Alligator (Archive of material from the 1980 film, including 240 vernacular photographs, a manuscript diary, and other production ephemera)

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Archive of material from the 1980 film belonging to boom operator Bill Yeager. Archive includes 240 vernacular color and black-and-white photographs taken on the set, a typescript letter from stuntman Tom Clardy to Yeager, two black-and-white reference photographs, and approximately 40 xerographically duplicated production documents.

Among the production documents are maps of shooting locations and production memos, although call sheets comprise the balance. Of particular note are Yeager's humorous and descriptive diary entries executed in manuscript ink on the call sheet versos, documenting the film's production over 28 days. Archive also includes six typescript leaves transcribing the first three days of Yeager's manuscript diary entries.

A baby alligator named Ramón is flushed down the toilet, growing to gargantuan proportions in the sewers after feasting for years on the corpses of hormone-riddled laboratory animals. Accidentally freed onto the streets of Chicago, Ramón begins a reign of terror over the city's inhabitants.

Set in Chicago, shot on location in Los Angeles.

Production documents: approximately 8.5 x 14 inches. About Very Good plus, with moderate edgewear and creasing.

Photographs: 5.25 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine, housed in a Very Good plus three-ring binder, with two photographs laid in.

Reference photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn.

Letter: 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine, folded twice horizontally.

Thrower, Nightmare USA.