In 1960 van Itallie made a short surrealistic 16 millimeter film, The Box is Empty, with Alvin Epstein and Kaffe Fassett. It was shown once at the Cinematheque in NYC. Two weeks later van Itallie was stopped on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village by Andy Warhol who said he "liked it very much." Perhaps, van Itallie thought, only Warhol saw it.

In the early 1960s van Itallie wrote several half hour scripts for public affairs television which were aired at CBS and NBC, including for the quote "religious ghetto," Lookup and Live. These scripts include an original script, The Stepinac Case, and an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s, The Grand Inquisitor. Unpublished.

In the early 1970s, van Itallie wrote Three Lives for Mississippi, a Hollywood screenplay for director Michael Ritchie. Unpublished.

For producer/director Harold Prince, van Itallie wrote a screenplay of the musical Follies. Unpublished.

PBS aired Picasso, a Writer’s Diary for which van Itallie was the writer. Unpublished.

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