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1956rif. 159897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Two vintage reference photographs of director John Huston on the set of the 1956 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1851 novel by Herman Melville. Previously adapted for film in 1926 and in 1930 both starring John Barrymore. Set in New England shot on location in New England Ireland Wales Spain and Portugal. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1959rif. 159902Los Altos CA: Carlyle Productions / Columbia Pictures 1959. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film one showing Duke Ellington working on the film score and the other showing Ellington laughing with Billy Strayhorn. Carlyle Productions stamps on the versos. The first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African American composer. Composed by Ellington and Strayhorn and performed by Ellington's Orchestra the score won three Grammy Awards in 1959. Based on the 1958 novel by judge John D. Voelker writing under the pseudonym Robert Traver based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man whom he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Michigan. One 8 x 10 inches the other 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Carlyle Productions / Columbia Pictures unknown books
1964rif. 159823Paris: Parc Film 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actors Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo with director Jacques Demy on the set of the 1964 film. Stamp of Parc Film on the verso. One of Demy's most beloved films about a young woman in Cherbourg who falls in love with a man who is promptly drafted into the Algerian War. A classic of French cinema with every word of dialogue sung in recitative. The first French film musical shot in color and the movie that made Catherine Deneuve a star. Winner of the Palme d'Or and two other prizes at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for five Academy Awards Set and shot on location in Cherbourg Normandy France. 7.25 x 5 inches. Very Good plus with a small bruise and light wear to the finish on the top edge. Criterion Collection 716. Godard Histoires du cinema. Parc Film unknown books
1962rif. 159899N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage matte-finish reference photograph from the 1962 film showing director Éric Rohmer at the far right. Annotations in manuscript ink and provenance label on the verso. Upon hearing his promised inheritance has been given to a cousin a man sinks into despair and indigence-only to later hear that the cousin has passed away and he will finally receive the inheritance. Rohmer's first feature film shot in the summer of 1959 but not released until 1962 and much-lauded by other luminaries of the French New Wave. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. N.p. unknown books
1960rif. 159896Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1960. Two vintage reference photographs of director John Huston on the set of the 1961 film one of Huston talking with actor Clark Gable the other showing Huston sitting with screenwriter Arthur Miller. One with a printed mimeo snipe on the verso and both with printed provenance labels. A bleak haunting film exploring the loss of independence about a recent divorcée who enters into an unstable relationship with an aging cowboy whom she meets in the Nevada desert. The final completed feature for Gable and Marilyn Monroe before their deaths. Notoriously a trying endeavor for the actress who was struggling with her drug problem and pending divorce from Miller and would often fail to show up to the set and for Huston who would drink and occasionally fall asleep while filming. Gable performed all of his own stunts then suffered a heart attack only two days after filming ended and died ten days later. Shot on location in Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown books
1968rif. 159812Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Presse Parc Film 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 French film showing director Alain Resnais on the set. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso. After being released from the hospital following a suicide attempt a young man is scouted by a mysterious research group to participate in a time travel experiment. Resnais' fifth film a brutal rumination on memory and the death of a relationship thematically and stylistically a precursor to Michel Gondry's 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Shot on location in Brussels Belgium. 7 x 5 inches. About Fine. Presse Parc Film unknown books
1942rif. 159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 9 x 12 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1963rif. 160005N.p.: N.p. 1963. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Jean Genet's 1957 play about the madam of a brothel who is drawn into a political plot to help stop a revolution. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1965rif. 159303Burbank CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Based on the 1963 novel "Undercover Cat" by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon. A family's cat comes home one day wearing a wristwatch. When the mother suspects foul play she tries to report the presumably stolen watch. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1966rif. 159922N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Two wounded gangsters seek refuge in a secluded beachfront castle home to a meek Englishman and his strong-willed wife. Shot on location at Lindisfarne Castle Northumberland England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 577. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
1982rif. 159948N.p.: N.p. 1982. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1982 film. A black comedy following the delusional and increasingly violent experiences of a painfully untalented comedian. Perhaps Martin Scorsese's most underrated film a brilliant study of celebrity worship and American media culture. Basis for the successful 2019 film "Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix. Set and shot on location in New York. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1964rif. 159926Tokyo: Daisan Productions 1964. Vintage studio still color photograph from the 1964 Japanese film showing actress Ky ko Aizome in an amorous moment. An art student dreams of sex with vampires and other beautiful women while under sedation in a dentist's office. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine lightly toned. Daisan Productions unknown books
1937rif. 159946Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Clark Gable. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A dramatization of the life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell focusing on his relationship with a married woman which complicates his struggle to secure Home Rule for Ireland. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1955rif. 159918Rome: N.p. 1955. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actors Broderick Crawford and Richard Basehart on the set of the 1955 Italian film. Stamp of still photographer G.B. Poletto and a printed mimeo snipe on the verso. A trio of small-time ruthless con artists undergo crises of conscience after facing the condemnation of their families. Director Federico Fellini's followup to "La strada" 1954. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with finish lightly rubbed. Eureka Masters of Cinema 66. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
1937rif. 159941Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1937. Vintage reference photograph of director Fritz Lang and a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Sylvia Sidney on the set of the 1937 film. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. One of Lang's greatest American films and an important film noir antecedent very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it notably "They Live By Night" 1948 "Gun Crazy" 1950 and "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1972rif. 159939Hollywood: SCA Distributors 1972. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 sexploitation film. Alumni renew old relationships-and start new ones-at a high school reunion held at a hotel. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. SCA Distributors unknown books
1967rif. 159923Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Two vintage reference photographs of actor Albert Finney Audrey Hepburn and director Stanley Donen on the set of the 1967 film. Stamp of photographer Pierluigi on the verso. One photograph shows Hepburn and Finney with Donen on a ship between takes while the other shows Hepburn and Finney cutting into Donen's birthday cake frosted with the names of Donen's films "Charade" "Funny Face" and "Two for the Road". A husband and wife examine their twelve-year relationship while on a road trip through rural France. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Eureka 107. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1932rif. 159945London: National Film Archive 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the 1932 film showing director Tay Garnett and a camera crew capturing a scene with Lew Ayres. National Film Archive stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A dramatization of the rise to fame of a gossip columnist based closely on real-life columnist Walter Winchell. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Archive unknown books
1955rif. 159944Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film showing actors James Dean and Richard Davalos. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious emotionally troubled father. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Actress Jo Van Fleet would go on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the film was nominated for three more Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and the first ever posthumous acting nomination in Academy history for James Dean's lead performance. Set and shot on location in Monterey and Salinas California. 8 x 10 inches with wide top and bottom margins. Very Good plus with a small splash on the right edge and faint toning on the edges. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
1950rif. 159942Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1950 film noir. From the collection of Joel Finler. Based on the 1949 novel by W.R. Burnett and hugely influential as one of the earliest films in the heist film sub-genre. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Selby US Masterworks. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Criterion Collection 847. National Film Registry. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1941rif. 159940N.p.: N.p. 1941. Vintage publicity photograph of actor Humphrey Bogart from the 1941 film noir. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1941 novel by W.R. Burnett who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Huston. A career criminal and a former taxi dancer become involved in a jewel heist in a small town in California's Sierra Nevada. A breakthrough film for Bogart and the film that kicked off a long period of collaboration between Bogart and John Huston. Shot on location in San Bernardino National Forest and Lone Pine. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly age toned with brief wear at the top corners. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1929rif. 159870Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1929. Vintage reference photograph from the 1929 film. With manuscript pencil annotation identifying actor Walter Huston and the set as "office" on the verso. Based on the 1928 play by Ward Morehouse. A journalist does not spend enough time with his family due to his work. Shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Good with creasing pinholes in the corners one small chip at the top left corner one small tear at the top right corner associated with pinholes and adhesive residue on the verso. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1989rif. 159710San Francisco: Klub Komotion 1989. Vintage flyer for a 1989 film screening at San Francisco's Klub Komotion held on December 2 1989. In addition to the screening the flyer advertises poetry by Q.R. Hand accompanied by Lewis Jordan on sax and music by Fuzz Factor. Based on the 1950 French novel "La Rue Cases-Nègres" by Joseph Zobel. Set in 1930s Martinique a young boy José living in a shanty village succeeds in his studies allowing him to attend school in the capital but his scholarship only covers a fraction of the tuition. Set in and shot on location in Martinique France. Q.R. Hand Jr. was an acclaimed poet and community health worker in the Mission District of San Francisco. He published three books of poetry "I Speak to the Poet in Man" 1985 "How Sweet It Is" 1996 and Whose Really Blues" 2008. Lewis Jordan is a musician poet actor and playwright and a founding member of United Front a seminal San Francisco Bay Area Ensemble. Fuzz Factor was a marimba driven rock project active in the Bay Area in the late 190s and early 1990s. Klub Komotion was a popular punk and alternative San Francisco nightclub located at 2779 Sixteenth Street during the 1980s and 1990s. 8.5 x 14 inches. With a few pinholes to the far corners else Near Fine. Klub Komotion unknown books
1931rif. 159833Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures 1931. Vintage reference photograph of actor Clive Brook from the 1931 film. With two Paramount Pictures stamps on the verso crediting Brook. Based on the 1930 novel by Louis Bromfield. A man is having an affair with a woman who is murdered by her ex-husband. He has to try and prove his innocence while shielding his wife from any legal trouble. Set in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Good with one chip missing at the bottom right corner and three points of loss from a three hole punch along the left edge. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1973rif. 159954N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1973 Italian film. An anthology film about sex and sexual perversions directed by noted commedia all'italiana director Dino Risi. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine with light creasing on the bottom left corner. N.p. unknown books
