Real Deal television documentary archive

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Real Deal
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: Real Deal television documentary archive
Date(s)	: 2001
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 videotape
Name of creator(s)	: Levy | Marc | fl 1970-2003 | writer

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Marc Levy, fl 1970-2003; served as a medic with 1 Cavalry Division, US Army, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1970; studied writing at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts at Boston; established writer on the Vietnam War. Publications include contributions to anthologies Stories from the Infirmary, Will work for Peace and The Best American Erotica 2000 and other publications such as Slant and Rattlepallax.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Comprising one videotape of observations, recollections and reflections upon the Vietnam War by veteran Marc Levy entitled The Real Deal, 2001, running time 26 mins; including combat photography, archival footage and readings by Levy. The film was submitted to various film festivals and has been used as a teaching aid in schools.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One videotape in PAL format as described above.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Marc Levy to the Centre in 2002

Allied Materials

Related material:

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives: Four hours in My Lai television documentary archive; Microform: Armed Forces Oral Histories: US Army Senior Officer Oral Histories; Cold War television documentary archive; Microform: Vietnam Documents and Research Notes Series: Translation and Analysis of Significant Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Documents; Microform: US Armed Forces in Vietnam, 1954-1975; Microform: Transcripts and Files of the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1968- 1973; Microform: The Lyndon B Johnson National Security Files, 1963-1969: Country Files.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
April 2003