Mel Brooks to Donate His Expansive Career Archive to National Comedy Center in New York
Nonprofit based in Jamestown, N.Y. also houses the papers of Brooks' longtime collaborator Carl Reiner
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Mel Brooks has donated his career archive of more than 150,000 documents and 5,000 photographs to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., the same nonprofit institution that holds the papers of Brooks’ longtime collaborator Carl Reiner.
The archive includes Brooks’ earliest notes on comedy during his service in World War II through his years with Sid Caesar on NBC’s “Your Show of Shows” through his rise as a comedy auteur icon in the 1960s and ’70s with such films as “The Producers,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Silent Movie,” “History of the World, Part I” and “Spaceballs.”
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