Research Catalog

  • Aint supposed to die a natural death.

    • Text
    • Toronto, New York, Bantam Books [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc 812.54-V (Van Peebles, M. Aint supposed to die a natural death)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Don't play us cheap; a Harlem party.

    • Text
    • Toronto, New York, Bantam Books [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc Fic (Van Peebles, M. Don't play us cheap)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song.

    • Text
    • New York, Lancer Books [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc 791.43-V (Van Peebles, M. Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Un ours pour le F.B.I. Traduit de l'américain par Paule Truffert.

    • Text
    • Paris, Buchet/Chastel [1964]
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc Fic (Van Peebles, M. Ours pour le F.B.I.)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • The true American : a folk fable / Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc Fic (Van Peebles, M. True American)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Black news (New York, N.Y.). Melvin Van Peebles [videorecording] / WNEW-TV, New York ; producer, Robert E. Martin ; director, Chet Lishawa.

    • Moving image
    • New York : WNEW-TV, 1981-06.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRA-828 Service copy.Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • No identity crisis : a father and son's own story of working together / Melvin and Mario Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon & Schuster, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MWES (Van Peebles, M.) 90-11229Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc E 99-231Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Tony Brown's journal. The Big Black boom on the Great White Way [videorecording] / Tony Brown Productions ; produced by Tony Brown ; directed by Mick Colgan.

    • Moving image
    • [New York?] :bShowbiz, Inc., c1979.
    • 1979
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual DVD-622 Service copy.Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRA-984Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Hatch-Billops collection [sound recording] : [taped interviews of theater].

    • Audio
    • 1970-1974.
    • 1970-1974
  • Ain't supposed to die a natural death theater stills collection [graphic] / Bert Andrews.

    • Still image
    • <1971-1982.>
    • 1971-1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Picture Sc Photo TheaterSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Beggar's holiday theater stills collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1946-1947.>
    • 1946-1947
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Picture Sc Photo TheaterSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Satchmo : Louis Armstrong / a coproduction of Toby Byron/Multiprises in association with Taurus Film, Munich, CBS Music Video Enterprises and WNET/New York ; directed by Gary Giddens with Kendrick Simmons ; produced by Toby Byron ; written by Gary Giddens.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : CMV Enterprises, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 1Offsite
  • Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song motion picture stills collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1971.>
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Picture Sc Photo Motion picturesSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Le Chinois du XIVe. Illustré par Roland Topor.

    • Text
    • Paris, J. Martineau [c1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Sc Fic (Van Peebles, M. Chinois du XIVe)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Un Américain en enfer : roman / Melvin van Peebles ; traduit de l'américain par Paule-Eugénie Truffert.

    • Text
    • Paris : Éditions Denoël, [c1965]
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc Fic (Van Peebles, M. Américain en enfer)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • A bear for the FBI.

    • Text
    • New York, Trident Press [c1968]
    • 1968
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text D-18 7704Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc Fic (Van Peebles, M. Bear for the FBI)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Panther : a novel / by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Sc D 95-1075Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • The big heart. Photography: Ruth Bernhard.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco, Fearon Publisher, c1957]
    • 1957
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text F-10 2447Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text IXH (San Francisco) (Van, M. Big heart)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc F 09-303Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Le Chinois du XIV̊. Ilustrê par Roland Topor.

    • Text
    • Paris, le Gadenet, 1966.
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text C-14 2089Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Making "Do the right thing" [motion picture] / The Chamba Organization and 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks ; a film by St. Clair Bourne.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRA-256Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual MPB-198Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual MPB-198Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • The making of Sweet sweetback's baadasssss song / by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • Ann Arbor, Mich. : Neo Press, 1994.
    • 1994-1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc D 02-861Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Watermelon man [sound recording] : original music from the soundtrack of Columbia Pictures / composed by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Audio
    • Culver City, CA : Beverly Hills, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 12680 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Ain't supposed to die a natural death [sound recording] / Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Audio
    • Hollywood, CA : A & M Records, [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 9476 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Sweet sweetback's baadasssss song : journal d'un film / Melvin Van Peebles ; [avec] Serge Chauvin ... [et al.]

    • Text
    • Pertuis : Rouge profond ; Issy-les-Moulineaux : Arte, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433064373180
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc D 04-3656Offsite
  • Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song : a guerilla filmmaking manifesto / Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2004.
    • 2004-1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc D 05-600Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Ain't supposed to die a natural death [videorecording] / The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Christopher McElroen, co-founder & executive director, Alfred Preisser, co-founder & artistic director, presents ; [written] by Melvin Van Peebles ; directed by Alfred Preisser ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS NCOV 2899Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS NCOV 2899Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Aint supposed to die a natural death : typescript, 2004.

    • Text
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOF+ 05-31Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song [sound recording] / soundtracks written & composed by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Audio
    • Memphis, Tenn. : Stax Records, [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 44287 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Don't play us cheap [sound recording] / all selections written, composed and produced by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Audio
    • Memphis : Stax, p1972.
    • 1972
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 44288 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 44288 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Ain't supposed to die a natural death [sound recording] : original Broadway cast / all words and music by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Audio
    • Beverly Hills, Calif. : A & M Records, [1972?]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LSRX 8732 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • What the-- you mean I can't sing?! [sound recording] / Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Audio
    • New York : Atlantic, p1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 52450 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Sweet Sweetback's baadassss song [motion picture] / Cinemation Industries ; produced by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Moving image
    • Los Angeles : Direct Cinema, Ltd., 1971.
    • 1971
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Film, slide, etc. M16 4244 SOffsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Film, slide, etc. M16 4244 SOffsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Classified X [videorecording] / La Sept ARTE, Les Films d'Ici, Ecoutez Voir, Yeah Inc. in association with Channel Four, TFO, SBS TV ; produced by Yves Jeanneau, Christine Le Goff ; directed by Mark Daniels.

    • Moving image
    • [S.l.] : WinStar Home Entertainment, 1998.
    • 1998-1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS VTH 4650 COffsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • Confessions of a ex doofus itchyfooted mutha / art direction & story by Melvin Van Peebles ; illustrations by Caktuz Tree..?13.

    • Text
    • New York : Akashic Books, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text 9-NAZ 09-8079Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text Sc F 10-128Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Organ.

    • Text
    • [Berkeley, Calif. : Himalayan Watershed Properties, c1970-
    • 1970-
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/ed321e70-60d7-0135-e4ed-317887771c5a
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Berg Coll+++ Counterculture O74 1970Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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  • Reggae / music and lyrics by Kendrew Lascelles, Stafford Harrison, Ras Karbi, Michael Kamen, Max Romeo, Randy Bishop, and Jackie Mittoo ; book by Kendrew Lascelles and Melvin Van Peebles; Rastafrian dialogue and patois by Stafford Harrison ; concept by Michael Butler, 1980.

    • Mixed material
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Manuscript NCOF+ 12-2125Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Don't play us cheap (1973) [electronic resource] : continuity script / by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    http://WU9FB9WH4A.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WU9FB9WH4A&S=JCs&C=TC0001176066&T=marc&tab=BOOKS
  • Panther (1995) [electronic resource] : shooting script / by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    http://WU9FB9WH4A.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WU9FB9WH4A&S=JCs&C=TC0001176823&T=marc&tab=BOOKS
  • Sweet sweetback's baad asssss song (1971) [electronic resource] : shooting script / by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Text
    • Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    http://WU9FB9WH4A.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WU9FB9WH4A&S=JCs&C=TC0001177029&T=marc&tab=BOOKS
  • How to eat your watermelon in white company (and enjoy it) / directed by Joe Angio.

    • Moving image
    • Chicago, IL : Music Box Films, [2016]
    • 2016-2005
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    DVD Sc Visual Sc Visual DVD-1426Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Schomburg Center LP record collection. V.

    • Audio
    • 1960-2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc RE-VSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Sweet sweetback's baad asssss song / directed by Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Moving image
    • Santa Monica, CA : Xenon Pictures, 2002.
    • 2002-1971
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    DVD Sc Visual DVD-1422Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    DVD Sc Visual DVD-1422Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • BaadAsssss cinema / directed by Isaac Julien.

    • Moving image
    • [New York] : Docurama : Distributed by New Video Group, ©2002.
    • 2002
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    DVD Sc Visual DVD-343Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    DVD Sc Visual DVD-343Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The HistoryMakers video oral history with Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Moving image
    • Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://da-thehistorymakers-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2006.100
  • Melvin Van Peebles essential films : The story of a three day pass ; Watermelon man ; Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song ; Don't play us cheap ; [Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)].

    • Moving image
    • [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2021.
    • 2021
  • Working in the theatre. The playscript [videorecording] / City University Television presents the American Theatre Wing seminars ; executive producer, Isabelle Stevenson ; produced for CUNY-TV by Robert Isaacson ; directed by Donald G. Pascoe ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

    • Moving image
    • New York, CUNY-TV, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    DVD NCOX 1332Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Brer soul / Melvin Van Peebles.

    • Audio
    • Hollywood, Calif. : A & M Records, [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LSRX 3583Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Say it loud! : a celebration of Black music in America.

    • Audio
    • Los Angeles, California : Rhino, [2001]
    • 2001-1916
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD Sc CD-1337Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • I'll Make Me a World : episode 6 : the freedom you will take, 1999 / produced by Blackside Inc. in association with Thirteen/WNET ; produced and directed by Denise Green.

    • Moving image
    • 1999.
    • 1999
  • Satchmo : Louis Armstrong / written by Gary Giddins ; directed by Gary Giddins with Kendrick Simmons ; produced by Toby Byron.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : CMV Enterprises, [1989], ©1989.
    • 1989-1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Film, Slide, etc. VC269Off-site

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