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Fonds represents Ted Kulczycky’s professional and hobbyist projects as bookseller, bartender, filmmaker, musician, event host, scholar, and especially researcher and writer. Most items in the fonds were created in Kulczycky’s lifetime, but some records he has collected date as early as 1948.

The bulk of the collection consists of items Kulczycky collected or created in his activities as researcher and writer. The biggest projects, on comedy troupe Kids in the Hall and the motion picture Stop Making Sense are each represented as series. Other smaller research projects are contained as subseries in a third research projects series. The records in these series include a wide variety of media of diverse provenance: film production documents, promotional materials, original photography, original audio recordings, original video recordings, original interview materials, and comprehensive original bibliographies of published works with complete reference copies.
Kulczycky's scholarly pursuits, other creative works and biographical/personal materials are each given a series.

Kulczycky describes Stop Making Sense Project as a multimedia exploration of the Jonathan Demme/Talkiing Heads movie, Stop Making Sense. The conceptual ideal project will include (but is not limited to) books, academic articles, fanfic, music, moving images, toy mods, social media, podcasts, a sci-fi tv show, and public exhibitions; all of which will be about, derived from or inspired by the Jonathan Demme/Talking Heads movie, Stop Making Sense.
1980, but predominantly 2014-2025
archival research
in person research
writing

Subseries include interviews and related materials, Stop Making Sense production materials, notes and research, correspondence, writntings, non-interview recordings and transcripts, fan recordings, copies of relevant archival materials, copies of relevant published materials and Stop Making Sense promotional materials. audio recordings, video recordings, textual records.