New York’s National Comedy Center to digitize archives of the late actress Lucille Ball
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Street signs in Jamestown, N.Y. promote the National Comedy Center. On Friday, the center announced plans to digitize the archives of the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum.
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Actress-comedian Lucille Ball at a restaurant in New York. On Friday, the National Comedy Center in the late actress’s hometown announced plans to digitize the archives of the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum.
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. >> Handwritten notes and family photographs belonging to Lucille Ball will be digitally preserved as part of a new project being undertaken by the National Comedy Center in the late actress’s hometown.
The center in western New York announced plans Friday to digitize the archives of the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum in marking the 30th anniversary of the “I Love Lucy” star’s death.
Much of the material, which also includes behind-the-scenes production papers and telegrams, has never been exhibited. Museum officials say it will be made available in the coming years.
The interactive National Comedy Center opened last summer near the existing Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum. The interactive National Comedy Center builds on Ball’s vision for a museum that celebrates all comedy as an art form.
