Series II. Education, 1974-1980, undated, inclusive

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet in 6 legal-size folders and 4 oversize folders.

Extent

3 audiocassettes

Extent

32 film reels

Extent

1 Half_Inch_Video_Reel

Scope and Content

This series documents Berkowitz's undergraduate and graduate education at Rutgers University and New York University (NYU), respectively. The series includes articles written by Berkowitz, student films he produced, financial records, and correspondence documenting Berkowitz's time at Rutgers and NYU.

Arrangement

This series is arranged into the following subseries:

Subseries II.A. Rutgers University, 1974-1977, undated

Subseries II.B. New York University, 1977-1980, undated

Material within the subseries is arranged in alphabetical order by type or topic of the material.

Subseries II.A. Rutgers University, 1974-1977, undated, inclusive

Extent

0.3 Linear Feet in 2 legal-size folders and 4 oversize folders.

Extent

3 audiocassettes

Extent

32 film reels

Extent

1 Half_Inch_Video_Reel

Scope and Content

This subseries includes articles written by Berkowitz for Rutgers' campus newspaper, The Daily Targum; student films he produced; financial aid documents; and a poster for a film panel in which he participated.

Audio cassettes, 1975-1976, inclusive

Box: 14, Cassette: 421.0073-421.0076 (Material Type: Audio)

"The Changing Stereotypes of Women, Blacks, and Gays in Cinema"--poster, 1977

Box: 13, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1975-1977, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Films, 1975-1977, undated, inclusive

"La Brea" Outtakes -- Part I, March, 1976

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0001 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 3 minutes, 40 seconds.

Video

"La Brea" Outtakes -- Part I

"La Brea" Outtakes, January 13, 1977

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0002 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 1 minute, 55 seconds.

Video

"La Brea" Outtakes

"La Brea" Outtakes -- Rob, January 13, 1977

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0003 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minutes, 1 second

Video

"La Brea" Outtakes -- Rob

"La Brea" Outtakes -- Part II, March, 1976

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0004 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 1 minute, 26 seconds

Video

"La Brea" Outtakes -- Part II

"The Cum-mercials" Outtakes -- Babes, Evans, Roy, Norma, May 17, 1976

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0006 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minutes, 16 seconds

Video

"The Cum-mercials" Outtakes -- Babes, Evans, Roy, Norma

"Cum-mercial", May, 1976

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0007 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 6 minutes, 58 seconds

Video

"Cum-mercial"

Pine Barren Doe Outtakes, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0008 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 5 minutes, 21 seconds

Video

Pine Barren Doe Outtakes

And Rose Titles, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0009 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minutes, 38 seconds

Video

And Rose Titles

For Sylvia -- Titles / Marilyn at Lib / Door Shot with Roy, October, 1975

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0010 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minutes, 16 seconds

Video

For Sylvia -- Titles / Marilyn at Lib / Door Shot with Roy

Marilyn [label illegible], Black Jill, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0011 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 1 minute, 39 seconds

Video

Marilyn [label illegible], Black Jill

And Rose, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0012 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 11 minutes, 51 seconds

Video

And Rose

Glory Hole Porno, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0013 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

Content warning: This recording is sexually explicit.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 10 minutes, 15 seconds

Video

Glory Hole Porno

Suburban Showdown, 1977

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0014 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

A student film directed by Richard Berkowitz.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

9 minutes 9 seconds, Black and White, Silent

Video

Suburban Showdown

Suburban Showdown [outtakes], 1977

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0015 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

Outtakes from Suburban Showdown, a student film directed by Richard Berkowitz.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

1 minute 6 seconds, Black and White, Silent

Video

Suburban Showdown [outtakes]

Untitled short film, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0017 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

The silent film depicts a woman with a painted face rising from bed, sitting at a table to eat a pie, and manipulating the pie with a fork.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 6 minutes, 2 seconds

Video

Untitled short film

The Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0018 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

The silent film depicts scenes from picture books and comics at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 3 minutes, 20 seconds

Video

The Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop

[Gay Rally], 1977

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0019 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

Contains footage from the 1977 Gay Pride Parade in New York City. Rollerena Fairy Godmother and Felipe Rose of The Village People make brief appearances.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

3 minutes, Color, Silent

Video

[Gay Rally]

[Home movie], 1975

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0020 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

Contains Double-exposed footage of a family vacationing near a lake.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

3 minutes 21 seconds, Color, Silent

Video

[Home movie]

Rutgers Film Assignment, June, 1974

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0021 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 3 minutes, 21 seconds

Video

Rutgers Film Assignment

Suicide Jump, March, 1974

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0022 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

Content warning: This recording includes explicit sexual imagery.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minutes, 3 seconds

Video

Suicide Jump

Library scenes, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0023 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 1 minute, 45 seconds

Video

Library scenes

Rain / Single frame / New Hpe, May-June, 1974, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0024 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 3 minutes, 20 seconds

Video

Rain / Single frame / New Hpe

Expo 67, Montreal, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0026 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 3 minutes, 32 seconds

Video

Expo 67, Montreal

Untitled short film, undated, inclusive

Box: 17, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0027 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

The silent film depicts a woman with a painted face and a man jumping from a rooftop.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minutes, 58 seconds

Video

Untitled short film

Lending close-up / Titles, undated, inclusive

Box: 18, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0028 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 1 minute, 7 seconds

Video

Lending close-up / Titles

"X-orcist" -- Waste credits, shots at 1383 Omara Dr., undated, inclusive

Box: 18, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0029 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minutes, 19 seconds

Video

"X-orcist" -- Waste credits, shots at 1383 Omara Dr.

Library scenes, undated, inclusive

Box: 18, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0030 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 1 minute, 55 seconds

Video

Library scenes

Untitled short film, April, 1974

Box: 18, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0031 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

The film depicts a woman with a painted face stirring a pie with a fork. The end of the film has a short library scene.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 2 minute, 53 seconds

Video

Untitled short film

Left-over film from porno, undated, inclusive

Box: 18, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0032 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 3 minutes, 42 seconds

Video

Left-over film from porno

At Seventeen, 1974-1979, inclusive

Box: 18, Super_8mm_Film_Reel: 421.0033 (Material Type: film)

Scope and Contents

Contains footage of street scenes and scenery taken in the areas around Rutgers University.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

2 minutes 30 seconds, Color, Silent

Video

At Seventeen

Video

Box: 16, Video: 421.0209 (Material Type: Video)

Movie notes, 1976, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Daily Targum, 1974-1977, undated, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 1-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radio and voice message clips

Box: 17, Quarter_Inch_Audio_Reel: 421.0016 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Contents

This recording includes clips of music interspersed with a voice message for Berkowitz.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 30 minutes; Preservation Note: Very poor audio quality.

Audio

Radio and voice message clips

Subseries II.B. New York University, 1977-1980, undated, inclusive

Extent

0.2 Linear Feet in 6 folders.

Extent

4 film reels

Extent

1 audiocassette

Scope and Content

This subseries contains Berkowitz's notes, script, and films for his student film, Selling It; report cards; resumes; class notes; and correspondence with NYU administrators.

Correspondence, 1977-1979, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miscellaneous, 1977-1980, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Movie notes, Undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Resumes, 1978, undated

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Selling It, Undated, inclusive

Ralph Delia

Box: 18, 16mm_film_reels: 421.0034 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 7 minutes, 6 seconds

Video

Ralph Delia

Outtakes / Meeting

Box: 18, 16mm_film_reels: 421.0035 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 10 minutes, 12 seconds

Video

Outtakes / Meeting

Outtakes / Phone / Bedroom / Bathroom

Box: 18, 16mm_film_reels: 421.0036 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 8 minutes, 36 seconds

Video

Outtakes / Phone / Bedroom / Bathroom

Outtakes / Motel / 2nd Phone Call

Box: 18, 16mm_film_reels: 421.0037 (Material Type: film)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 7 minutes, 40 seconds

Video

Outtakes / Motel / 2nd Phone Call

Paper materials

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Audiocassette

Box: 14, audiocassette: 421.0077 (Material Type: Audio)