The series consists of material relating to the major projects in Len Blum's career, including his early music; theatre experiences; advertising work with Rosnick Advertising; and the film projects "Meatballs", "Stripes", "Heavy Metal", "Spacehunter", "Rabbit Boy" (unproduced), "Feds", "Widows" (unproduced), "Marx Brothers" (unproduced), "Beethoven's 2nd.", "The Yen Family" (unproduced), "Tommy Boy", and "Private Parts".
The material documenting Blum's early career in Canadian popular music includes correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, manuscript music and lyrics, clippings and publicity material for the band "Brass Union".
The material documenting Blum's career in theatre in Canada includes notes and scripts for the musicals "Midnight Opera" and "After the Opera" (written with his brother Jack Blum and performed at Tarragon Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto) and clippings of reviews, as well as notes on an idea for a play by Len Blum.
The material documenting Blum's commercial work as a composer of advertising jingles includes some financial records and advertizing copy and music for jingles created by Len Blum for the advertising company Rosnick Advertising, in which Blum was a partner with Ted Rosnick.
The material documenting "Meatballs" includes correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, scripts including the first, third and final drafts of the original screenplay, manuscripts of an uncompleted novelization by Blum, and publicity material.
The material documenting "Stripes" includes correspondence, contracts and financial statements, notes and manuscripts documenting the second, third, fourth and final drafts of the script, production documentation, reviews, and publicity material including stills.
The material documenting Len Blum's script for "Heavy Metal" includes contracts, manuscripts documenting the second and final drafts of the script, correspondence, and publicity material.
The material documenting "Spacehunter" includes correspondence, contracts, the shooting script and publicity material.
The material documenting Len Blum and Dan Goldberg's commissioned script for an unproduced Columbia Pictures film project, "Rabbit Boy" (which was considered by Stephen Spielberg as a vehicle for Michael Jackson) includes are correspondence, contracts, research material and manuscripts documenting two drafts of the script.
The material documenting "Feds", an uncommissioned script that Len Blum and Dan Goldberg developed and sold in Hollywood, includes correspondence, contracts, production material, publicity material and still, and extensive manuscripts documenting eight drafts of the script.
The material documenting "Widows", an unrealized project by Disney to adapt a British mini-series for American television with scripts written by Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, includes contracts and scripts.
The material documenting an unrealized project to make a film about the Marx Brothers, with a script by Len Blum, includes correspondence, contracts, notes and manuscripts documenting three drafts of a script, and research material.
The material documenting "Beethoven's 2nd", Blum's script for the second in a series of Disney "family entertainment" movies about a dog, includes contracts, correspondence, a small amount of production material, publicity material, and notes and manuscripts documenting extensive drafts of the script.
The material documenting "The Yen Family", an unrealized project to adapt a Japanese film for an North American audience with a script by Len Blum, includes contracts, correspondence, notes and scripts, and research material.
The material documenting Blum's rewrites of the script for the Ivan Reitman -produced film "Tommy Boy" include correspondence, contracts, schedules and other production material, manuscripts documenting Blum's script, and publicity material.
The material documenting "Private Parts", adapted from radio host Howard Stern's autobiography of the same name, includes correspondence, contracts, research material, extensive notes and manuscripts documenting some twenty-four drafts of the script, notes on cast read-throughs and notes on rehearsals, production material, and publicity material.
