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This sixty-third page is one of two numbered 63 by Phillips.This second page 63 contains four collaged images of a nude man descending the stairs by Muybridge.They are by Phillips in dark gray around the borders. This page is titled "Homage to Eadweard Muyb..." on the top edge of the page and "The Second Coming" on the bottom edge. Phillips writes on the right side "Xeroxed and enlarged from Peter's copy of Muybridge and prepared and doctored by me as a sequence to load directly on to a dump-tape via the rostrum box at Patase Video." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixty-fourth page is similar to the numbered page 63 by Phillips.This page 64 contains variations of the four collaged images of a nude man descending the stairs by Muybridge.They are painted by Phillips in dark gray around the borders. The first figure on the left does not have yellow painted additions and the nude man is walking down three steps not four. This page is titled "Homage to E. M" on the top edge of the page and "Nude Descending a S" on the bottom edge.There is no calligraphic text by Phillips on the right side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This sixty-fifth page is titled "Trying to Rekindle Dante." There are many collaged and stenciled elements on this page and handwritten texts by Phillips. The collage on the left hand side advertises "The Dante Heater." Beneath it Phillips has written "Graphic element snipped by John XXIV/XII/LXXXVIII." Scattered on the page are torn pieces of prints from Phillips' Dante.On the right side is a card from a restaurant in Honfleur, France. On it Phillips has written the following: "Yet another sculptural event in Bretagne under the aegis of Yves Bonce.This time an ' animation' instead of a 'manifestation' in the library of Le Havre....Such is France. Took it in with Sylvia on the way back from delivering globes in Paris but was somewhat cheated in that the promised "Livre des Journees TP' was not in fact ready. Nice lunch at Honfleur." The painted stenciled text at the bottom of the page reads "The Kiss of lIfe =The Kiss of Death." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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This sixty-sixth page contains the letter sent to Tom Phillips from Kees Kasander from Dante B.V. in Amsterdam informing hiim that the company wil no longer have Phillips serve as Co-Director of the Dante TV project as a result of Peter Greeenaway not being available for two years. Two new Directors will be selected and new financial arrangements were necessary.On the right side of the page, Tom Phillips describes the impassioned phone calls to reorganize and his final realization that the TV Dante will not be continued. A collage of a howling monster is collaged in the upper left hand corner.The upper right side contains the question painted in brown stencilled letters " Chi m'ha negate le dolente case?" The bottom right contains the phrases "KGP becomes Dante BV" in green paint and "the plot of the ersatz Dante" in gray paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This sixty-seventh page contains a typed letter by Phillips to Kees Kasander of Dante B.V. in Amsterdam in response to Kasander's letter of January 26, 1990 informing him of discontinuing the TV Dante project. That letter was collaged onto page 66. Phillips begins his letter "Dear Kees, Your charmless letter astounds me. The principle reason for continuing with a TV Dante must be that it has some real quality...I am not in the least interested in plots and intrigues and power politics and personality struggles. Since a TV Dante is in essence my project I just want to get on with the work that was so well started and could be further enriched with the ideas of other creative minds and talents." On the right hand side of the page, Phillips writes of meetings and letters and telephone calls to try to get the project back on track. He also mentions that TV Dante may be shown on Channel 4. The right hand side of the page also contains references to cricket with a painted green...

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This sixty-eighth page contains a sentence painted in orange stencilled letters on the bottom right of the page "Dante climbs back." Illustrating this is a collage of three illustrations of Muybridge's nude man climbing a staircase. Each staircase contains an increasing number of figures.The left side of the page contains a collaged paper with the name Plato. On the right side Phillips writes the Division of Cantos: " XXX - XXXIV Peter" and Cantos IX to XXIX are listed with notes for himself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixty-ninth page contains the sentences in painted stencilled letters "Lucy comes to work" at the bottom of the page and "Dante at the Ivy" at the top which refers to the Ivy restaurant where Phillps has several art works installed and has designed the menus. Tom wriites "Lucy Shortis ...has arrived to take over from the inept Louise. At last there seems to be someone who can handle things well and intelligently.... She's also very lovely and seems to like the chores of this outfit...I could have a great team." The center of the page contains a large collaged portrait of T.S. Eliot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This seventieth page is titled "Dante in Bleecker Street." On the upper left hand corner Phillips writes "In Bleecker Street working with Richard [Minsky] on the Class of 47. Supposed to meet with Rybezinski at RM Associates but this did not really materialize Dined at a very good Italian restaurant called Bice......Saw at Toni Zwicker's place her copy of the Inferno still in its roped box. Met up with Steven Clay & also picked up some stuff I had left at The Center for Book Arts at my last years show." Printed on the top right hand of the page is the following: "In the bathroom of the junior Dr. Sackner all the magazines seem to contain many cardiographs.... Staying with John and Audrey Sackner at the fashionable end of Bleecker St." Page 70 is collaged with three Doppler images and a card from Bice's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This seventy-first page is titled "Coming Soon (At Last." At the bottom right Phillips writes "With a TV Dante officially scheduled for 29th July Channel 4 creaks into action...Rang Peter to see if he wants to make a contribution but he's happy to leave it to me (!)." The remainder of the paragraph concerns technical and business details with Channel 4 and Phillips' backers. The entire left side of the page is a structured drawing by Phillips for pages and screen subjects for the Dante project.The upper right corner is a torn newspaper annoucement of A TV Dante describing it as follows "Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips long in the making surrreal version of The Inferno and The Divine Comedy-29 July C4." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This seventy-second page contains an invitation from the Ivy restaurant for a press preview of A TV Dante, torn portions of the green typeface menu Phillips designed for the Ivy and on the right hand side extensive diary writing. He writes "Meanwhile back at base we are still producing the book of seven years ago! John is still at work on the etchings which are being torn (?) down by Lucy who is gradually mastering the making up of full copies. I have sold one copy to Steve Clay... and all in all in the last year or so have sold more copies than any year since the outset. The press launch upstairs at the Ivy seemed to go pretty well...Many more people came than expected. David Attenborough came...and Peter and I were interviewed by many people called Roy with Walkmans and everyone seemed very nice about things...Strange to see an etching of mine in the TV Times, in Time Out, City Limited and the Listener so far....But still no news of process and still no reading of Sir John......

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This seventy-third page is titled "A TV Dante Received." Phillips writes "A TV Dante I to III went out 29th July...Very good reviews the following Sunday and many phone calls and messages to say how much people liked it including one from ??? to say he thought it was the best television he'd ever seen...Almost everyone mentions the appearance od David Attenbourgh. I watched it myself with Sylvia or on my own & was often surprised. It gets better as it goes on but will stilll need a coherent sound track. Something somewhere wrong with the voice track. Still even with this delay it is something to have been on at all and over a million people is pretty good." There are five collages of varying size of the head of the young Beatrice on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This seventy-fourth page is titled "Dante in Basel". The main section of the page contains fragments of Phillips' print of Dante in his study, a collaged picture from the screen TV Dante and an anouncement for the 40th King's Lynn Festival of Music & the Arts where Phillips will be giving a lecture. Phillips writes on the right hand side of the page "To Basel to buy Lucy some chocolates and to give a lecture at the Kunst Halle where I showed sixteen years ago." This is likely the exhibitiion in 1979 where the Sackners first saw the work of Phillips, including the original Humument pages on display.Concerning the production of TV Dante, Phillips writes that he is "concerned about Sir John. I have a kind of internal ultimatum only partially communicated to others that the deadline for action must be a month from the transmission of the episodes.Talked to Charles Levison and he says that Virgin will possibly back the recording of Sir John and Bob Peck so I must get a budget...

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This seventy-fifth page is titled "Dante Reaches a Public." The left side of the page is a printed biography about Dante and his brilliant work. Phillips writes on the top right side of the page "First brochure delivered to me: doesn't look too bad .Reproductions excellent, text lacks intended Italics, cover a bit bland (graphic design look. Odd commas here and there wrongly added. Trying also to get hold of tapes of films by Raoul Ruiz who it is suggested may be the next co-director.Talk now is of Nov 1st kick off: but I have yet to meet Ruiz or have any confirmation of the filming of Sir John or of any date at all. My indivisual foreys into getting backers always crash into the Dutch fog. XX/VIII Still no faxes or messages from Kees. The bottom right of the page contains a label form Dante Extra Virgin Olive Oil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This seventy-sixth page is titled "Dante in Sweden." The page is collaged with printed information from the Stockholm Film Festival where "A TV Dante " was shown on November 1, 1990. Phillips writes " R.M. trying to sell film to Swedish TV but there are problems.Two wonderful Picassos in Modern Art Museum and some fine pictures in Natl Gallery. Otherwise no progress on the filming whatsoever." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This seventy-seventh page is titled "1980 Premonitions of an Aesthetic. N.C. USA. XC." Phillips writes on the left hand side "Raleigh, North Carolina. Looking with Ruth Sackner at drawing called Speaking in Tongues which I made in 1980 & which they acquired in 1981 had extraordinary sense of deja vu in that the drawing seemed to encapsulate the aesthetic of a TV Dante even to the extent of the 'soft border' at the bottom of the inside frame.When I got back I looked through the booklet & found also the figures of the drawing itself seemed to recur in the still from Canto IV, itself surrounded by letters. XXI.XI.XC." A collaged reproduction of the aforementioned large drawing is pasted in the center of the page.The still of the described frame from a TV Dante is collaged in the lower right hand corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This seventy-eighth page is titled "Dante in Raleigh." This page contains elements from Phillips' exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art with works selected from the Sackner Archive opening November 15, 1990. There are seven small leaves collaged onto the page. The upper left-hand corner contains the printed invitation with a page from A Humument reproduced. Segments from A TV Dante were also shown and a torn ticket stub to a concert "Alexander Nevsky". The Sackners participated in all events with Phillips .Also collaged is a card from a local art gallery exhibiting Phillips' work, stickers of an American flag and a ping-pong paddle (Tom is a major player!) and a torn illustration of a screen from A TV Dante. Phillips writes "From New York to Raleigh with Richard Minsky & Ruth & Marvin Sackner (We had all been celebrating the Class of '47 in Bleecker St. the night before). Met at airport by Huston Pascal who has been in constant touch over every detail of catalogue...

Scope and Contents This seventy-ninth page is titled "Dante Takes the Biscuit. Collaged to the center of the page is a reproduction of a review article from Montreal headlined 'Close Up,' 'Dante' takes top honors at Nouveau festival. The review reports that "U.K. video 'A TV Dante' by Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips, were the winners at the 19th Festival Intl. du Nouveau Cinema et de Video, which wrapped Oct. 29. Chosen from among the 70 eligible videos, Greenaway's "Dante" was described as masterpiece by jury McKay (U.S.) and Colin Campbell (Canada). McKay said Greenaway's and Phillip's vision had the intensity and depth that you usually get with an installation with multiple monitors.The directors - who were not on hand for the closing ceremonies - will receive a $C2,000 check from Sony of Canada.Collaged on the left side of the page is an invitation to Festa Italiana where the restaurant suite is temporarily renamed 'Dante's Inferno' for the evening's event .On the lower left corner Phillips...

Scope and Contents This eightieth page is titled "Stirrings Still." In the upper center of the page Phillips writes "Slight mumblings all the time & the off twitch of a body not quite dead and ever the odd feeling that the patient might almost rally round: then slump into torpor! I think the body has been in a coma for so long it can only survive as a vegetable even if it is resuscitated. Most recently a fax and even a phone call from Rainer Moritz........He wants a breakdown of proportion of Gielgud to camera (& Peck) for no doubt some devious contractual reason (since he asks for a copy of my contract with Kees/BVDante) which I have faxed to Algon Wood...N. Carolina solicits a return visit." On the bottom of the page Phillips writes "Meanwhile my TV nose points me in the direction of the Ring of the Niebeling....Proposals, proposals, proposals". Collaged papers on this page consist of a title sheet of "A Concordance to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, A small gauche painting by...

Scope and Contents This eight first page is titled " Dante Down Under II.Leg Up." On the center of the page a review of A TV Dante is collaged from an Australian newspaper. Phillips writes on the left side of the page "Sent from Dante Diary's Australian correspondent June XCI after satellite transmission...." The review for the film shown on SBS was written by Kleu and is extremely positive with a fine synopsis of the plot. Kleu writes "This is, quite simply, the most stunningly vibrant use of television I've ever seen....This production is a television triumph, pushing the medium to the limit. Sadly, only eight cantos were filmed, of 34. But bravo SBS." On the upper right hand side of the page Phillips writes "Now (July XCI) there are new rumblings. First from Ken Thompson saying that A TV Dante is Ch 4's Italia Prize entry..." The background of this page is painted blue with light blue, white centered forms that resemble sea creatures or heavenly bodies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

Scope and Contents This eighty second page is titled ''Tell Me What Is this Lunch About?" contains in depth diary additions by Phillips on the the right and left hand sides of the page as his trials and tribulations with A TV Dante continue. First in London on V/IX/XCV he writes "In the evening as Charles' guest to the ICA to hear Peter talk and show two reels of Prospero's Books..In his talk he gives me credit when talking of A TV Dante...Talked with Peter about the Tokyo experience & about the continuation of TV Dante from which he has rightly distanced himself & will not be involved as had once seemed likely in the last cantos. He described the project as 'A ship wihout a rudder' which seemed pretty accurate. Peter said that David Lynch had toyed with the idea of joining at one point. But beyond that he did not seem to know very much of what was going on. The Bob Peck scripts arrived from Millie & I started toying with them before bedtime. An old task.....a call from Millie who has...