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50 cm of textual records
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Terry Ryan is known to have worked as the National Film Board of Canada's (NFB) Atlantic Distribution Chief in the mid 1980s. He is also a screenwriter, director, producer, and entrepreneur. His film credits include producing Co-op (1991), Five Transformations (1991), Four Stories of Tuktu (1991), Three Stories for Young People (1991); co-writing the screenplay for Bayo (1984); directing The Media Between Us (1969); and Sail Away (1977). In the early 1990s he also designed a one-handed keyboard which he had patented.
Custodial history
The archives received this fonds from Terry Ryan in four accessions. Most of the materials were donated in 1987 in three accessions; the records pertaining to Ryan’s keyboard patent were accessioned in 1998.
Scope and content
This fonds consists primarily of documents related to the production of the movie Bayo , an adaptation of the book Lightly by Chipman Hall. The fonds includes manuscripts, scripts, contracts, memos, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a copy of the movie on videocassette, and photographs. The fonds also contains two poems composed by Ryan as well as some documents related to his development of a one-handed computer keyboard.
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English
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There are no access restrictions on these materials. All materials are open for research.
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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room. Materials may be under copyright. Contact departmental staff for guidance on reproduction.
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Detailed inventory available onsite.
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No further accruals expected.
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Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Terry Ryan fonds, MS-2-579, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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This fonds description comes from the Dalhousie University Archives Catalog. The complete, original description is available there.