TTTD Video Productions Collection of
Vince Wixon and Mike Markee
Dates:
1986-2004 ( inclusive )
Quantity:
16.5 cubic feet (31 boxes)
Location of Collection:
Special Collections
Collection Number:
OLPb021WIX
Summary:
This collection includes raw footage,
production notes, and final edited footage of four films about writing and
poetry featuring Lawson Inada in
What It Means to be Free and William
Stafford in
What the River Says;
The Life of the Poem; and
The Methow River Poems. The films were
produced and directed by Mike Markee and Vince Wixon of TTTD Productions,
Ashland, Oregon.
Repository:
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives Aubrey R. Watzek Library 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. Portland, OR 97219 archives@lclark.edu 503-768-7254
Languages:
English
Historical Note
The documentaries produced from this collection of video footage focus
on two of the most significant Oregon poets of the second half of the twentieth
century.
Lawson Fusao Inada was born in Fresno, CA in 1938, the grandchild of
Japanese immigrants. He spent the war years with his family in concentration
camps in Arkansas and Colorado, among the ten thousand Japanese Americans to be
interned. At Fresno State University he was encouraged to write poetry by
Philip Levine. He has been strongly influenced by his great passion, jazz,
which informs his preference for poetry in performance. His collections of
poetry include
Before the War: Poems As They Happened
(1971),
Legends from Camp (1992), which won the
American Book Award, and
Drawing the Line (1997), winner of the
Oregon Book Award. Among his other publications is
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese-American
Internment Experience (2000). He taught at Southern Oregon University
until his recent retirement. He is currently poet laureate of Oregon.
William Stafford was born in 1914 in Hutchinson, Kansas, and worked
during the Depression years at a variety of jobs (in sugar beet fields, in
construction, and in an oil refinery). He received his bachelor’s degree
shortly before the war from the University of Kansas, and returned there to
complete his master’s in 1947. A committed pacifist, he was interned between
1942 and 1946 interned in Civilian Public Service camps in California and
Arkansas. After the war he was employed at Lewis & Clark College in
Portland, Oregon till his retirement. He spent 1950 to 1952 at the University
of Iowa, where he received his doctorate in 1954. He is the author of almost
seventy volumes, including the poetry collections
Traveling through the Dark, winner of the
National Book Award in 1963, and the two volumes of selected poems
Stories that Could Be True (Harper &
Row, 1977) and
The Way It Is (Graywolf Press, 1993). He
is also the author of four books of prose essays in the Michigan University
Press Poets on Poetry series and of the prose memoir
Down in My Heart (1947), the account of
his experiences in CPS camp. Between 1970 and 1971 he was Poetry Consultant at
the Library of Congress, and was appointed poet laureate of Oregon in 1975. He
died in August 1993.
Content Description
This collection includes original raw footage (3/4 inch video tape),
edited footage (VHS tape, 3/4 inch video tape, and beta master), final
productions (VHS and DVD), and manuscript production notes.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
Restrictions on Use :
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in
the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written
permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
Preferred Citation :
The TTTD Video Productions Collection of Vince Wixon and Mike Markee,
#OLPb021WIX, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives &
Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
This collection is arranged in four series by film production:
Series 1, Lawson Inada, "What It Means to be Free,” 1993-2004;
Series 2, William Stafford, "What the River Says,” 1986-1989;
Series 3, William Stafford, "The Life of the Poem,” 1991-1992;
Series 4, William Stafford, "Methow River Poems,” 1996-1997.
Footage within each series is organized chronologically.
Acquisition Information :
Donated to the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections by Mike
Markee and Vince Wixon in September 2007.
Processing Note :
Processed in October 2007.
Bibliography :
For more information about Lawson Inada see:
Shawn Holliday,
Lawson Fusao Inada (Boise, ID: Boise
State University Press, 2003).
Linda Cullum,
Contemporary American Ethnic Poets
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004).
For more information about William Stafford see:
Judith Kitchen,
Understanding William Stafford
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989).
Kim Stafford,
Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William
Stafford (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2002).
Related Materials :
See Lewis and Clark College Special Collections website for related
poetry collections, http://library.lclark.edu/specialcollections/
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series 1: Lawson Inada, "What It Means to be
Free”, 1993-2004
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Personal Names :
Markee,
Mike
Wixon,
Vincent--Archives
Corporate Names :
TTTD Video
Productions
Subject Terms :
Poetry
World War 1939 1945
Prisoners And Prisons Japanese
