A GIFT FOR LAUGHTER
Comedy and the Jews

Primary Archival Sources

  • National Archives, Universal Newsreel Collection from late 1920’s to 1967, which covers public events from those years and are in public domain
  • Library of Congress, The Paper Print Collection, which has motion Picture material from 1898 to circa 1918, Original Film/Video, Collection of early TV, including early sitcoms
  • Museum of the City of New York, which has early film of lower east side Manhattan
  • MacDonald & Associates, one of the largest archives of radio material and an extensive collection of early TV material
  • John Allen Inc., a privately held commercial archive
  • Museum of TV/Radio, New York City; Daphne Productions, for clips of Groucho Marks from The Dick Cavett Show
  • Historic Films, for material from the the Ed Sullivan Show
  • Getty Images, the largest corporate archives
  • UCLA Film & TV Archives, one of biggest collections of Radio/TV programs
  • Retrofilm, feature films in public domain