NZWG Library

The NZWG Library contains New Zealand’s most comprehensive collection of books, magazines, scripts and other materials related to script writing. All NZWG members can use the library to gain knowledge on writing scripts and experienced writers will find materials that can assist them improve their craft.

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Library

All scripts may be borrowed from the Auckland Head Office and will be posted out to members outside of Auckland, if requested.

The Timpson Collection is a collection of  classic and modern feature movie and television scripts that have been generously donated to the NZWG by Ant and Matt Timpson.​

General Lending Conditions

  • LOAN PERIOD: Items are loaned out for a maximum of 4 weeks. Please return before or on the due date.
  • EXTENSIONS: Upon request library items can be loaned for a further period of 2 weeks, provided another Member has not requested the item.
  • MAXIMUM: Up to 4 items may be borrowed at any time.
  • REFERENCE ONLY: Must be used on site and may not be borrowed.
  • MAIL LIBRARY: Upon request items will be mailed out to Members unable to visit the library in person - only for Auckland library.
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Prey of Birds
Gavin Strawhan, Michael Bennet
Available
On Loan
Primal Fear
Steven Shagan. Revision by Steven Zaillian
Timpson
Script
Film
1985
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Prime Mover
David Ceaser
Available
On Loan
Prince Of Tides
Pat Conroy & Becky Johnston & John Updike
Timpson
Script
Film
1985
Available
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Film
Script
Princess Bride, The
William Goldman
Script
Film
1985
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television.
Ben Brady
Pub Univ of Texas Press, Austin
Book
1994
Available
On Loan
Book
Private Parts
Peter Torokvei & Howard Stern
Timpson.Unmade film – failure of the first in a trilogy put a stop to production
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Prizzi's Honor
Richard Condon and Janet Roach
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Producer.
Davil L Wolper & David Fisher
Scribner, New York
Book
2003
Available
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Book
Producers, The
Mel Brooks
Timpson. Fourth draft
Script
Film
1984
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Producing with Passion: Making films that change the world.
Dorothy Fadiman and Tony Levelle
Michael Wiese Productions, California
Book
2009
Available
On Loan
Book
Prophecy
Gregory Widen
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Psycho
Joseph Stefano
1 x Timpson. The film's title derives from the Dashiell Hammett novelRed Harvest (1929), in which the term "blood simple" describes the addled, fearful mindset of people after a prolonged immersion in violent situations.
Script
Film
1984
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Pump Up The Volume
Allan Moyle
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Punch-Drunk Love
Paul Thomas Anderson
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Purple Rain
Albert Magnoli
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Quest For Fire
Gerard Brach
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Quick And The Dead, The
Simon Moore
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Quills
Doug Wright & Bernard Malamud
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Quiz Show
Paul Attanasio
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
RKO 281
John Logan
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Radio Days
Woody Allen
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Radio Pirates (4th draft)
Andrew Gunn, Craig Newland
Available
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Raging Bull
Paul Schrader & Mardik Martin
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Rain Man
Barry Morrow & Ronald Bass
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Rainmaker, The
Francis Ford Coppola
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Raising Arizona
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Raising Helen
Patrick Clifton & Beth Rigazio with Jack Amiel & Michael Begler with Audrey Wells & William Kelley & Pamela and Earl W. Wallace
Timpson
Script
Film
1984
Available
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Film
Script
Rambo
Michael Kozoll & William Sackheim
Timpson. Based on true events
Script
Mockumentary
1984
Available
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Mockumentary
Script
Ransom
Richard Price
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Rapture, The
Michael Tolkin & William Wharton
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Re-Animator
Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and William J. Norris. Dialogue by Dennis Paoli and William J. Norris
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Reader, The
David Hare
Timpson. Shooting Script
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Reality Bites
Ben Stiller & David Saperstein
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Rebecca
Robert E. Sherwood
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Rebels
John Fusco
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Red Corner, The
Robert King. Revisions by Ron Koslow
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Red Dragon
Ted Tally
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
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Film
Script
Red Rock West
John Dahl, Rick Dahl
Available
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Red White Black And Blue
Andrew Kevin Walker
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Reflections of the Shadow.
Jeffrey Hirschberg
Michael Wiese Productions, Michigan
Book
2009
Available
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Book
Regarding Henry
J. J. abrams
Timpson. Second Draft
Script
Film
1983
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Reinventing Comics
Scott McLeod
Poorhouse Press, Tamarac FL
Book
2000
Available
On Loan
Book
Relic
Amy Holden Jones
Timpson
Script
Film
1983
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Remember the Titans
Gregory Allen Howard
Timpson. Based on true events
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Repo Man
Alex Cox
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Requiem For a Dream
Darrenj Aronofsky
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino & stephen King
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Restoration
Rupert Walters
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Return of Frankenstein, The
William Hurlbut & John L. Balderston
Biopic
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Return of the Jedi (ep 6)
George Lucas, Lawrence Casden
Available
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Reversal of Fortune
Nicholas Kazan
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Revolution in the Air!
Paul Smith
Longman Press, Auckland
Book
1996
Available
On Loan
Book
Rewriting – A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction.
David Michael Kaplan
A & C Black Ltd., London
Book
1998
Available
On Loan
Book
Ricohet
Fred Dekker
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Rio Bravo
Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett & David Morrell
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Risky Business
Paul Brickman
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
River Wild, The
Denis O'Neill. Revised by Raynold Gideon & Bruce A. Evans
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
River's Edge
Neal Jimenez
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Rob Roy
Alan Sharp
Timpson
Script
Film
1982
Available
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Film
Script
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves
John Watson & Pen Densham
Timpson
Script
1982
Available
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Script
Robocop
Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
Timpson.
Script
Film
1981
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Robocop 2
Frank Miller & Walon Green
Timpson.
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Rock, The
Jonathon Hensliegh
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Rocky Horror
Scott Michaels & David Evans
Sanctuary Publishing Ltd
Book
Available
On Loan
Book
Romancing The Stone
Diane R. Thomas & Stephen King
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Romeo & Juliet
Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Romeo Is Bleeding
Hilary Henkin
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Ronnie Rocket
David Lynch
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Rookie, The
Mike Rich
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Rosewood
Gregory Poirier
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Round Midnight
David Rayfiel & Bertrand Tavernier
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Roxanne
Steve Martin
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Royal Tennebaums, the - (x2)
Wes Anderson, Owen wilson
Available
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Rumble Fish
S.E Hinton and Francis Coppola
Based on true events
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Russia House, The
Tom Stoppard
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Ruthless People
Dale Launer
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Sabrina
Barbara Benedek
Timpson
Script
Film
1981
Available
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Film
Script
Salvador
Oliver Stone and Richard Boyle
Timpson
Script
Film
1980
Available
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Film
Script
Saturday Night Fever
Norman Wexler & Alfred Bester
Timpson
Script
Film
1980
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Say Anything
Cameron Crowe
Timpson
Script
Film
1980
Available
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Film
Script
Scanners
David Cronenberg
Timpson
Script
Film
1980
Available
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Film
Script
Scarface
Oliver Stone
Timpson
Script
Film
1980
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Scent Of A Woman
Bo Goldman
Timpson
Script
Film
1980
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Schrader On Schrader & Other Writings.
Kevin Ed Jackson
Faber and Faber, London
Book
1990
Available
On Loan
Book
Scream
Kevin Williamson & Isaac Bashevis Singer - Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy
Timpson
Script
1980
Available
On Loan
Script
Scream II
Kevin Williamson & Jerzy Kosinski
1 x Timpson
Script
Film
1979
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
Screen Adaptation : A Scriptwriting Handbook.
Kenneth Portnoy
Butterworth-Heinemann, MA
Book
1991
Available
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Book
Screen Writing Tricks of the Trade.
William Froug
Silman-James Press, Hollywood
Book
1993
Available
On Loan
Book
ScreenTeen writers: How young screenwriters can find success.
Christina Hamlett
Meriwether Publishing Ltd. USA
Book
2000
Available
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Book
Screenplay, The Foundations of Screenwriting (3rd Edition) x 2.
Syd Field
Dell Publishing, New York
Book
1982
Available
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Book
Screenwriter: Words Become Pictures.
Lee Server
Main Street Press, New Jersey
Book
1987
Available
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Book
Screenwriters: America’s Storytellers in Portrait.
Helena Lumme & M Mannien
Santa Monica, Angel City Press
Book
1999
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Book
Screenwriting for Teens – the 100 Principles of screenwriting every budding writer must know.
Christina Hamlett
Michael Wiese
Book
2006
Available
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Book
Screenwriting on the Internet: Researching, Writing and Selling Your Script Over the Web.
Christopher Wehner
Michael Wiese Productions, CA
Book
2001
Available
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Book
Screenwriting: A Manual
Jonathan Dawson
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Book
2000
Available
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Book
Script Partners – what makes film and TV writing teams work.
Claudia Johnson & Matt Stevens
Michael Wiese Productinos, CA
Book
2002
Available
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Book
Script Supervising and Film Continuity 3rd ed.”
Pat P Miller
Focal Press, Masachussetts
Book
Available
On Loan
Book

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