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1970ref. 151266New York: Grove Press 1970. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 art-hardcore film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An aspiring young filmmaker wants to make his own films but to raise the necessary money must first make some stag films enlisting the help of several teenage flower-children in 1968 Greenwich Village. Featuring an early appearance by a young Robert Altman who plays a porno distributor. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grove Press unknown
1951ref. 163751N.p.: N.p. 1951. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film both showing Gene Kelly with cabaret dancers. Minute annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm." Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 168061N.p.: N.p. 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1943 film showing director G.W. Pabst with a camera crew on the set. Photographer's stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A dramatization of the life of Renaissance-era Swiss physician Paracelsus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim focusing on his work during the plague. Released in honor of the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death in 1541. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light toning affecting the top right portion of the photograph. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 146803N.p.: The Corman Company 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. A Vietnam vet is hired to deal with a group of rowdy oil workers causing trouble in a small town and decides to occupy the town with his mercenary buddies in order to provide a solution. A low budget action film shot in just 30 days after producer Gene Corman came up with the title and nothing else. White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter George Armitage. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The Corman Company unknown
1954ref. 170763N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage reference photograph from the 1954 film showing Judy Garland singing with her band. The second of four productions of "A Star is Born" following the 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and followed by one in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand and one in 2018 starring Lady Gaga. Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance which was heavily promoted by MGM as her comeback to the screen after a four-year hiatus. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine lightly faded to the right side. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 156685Universal City: Universal Pictures 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film showing director George Roy Hill and a camera crew capturing a scene with Michael Sacks and Sharon Gans. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the classic 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut about a young World War II veteran who discovers that he is able to time travel to various points in his life both past and future. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and winner of the Jury Prize. Shot on location in Prague and in Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1962ref. 139565Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Revised Draft script for the 1963 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member "Brokaw" with that name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper and marginal annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Shooting schedules bound in. Included is a vintage production photograph of Kirk Douglas from the film. Based on Vahe Katcha's 1957 novel "L'hamecon." During the Korean War a group of American soldiers capture an enemy pilot and orders are to execute the prisoner. Sgt. P.J. Briscoe Douglas orders his men to kill the prisoner but their reluctance forms a wedge in their allegiance. Shot on location in the Catalina Harbor. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 63 dated May 1 1962 with a credit for screenwriter Denker. Title page integral with front wrapper. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered "133-137" followed by 24 leaves bound upside down. Mimeograph duplication with white pink yellow gray green and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/19/62 and 5/11/62. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Davenport p. 171. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1970ref. 151463Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1968 play also by screenwriter Frank D. Gilroy. An aging lovelorn Las Vegas chorus girl begins an affair with a musician with a compulsive gambling habit. Set in Las Vegas and shot on location in Paris and Las Vegas Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1960ref. 144662Rome: Cineriz 1960. Collection of 21 original borderless double weight still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Susan Strasberg is seen in several photographs always in pinstripes and several feature costar Terzieff with striking images of laboring women a death pit and German soldiers. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil and Contino's rubber-stamp on the versos. An impressive showcase in landscape format of a life behind barbed wire and the conditioning of inmates. Strasberg portrays a Jewish women sent to a concentration camp during WWII leading an escape plan even as the turmoil of war threatens to defeat her will. Pontecorvo's engaging war film with feminist undercurrents albeit overshadowed by what would become his most accomplished film "The Battle of Algiers" 1966. Nominated for an Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in Yugoslavia. 9.5 x 14 inches. Very Good plus overall light curling brief foxing a few with small dampstains and corresponding bruises on the rectos. Cineriz unknown
1973ref. 162342N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 Australian softcore film. In therapy a waterbed salesman ponders his irresistibility to women. Shot on location in Victoria Australia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 130510London: Atlantic Productions 1973. Original UK Quad poster for the 1973 British film. Greene's novel was set in Stockholm and involved the internal deconstruction of a ne'er-do-well bodyguard Anthony Farrant who finds himself working for a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. The setting of the film version was changed to Nazi Germany during the Second World War. 30 x 40 inches. Fine. Phillips US. Atlantic Productions unknown
1960ref. 153076Universal City: Universal-International 1960. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1960 film one showing actor Phillip Terry emerging from a swamp the other showing Terry and actors Coleen Gray and John Van Dreelen watching Estelle Hemsley who is in costume as an African priestess. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the copyright stamp of still photographer John Nelson-Sullivan. An endocrinologist travels with his aging alcoholic wife to Africa where they discover a secret drug to restore youth-one which however requires the user to sacrifice a man in order to acquire the fluid from his pineal gland. Released as a double feature with the Hammer production "The Brides of Dracula." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Universal-International unknown
1941ref. 149234Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in San Diego California. Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 37 and production No. 701 dated OCTOBER 29 1941. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 29 1941 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 164320N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing director Hal Ashby with actor Beau Bridges and crew members during filming on location in New York. Ashby's directorial debut based on the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter about a naive wealthy white man who buys an inner-city tenement in Park Slope Brooklyn intending to evict the low-income Black tenants and turn the building into a luxury home for himself. He soon grows fond of the residents even beginning a relationship with one of the women living in the building and decides to remain as the landlord. Set in Park Slope Brooklyn and shot on location in Brooklyn and Manhattan. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 150501N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of L-R Henri-Georges Clouzot Charles Vanel unidentified woman and Vera Clouzot on the set of the 1953 French film. Based on the 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud. Remade in 1958 as "Violent Road" directed by Howard W. Koch starring Brian Keith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and again in 1977 as "Sorcerer" directed by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider and Bruno Cremer. Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece a tense and literally volatile thriller. Four luckless Europeans are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South American wilderness to extinguish a fire in the oil fields. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Gard and Bouches-du-Rhone France. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 36. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France. N.p. unknown
1940ref. 148688Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Early First Draft Continuity script for the 1942 film thirteen months before the beginning of the production according to the AFI Catalog by screenwriter Tom Reed. Front wrapper contains annotation of "Legal Dept." in manuscript ink on upper right margin and ."3" amending "2152" stamp a Twentieth Century Fox "Received" stamp dated "Nov 12 40" and "Permanent Legal Records" production number "574" and copy number "7" stamps. Laid in is a four page mimeograph duplicated letter dated December 10 1940 on a Twentieth Century-Fox interoffice form from Darryl Zanuck who was in charge of the production to Lou Edelman who was originally assigned to produce of suggestions and criticisms to a December 6 1940 treatment of the script. Front page of letter contains two annotations in manuscript pencil and "Permanent Legal Records" and production number "2152" stamps. Congress reestablishes a military academy at West Point lead by a strict commander Laird Cregar who pushes the young men in hopes of breaking their spirits. After a grueling trial the remaining ten men are sent to the Indiana territory to fight with General William Henry Harrison Douglass Dumbrille. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set in West Point NY. Orange titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 7 and production No. 547 dated NOV. 11. 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated November 11 1940 noted as 1st Draft Continuity with credits for screenwriter Tom Reed and story credit for Malvin Wald. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Letter 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1976ref. 129783Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Presumed estimating script with "Budgeting" in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Notations in manuscript blue and black ink throughout. A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the mid-late 1960s in which MacLaine and Bancroft portray former dance colleagues whose lives have gone separate ways one becomes a professional dancer the other a settled domestic woman and whose unexpected reunion yields dramatic consequences. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. Mustard titled wrappers noted as "Budgeting" on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 3/2/76 with a credit for screenwriter Laurents. 116 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1971ref. 142743New York: Magic Lantern Inc 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal played by Max von Sydow is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater" where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create including building a relationship with the Hesse family in order to acquire the rights. While "Steppenwolf" is a precisely-realized film replete with Jungian symbols and created with some of the best special effects available at the time the film has remained somewhat obscure due to problems with its marketing and distribution including the color of the prints having been incorrectly developed. Set in 1920s Germany shot on location in Germany and Switzerland. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credits for novelist Hermann Hesse. Title page present dated April 1971 with credits for screenwriter Fred Haines. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication with blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Magic Lantern Inc unknown
1955ref. 142718Hollywood: DuMont Television Network 1955. Draft script for Season One episode 25 of the 1954-1955 television series originally broadcast on March 8 1955 on the DuMont Television Network. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas who played Val in the episode with her manuscript name in ink on the front wrapper and her lines circled in manuscript ink throughout shooting schedule laid in. Circus drama involving a brother and sister aerial act and their new partner. "Studio 57" also known as "Heinz Studio 57" was an American anthology series broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to July 1955 and in syndication from 1955 to 1958. Notably "It's a Small World" the pilot episode for the iconic series "Leave It to Beaver" was broadcast on the show on April 23 1957. White titled self wrappers production No. 1324 with credits for screenwriter James Gunn and story by Nancy Moore. Title page integral with front wrapper. 38 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with single staple. DuMont Television Network unknown
1934ref. 167828New York: Columbia Pictures 1934. Collection of three vintage pressbooks for three pre-Code films written by noted hard-boiled novelist Horace McCoy: "Hold the Press" 1933 "Fury of the Jungle" 1933 and "Speed Wings" 1934. McCoy moved to Hollywood in 1931 hoping to pursue a career as an actor. After a failed screen test at MGM McCoy discovered a talent for writing treatments and film scenarios and would go on to pen numerous films for Columbia Paramount and other studios through the next three decades. 12 x 18 inches. Generally Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1997ref. 139690Stockholm: Sveriges Television SVT 1997. Three vintage color still photographs showing Ingmar Bergman on the set of his 1997 Swedish television movie which also screened at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section. Two patients at a mental hospital attempt to make and market a film. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Fine. Sveriges Television [SVT] unknown
1953ref. 151452London: Mondial Films 1953. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1953 film. With printed mimeo snipes specific to the film's UK release affixed to 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. Mondial Films unknown
1977ref. 147064N.p.: N.p. 1977. First Edition. First Edition publicity manual reminiscent in content to a press kit but with much more detail. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis to advertise legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and his psychological drama "The Serpent's Egg" 1976. Profusely photo-illustrated with over 60 black and white images including film stills and on the set photography of Bergman and other actors at work. Black comb bound wrappers with titles in green. Very Good plus with light rubbing and soil on the front and rear wrapper. Approximately 120 pages. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 147252N.p.: N.p. 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. With what we assume to be translator Alan Blair's handwritten ink annotations throughout the script mostly in English but occasionally in Swedish noting many substantive revisions and deletions. Text in English. Bergman's first English language film shot in England and Sweden and his first film to involve a major American actor Elliott Gould working alongside Bergman regulars Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson. 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. Set and shot on location in Sweden and England. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Ingmar Bergman and English translator Alan Blair. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with a black comb binding. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 131823London: National General Pictures 1968. Revised British script for the 1969 film a UK-US co-production. Based on the play by Peter Shaffer written for the screen by Philip Yordan. Dan Pavlides: Fueled by promises of gold Pizarro Robert Shaw and his explorers make a third trip across the treacherous Andes Mountains to Peru where they meet King Atahuallpa Christopher Plummer considered to be a god by his faithful followers. The two leaders overcome their initial mistrust and suspicion garnering admiration for each other. When the King is sentenced to die Pizarro tries unsuccessfully to prevent the monarch's death at the hands of gold-hungry explorers. Green titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1 June 1968 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Yordan. 163 leaves mechanical duplication with pink blue green white tan and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 16 May and 22 July. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three screw brads. National General Pictures unknown
