ANTHONY PALANGE PAPERS

The papers include information about Palange’s personal and professional life. Manuscripts comprise the bulk of the collection, in addition to correspondence, muscial scripts, reel-to-reel recordings of the music, newspaper clippings, and event programs. Manuscripts with corresponding video and/or audio-tapes are noted. The tapes are located in Series 6 at the end of the collection. The tapes are arranged chronologically and categorized as either: early/personal, Queen City Players or G/L Magazine.

Programs from the productions of the Gateway Experimental Theater, a Palange project in the late sixties, are also in Series 2, the Production Series. Palange’s G/L Magazine and Queen City Players episodes for Denver Community Television have scripts in Series 1. Information about the creation of the shows is in Series 2. Video tapes are located in Series 6. Palange Enterprises, a subseries of Series 2 contains “how-to” booklets written by Palange that he attempted to sell through advertisements in national publications.

Palange’s censorship lawsuit against Denver Community Television is well documented with transcripts from the trial, depositions and exhibits. Palange’s notes and his book, Unclean Hands, about the legal case are located at the end of Series 3, Palange vs. Denver Community Television.

Information about Palange’s personal life is contained in correspondence with family and friends. Included are report cards, yearbooks and notebooks, newspaper clippings and writings.

Manuscripts are organized alphabetically chronologically within format: musicals, novels, operas, plays, poetry, screenplays, short stories, skits and teleplays. Palange often reused his work. For example, he might transform a play into a screenplay and then produce it years later. Works with the same title despite their format (i.e. play or teleplay) or date are kept together and works with titles that changed over time remain together. Many of the manuscripts used for the Denver Community Television productions by the Queen City Players are under teleplays. Manuscripts with corresponding video or audio tapes in Series 6 are labeled with a symbol.

Palange published the following works: How to Cook Italian in America, Mexican Cooking for Gringos, Cartomancy Booklet: The Philomena Method, The Oracle of the Cards, Jungle Fantasy, I Am My Only Prison, The Light-Bearer, Cindy, The Ultimate Weapon and Jupiter the Thunderer. Other manuscripts in the collection are unpublished as of 2003, except for newspaper columns owned by the publisher. Unpublished works enter the public domain seventy years after the death of the author. Published works between 1964 and 1978 enter the public domain ninety-five years after publication. After 1978, published works enter the public domain seventy years after the author’s death. All published manuscripts are labeled [publication year of publication] after the first mention of the manuscript in the container list.

The series includes programs and newspaper clippings from Palange’s plays created immediately after High School and the Gateway Experimental Theater, which he formed in the late 1960s in New Haven, CT. In the 1990s, Palange created a television series titled G/L Magazine and theatrical productions with the Queen City Players for Denver Public Access Television. Program schedules, production notes, release forms and individual episode information are found in this series. The series is organized chronologically.

The series contains attorney correspondence, motions, judgments, depositions, exhibits and transcripts of court sessions. The series also contains Palange’s reflections on the trial which he compiled into a book, Unclean Hands, as well as notes and newspaper clippings about the trial. FF6, Box 16 is restricted until 2030.

The personal series includes correspondence with friends and family along with information on Palange’s education such as report cards, yearbooks and notebooks. Palange’s ideas and interests are represented with notes, newspaper clippings, and flyers. FF 22 and FF23, Box 20 are restricted until 2030.

The series is organized by personal and early works, Queen City Players Productions and G/L Magazine episodes. Most of the video tapes in the series comprise 3/4 inch master tapes of Palange’s productions. Some of the more recent work is taped using 8mm and digital video tape. Reel to reel audio tapes of Palange’s high school plays are in the beginning of the series.

Folio 1 holds a scrapbook from Palange’s G/L Magazine episode that highlighted Andrew Cunnan, the alleged murderer of Versace. Folio 2 contains newspaper clippings about Palange, an award, a Queen City Players scrapbook and a calendar of G/L Magazine editing schedules.

Photographs depict cast members and theatrical production work. Images of Anthony Palange consist of one adult portrait and several childhood family photographs.