Martin Scorsese, director of films including "Raging Bull," "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver" and "Age of Innocence," has given his working papers and documents to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.
Copies of Scorsese's collection, which includes scripts, drawings, research information and production notes, will also go to the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.Jeanine Basinger, founder and curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, said the university has offered courses on Scorsese's films for 25 years.
"In the unique case of somebody like Scorsese, you have somebody who is both a scholar and a filmmaker," Basinger said. "He's a doer and a thinker."
The Wesleyan Cinema Archives already contain the documents of other American film directors, such as Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, Clint Eastwood, Raoul Walsh and John Waters. They also have the papers of film stars Ingrid Bergman and Kay Francis, and the complete television collection of Robert Saudek, originator of the "Omnibus" TV series.