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1973ref. 162525New York: American International Pictures AIP 1973. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1973 film both showing Jim Brown and Gloria Hendry. Sequel to the 1972 film "Slaughter" directed by Jack Starrett and starring Jim Brown. One of the quintessential franchises in the Blaxploitation genre about a former Green Beret and Vietnam veteran who sets out for revenge against the mob after the death of his parents. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1965ref. 130135Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. The 1960s remake of the classic 1939 John Ford Western in which a group of ten unlikely traveling companions on a stagecoach to Cheyenne must fight together when beset upon by both outlaws and Native Americans. Shot on location in Colorado. Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper production No. 58 dated April 9 1965. Title page present dated April 9 1965 noted as Final with credit for screenwriter Landon. 137 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 6-9-75. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1975ref. 127471Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A delightfully scathing script from Robert Towne and star Warren Beatty set during the days surrounding the 1968 presidential election featuring Beatty as a narcissistic womanizing hairdresser who attempts to raise money to open a salon only to be consistently sidetracked by his various romantic entanglements. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Lee Grant and nominated for three more including Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Jack Warden. Set in and shot on location in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches previously Folded as issued. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 947. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 159587Munich: Romano Film 1970. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 German sexploitation film. All with the stamp of Romano Film on the verso. Hans Billian directed a string of movies in the "Heimatfilme" "homeland-films" genre in the early 1960s starting to direct softcore sex comedies later on in the decade. He began directing hardcore films when the ban on full-length hardcore pornographic films was lifted in Germany in the mid-1970s and moved to directing exclusively adult films in the 1980s and 1990s. Shot on location in Baden-Baden. 5 x 7 inches. Fine. Romano Film unknown
1957ref. 158233N.p.: N.p. 1957. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1957 French film including four oversize photographs. Numerical annotations and annotations identifying subjects in manuscript pencil and ink on the versos. Loosely based on Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "The Sucker Punch." A rich widow's daughter marries a good-looking but self-interested man who promptly falls in love with another woman. Oversize photographs 9.5 x 12 inches and one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Selby France. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 161531N.p.: Griffith Productions 1963. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film two with provenance stamps on the versos. Early sexploitation film directed and shot by Herschell Gordon Lewis who would become better known a year later with the release of "Two Thousand Maniacs" and many other Z-budget blood-soaked horror films. A young millionaire is obsessed by a woman appearing in a dream. After an investigation he discovers burlesque performer Gina Adair and searches for her at her favorite nudist camp. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Griffith Productions unknown
1953ref. 162394N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1953 film. Cahiers du Cinéma stamp on the verso. Based on Per Anders Fogelstrom's 1951 novel. Two young lovers from Stockholm steal a boat and run away together but are forced to return home as the summer ends. The first film to star director Ingmar Bergman's longtime leading lady Harriet Andersson who would later appear in Bergman's "Sawdust and Tinsel" 1953 "Smiles of a Summer Night" 1955 "Through a Glass Darkly" 1961 and "Cries and Whispers" 1972. Set in Sweden. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 614. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 150229N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage photograph of director Ingmar Bergman and a camera crew preparing to film a scene between actors Elliott Gould and Bibi Andersson. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a stamp noting No. 11620 and the stamps of Pix Inc and Camera Press Ltd. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home an emotionally scarred survivor of the Holocaust. Bergman's first English language film shot in England and Sweden and his first film to involve a major American actor Gould working alongside Bergman regulars Andersson and Max von Sydow. Set and shot on location in Sweden and England. 10 x 7.75 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased. N.p. unknown
1949ref. 158691N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actress Eva Henning in a negligée. Ingmar Bergman's seventh film about the troubled romantic and sexual experiences of several Swedish adults. Based on the 1948 short story collection by Birgit Tengroth who also appeared as Viola in the film. Shot on location in Hamburg Germany. 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 164231Paris: Télérama 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actress Irma Raush. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling 15th century drama capturing seven episodes in the life of revered Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev from his humble origins as a traveling monk to his later years returning to painting after a long and meditative sabbatical. Set in medieval Russia shot on location in Moscow. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 34. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Télérama unknown
1983ref. 157312N.p.: N.p. 1983. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1983 film showing Isabelle Huppert and Hanna Schygulla in a nude embrace on the seashore. Based on the 1980 autobiography by Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti with Dacia Maraini who both contributed to the screenplay. A young woman comes of age with her free-spirited sexually promiscuous and mentally unstable mother. Shot on location in Lazio Italy. 7 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 164768Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Two vintage publicity photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film including one studio still showing actress Kathleen Hughes one borderless photograph showing actress Barbara Rush and one borderless photograph showing actor Richard Carlson in front of a vast spaceship. Two with mimeo snipes on the verso. An amateur astronomer and school teacher witness an unidentified flying object crash land in the Arizona desert. Upon further inspection it turns out to be an alien spaceship. The first 3-D film released by Universal-International originally based on a story treatment by Ray Bradbury. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Two 7 x 9.5 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1957ref. 144227Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage photograph of Carroll Baker Jack Garfein Paul Richards and Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1957 film. With mimeo snipe manuscript annotations in pencil and a press agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1947 novel and stage play by Calder Willingham "End As a Man" and with much of the same cast as the stage production. Set at a southern military college Jocko de Paris Ben Gazzara is a sadistic cadet leader well known to be violent and power-hungry. In a particularly malicious act of hazing he sets up the expulsion of the son of the school's headmaster and subsequently manipulates his social circle into silence until they can no longer take it. Shot on location in Florida. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1975ref. 159695London: National Screen Service 1975. Vintage British quad poster for the 1975 American film. Rare in this format. Based on screenwriter Neil Simon's 1971 Broadway play. In the midst of a recession a heat wave and a prolonged garbage strike a middle-aged couple must try to cope with each other after the husband is fired from his advertising job. Set and shot on location in New York City. 40 x 30 inches folded. Near Fine. National Screen Service unknown
1971ref. 170347Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film showing director Jack Nicholson looking through the script with Karen Black and William Tepper. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on screenwriter Jeremy Larner's 1964 novel. Nicholson's directorial debut a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s following several college students navigating Vietnam War protests uncertain romantic relationships and their own dubious futures after graduation. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout Eugene Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1975ref. 167105N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actors Maria Schneider and Jack Nicholson on the set of the 1975 film. A cynical war correspondent in northern Africa assumes the identity of a deceased arms dealer to gain information for his documentary. Antonioni's final film in a loose trilogy as well as a three-picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer following "Blowup" 1966 and "Zabriskie Point" 1970. Set in Chad shot on location in Germany Spain and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 162921N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage borderless reference photograph for the 1955 film showing director and actor Jack Webb framed by two handcuffed arms. Newspaper clipping and "Examiner" reference library stamp on the verso. Based on the 1951 radio series about a bandleader and jazz cornetist working at a speakeasy in Prohibition-era Kansas City. Actress Peggy Lee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as alcoholic singer Rose Hopkins. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 7.75 x 12 inches archivally matted in a 14 x 18 inch 8-ply white mat. Very Good with touchups on the recto for print moderately creased and edgeworn. Grant US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 158445Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Draft script for the 89th episode of season three of the 1955-1958 anthology televison series. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name on the title page in manuscript ink and his annotations throughout. Embittered after being fired by his brother-in-law a man takes out his anger on his wife by not allowing her to adopt a child. Originally aired on February 4 1958 on NBC. Housed in a brown card folder with a label noting the script title affixed to the front. Self wrappers. Title page present undated noted as production No. 4710 with credit for screenwriter Anthony Spinner. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1966ref. 151742N.p.: N.p. 1966. Three vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film showing an altercation between actress Anna Karina and three nuns. With the stamp of still photographer Monique Valentin on the verso and two with a stamp noting year 1966. Based on Denis Diderot's eighteenth century novel following a young woman whose family forces her into a convent. A flurry of controversy surrounded the film's production and release as a result of its critical stance toward the Catholic Church leading the French Minister of Information to ban its release. A large-scale campaign was subsequently launched in its defense and the ban was lifted in 1967 when it was shown at Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Villeneuve-les-Avignon Gard France. 14.25 x 9.75 inches. Lightly creased to the edges else Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 173031Burbank CA: Walt Disney 1953. Eight vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1953 Disney film. A documentary following the everyday behaviors of the desert-dwelling animals of the southwestern US. The first feature-length film in Walt Disney Productions' "True-Life Adventures" film series which focused on animal behavior and zoology. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Shot on location in Utah California and Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. National Film Registry. Walt Disney unknown
1957ref. 169545N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actor James Dean laughing. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A documentary film released shortly after Dean's death using still photographs narration and interviews to tell the story of the actor's early life rise to stardom and death at a young age. 10 x 8 inches. Good with dampstains and soil to the bottom and right margins of the recto and a short closed tear repaired with paper tape at the top right corner. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 161886Los Angeles: CBS Television Network 1976. Final Draft script for Season 9 Episode 22 of the 1968-1980 police procedural television series. Copy belonging to actor Logan Clarke with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations on the rear wrapper. The series followed the exploits of a fictional state police task force in Hawaii led by Detective Captain Steve McGarrett. In this episode a teenage runaway is framed for murder by a gangster with a grudge against the girl's father. Originally aired on March 31 1977 on CBS. Red titled wrappers dated November 23 1976 noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper with credit for screenwriter Anne Collins noted as production No. 0621. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. CBS Television Network unknown
1965ref. 151593N.p.: Prominent Films 1965. Vintage press kit for the US release of the classic 1965 Czechoslovakian film for use by distributors and the press containing 24 black and white photographs three pressbooks and a poster for the film all housed in a white paper envelope with the film's logo on the recto. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman. A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart to tell her and pretends to be her new employee. The two form a bond which is tested when the authorities begin rounding up the town's Jewish population. One of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the Czech language. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. Poster photographs and pressbooks Near Fine. Criterion Collection 130. Prominent Films unknown
1994ref. 164004Barnet VT: Caledonia Pictures 1994. Revised First Draft script for the 1997 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Bound in ahead of the script is a xerographically duplicated "Los Angeles Times" review of Howard Frank Mosher's source novel. Based on Mosher's 1989 novel about the unexpected arrival of an African-American minister in a small prejudiced town in Vermont in the 1950s. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Chelsea Guildhall Orleans and Vershire Vermont. Self wrappers. Title page present dated November 28 1994 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Don Bredes and Jay Craven and novelist Mosher. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Caledonia Pictures unknown
1946ref. 160109Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1946. Vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir. Based on the 1919 short story by Fannie Hurst. Previously filmed in 1920 directed by Frank Borzage and starring Gaston Glass and Vera Gordon. Helen Crawford is a wealthy but neurotic socialite who catches the eye of Paul Garfield a celebrated classical violinist who was raised in the slums. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in New York and California shot on location in Malibu and Laguna Beach California and New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
