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1933rif. 161157Paris: Franfilmdis 1933. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with François Truffaut in particular paying homage to Vigo's anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in his 1959 film "The 400 Blows." 11.75 x 9.75 inches with wide bottom margins. Very Good plus lightly creased at the edges. Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis unknown books
1978rif. 161000Lille: Transunivers-Films 1978. Two vintage oversize borderless color reference photographs from the 1978 French film. Stamps of Transunivers-Film on the versos. A vice squad pursues a drug and prostitution ring culminating in a takedown of a sadomasochistic club frequented by high-ranking government officials. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with pinholes at the corners. Bier 201. Transunivers-Films unknown books
1968rif. 161156N.p.: N.p. 1968. Four vintage borderless double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1968 film all showing actress Monica Nordquist in various states of undress. The titular Carmilla falls in love with her stepfather who is shortly thereafter killed in a car accident leading her to seek revenge against the driver responsible. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn and wavy one with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1970rif. 141411N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A successful doctor suffers a mental breakdown due to her survivor's guilt after being the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. She becomes obsessed with a man four years older than her whom she met previously in a refugee camp in France. Set in New York. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Ethel Tyne. 28 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 27. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown books
1980rif. 151062Beverly Hills CA: Lorimar 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing eleven black-and-white photographs and eleven gatherings of promotional reading material. Tired of her dull life as a waitress an 18-year-old girl joins up with a traveling carnival where she quickly becomes a successful hustler at a game of chance on the midway. Shot on location in Savannah Georgia. Folder photographs and promotional material Very Good plus. Lorimar unknown books
1970rif. 141824Los Angeles: Mohawk Film Company 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A British shipping clerk is laid off from his position in Los Angeles but is shortly thereafter offered a job as a bodyguard. Set in Los Angeles. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter C. Arthur Rivers. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Good with front wrapper detached bound with three silver brads. Mohawk Film Company unknown books
1993rif. 141095Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film. A formerly powerful but lately unsuccessful director must make a truly great film in order to save his career. Against his better judgment he agrees to direct an truly horrible science fiction movie about Kansas farmers who fly a gigantic pickle into outer space when the executive behind the script offers him a substantial sum of money. Set and shot on location in New York. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Paul Mazursky. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1979rif. 151046Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 18 black-and-white photographs and 10 gatherings of promotional reading material. A television consultant is hired to organize a telethon in order to raise funds for the now-bankrupt US government who are on the brink of losing the country to wealthy Native American tribes seeking to repossess the land. Featuring narration by George Carlin and cameos by Meat Loaf Jay Leno Elvis Costello and more. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1980rif. 151061Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 11 black-and-white photographs and 21 gatherings of promotional reading material. A compulsive liar's colorful tall tales land him in hot water with his family but also help him get a job as a social worker where he becomes determined to help a young boy who was wrongfully taken from his mother. Set in Manchester New Hampshire shot on location in Spokane Washington. Folder photographs and promotional material Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1919rif. 152865N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary holding bouquets of flowers ostensibly at the end of the shoot. Laid in with the album is a small newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald showing a photograph of Farnum with his wife and stepson and noting Farnum's adoption of his stepson with a small manuscript ink annotation presumably made by Farnum at the top of the clipping: "It was raining I wore all my old duds-darn it I wasn't ready." A wealthy married mining engineer suffers amnesia after being injured in a mining explosion planned by his business rivals and is forced to seek shelter with a Chilean shepherd and the shepherd's daughter with whom he falls in love. Now considered a lost film. At the peak of his success Farnum was one of the highest-paid actors of the silent film age but was forced into an early semi-retirement after being injured on the set of the 1924 film "The Man Who Fights Alone." He appeared sporadically in character roles throughout the late 1920s 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed a successful career on Broadway. Photographs generally 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Album 12 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and creased. N.p. unknown books
1942rif. 146014New York: Batten Barton Durstine and Osborn 1942. Draft script for the 1942 radio show episode originally broadcast on May 14 1942. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the front wrapper. The anthology series was part of a campaign by the DuPont chemical corporation to rehabilitate its image following the public exposure of its arms race profiteering during World War I. In lieu of traditional advertising creative director Roy Durstine proposed that DuPont sponsor "Cavalcade" which integrated the company's slogan "Better Things For Better Living Through Chemistry" and agenda into its stories of American achievement and inspiration. The show was an early experiment in propagandistic corporate brand-building virtually unprecedented for a company that had no commercially available products to market to the public. To further promote their clean humanitarian ideals DuPont shied away from using attention-grabbing tactics such as the sound of gunfire that were popular on other radio programs at the time-a choice that attracted pacifist writers such as Norman Rosten and Arthur Miller to the show. This episode was written by Stephen Vincent Benet a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and novelist best known for his narrative poem "John Brown's Body" and dramatizes the inception of the American Revolution. White titled self wrappers dated 5/14/42 with credits for actor Raymond Massey and writer Stephen Vincent Benet. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus unbound. Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn unknown books
1970rif. 141850N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. During a visit to the 1890 Annual Bicycle Race in Boston a young man gets inspired to take up bicycle riding. He improves and eventually is ready to compete on a professional level. Set in Boston. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Roger Ernest. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1958rif. 161198N.p.: N.p. 1958. Final Draft script for the 1959 film. Based on the first play on Broadway to have been written by an African American playwright about the challenges of a Black youth growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood. In 1991 "Jump Cut" magazine reassessed the play and subsequent screenplay calling it a pioneering work. Yellow titled wrappers with credits for production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster along the bottom edge of the front wrapper. Title page present dated October 1 1958 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Julius Epstein and Louis Peterson. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock pages dated variously between 10/1/58 and 10/2/58 rectos only with blue and eye-rest green revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/22/58 and 11/3/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1969rif. 161197New York: New Yorker Films 1969. Vintage studio still photograph taken on the set of the 1969 film showing director Robert Frank capturing a passionate scene between two men. Stamp of photographer Tom Conroy on the verso. Frank's first feature film and Sam Shepard's screenwriting debut following Frank as he accompanies poet Peter Orlovsky and Orlovsky's catatonic mentally ill brother Julius through the late 1960s Beat scene. When Julius wanders off he is replaced in the film by actor Joseph Chaikin pushing the boundaries of cinematic reality. The film was released by Steidl in 2007 in a new restoration alongside a book publication outlining the film which notes: "Frank's feature debut was first screened in 1968 at the Venice Film Festival. Everything which had defined Frank's art up to that point turns up in this film - the look at America 'from the outside' the poetic libertinage of the Beats the marginal in a central role. It celebrates the return of the poetic essay as assemblage the affirmation of the underground as a wild cinematic analysis in the form of a collage and skillfully weaves together opposites plays counterfeits against the authentic pornography against poetry acting against being Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism monochrome against colored. The story contains bizarre twists and turns and appears to be a rather artless-film-within-a-film being shown at a rundown movie theater." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. New Yorker Films unknown books
1954rif. 160994Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1954. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1954 film one showing director Henry Koster talking to Marlon Brando and the other showing Koster with Brando and actress Jean Simmons. Printed mimeo snipes and Twentieth Century-Fox stamps on the versos. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A biopic about the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte based loosely on Annemarie Selinko's 1953 nonfiction book. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in Marseilles shot on location throughout California and in Hauts-de-Seine Paris and Seine-et-Marne France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1973rif. 161147N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage French mini-poster for the 1973 French film. Based on the groundbreaking 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen. Nora leads a quiet existence with her authoritarian husband Torvald but is forced to reconsider her marriage when a blackmailer threatens to reveal secrets from her past. Shot on location in Reros Norway. 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing. N.p. unknown books
1973rif. 161160Los Angeles: National Theatre Westwood 1973. Vintage flyer for a preview screening of the 1973 film at the National Theatre Westwood in Los Angeles to benefit the Los Angeles International Film Exposition. An ambitious newly promoted homicide detective becomes disillusioned with the police force while investigating a case empathizing with the hippies other officers in his unit harass. Soundtrack by Chicago. Set and shot on lcoation in Fountain Hills and Monument Valley Arizona. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. National Theatre Westwood unknown books
1989rif. 161145Chicago: Full Circle Films 1989. Vintage press kit for the 1989 film seen here under the original release title "Uneasy Silence." Housed in a Full Circle Films pocketed folder the press kit contains two gatherings of promotional reading material and copied newspaper articles and reviews and five reference photographs housed in a glassine sleeve. Full Circle Films business card attached to the folder with a paperclip. A traumatized Vietnam veteran and the sole survivor of a terrible house fire find a fragile love while living on the streets of Chicago. Shot on location in Chicago. Folder Very Good plus with moderate rubbing and creasing on the extremities. Promotional materials and photographs Near Fine. Full Circle Films unknown books
1975rif. 160995N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage borderless color photograph from the 1975 French film showing actress Lisbeth Hummel. Originally conceived as a short film used as the final installment of director Walerian Borowczyk's anthology film "Immoral Tales" 1973 and expanded in 1975 by the director into a surreal chamber drama. Loosely based on Prosper Merimee's 1869 novella "Lokis." A young newlywed in the French countryside suspects her husband may be hiding a bestial secret. Noted director Walerian Borowczyk's sixth film banned in the UK and US at the time of release now rightfully considered a cult classic. Set in the woods of France. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1972rif. 161146N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage two color program and invitation to a preview screening for the 1972 film. Preview screening held at the MGM Theatre in Culver City on Tuesday October 17 1972. Based on the 1971 biography by H.S. Ede. A fictionalized account of the fervent relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska who was more than twice his age. Shot on location in Somerset Bristol and Dorset England. Bi-fold program: 9 x 9 inches. Very Good with some light soiling and bruising on the verso a pinhole at the top center of both leaves and a cello tape shadow near the fore-edges of both pages of the interior spread. Invitation: 4 x 9 inches recto only. Very Good plus with two pinholes at the top center and light creasing and edgewear. N.p. unknown books
1947rif. 161213Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1947. Vintage herald for the 1947 film noir. Based on Daniel Mainwaring's 1946 debut novel "Build My Gallows High." A former private detective lives a quiet life in a small town until his past catches up with him forcing him to return to the world of crime. An unimpeachable high spot of the genre. Set in Bridgeport California shot in the High Sierra Mountains of Nevada and Reno as well as locations throughout California. 12 x 9 inches. Bi-fold. Fine. Grant US. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1973rif. 161148Beverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1973. Vintage program for the 1973 film which premiered at The Regent Theater in Westwood Village in Los Angeles on October 3 1973. With his cowboy days suddenly behind him as the American West becomes tame Kid Blue decides to try his hand at a factory job. He finds the routine workday to be monotonous and soon drifts back to the life he knew. Set in Texas shot on location in Mexico. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus with light edgewear and an annotation in manuscript ink on the upper left of the front wrapper. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1980rif. 147074N.p.: N.p. 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Bound in with the treatment is a copied letter addressed to writer John Sack from Lawrence S. Dietz the west coast editor of Playboy magazine discussing a Playboy assignment for "a piece tentatively titled 'Confessions of an Old Maid Man' which will reflect on the experience-yours-of being an adult male between 35 and 50 who has never been married." A 32-year-old realizes advancements in his career at a prestigious architecture firm are dependent on his marrying and starting a family forcing him to quickly find a partner after years away from the dating scene. Set in Los Angeles. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1980 with credit for screenwriter Doug McHenry. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 16. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong. N.p. unknown books
1985rif. 147081N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced Western film. An ex-convict returns from Central America to Texas determined to confront his former business partner a power-hungry cattleman. Set in Texas near the Mexican border. White titled self wrappers with title page integral with the front wrapper as issued dated 1985 with credits for screenwriter Robert Henderson. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus overall partially bound with one staple. N.p. unknown books
1973rif. 147085N.p.: N.p. 1973. Revised scenes for second unit post-production re-shooting and editing for the 1973 film seen here under the working title "Valdez Horses." With annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Based on the 1967 novel "The Valdez Horses" by Lee Hoffman about a mixed-race horse breeder who lives on the outskirts of New Mexican society a solitary life that is disrupted for better when he takes in a young runaway boy who asks to be his protégé. Set in southwest New Mexico shot on location in Andalucia Spain. Blue untitled wrappers. Lacking title page. 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
