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1983ref. 146495N.p.: N.p. 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced television project variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits encapsulated in the "glass bead game" an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music math and culture to win. Hesse's novel follows Joseph Knecht as he becomes a master of the game eventually rising to the top of the hierarchy to become Magister Ludi the executive officer of the game administrators. Although "Das Glasperienspiel" was begun in 1931 publication in Germany was stalled due to the novel's anti-fascist messages leading Hesse to eventually seek publication in Switzerland in 1943. Set in Castalia a fictional province of central Europe in the 25th century. Clear untitled plastic wrappers. Title page present dated 1983 noted as Treatment with credits for screenwriter TITUS LEBER novelist Hermann Hesse and music credits to Johann Sebastian Bach. 21 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with white clip binding. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 143965France: Filmel 1964. Revised Draft script for the 1964 French film here under the original French title. Printed and bound by the Studio de la Copie in Paris operated by Mme. L. Lucienne Sotier with credits on the first page. Text in French. Based on Daniel-Rops' 1934 eponymous novel. Laure Audret is a young woman nearly raped by a member of her family Terzieff but she meets Jean Auclair who takes her in to help his dying wife and his children. Daniel-Rops was a member of the French Academy wrote dozens of works from 1926 to 1965 and was an active Christian and scholar. Director Bromberger was active in French film noir during the late 1940s including his sole debut "Paris Vice Squad" 1951 nominated at Cannes and he made a few sexploitation films notably "Secrets of a French Nurse" 1958 and this film was his second-to-last as director before "A Night in Tiberias"1965. Partially set in a castle in foggy France. Blue untitled wrappers with vellum spine. Title page present undated with credits for novelist/screenwriter Daniel-Rops screenwriter Grendel and director/screenwriter Bromberger. #PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 270. Mimeograph duplication with pink and yellow revision pages throughout all pages undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled some loss to the spine. Filmel unknown
1957ref. 145964N.p.: Bel-Air Productions 1957. Vintage studio photograph from the 1957 film. Bel-Air Productions stamp on the verso. Based on the story "Wanton Murder" by Peter Godfrey and shot under the working title "Black Stockings" Howard W. Koch's B movie noir "The Girl in Black Stockings" despite it being a low-budget "second feature" film is surprisingly enjoyable mostly due to its exceptional cast. LA lawyer David Hewson Lex Barker arrives at a Utah lodge for a peaceful vacation only to find women being mutilated and murdered and everyone is suspect. Featuring a young Anne Bancroft as pretty young Beth Dixon switchboard operator and assistant to the bitter wheelchair-bound lodge owner Edmund Parry Ron Randell. Mamie Van Doren is Harriet Ames the flirtatious bombshell of course and "the Queen of the B's" the fabulous Marie Windsor is Julia Parry Edmund's dutiful companion and sister. Filmed in and around the Parry Lodge in Kanab Utah. The Parry lodge opened in the early 1930s by the Parry brothers was built to lodge Hollywood film crews filming early Westerns in the area and was popular among movie stars of Hollywood's golden age. Set in Kanab Utah shot on location in Kanab Utah and Fredonia Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light creasing and edgewear. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Bel-Air Productions unknown
1971ref. 167421Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Final script for the 1972 feature-length television pilot originally aired on February 21 1972 on NBC. A science fiction thriller about a technologically advanced group of detectives known as "probes" following one such figure as he searches for a valuable cache of gemstones hidden by Nazis during World War II. The series was later picked up by NBC and renamed "Search" since "Probe" was already in use by a different series. Screenwriter Leslie Stevens is better remembered today as the creator of the cult science fiction television series "The Outer Limits" 1963-1965 and as the director of the 1966 horror film "Incubus" starring William Shatner. Mustard titled Warner Brothers wrappers noted as FINAL SCRIPT dated November 16 1971. Title page present dated November 16 1971 noted as FINAL SCRIPT with credit for screenwriter Leslie Stevens. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1956ref. 125417Universal City CA: Hugo Haas Productions / Universal 1956. Original pressbook for the 1956 film. A later film from noted director Hugo Haas and actress Francesca de Scaffa's only credited role. One of the "milder" Haas films where a man and his dog try to survive on tough streets. One sheet folded once as issued with one insert sheet 12 x 18 inches. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages and a few short closed tears and creases. Hugo Haas Productions / Universal unknown
1964ref. 149498Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film showing noted science fiction author Forrest J. Ackerman who makes a cameo appearance in the film in costume as a space technician. With the stamps of Israel Film Archive on the verso. A team of scientists create a time traveling device which teleports them to Earth in the year 2071 where mutated humans are the norm as a result of nuclear war. Shot on location in Barstow California with some scenes at the University of Southern California's Doheny Library and Mudd Hall. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1972ref. 149441Stockholm: Cinematograph AB 1972. Three vintage borderless black-and-white photographs taken on the set of the 1972 film two showing director Ingmar Bergman and the other showing Bergman with actresses Harriet Andersson Kari Sylwan and Ingrid Thulin. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations to the verso. In her last days a woman dying of uterine cancer is moved to her childhood home where she is cared for by her emotionally distant sisters and distraught maid. Bergman's abstracted portrait of his mother with each of the women in the film representing an aspect of her personality. Shot on location at Taxinge-Nasby Castle in Mariefred Sweden. Two photographs 5 x 7 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Cinematograph AB unknown
1973ref. 141542Stockholm: Sveriges Television SVT 1973. Draft script for the 1975 television film. Text in Swedish. Based on Mozart's 1791 opera "The Magic Flute" titled in German "Die Zauberflote" and here under the Swedish title "Trollflojten." Nominated for one Academy award. The Queen of the Night offers her daughter Pamina to Tamino but also offers Tamino a magic flute to bring Pamina to him. The Queen also gives magic bells to the bird hunter Papageno who joins Tamino on his journey for them both to find wives and learn about themselves. Shot on location in Stockholm. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1973 with credits for screenwriter Ingmar Bergman and translator Alf Henriksson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a spiral binding. Criterion Collection 71. Sveriges Television [SVT] unknown
1968ref. 147185Stockholm Sweden: AB Svensk Filmindustri 1968. Treatment script for the 1969 film. With a few small manuscript ink annotations to the title page and throughout most noting grammatical revisions. A newly divorced man befriends a woman whose husband and son have recently been killed in a car accident gradually beginning a relationship in spite of their mutual emotional fragility and disconnect. Shot on location in Gotlands Ian Sweden. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 1968 with credits for director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman and translator Alan Blair. 38 leaves with last page of text numbered 37. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. AB Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1975ref. 149660Paris: Sofracima 1975. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1975 film showing actress Isabelle Huppert. With the stamp of Cine-Voc Films on the verso. A middle-aged man on his annual family camping vacation rapes and murders the teenage daughter of his old friends then frames a group of Arab immigrant workers for the crime. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners and light wear to the top edge. Sofracima unknown
1975ref. 160431N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1975 French film showing actress Isabelle Huppert lying nude out in the sun. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A middle-aged man on his annual family camping vacation rapes and murders the teenage daughter of his old friends then frames a group of Arab immigrant workers for the crime. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at three corners. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 149523Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 film showing director J. Lee Thompson and various crew members on the set of the German gun fortress. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel wherein a group of Allied soldiers plan to destroy an airtight German fortress in order to save British naval ships stranded in the Aegean Sea. Set and shot on location on the Greek islands. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1979ref. 149481Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1979. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph of director J. Lee Thompson and a camera crew directing actress Patricia Neal while filming on location for the 1979 British film. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso with tape along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout. Based on screenwriter Bruce Nicolaysen's 1976 novel "Perilous Passage" wherein a Basque farmer helps a French scientist and his family flee to neutral Spain during World War I. Set and shot on location in the Pyrenees France. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy. United Artists unknown
1955ref. 140258Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1955. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1955 film "Revenge of the Creature." Featuring a comical image of the film being shot in the water at Marineland Florida while a dolphin show takes place in the background. Half of the gathered crowd watches the dolphin show while the other half has turned to watch the Gill-man attack a diver bathing suit-clad cameramen milling about to the side. The captive Gill-man Ricou Browning falls in love with the girlfriend Lori Nelson of animal psychologist Clete Ferguson John Agar. When it inevitably escapes and unsurprisingly takes Nelson hostage the police are forced to shoot it. The first 3-D sequel to a 3-D film its far more successful predecessor "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" and the only 3-D film released in 1955. Clint Eastwood makes a hilarious uncredited appearance as an incompetent lab technician who insists a lab rat has been eaten by a cat test subject only to find the rat in his lab coat pocket. Set in Florida and shot there on location. 8 x 10 inches. Just about Fine. Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Mystery Science Theater 801. Universal Pictures unknown
1957ref. 150405Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actress Elaine Stewart reclining on a pool float while director Jack Arnold and a camera crew capture the shot from the poolside. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A dark tale about Nick Hoak a corrupt sheriff in a small Nevada town whose principal concerns are the maintenance and upkeep of all illegal activity. A lawyer and his lascivious wife stumble into Hoak's territory and conflict ensues. One of the seedier late noirs with a tawdry quality that transcended its big studio trappings. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Universal Pictures unknown
1987ref. 145894London: HandMade Films 1987. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. Single manuscript notation in ink on page 62 a scene deletion. Based on the 1955 novel by Brian Moore. A pious spinster living in a boardinghouse begins an ersatz romance with a fellow resident looking to bankroll his next business venture. Novelist Moore born and raised in Belfast was highly acclaimed for his vivid descriptions of life in Ireland after the Second World War in particular for his exploration of The Troubles. Set and shot on location in Dublin. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated February 1987 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Peter Nelson and novelist Brian Moore. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with white Velo binding partially loose. Indicator 123. HandMade Films unknown
1967ref. 141006N.p.: N.p. 1967. Three Draft scripts for an unproduced film. During the Korean War a group of marines are pinned down behind enemy lines in a remote village where the only survivor is a widowed Korean woman and her child. Chaos descends as the soldiers find their radio is broken they are running out of supplies and they are slowly being picked off by snipers. Set in Korea. Script 1: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Twelve leaves with last page of text numbered twelve. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. Script 2: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. Script 3: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 140101Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1960. First Draft script for the 1961 film. With a typeover correction to the title page changing "The Beach Pad" to "Love in a Goldfish Bowl". Two unlikely friends at a small college are forbidden to associate with each other despite each being the other's protector. Neither wishes to spend Easter break with their respective families and instead devise a plan to spend the holiday at an empty beach house. Self-wrappers dated October 13 1960 noted as First Draft Screenplay rubber-stamped copy No. 120 with credits for screenwriter Jack Sher. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication with yellow and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between November 1 1960 and November 23 1960. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three ring binding. Paramount Pictures unknown
1973ref. 156326Paris: Gamma 1973. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of actress Jacqueline Bisset on the set of the 1973 film one showing a camera crew on the bottom left corner. Stamps of Gamma Photo on the versos. A shy writer of pulp espionage fiction lives vicariously through the hero of his novels a sophisticated spy and bases his heroine on his real-life neighbor a sociology student named Christine. Shot on location in Puerto Vallarta Mexico and Paris France. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Gamma unknown
1960ref. 149957Paris: Lorcaster 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jacques Becker and Marc Michel on the set of the 1960 film. "Lorcaster" and "636" stamps on verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Jose Giovanni. True story of the 1947 Le Sante Prison break with one of the real escapees Keraudy playing his own character in the film. Jacques Becker's final film having died two weeks after completing the film. Nominated for the Palm d'Or. 7 x 9 inches. Some light creasing else Near Fine. Buss French Film Noir. Criterion Collection 129. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Hayden and Schneider 1001. Selby France. Spicer France. Lorcaster unknown
1969ref. 171749N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film one showing Gary Lockwood and Anouk Aimee the other showing Aimee alone. One with a provenance stamp and faded annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Jacques Demy's first English language film recently a subject of renewed interest in two different documentaries about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late 1960s. A young discontented man in a dead-end relationship learns his draft notice has arrived and he is due to report for Army duty the following week. While out trying to raise money to keep his car from being repossessed he sees and becomes obsessed with the beautiful Lola an older French model who works in a "model shop" posing for photographers. Set and shot on location in Laurel Canyon Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twilight Time 327. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 149571London: Cannon-Gala 1984. Vintage reference photograph of director Jacques Rivette and actress Jane Birkin on the set of the 1984 French film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Fiction and reality begin to mix when a theatre troupe begins to rehearse a play in a mysterious mansion. Set and shot on location in Paris and Hauts-de-Seine France. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Cannon-Gala unknown
1949ref. 170417France: Cady Films 1949. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1949 film showing director Jacques Tati talking with a live goat and an unidentified cast member. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. In his charming and beautifully plotless pre-Hulot first feature Tati is Francois a contented and happy postman in a small unhurried French village. Francois is at ease with his job and leisurely performs his duties peddling away on his rounds upon his beloved bicycle. A carnival comes to town and one of the attractions is a film depicting the United States Postal Service's fast and efficient postal delivery system. The narrator in the film exhorts "Rapidite rapidite." Francois takes up the call and attempts to Americanize his work style. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 603. Criterion Collection 730. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Cady Films unknown
1958ref. 139689Paris: Gaumont 1958. Vintage photograph of Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot from the 1958 film. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 7.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner. Criterion Collection 111. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Gaumont unknown
1967ref. 149330Paris: Jolly Film 1967. Three vintage reference photographs one borderless from the 1967 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout to the verso and one with the stamp of Specta Films. A masterpiece of French cinema. Using his own money director Jacques Tati meticulously constructed a second "Paris" outside of Paris for the third-and most magnificent-of the four Hulot films following "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" 1953 and "Mon Oncle" 1958. The third feature finds him in the much-modernized heart of the city with its complexities unfolding revolving deconstructing and reconstructing before his eyes. Set in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear. Jolly Film unknown
