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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds Documentary films
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Porpoise Oil and the Movie Makers and Amateur Cinema League

File contains Leighton's manuscript for an article about making his film "Porpoise Oil"; correspondence with the editors of Movie Makers; a copy of the Movie Makers issue in which his film was given an honorable mention; and a medallion awarded for his film being chosen for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition.

Correspondence between Movie Makers magazine and Alexander Leighton

File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.