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1966ref. 154505N.p.: Film-Makers' Distribution Center 1966. Vintage studio still photograph of Gerard Malanga from the 1966 film. Disregarding formal narrative the film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City during 1966 presented in a split screen with a single audio track associated with only one side of the screen. The release marked a critical moment in Andy Warhol's career as it was the first film he directed to receive international success and distribution or even be screened outside cine-clubs in New York City. Set and shot on location in Chelsea New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Film-Makers' Distribution Center unknown
2001ref. 163921N.p.: N.p. 2001. One Draft script and two Revised Draft scripts for the 2002 film. Two scripts with label affixed to front wrapper of the name of crew member Brian Markey. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A high school student's plans to go to Stanford are temporarily halted when his guidance counselor sends the incorrect transcripts. Set in Orange County California shot on location in Southern California. 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. Blue Revised: Blue titled self-wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as Blue Draft on the front wrapper dated January 18 2001 with credits for screenwriters Mike White. Title page integral with front wrapper. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Pink Revised: Pink titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as Revised on the front wrapper dated January 22 01 with credits for screenwriter Mike White. Title page integral with front wrapper. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only comprised solely of pink undated revision pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a paperclip at the top left corner. Yellow Revised: Yellow titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as Revised on the front wrapper dated January 31 01 with credits for screenwriter Mike White. Title page integral with front wrapper. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only comprised solely of yellow revision pages dated 1/31/01. Pages Near Fine wrapper About Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 164292N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1967 Yugoslavian film all showing actress Eva Ras. Two with a printed French mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and three with provenance stamps and labels on same. A young switchboard operator begins a relationship with a serious beau but finds herself subject to a colleague's advances when her boyfriend is out of town on business. Told in non-chronological order with imaginative digressions and frequent interruptions creating a critique of communist society and censorship. The second feature film of Du an Makavejev the most celebrated Yugoslavian director of the 1960s. Two photographs 9.5 x 7.25 inches two photographs 5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus. Criterion Eclipse 18. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 168496Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actress Françoise Hardy sitting outside in a rattan chair. John Frankenheimer like many directors who came into their prime during the 1950s and 1960s finally embraced the idea of doing an epic picture. But rather than making yet another overblown war picture or an epic romance he chose the Grand Prix with spectacular results. Shot on location in England Belgium France Monaco Italy the Netherlands and California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
2009ref. 154815N.p.: N.p. 2009. Draft script for the 2011 film. Enoch a young man who attends funerals in an attempt to cope with the death of his parents is befriended by the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot when he meets the lovely Annabel at a funeral a young woman with terminal cancer and only three months to live. Shot on location in Portland Oregon. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated October 15 2009 with credits for screenwriter Jason Lew. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated November 2 2009. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1991ref. 164025Los Angeles: The Blackport Company 1991. Draft script for the 1993 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Following the death of his mother a twelve-year-old is sent to stay with his extended family in Maine. There he begins to suspect his cousin Henry outwardly a normal kind young boy of being a sociopath. An unusually eerie performance by Macaulay Culkin then at the peak of his career as a child actor after "Home Alone" 1990 and "My Girl" 1991 playing against type as the violent Henry. 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. Set in Maine shot on location in Cape Ann Massachusetts Two Harbors Minnesota and Las Vegas Nevada. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 29 1991. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The Blackport Company unknown
1958ref. 151249N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1958 film showing director Jacques Tati smoking a cigarette and watching as cameraman Paul Rodier films a scene. With two Cine-Revue stamps on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil layout annotations. Tati'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. Set in the Parisian suburbs. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 163741N.p.: N.p. 1976. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1976 British horror film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Struggling to finish his second book while experiencing vivid nightmares and increasing paranoia an author rents a cottage in the British countryside and hires an attractive mysterious secretary to help type the manuscript. Shot on location in Essex. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 166106N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1968 French film showing actor Jean-Pierre Léaud reading a red book with the Chinese "five-star red flag" reflected in his glasses. "Cahiers du cinema" stamp on the verso. Loosely based on the 1871 novel "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Jean-Luc Godard's wry improvisational take on politics of the late 1960s following five disaffected students studying the teachings of Mao Zedong and debating the use of terrorism to achieve revolution. Set and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with moderate wear to the finish. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1949ref. 163331N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film showing director Jean-Pierre Melville and a camera crew capturing a scene with Nicole Stéphane and Jean-Marie Robain. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1949 novel by Jean Bruller writing as Vercors. In occupied France a young woman and her uncle are forced to give shelter to a German lieutenant and silently agree to endure the man's presence by refusing to acknowledge him for the duration of his stay. Melville's feature film debut. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a light crease at the bottom left corner reinforced with paper tape on the verso. Criterion Collection 755. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 150850N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage borderless reference photograph of John Huston Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr on the set of the 1957 film. Based on the 1952 novel by Charles Shaw. Two disparate souls a US marine and a Catholic nun are stranded on a deserted island together in the South Pacific during World War II. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress for Kerr and Best Screenplay. Set on Tuasiva Island shot on location in Trinidad and Tobago. Mitchum shot two films in Trinidad/Tobago in 1956/1957 the other being Robert Parrish's "Fire Down Below" with Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth and met Calypso musicians Mighty Sparrow and Lord Invador inspiring him to release his own Calypso album "Calypso - Is Like So" in March 1957. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear and two small pinholes on lower left. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 170768Paris: Sygma 1975. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1975 film. Mimeo snipe in French and English and a Sygma stamp on the verso. Based on Paulie Réage's 1954 novel an attempt to emulate the writing of the Marquis de Sade from a woman's perspective and considered quite scandalous when published. Followed by a sequel in 1984 "The Story of O: Chapter 2." 11.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Sygma unknown
1974ref. 169578N.p.: N.p. 1974. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 film. Widely considered Mel Brooks' finest comedy and surely the peak of his powers as a director. One of the few modern film comedies in the National Film Registry joined by two of Brooks' other masterpieces "The Producers" 1968 and "Blazing Saddles" 1974. Nominated for two Academy Awards. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine to Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 153200Rome: Cineriz 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1962 film showing actor Alain Delon leaning against a fence. With a mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamps of Keystone Photo and Publifoto. A woman's newfound relationship with a power-hungry stockbroker gradually erodes as she becomes dissatisfied with his shallow interests. The final film in Michelangelo Antonioni's modernity trilogy preceded by "L'avventura" 1960 and "La notte" 1961. Shot on location in Rome and Verona Italy. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the bottom left corner reinforced with white paper tape on the verso. Criterion Collection 278. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Cineriz unknown
1993ref. 169581N.p.: N.p. 1993. Vintage oversize satin-finish publicity photograph from the 1993 film showing actress Milla Jovovich barefoot wearing a short dress standing on a windowsill. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Richard Linklater's classic coming-of-age comedy a follow-up to his breakout independent film "Slacker" 1990 following the students at a high school in East Texas in 1976 on the last day of classes before summer break. The film was a box-office disappointment but has since been reevaluated and is today considered a cult classic. Shot on location in Austin Texas. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 166036London: Welbeck Films 1954. Revised Draft script for the 1954 film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the top of the front wrapper and a manuscript ink annotation of the date "9/6/54" on the bottom of the title page here under the working title "To Dorothy - A Son" released in the UK as "To Dorothy a Son" and in the US as "Cash on Delivery." With a manuscript pencil annotation on one page 12A underlining a needed prop and one page 38 with a clipping of a revision page affixed over the previous dialogue. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1950 play "To Dorothy a Son" by Roger MacDougall. Shelley Winters stars as Myrtle an American woman who stands to inherit $2 million dollars from her uncle as long as she doesn't have any male heirs. The only thing standing in her way is John Gregson as her ex-husband and his very pregnant new wife played by Peggy Cummins. Tall untitled green wrappers. Title page present with an annotated date of "9/6/54" noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Peter Rogers and playwright Roger MacDougall. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a prong binding. Welbeck Films unknown
1963ref. 166166London: Parroch-McCallum Productions 1963. Draft script for the 1964 UK-US film copy belong to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on eight pages. Laid in are two copies of a carbon typescript copy set listing dated "19.3.1963" one with manuscript pencil annotations listing costs and a "With Compliments" slip on Shepperton Studio letterhead. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. When a wealthy family member goes missing the family seeks the help of a sullen teenage orphan played by Francesca Annis who is said to have psychic powers. Inspiration for the 1978 film "Eyes of Laura Mars" directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two flat metal brads. Laid in pages Near Fine bound with a paper clip. Parroch-McCallum Productions unknown
1955ref. 167094N.p.: N.p. 1955. Three borderless candid reference photographs from the 1955 French film one a close-up of actress Brigitte Bardot sitting alone the other two showing Bardot with director René Clair. French agency stamp on the versos. Clair's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. A womanizing French lieutenant bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers only to discover that his chosen target a Parisian divorcée is not like other girls. Photographs ranging in size from 10.25 x 7 inches to 10.25 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 152050Los Angeles: Delta Films 1965. Vintage pressbook for the 1965 film. Based on Raymond Friday Locke's 1958 novel "Streets Paved With Gold." A melodramatic tale about a drifter who falls in love with his employer's married niece a beautiful young woman with an abusive alcoholic husband. The first film in Russ Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black and white with powerful female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Set in Spooner Missouri. Six leaves saddle stitched 11 x 17 inches. Folded once horizontally. Very Good plus overall. Delta Films unknown
1989ref. 163641N.p.: N.p. 1989. Final Draft script for the 1990 film. Copy belonging to camera operator Tom Priestley Jr. with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. Crew list and schedule bound in at the rear of the script. A novice district attorney uncovers a decorated police officer's ties to the world of organized crime after the officer kills a smalltime Puerto Rican criminal in purported self defense. Set and shot on location in New York. Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 31 1989 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Sidney Lumet and novelist Edwin Torres. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 8/29/89. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950ref. 166097N.p.: N.p. 1950. Four vintage double weight satin-finish reference photographs from the 1950 Japanese film. Provenance labels and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Few foreign language films have made such a lasting impact on American audiences as director Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" a revolutionary cinematic work in terms of style and substance that challenged audiences about the nature of subjective experience. Winner of an honorary 1951 Academy Award for Most Outstanding Foreign Language Film Released in the United States and credited for being the reason the Academy created the "Best Foreign Film" category. Shot on location in Kyoto Nara and Tokyo Japan. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 138. Grant Japan. Ebert II. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 151251N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actors Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An innocent man is pursued across the US by a group of foreign spies who have mistaken him for a government agent. Widely considered one of director Alfred Hitchcock's best films the last of four the director made with Cary Grant with a score by Bernard Hermann and a famous title sequence by Saul Bass. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 170346N.p.: N.p. 1974. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 film including one showing director Paul Morrissey sitting with Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink in French on the versos. Count Dracula travels from Transylvania to pre-fascist Italy in search of virgin blood to drink but soon discovers there are no longer any virgins to be found in the entirety of Italy. One of Andy Warhol's two horror films the other being "Frankenstein" released the same year on a double bill both USA/Italy/France co-productions and the pinnacle of his film career in terms of popularity outside avant-garde circles. Set in Italy shot on location in Italy and Serbia. Approximately 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 28. Severin Films 721. N.p. unknown
1945ref. 154826N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage reference photograph from the 1945 British film showing actress Celia Johnson leaning against a door. Based on Noel Coward's 1936 play "Still Life" about a suburban housewife who enters into a passionate extramarital affair with a married stranger she meets at a railway station. Winner of the Palme d'Or and nominated for three Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Lancashire Cumbria and London. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 76. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1952ref. 153204N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film showing a ballet performance from the perspective of the audience with the orchestra pit and conductor visible in the foreground. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Autobiographically reflective of screen icon Charlie Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era depicting the final years of a washed-up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer representative of a new generation of performers. The first and only time that Chaplin and fellow silent film star Buster Keaton would appear onscreen together and the only Chaplin picture to win an Academy Award albeit for the original score of the 1972 re-release. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Criterion Collection 756. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
