Cuban Television Scripts

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Cuban Television Scripts, 1953, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.01 Linear Feet
Creator:
CMQ-TV (Television station : Havana, Cuba)
Language:
Spanish; Castilian
Preferred citation:

Cuban Television Scripts, 1953, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Two early Cuban television scripts on original mimeographed sheets produced by CMQ Television in Cuba. The scripts are for Cabaret Regales El Cuna and Cascabeles Candado. These scripts are from the early inceptio of CMQ television station, which became an NBC affiliate prior to the Cuban revolution. CMQ was established in December of 1950 and officially launched March 11, 1951. At the time, Cuba was only the second country in the world, after the United States, to have a National Television Network.

Acquisition information:
Purchase from ebay, 2015.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Television scripts