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Contact information: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.contact
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2020570058
DACS was used as the primary description standard.
Collection material in English
Gift, Jack Butterworth, 2007
No further accruals are expected.
Music Division staff processed the Jack Butterworth Collection of Silent Film Cues prior to 2009. Shantel Lambert and Jane Cross coded the finding aid in 2020.
Cue sheets for silent films are available in several archives, notably at the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive (SFSMA), the Hank Troy silent Film Cue Sheets and Scores at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and the Collection of Thematic Music Cue Sheets for Silent Films, 1915-1928, at the University of California, Los Angeles Library's Department of Special Collections.
Materials from the Jack Butterworth Collection of Silent Film Cues are governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.) and other applicable international copyright laws.
The Jack Butterworth Collection of Silent Film Cues is open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Music Division prior to visiting in order to determine whether the desired materials will be available at that time.
Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Some cue sheets are available on the Library of Congress Web site in the Silent Film Scores and Arrangement digital collection.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Jack Butterworth Collection of Silent Film Cues, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Jack Butterworth is a resident of Salem, Massachusetts. He is a former newspaper reporter and former occasional comic book writer as well as a collector. He became a serious comic book enthusiast in 1974, and is the owner of one of the largest collections of comic art in New England. He is one of the writers in the Creepy comics series published by Dark Horse Archives.
The Jack Butterworth Collection of Silent Film Cues spans the years 1917 to 1929 and consists of thematic music cue sheets for silent films. Some cue sheets are incomplete and many of them are annotated. The cue sheets are published by Cameo Music Service for films produced by several studios, including: Universal, Pathé, First National, William Fox, United Artists, Tiffany, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.
Early film industry publications included articles offering suggestions to movie house musicians regarding how to select and perform music for particular pictures. By the 1920s, thematic music cue sheets published by movie studios and independent publishers were ornate and included cue titles, musical incipits, and duration. Cameo Music Service in New York hired arrangers and composers to create these ready-made thematic cue sheets to serve as a shorthand guide to the film.
The collection is organized in one series:
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Full and partial thematic music cue sheets for silent films produced by several studios, including: Universal, Pathé, First National, William Fox, United Artists, Tiffany, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. The cue sheets are published by Cameo Music Service and many of them are annotated.
Arranged alphabetically by film title.