists of notes taken by Rita Greer Allen at a Sheridan College workshop.

Sir George Williams College

File consists of correspondence and pamphlets pertaining to Rita Greer Allen's employment as a part-time instructor of English 101 at Sir George Williams College in Montreal.

Sketchbook

Item consists of pencil drawings and watercolours. A portrait of Robert Greer Allen is part of this sketchbook. Item includes a smaller sketchbook inside.

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