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Size | 13.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 900 items) |
Abstract | The documentary film Shalom Y'all, directed by third-generation southern Jew and New Orleans, La., native Brian Bain, details Jewish culture and identity in the American South. In the film, Bain travels 4,200 miles by car across the same route his grandfather took as a traveling salesman. Bain interviews a variety of southern Jews, including a Jewish African American police chief, a kosher butcher, a Golden Gloves boxer, and a former congressman. He also explores the role played by southern Jews in a variety of historical settings, such as the American Civil War, the civil rights movement, and the Ku Klux Klan. The collection consists of elements involved in the making of the film Shalom Y'all, research files, business files, and promotional materials. Elements of the film include video footage, photographic stills, audio materials, scripts, and other documents. There are also photographs of interviewees and locations featured in the film, the cast and crew while traveling and filming, and openings and other events. Research materials consist of images of southern Jewish businesses, homes, temples, celebrations, religious ceremonies, other gatherings, civil rights activities, individual and family portraits, and other subjects, and video materials covering a range of topics from Mardi Gras to civil rights. There are also Shalom Y'all scout videos. Business files consist of correspondence and other items related to grants, loans, film logos and posters, copyright, and other topics. Promotional materials include newspaper clippings, film festival schedules, and other materials. |
Creator | Bain, Brian. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Joyce Chapman, April 2007
Encoded by: Joyce Chapman, April 2007
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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The documentary film Shalom Y'all, directed by third-generation southern Jew and New Orleans, La., native Brian Bain, details Jewish culture and identity in the American South. In the film, Bain travels 4,200 miles by car across the same route his grandfather took as a traveling salesman. Bain interviews a variety of southern Jews, including a Jewish African American police chief, a kosher butcher, a Golden Gloves boxer, and a former congressman. He also explores the role played by southern Jews in a variety of historical settings, such as the American Civil War, the civil rights movement, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Note adapted from the Shalom Y'all website: http://www.shalomyall.com/shalom-yall/about.php, accessed 30 April 2008.
Back to TopThe collection consists of elements pertaining to the making of the documentary film Shalom Y'all by Brian Bain, including video footage, photographic stills, audio materials, scripts and other documents, and photographs taken during filming; research materials; business files; and promotional materials. Video footage includes road tapes of raw footage, archival tapes, vignette footage, assembly cuts, original and final trailers, and credit rolls. Audio elements include composer dubs, voice-overs, sound effects, swelltones, music, addons, loops, sound effects, pickups, and papers briefly describing portions of the audio material and printed drafts of the film script with annotated audio cuts. Scripts and other materials include electronic versions of the script and the screen credits, as well as other documents related to the making of the film. There are several hundred printed photographs and accompanying negatives taken during the filming of the documentary. Subjects include interviewees and locations featured in the film, the cast and crew, traveling and filming, and events and openings. Research materials are photographs and videos collected by Bain while conducting research for the film. Images in the photographic research materials cover a wide time span and include subjects such as southern Jewish businesses, Jewish homes, and temples; celebrations, religious ceremonies, and other gatherings; southern Jews and civil rights; individual and family portraits; and other subjects. Research video materials pertain to research done before filming of the documentary, covering a range of subjects from Mardi Gras to civil rights to college football. Research film footage also includes Shalom Y'all scout tapes. Business files consist of correspondence and other papers related to grants, loans, expense accounts, film credits, the official film logos and posters, copyright, and public relations. Promotional materials are newspaper clippings related to the film; film festival schedules and film posters; correspondence related to the opening and showing of the film; digtial photographs and negatives of related merchandise; and press passes for film openings.
Back to TopIncludes video footage, photographic stills, audio materials, scripts, and other documents used in the making of the film Shalom Y'all, as well as photographs taken during filming.
There is some overlap in content among various formats of materials.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Arrangement: alphabetically.
Includes raw video footage, archival tapes, assembly cuts, vignette footage, film trailers, credit rolls, and supplemental footage such as B-rolls. These materials are recorded in varying formats.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Videotape VT-5331/39 |
Archival tape 1 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/40 |
Archival tape 2, Jewish Life in Vilna: Of These Our People (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/41 |
Archival tape 3, The Life of a City: Early films of New York (Digital Betacam) |
Videotape VT-5331/42 |
Archival tape 4, Mardi Gras footage (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/43 |
Archival tape 5, WSFA 12 News, Montgomery: Civil rights footage (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/44 |
Archival tape 6, WSFA 12 News, Montgomery: Civil rights footage II (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/45 |
Archival tape 7, Jackson bombing, Mississippi State Archives (Betacam SP)Refers to the 1967 Beth Israel temple bombing in Jackson, Miss. |
Videotape VT-5331/46 |
Archival tape 8, Elvis media B-roll, 1997 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/47 |
Archival tape 9, Mississippi State University generic football footage (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/48 |
Archival tape 10, Mississippi State football: Jack Cristil: Feature, 1992 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/49 |
Archival tape 11, Southeastern Conference fans: College Sports Southeast (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/50 |
Archival tape 12, Jack Cristil photographs and radio calls, 1999 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/51 |
Archival tape 13, Golden Gloves boxer: Grinburg, 1944 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/52 |
Archival tape 14, Fast images, 5 April 2002 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/53 |
Archival tape 15, Map flip (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/54-57
VT-5331/54VT-5331/55VT-5331/56VT-5331/57 |
Assembly cuts (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/70 |
B-roll (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/67 |
Credit roll, 10 October 2002 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/65 |
Final trailer excerpts: Clips reel (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/112 |
Locked video, 3 May 2002 (Digital Betacam) |
Videotape VT-5331/68-69
VT-5331/68VT-5331/69 |
Miami tapes (Digital Betacam) |
Videotape VT-5331/1-38
VT-5331/1VT-5331/2VT-5331/3VT-5331/4VT-5331/5VT-5331/6VT-5331/7VT-5331/8VT-5331/9VT-5331/10VT-5331/11VT-5331/12VT-5331/13VT-5331/14VT-5331/15VT-5331/16VT-5331/17VT-5331/18VT-5331/19VT-5331/20VT-5331/21VT-5331/22VT-5331/23VT-5331/24VT-5331/25VT-5331/26VT-5331/27VT-5331/28VT-5331/29VT-5331/30VT-5331/31VT-5331/32VT-5331/33VT-5331/34VT-5331/35VT-5331/36VT-5331/37VT-5331/38 |
Road Tapes 1-38 (Digital Betacam) |
Videotape VT-5331/63-64
VT-5331/63VT-5331/64 |
Storyville: Eli Evans, 1 September 2001 (Betacam SP and digital Betacam) |
Videotape VT-5331/66 |
Storyville: Shalom Y'all open, 1 April 1998 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/58-62
VT-5331/58VT-5331/59VT-5331/60VT-5331/61VT-5331/62 |
Vignette footage (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/110 |
Wild video I (Betacam SP) |
Folder 1 |
Video footage inventory and archival content log |
Folder 2 |
Road tapes edit log, tapes 1-29Includes logs of scenes and shooting locations; portions of the 1999 prospectus written for the video, detailing the proposed shooting locations and interviewees; and extensive time-coded logs of the different shot sequences on road tapes VT-5331/1-29, the Miami tapes (VT-5331/68-69), and the Eli Evans tapes (VT-5331/63-64). |
Photographs from the research materials that were transfered to Betacam SP video format and Digital Betacam format. Also included is a brief inventory. Each videotape has notes about its photographic content on the label.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Videotape VT-5331/71-88
VT-5331/71VT-5331/72VT-5331/73VT-5331/74VT-5331/75VT-5331/76VT-5331/77VT-5331/78VT-5331/79VT-5331/80VT-5331/81VT-5331/82VT-5331/83VT-5331/84VT-5331/85VT-5331/86VT-5331/87VT-5331/88 |
Photographic stills, tapes 1-17G (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/89 |
Photographic stills, tape 17G (Digital Betacam) |
Folder 3 |
Photographic stills inventory |
Audio elements for use in the film recorded in various film formats, and on data compact discs, digital audio tapes, and floppy discs. There are also papers briefly describing portions of the audio material and several printed drafts of the film script with annotated audio cuts. Audio elements include, but are not limited to, composer dubs, voice-overs, sound effects, swelltones, music, addons, loops, sound effects, pickups, locked audio, burn-in unmixed audio, and audible audio formatted footage.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Videotapes containing various audio elements of the film in various film formats, the content of which includes, but is not limited to, composer dubs, film scenes, locked audio, burn-in unmixed audio, and audible audio formatted footage.
Note that original video titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Videotape VT-5331/115 |
AA audio 11, Tony Bravo, Perception Films (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/116 |
AA Audio 12, Shalom Y'all part 2, 28 April 2002 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/117 |
AA Audio 20, Shalom Y'all part 2: Locked composer dub, 1 May 2002 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/108 |
Composer Dub: First half (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/132 |
Elliot Levitas (10 minutes), 24 November 2001 (MiniDV) |
Videotape VT-5331/131 |
Golem Music, map flip, 12 May 2002 (MiniDV) |
Videotape VT-5331/113 |
Grandpa Audio only from D/As (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/114 |
Grandpa Audio only from DAT P/Vs (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/111 |
Locked Audio, 3 May 2002 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/118 |
TC burn-in unmixed audio, 7 May 2002 (Betacam SP) |
Videotape VT-5331/109 |
Wild Audio (Betacam SP) |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Digital audio tapes containing audio elements of the film Shalom Y'all, including, but not limited to, footage from various scenes, voice-overs, sound effects, and swelltones.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/41 |
#601-Temp Voice-over |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/47 |
Bain Wedding, Wild audio, 13 March 1999 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/39 |
Brian Bain call to Julie about Grandpa being sick; Brian Bain call to Grandma about Grandpa not feeling well |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/31 |
Brain Bain Thoughts, Cathy Kahn Voice-over, Brian Bain scratch Voice-over |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/34 |
Eli Evans interview, 30fps ND sample T.C. clone at 48kHz |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/33 |
Grandpa Lee, 1997; June and Brian Bain, Voice-over scratch |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/36 |
Grandpa Leonard Bain phone calls FNT, 1 April 2000 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/38 |
Cafe Brazil, Mid-Side encoded stereo, March 2000, L. R. |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/29-30
DAT-5331/29DAT-5331/30 |
Eli Evans, I and II |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/50-51
DAT-5331/50DAT-5331/51 |
Godwin, I and II |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/43-44
DAT-5331/43DAT-5331/44 |
Grandpa DA: TC matching dalies, tape #DAT I-III, 7 December 1999 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/42 |
Grandpa DA: TC matching dalies, tape #30, 7 December 1999 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/45 |
Grandpa DA: TC matching dalies tape #31, 27 January 2000 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/46 |
Job 92-09, Blues Do Bro, Gordon Graham, Taaffe Sausage, 25 May 1992 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/32 |
Kinky Friedman, C101, 28 March 2000Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman is a Texan singer, writer, and independent politician. |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/1-25
DAT-5331/1DAT-5331/2DAT-5331/3DAT-5331/4DAT-5331/5DAT-5331/6DAT-5331/7DAT-5331/8DAT-5331/9DAT-5331/10DAT-5331/11DAT-5331/12DAT-5331/13DAT-5331/14DAT-5331/15DAT-5331/16DAT-5331/17DAT-5331/18DAT-5331/19DAT-5331/20DAT-5331/21DAT-5331/22DAT-5331/23DAT-5331/24DAT-5331/25 |
Shalom Y'all Roll |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/26-28
DAT-5331/26DAT-5331/27DAT-5331/28 |
Special effects, tapes I-III |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/49 |
Swelltone DAT, Voice-over/Loops, 5 March 2002 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/48 |
T14 HV L+RT, 48k 16 bit, 16 May 2002 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/40 |
Tape C3/C4 Spike and Snake, 23 March 2000 |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/37 |
Voice-over, 31 March 1998Though the audio cassette label has this title, a sticker on the cassette cover is labeled "Storyville, Shalom Y'all Open, TRT 5:46, Avid Roughcut 1 April 1998" |
Digital Audiotape DAT-5331/35 |
Wild Audio 2001, Archival bombing, Levitas, from mini DV, Judy Kogan P/V's |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Data compact discs containing audio elements for the film including, but not limited to, music, addons, voice-overs, loops, sound effects, and pickups.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/19 |
L+R+, 15 May |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/21 |
+14 L+R+ final, 16 May 2002 |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/6 |
41/42 SD2, 12 May 2002 |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/2 |
Added music, 12 May |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/1 |
Addons audio, 8 May |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/14 |
Addons audio, 9 May |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/9 |
Cafe Brasil |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/22 |
DR OMF part II |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/23 |
[unidentified] |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/13 |
Kinky scene, OMF test, SD2 file, 15 April 2002 |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/11-12
DCD-5331/11DCD-5331/12 |
Klezmer end music |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/18 |
Loops/Voice-over, 6 February |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/15 |
More R-tone, 29 April |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/20 |
Music: Single |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/3-4
DCD-5331/3DCD-5331/4 |
Music ProT, 10 May 2002 |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/7 |
Part I: Room tone OMF format |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/8 |
Part II: Ambience |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/24 |
Pickups, 12 May |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/17 |
Special effects |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/10 |
Today Show, OMF format |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/5 |
Voice-over, 27 April 2002 |
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/16 |
Voice-over, 5 September |
Materials relating to audio elements of the film.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/5 |
Floppy disc, unidentified |
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/6 |
Floppy disc labeled "NG Shalom" |
Folder 4 |
Timelog notes on transcript |
Folder 5 |
Annotated script |
Folder 6 |
Sound mixer orders |
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/11 |
Zip disc labeled "Back-up" |
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/8-10
FLD-5331/8FLD-5331/9FLD-5331/10 |
Zip discs, unidentified |
Versions of the script, screen credits, and other documents in various formats, including several floppy discs, one data compact disc, and one folder of printed materials.
Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Data Compact Disc DCD-5331/25 |
Shalom-Stuff for Avid MC ExpressElectronic documents, among them over 20 versions of the script, including versions created specifically for voice-overs or for specific individuals; many shorter documents containing Bain's thoughts on specific issues related to the film; and various ideas for the final scene. The disc also includes non-textual materials. |
Folder 43 |
Partial transcripts, versions of final scene, and other documentsIncludes two partial scripts, two versions of the final scene, and Bain's notes on the final scene. All materials duplicate electronic files on DCD-5331/28. |
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/3 |
Floppy disc labeled Sari Notes, Spy Chicks |
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/7 |
Floppy disc labeled "Screen credits" |
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/1-2
FLD-5331/1FLD-5331/2 |
Floppy discs labeled "Scripts" |
Note that the original photographic groupings and numbering system have, for the most part, been retained. Each of the groups of printed photographs has a two-digit number assigned by the donor.
Image Folder PF-5331/1-20
PF-5331/1PF-5331/2PF-5331/3PF-5331/4PF-5331/5PF-5331/6PF-5331/7PF-5331/8PF-5331/9PF-5331/10PF-5331/11PF-5331/12PF-5331/13PF-5331/14PF-5331/15PF-5331/16PF-5331/17PF-5331/18PF-5331/19PF-5331/20 |
Interviewees and locationsSeveral hundred printed photographs with some accompanying negatives taken during the filming of the film. Photographic subjects include interviewees and locations featured in the film, the cast and crew, traveling and filming, and events and openings. Many photographs are grouped according to film roll number. |
Image Box IB-5331/6 |
Photographic negative rollsThree rolls of photographic negatives. |
Arrangement: by format.
Photographs and videos collected by Bain while conducting research for the film Shalom Y'all.
Note that original file folder and video titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Videotapes collected by Bain while conducting research for the film Shalom Y'all, in VHS and 8mm format. Includes four archival footage videos; five research scout videos; footage on various topics such as Mardi Gras, southern college sports, football, civil rights footage, the 1967 Beth Israel temple bombing in Jackson, Miss., Bain and wife Julie, boxing, Elliot Bain; and a screener copy of Shalom Y'all from the UCLA film archives.
Note that original video label titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Printed and photocopied images collected by Bain while conducting research for the film Shalom Y'all, gathered from various archives and museums throughout the South. Images cover a wide time span, and include subjects such as southern Jewish businesses, homes, and temples; celebrations, religious ceremonies and gatherings; southern Jews and civil rights; individual and family portraits; and other subjects. Folders contains one or more related photographs or photocopies of photographs, often with additional information such as the repository in which the images are found or notes on the context and history of the images. Several folders contain contact sheets and accompanying negatives, also from museums around the South. Some folders have detailed lists of the photographs contained within written on the front of the folder.
Note that original file folders and their titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Printed research materials on photographs used in the film and the photographs' accompanying B-roll forms, which list the scene of the film in which the image appears. Included are photocopies and computer prints of historic photographs of Jews in the South, often with accompanying notes on the people and places in the photographs; printed information on Jewish traditions and holidays; printed Jewish sermons; information on archival stills; B-roll forms; and one floppy disc with information pertaining to the research materials.
Folder 7-10
Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10 |
Archival stills and research materials: Paper files |
Floppy Disc FLD-5331/4 |
Floppy disc labeled "Scratch" |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Materials related to grants, loans, expense accounts, film credits, the official film logos and posters, copyright, and public relations for the film.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Folder 11 |
Address lists |
Folder 12 |
Business |
Folder 13 |
Copyright |
Folder 14 |
Credits |
Folder 15-16
Folder 15Folder 16 |
Film notebooks I and II |
Folder 17 |
Grant info |
Letterhead/booklet |
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Folder 18 |
Loan info |
Folder 19-20
Folder 19Folder 20 |
Logo |
Folder 21 |
Miami shoot notebook |
Folder 22 |
Photographic shoot/clothing releases |
Folder 23 |
Poster |
Folder 24 |
PR representatives info/notes |
Folder 25 |
Rep sales report |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Clippings of news articles about the film; a CD containing a seven-minute interview with Brian Bain on the New Orleans radio station 89.9 WWNO relating to the opening of the film; film festival schedules and film posters; correspondence related to the opening and showing of the film; a guest book from a 7 February 1999 Atlanta, Ga., reception for the film; data compact disc and photographic negatives of photographic shoots with people wearing Shalom Y'all merchandise; and several press-passes for film openings.
Folder 26 |
Correspondence |
Folder 27 |
Guest book: Atlanta, Ga., reception, 7 February 1999 |
Folder 28-32
Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32 |
Magazines and film festival publications |
Folder 33-36
Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36 |
Merchandise photographic shootFolders containing data compact discs with digital photographs from Shalom Y'all merchandise photographic shoots. Each data disc has accompanying photographic negatives. |
Folder 37-40
Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40 |
Newspaper clippings |
Folder 41 |
Posters |
Music Compact Disc CD-5331/1 |
Radio interview, 89.9 WWNO, 2003Audio CD containing a seven-minute interview between Brian Bain and Susan Rose Jenning of the University of New Orleans radio station, 89.9 WWNO. The interview discusses and promotes the film. |
Folder 42 |
Press passes from the opening of the film |