TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee,

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1 TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee, Overview of the Collection Creator Title Dates Quantity Collection Number Summary Repository Access Restrictions Languages Wixon, VincentMarkee, Mike TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee (inclusive) cubic feet, (31 boxes) OLPb021WIX This collection includes raw footage, production notes, and final edited footage of four films about writing and poetry featuring Lawson Inada in What It Means to be Free and William Stafford in What the River Says; The Life of the Poem; and The Methow River Poems. The films were produced and directed by Mike Markee and Vince Wixon of TTTD Productions, Ashland, Oregon. Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives Aubrey R. Watzek Library 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. Portland, OR Telephone: Fax: This collection has no restrictions and is open for research. English Historical Note The documentaries produced from this collection of video footage focus on two of the most significant Oregon poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Lawson Fusao Inada was born in Fresno, CA in 1938, the grandchild of Japanese immigrants. He spent the war years with his family in concentration camps in Arkansas and Colorado, among the ten thousand Japanese Americans to be interned. At Fresno State University he was encouraged to write poetry by Philip Levine. He has been strongly influenced by his great passion, jazz, which informs his preference for poetry in performance. His collections of poetry include Before the War: Poems As They Happened (1971), Legends from Camp (1992), which won the American Book Award, and Drawing the Line (1997), winner of the Oregon Book Award. Among his other publications is Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese-American Internment Experience (2000). He taught at Southern Oregon University until his recent retirement. He is currently poet laureate of Oregon. William Stafford was born in 1914 in Hutchinson, Kansas, and worked during the Depression years at a variety of jobs (in sugar beet fields, in construction, and in an oil refinery). He received his bachelor s 1

2 degree shortly before the war from the University of Kansas, and returned there to complete his master s in A committed pacifist, he was interned between 1942 and 1946 interned in Civilian Public Service camps in California and Arkansas. After the war he was employed at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon till his retirement. He spent 1950 to 1952 at the University of Iowa, where he received his doctorate in He is the author of almost seventy volumes, including the poetry collections Traveling through the Dark, winner of the National Book Award in 1963, and the two volumes of selected poems Stories that Could Be True (Harper & Row, 1977) and The Way It Is (Graywolf Press, 1993). He is also the author of four books of prose essays in the Michigan University Press Poets on Poetry series and of the prose memoir Down in My Heart (1947), the account of his experiences in CPS camp. Between 1970 and 1971 he was Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress, and was appointed poet laureate of Oregon in He died in August Content Description This collection includes original raw footage (), edited footage (VHS tape, 3/4 inch video tape, and beta master), final productions (VHS and DVD), and manuscript production notes. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections. Preferred Citation The TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee, #OLPb021WIX, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon. Administrative Information Arrangement This collection is arranged in four series by film production: Series 1, Lawson Inada, "What It Means to be Free, ; Series 2, William Stafford, "What the River Says, ; Series 3, William Stafford, "The Life of the Poem, ; Series 4, William Stafford, "Methow River Poems, Footage within each series is organized chronologically. Location of Collection Special Collections 2

3 Acquisition Information Donated to the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections by Mike Markee and Vince Wixon in September Processing Note Processed in October Bibliography For more information about Lawson Inada see: Shawn Holliday, Lawson Fusao Inada (Boise, ID: Boise State University Press, 2003). Linda Cullum, Contemporary American Ethnic Poets (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004). For more information about William Stafford see: Judith Kitchen, Understanding William Stafford (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989). Kim Stafford, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2002). Related Materials See Lewis and Clark College Special Collections website for related poetry collections, library.lclark.edu/specialcollections/ Detailed Description of the Collection The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection. Series 1: Lawson Inada, "What It Means to be Free, boxes Container(s) Description Dates Box 1/9 Scripts and Production Notes 1.1: Lawson Inada Transcriptions Info., TOC, & Background 1.2: Lawson Inada Transcriptions pp : Lawson Inada Transcriptions pp / /1996 3/ /1996 3/ / : Lawson Inada Transcriptions 3/ /

4 pp : Lawson Inada Biographical Materials & Articles 1.6: Lawson Inada notes, schedules, ideas 1.7: Lawson Inada, viewer's guide 1.8: Lawson Inada, video notes 2/9 Edited Footage 2.1: Conscience & the Constitution 12/ : I Told You So : Amtrack Reshoot 2.4: What It Means to Be Free VHS 2.5: What It Means to Be Free VHS 2.6: What It Means to Be Free VHS 2.7: What It Means to Be Free VHS 2.8: What It Means to Be Free near final VHS 2.9: What It Means to Be Free final edited VHS 2.10: What It Means to Be Free updated master beta 2.11: What It Means to Be Free final edited beta 7/15/2000 9/1/2000 9/1/2000 1/10/2001 3/12/ : What It Means to Be Free 4

5 final edited beta 2.13: What It Means to Be Free music sound cues 3/9 Raw Footage 3/4 inch video 3.1: Lawson Inada at Southern Oregon State College Tape 1 3.2: Lawson Inada at Southern Oregon State College Tape 2 3.3: Lawson Inada at Southern Oregon State College Tape 3 3.4: Lawson Inada, Ashland & Salem, Multicultural Tape 4 3.5: Lawson Inada, Salem Tape 5 3.6: Lawson Inada, Salem Tape 6 3.7: Oregon Historical Society gathering, Japanese Memorial Park Tape 7 3.8: Oregon Historical Society Tape 8 3.9: Oregon Historical Society Tape 9 3/3/1993 3/3/1993 3/3/1993 3/6/1993 3/6/1993 9/16/1993 9/16/1993 9/17/1993 4/9 Raw Footage 3/4 inch video 4.1: Oregon Historical Society interview Tape : Oregon Historical Society interview Tape 11 9/17/1993 9/17/

6 4.3: Issei, Oregon Historical Society Japanese display interview Tape : Oregon Historical Society Japanese poetry gathering (end) Tape : Captain Jack's (1) 3:40-53:04 Tape : Tule Lake Camp Tape : Oregon Historical Society with Andrew Hill at Portland State University Tape : Lawson & Andrew Hill, time code 2:40-2:50, Tulelake Tape : Lawson at Southern Oregon State College & Buddhist Temple Visuals Tape 18 9/17/1993 9/17/ /8/ /7/1993 9/17/1993-9/18/ /07/ /1994 5/9 Raw Footage 3/4 inch video 5.1: Lawson Inada at Crater High School Tape : Lawson Inada at Crater High School; TC 5:55-44:25 Tape : Lawson Inada at Crater High School Tape : Lawson Inada at Crater High School Tape : Lawson Inada interview at home Tape : Lawson Inada interview at home Tape 24 2/27/1994 2/27/

7 5.7: Lawson Inada interview at home Tape : Lawson Inada, Amtrak reshoot Tape : Lawson Inada, Amtrak reshoot, TC 13:20-13:41 Tape 27 2/27/1994 9/21/1996 9/21/1996 6/9 Raw Footage 3/4 inch video 6.1: Lawson Inada, Amtrak Reshoot; TC 13:41-13:55 Tape : Lawson in Studio; 6:20-6:41 Tape : Lawson in the Studio; 6:40-7:01 Tape : Lawson in the Studio; 7:02-7:22 Tape : Lawson in Studio; 7:22-7:42 Tape : Steam Engine, Albany; 10:00:00-10:18:56 Tape : Lawson Inada, Amtrak station train, Portland Tape : Lawson, Amtrak on train Tape : Lawson at Willamette University Tape 36 9/21/ /15/ /15/ /15/ /15/ /21/ /22/ /22/ /23/1995 7/9 Raw Footage 3/4 inch video 7.1: Lawson Inada at Willamette University Tape 37 10/23/

8 7.2: Lawson Inada at Willamette University Tape : Lawson Inada at Ashland HS Tape : Lawson Inada at Ashland HS Tape : Todd Barton s Studio Tape : Todd Barton s Studio Tape : Todd Barton s Studio Tape : Todd Barton s Studio Tape : Todd Barton s Studio Tape 45 10/23/ /22/ /22/ /22/ /22/ /22/ /23/ /23/1996 8/9 Raw Footage 3/4 inch video 8.1: Todd Barton s Studio continued Tape : Lawson, Fresno Tape : Lawson, Fresno Tape : Lawson, Fresno Tape : the Redwoods Tape : the Redwoods Tape 51 11/23/1996 7/7/1997 7/7/1997 7/7/ /11/ /12/

9 8.7: the Redwoods Tape : Lava Beds/Capt Jack s/tule lake with Lawson Tape : Tule lake with Lawson, Lawson studio last interview Tape 54 10/11/ /12/ /9/ /9/ /10/1998 9/9 Raw Footage 3/4 inch video 9.1: Lawson in his studio Tape : Target shoot visuals with Kevin Ebel Tape : J-Am Historical Plaza take 2 Tape 57 10/10/ /25/1998 4/1999 Series 2: William Stafford, What the River Says, boxes Container(s) Description Dates Box 1/13 Raw Footage 1.1: Stafford Project Tape 1 1.2: Stafford Project Tape 2 1.3: Stafford Project Tape 3 1.4: Stafford Project Tape 4 11/05/ /06/ /06/ /07/ : Stafford Project 11/07/

10 Tape 5 1.6: Stafford Project Tape 6 1.7: Stafford Project Tape 7 1.8: Reading at Butler County Community College, El Dorado, KS Tape 8, ends with "Ode to Garlic" 1.9: BCCC Library reading Tape 9, begins with is ends with ask me 1.10: Stafford reading Tape 10, end of reading outside L.W. Nixon library, BCCC sign 11/07/ /07/ / / /08/1986 2/13 Raw Footage 2.1: KS Conversations with Mr. Nixon Tape : KS continuing conversation with Mr. Nixon Tape : Creative Writing banquet Tape 13, guest speaker William Stafford, 40:00 2.4: Creative Writing workshop Tape 14, poetry reading William Stafford, 47:41 2.5: KS Historical Society, Modern Queen of the Prairie Tape 15, 30 min. 2.6: KS Emergency Relict Commission "Work Accomplished" Tape 16, reel 2 of 3, B+W 2.7: Wash, D.C. Tape : Wash, D.C. LofC Tape /

11 2.9: Library of Congress Press Conference Tape 19 03/30/1987 3/13 Raw Footage 3.1: Wash, D.C. Tape : Interviews with poets about WS Tape : William Stafford Poetry Consultants' Reunion Tape 22, master 3.4: Tape 44 text Tape 22a 3.5: Tape 45 Text and photos Tape 22b 3.6: Oregon legislature and Willamette University Tape : Willamette University, WS with students Tape : Willamette classroom discussion Tape : Willamette afternoon reading Tape 26 03/ / /31/0987 4/13/1987 4/13/1987 4/13/1987 4/13/1987 4/13 Raw Footage 4.1: Willamette afternoon reading cont. Tape : Willamette afternoon reading cont. Tape : Port Townsend Centrum Tape 29 4/13/1987 4/13/

12 4.4: Centrum Tape : tape 3 misc/jonathon Holden Tape : tape 4 Jonathan Holden Tape : tape 5 Centrum, William Stafford with Marvin Bell Tape : tape 6 Centrum, Marvin Bell with WS conversation Tape : tape 7 Centrum Tape : tape 8 Centrum, poetry wall, conversation with Gary Sange & J. Peterson Tape 36 5/13 Raw Footage 5.1: Centrum, WS with Gary Sange & J. Peterson Tape : Centrum part 3, cutaways, conclustion of Sange & Peterson Tape : Centrum, evening water cutaways Tape : Centrum, workshop Tape : Centrum, workshop Tape : Centrum, workshop Tape 42 7/1987 7/1987 7/1987 7/1987 7/1987 7/

13 5.7: Centrum, workshop Tape : Lake Oswego, Lewis & Clark Tape : Lewis & Clark Tape : Lewis & Clark, Lake Oswego Tape 46 7/ / / /1987 6/13 Raw Footage 6.1: Lake Oswego Tape : Lake Oswego Tape : Lake Oswego Tape : Lake Oswego Tape : Kim s house Tape : Kim s/bookstore Tape : Bookstore Tape : Bookstore reading, talking, signing Tape : Sisters, Bill & Dorothy outside of home Tape : Bill & Dorothy in house, Sisters with Bill, Bill on Metolius River 10/ / / /14/ /14/ /14/ /14/

14 Tape 56 7/13 Raw Footage 7.1: Metolius Rivers with Bill, Cascades Tape : Cascades River footage, snow on the Santiam Tape : Opening statements, Newport Tape : Radiation panel #2, Newport Tape : Interview with William Stafford Spring Tape : Reading in gallery, Newport art work #5 Tape : poetry texts Tape : poems and texts Tape : #3 stills Tape : #4 stills Tape 67 3/4/1988 9/ /5/1988 7/5/1988 8/13 Raw Footage 8.1: #5 stills Tape : Bill reading poems Tape : Stafford stills 14

15 Tape : Hiroshima day Tape A 8.5: Hiroshima, Bill/Kit at the beach Tape B 8.6: Bill/Kit at the beach Tape C 8.7: Wilson River Hwy cont. Tape D 8.8: William Stafford snowshoes Report from a Far Place master 8.9: Stafford photo albums cont, 5 min. of sky 8.10: Stafford Project Tape 7, 1:1 safety copy 8.11: Stafford Papers Tape 3, TC 0-18:36 8/6/1988 8/6/1988 8/9/1988 8/9/ /25-11/26 8/28/1995 9/13 Raw Footage 9.1: Stafford 2 Hour 1 Tapes 1, 2 9.2: Stafford 2 Hour 2 Tape 3, 4 9.3: Stafford 2 Hour 3 Tape 5, 6 9.4: Stafford 2 Hour 4 Tape7, 8 9.5: Stafford 2 Hour 5 Tape 9, : Stafford 2 Hour

16 Tape 11, : Stafford 2 Hour 7 Tape 13, : Stafford 2 Hour 8 Tape 15, : Stafford 2 Hour 9 Tape 17, 18 10/13 Raw Footage 10.1: Stafford 2 Hour 10 Tape Tapes 19, : Stafford 2 Hour 11 Tape 21, : Stafford 2 Hour 12 Tape 23, : Stafford 2 Hour 13 Tape 25, : Stafford 2 Hour 14 Tape 27, : #2 Manuscripts 9/19/ : #3 9/19/ : #4 9/19/ : B+W stills, OHS + Stafford photo album 10/10/ /13 Edited footage video masters 11.1: William Stafford What the River Says : William Stafford What the River Says

17 11.3: William Stafford What the River Says : William Stafford What the River Says : William Stafford What the River Says : William Stafford What the River Says : WSI Promo 4 minutes, Reads: Ask Me, The Little Girl 11.8: William Stafford: Finding Your Way Forward 5/26/ : William Stafford Inserts B/C : William Stafford B-roll B/C : William Stafford edited master 11.12: William Stafford cut MX master 11.13: William Stafford MX master 11.14: William Stafford w/ inserts 11.15: William Stafford VHS transfer, dialogue master 12/13 Edited footage VHS 12.1: William Stafford Rough Cut #2 12.2: Rough Cut #4 9/1/ : William Stafford: Pacing Toward What I Know 10/29/

18 rough cut : William Stafford: What The River Says rough cut : William Stafford rough cut #7 10/29/ : William Stafford: Finding Your Way Forward 12.7: William Stafford What the River Says 29: : William Stafford What the River Says 29: : William Stafford What the River Says 29:44 13/13 Production Notes, etc. 13.1: What the River Says Production notes Part I 13.2: What the River Says Production notes Part II 13.3: Articles on What the River Says premier premier 13.4: Video Recorder info 13.5: William Stafford, Life & Poems DVD 13.6: Music for William Stafford by James Depriest 2 reels 13.7: WTRS duplication master reel Series 3: William Stafford, The Life of the Poem, boxes 18

19 Box 1/8 Raw Footage 1.1: William Stafford interview at home Tape 1 1.2: William Stafford interview at home Tape 2 1.3: William Stafford interview at home Tape 3 1.4: William Stafford interview at home Tape 4 1.5: William Stafford interview at home Tape 5 1.6: William Stafford interview at home Tape 6 1.7: William Stafford interview at home Tape 7 1.8: William Stafford interview at home Tape 8 1.9: William Stafford interview at home Tape 9 1/19/1991 1/19/1991 1/19/1991 1/19/1991 1/19/1991 1/19/1991 1/20/1991 1/20/1991 1/20/1991 2/8 Raw Footage 2.1: William Stafford interview at home Tape : Second Stafford interview at home Tape : Second Stafford interview at home Tape 12 1/20/1991 2/16/1991 2/16/

20 2.4: Second Stafford interview at home Tape : Second Stafford interview at home Tape : Second Stafford interview at home Tape : Second Stafford interview at home Tape : Second Stafford interview at home Tape : Third Stafford interview first tape (poor sound) 2/16/1991 2/16/1991 2/16/1991 2/16/1991 2/16/1991 4/27/1991 3/8 Raw Footage 3.1: Third Stafford interview in his office Tape : Third Stafford Interview Tape : Text: Reading with Little Sister, etc. Tape : Text: Things I Learned Last Week, Journal Over the Mountains. Tape : Text: Over the Mountains, News Headlines Tape : KVAL TV Ch. 9 Nathan Madsen search stories Tape : Nathan Madsen airplane shots over Cascades Tape 25 4/27/1991 4/27/1991 1/27/ : End of News headlines, Dancers at Senior Center 20

21 Tape : Dancers at Senior Center Tape 27 4/8 Raw Footage 4.1: Dancers at Salem Senior Center Tape : Metolius River, 3 Sisters, Mountains Tape : Snow on Santiam Pass, Santiam River Tape : Dogwood and Stars Tape : Stills of Stafford kids in snow with sled, Stars Tape : Stafford reading at W.O.S.C Tape : Stafford signing books, Bill typing out poem titles Tape : Stafford interview Tape : Stafford interview 16 min. Tape 36 6/8/1991 5/8 Raw Footage 5.1: Stafford 2 Ants, Bill reading Things I Learned Last Week Text, Journal Little Sister Tape : Stafford 2 Journals: Little Sister Text, Journal: Over the Mountains 21

22 Tape : Stafford 2 Text: Over the Mountains, Little Sister Journal: Things I Learned Last Week Tape : Stafford 2 Text: : Things I Learned Last Week, Over the Mountains, Tape : Stafford 2 Text: Things I Learned Last Week Stills: Ants, Sticky elbow, Schopenhauer, Yeats, Pound Tape : Stafford 2 stills: Yeats, Eliot, Super-8: Grandfater Pentagon Tape : Stafford 2 Morning outside Stafford s house Tape : Outside Stafford s house Tape : John Laursen at Press 22 Tape : John Laursen (5 min.) Tape 47 8/1991 8/1991 7/12/1991 6/8 Edited footage 6.1: Nathan Madsen KEZI Ch. 9 footage 6.2: Stafford 2 rough cut 2 6.3: Stafford 2 rough cut 5 6.4: Stafford 2 rough cut 6 6.5: William Stafford: The Life of the Poem rough cut

23 6.6: The Life of the Poem rough cut 8 6.7: WS: The Life of the Poem 2nd cut 6.8: Stafford 2 conformed rough cut 6.9: WS: The Life of the Poem 1st on line 6.10: William Stafford: The Life of the Poem soundcut 2/8/1992 7/2/1992 6/4/ : Over the Mountains For NCTE Workshop 6.12: William Stafford: The Life of the Poem final/music/ 6.13: WS: The Life of the Poem 6.14: WS: The Life of the Poem 6.15: WS: The Life of the Poem 7/8 Edited tape 7.1: Life of the Poem production notes part I 7.2: Life of the Poem production notes part II 7.3: Images of William Stafford (5 copies) Markee/Wixon/Bell 7.4: William Stafford: The Life of the Poem 29 min. 8/8 Edited tape 8.1: The Life of The Poem music master tape 23

24 8.2: William Stafford What the River Says 8/9/1989 Series 4: William Stafford, "Methow River Poems, box Container(s) Description Dates Box 1/1 Raw Footage and Edited tape 1.1: Methow River, River Farm/ Rocks from the Wild People tape 2 1.2: Methow River, Rocks from the Wild People /bridges A Place Like This tape 3 1.3: Methow River, Time for Something / A Valley Like This tape 4 1.4: Methow River, A Valley Like This /snow tape 5 1.5: River poems, Emily, This Place, & You tape 6 1.6: The Methow River poems; edited 11 min. L88108 Betacam 1.7: The Methow River poems masters, TTTD Prod Betacam 1.8: Methow River poems Videi Hi8 recording 10/10/ /13/1996 Names and Subjects Subject Terms : World War Prisoners And Prisons Japanese Poetry Personal Names : Markee, Mike 24

25 Wixon, Vincent--Archives Corporate Names : TTTD Video Productions Other Creators : Personal Names : Inada, Lawson Fusao (creator) Stafford, William, (creator) Jeremy Skinner, Paul Merchant, and Nathalie Figueroa