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1961ref. 144266France: Limot 1961. Archive of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots pinup images of actress Castel Bourvil mending fences and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes gunfights in the town square and charming taproom images candidly showcase one of Clair's final films. Nearly all are rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Housed in an original French Kodak photo paper box. One photograph shown. Please inquire for others. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos 5 x 7 inches with a few trimmed slightly smaller and box slightly larger. Photos Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing and box Very Good Plus two splits to the lid. Limot unknown
1972ref. 140225Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Notably with a credit for screenwriter Eleanor Perry wife and frequent co-writer with her husband director Frank Perry. Jay Grobart Reynolds kills a man who raped and murdered his wife Cat Dancing. He is arrested but soon after is released and goes on a crime spree. He then meets Catherine Miles who is escaping her abusive husband and finds an unlikely mate. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah USA. Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present dated October 31 1972 with credits for screenwriter Eleanor Perry and novelist Marilyn Durham. 159 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between November 6 1972 and November 7 1972. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1988ref. 166941N.p.: Showscan Film Corporation 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 joint French-US short film. Attached by staple to the top corner of the title page is a small hand-written note "Vicki" a phone number and "Call from Space office." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Nick Dimitri with two copies of a January 16 1989 call sheet laid in. The 29-minute short film was the first film shot using the "Showscan" process developed by Douglas Trumbull which is photographed and projected on 70mm film at 60 frames per second 2.5 times the standard film speed and was only screened twice in 1989 once at the "Big Bang Schtroumpf" amusement park now "Walygator Parc" in Maizières-les-Metz France and once at the Omnimax Theatre at Ceasars Palace Las Vegas. A film director Richard Brestoff and his nephew Bill Campbell an aspiring actor and eccentric inventor make a low-budget science fiction film when one of the nephew's inventions begins to bring visitors from the past and future into the present including Napoleon Archimedes and cavemen making what they believe may be one of the greatest movies ever made. Featuring a cameo from James Coburn as an irate studio head and the voice of Charlton Heston as an alien visitor. Director Richard Fleischer's final film. Shot on location in Simi Valley California. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 1-6-89 noted as revised with credits for screenwriter Sarah Paris and story by Peter Beal and Sarah Paris. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 26. Xerographic duplication rectos only with yellow green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/22/88 and 1/6/89. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Showscan Film Corporation unknown
1965ref. 151229N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film showing actresses Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling in between takes wearing matching wetsuits. Based on Ann Jellicoe's 1962 play. An awkward young man seeks out the help of his slick womanizing flatmate in learning how to seduce women but trouble arises when they both set their marks on the same girl. Although nominally a comedy a film that bears far more similarity to a kitchen sink drama due largely to its polarizing final act. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 170456N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing rock-and-roll icons Ritchie Valens and Jimmy Clanton chatting over a record player. Provenance label on the verso. Valens' only film appearance released months after his death in a plane crash alongside Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper and the final film of American disc jockey Alan Freed. Freed would later become embroiled in a "payola" controversy that would end his career. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 149823Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on the 1976 coming-of-age novel. A young man from a working class Italian background struggles to balance the blue collar desires of his volatile family with his own dream of becoming a teacher. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in the Bronx New York. Goldenrod titled Warner Brothers wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 14 1977. Title page present dated March 14 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Walter Newman and novelist Richard Price. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/28/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1977ref. 153060London: Preview Two 1977. Draft script for the 1977 television episode originally aired on November 24 1977 on BBC Two. An investigation of early diving practices narrated by Belgian underwater archaeologist Robert Stenuit who explored the underwater ruins of the Dutch merchant ship Slot Ter Hooge which had previously been explored by English diver John Lethbridge in 1725 using a primitive "diving engine." Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter and actor Robert Stenuit narrator Derek Jones and other crew members. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. Preview Two unknown
1950ref. 147453Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1950. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1950 Italian film showing director Roberto Rossellini with the camera and lighting crews setting up a wide shot with Ingrid Bergman and other actors in the distance. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout and noting the film's title. After World War II a Lithuanian refugee marries an Italian POW in order to be released from an internment camp only to find herself miserable on the barren volcanic island he calls home. A classic example of Italian neorealism featuring documentary-esque footage from the island of Stromboli and footage from the island's evacuation during one of its many volcanic eruptions. Set on Stromboli Island shot on location in Lazio and Sicily Italy. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with a pinhole to the lower right corner and light soil. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Criterion Collection 673. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1962ref. 152129N.p.: N.p. 1962. Five vintage borderless reference photographs showing actors Brigitte Bardot Macha Méril and Robert Hossein director Roger Vadim and crew members playing music and dancing between takes on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1958 novel "Le repos du guerrier" by Christiane Rochefort. A young independent woman is slowly embroiled in an abusive isolating relationship with a man she helps recover from a suicide attempt. Set and shot on location in Paris. Approximately 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 151518N.p.: International Classics 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Brigitte Bardot and director Roger Vadim on the set of the 1961 film. "Photo Walter Carone" stamp two "La Bride sur le cou" stamps and faint recurring "Paris Match Marie Claire" stamps on verso. Sophie learns her boyfriend is thinking of leaving her for another woman and her first thought is to win him back or kill the woman but with the help of her friend Alain she resolves on the former. Shot on location in Alps Haute-Savoie France. 7.75 x 10.25 inches. Very Good plus. International Classics unknown
1962ref. 143952Paris: Films Polski 1962. Collection of eight vintage French photographs from the 1962 Polish film. Starring actors and images of the sailboat are seen including a few candid moments and a full-length portrait of actor Anna Ciepielewska. Nearly all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Also included is an original French language press packet for the film detailing synopsis and star biographies. Housed in a white envelope with annotations in manuscript ink including French film title and a "Pictorial Service" rubber-stamp. Polanski's directorial debut and his only Polish language film. A couple on a sailing trip picks up a hitchhiker just for kicks. The sexual tension mounts in dramatic film noir fashion. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Seven photos 5 x 7 inches borderless. Ciepieleska photo 7 x 9.25 inches. Envelope 10 x 12.5 inches. Press packet ditto-style mimeograph on white stock five leaves corner-stapled. Photos and packet Near Fine envelope Very Good overall. Criterion Collection 215. Grant France. Films Polski unknown
1965ref. 155315London: Royal Films International 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 film showing director Roman Polanksi shooting Catherine Deneuve as she enters the apartment that she will not be able to leave. Polanski's second feature film and his first in English. A disturbed young woman experiences a variety of hallucinations and nightmares when left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister. A breakthrough role for Deneuve and the film that paved the way for Polanski's future success. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Criterion Collection 483. Grant UK. Spicer UK. Royal Films International unknown
1980ref. 163629Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1980. Collection of eighteen vintage studio still photographs from the 1980 film all with bottom margins with text and all with a dated "Oct 10 1980" MPAA stamps on the versos. Based on Brian Garfield's 1975 novel about CIA agent Miles Kendig Matthau who decides to retire and to ensure his privacy threatens to send his memoirs to the world's intelligence agencies. When the CIA disregards his threat he writes and mail chapters one-by-one. To avoid compromising their operations two CIA agents Waterston and Beatty set out to silence Kendig by any means. Shot on location in Georgia England Germany and Austria. 8 x 10 inches Near Fine all with light overall toning. Criterion Collection 163. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 163824Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Vintage insert poster for the 1963 film. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force wherein Daily Globe journalist Johnny Barrett Peter Breck determined to win a Pulitzer Prize has himself institutionalized in an asylum to solve a case where an inmate had recently been murdered. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus with three horizontal creases from being previously folded and light edgewear. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Allied Artists unknown
1990ref. 166471N.p.: Clyde is Hungry Productions 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 film. Noted as Shooting Script and copy No. 20 in manuscript ink on the title page. Incomplete script ending on page 117. Sean Penn's directorial debut based on the 1982 Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman" about two brothers on opposite sides of the law. The final film performance of Sandy Dennis who died six months after the film's release. Set in 1960s Nebraska shot on location in Plattsmouth and Omaha Nebraska. Self wrappers. Title page present dated June 25 1990 noted as shooting script with credit for Penn. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads with first and last leaves partially detached from the binding. Clyde is Hungry Productions unknown
1976ref. 151965Paris: President Films 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jane Birkin from the 1976 film. "Societe Nationale" stamp on verso. Waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck stop lonely and longing for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that Krassky is gay. Krassky likes Johnny too perhaps because of her boyish physique. But both of them fail to notice the growing jealousy of Krassky's boyfriend Padovan and trouble sets in. Billy Stevenson of notes in the "A Film Canon" blog: "Serge Gainsbourg directed this film based on his iconic song and it plays as an extended gloss on that song an attempt to visualize what was happening during those infamous sighs and pants . It is a testament to Gainsbourg's commitment to the song and his own status as sexual outlaw that he presents us with a film that's just as confronting and titillating some 30 years later. "Set against a drifting rambling desert backdrop part New Wave part New Hollywood. Johnny and Krassky's attraction is sexually charged and yet it doesn't seem to conform to their sexual proclivities.with an audioverite that makes you wonder whether these scenes might actually involve real sex. In its yearning to experience sex in every conceivable way-as a gay man as a lesbian as a man as a woman as pleasure as pain-the film ends up virtualizing it or at least generalizing it into an undifferentiated sexual access that feels quite incorporeal a clear forerunner to both the Cinema du Look and art porn movements." 6.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. President Films unknown
1975ref. 155637N.p.: N.p. 1975. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 French sexploitation film including two photographs taken on location. A sexually frustrated executive assistant goes to see a psychologist and recovers his prowess proceeding to embark on a number of erotic adventures with the secretaries at his office. Shot on location in Calvados France. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good with light fading to two of the photographs. Bier 807. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 138830Moscow: Mosfilm 1966. Three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 French release of the 1964 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos including one three-part panoramic shot demonstrating the massive scale of the film shot on location in Dorogobuzh a region in the Smolensk province of Russia. An epic film over seven hours long and slavishly faithful to Tolstoy's novel that was for many years the most expensive European movie every made. The lengthy graphic battle scenes which killed a number of horses led to the film being boycotted in many American cities. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Mosfilm unknown
1925ref. 168469N.p.: N.p. 1925. Nine reference photographs from the 1925 Soviet silent film seven borderless and two bordered struck and issued by Cinémathèque Française circa 1936. All seven borderless photographs with the stamp of Archives Cinémathèque Française on the verso. A dramatization of a real-life mutiny which occurred on the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905. The film's violence led to it being banned in West Germany and the UK until 1954 and even after that given an X rating until 1978. It was shown in a much-edited form in East Germany though the US premiere in December 1926 was shown unedited. A written introduction by Leon Trotsky at the beginning of the film was cut from later Soviet prints due to Trotsky running afoul of Stalin. The film's famous sequence showing a massacre by Tsarist soldiers of civilians on the Odessa Steps is considered the first example of a montage sequence in cinema. All photogaphs 5 x 3.5 inches. Generally Near Fine. BFI 1494. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 164245N.p.: N.p. 1977. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1977 film. Provenance stamps on the versos. Director Robert Altman's experimental dreamlike masterwork about three ethereal fractured women originally overlooked but later celebrated. Featuring brilliant performances from Shelley Duvall as the self-deluded socially maladroit Millie Rule as the mysterious pregnant painter Willie and Sissy Spacek as the young timid and fawning Pinky. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in a small California desert town and shot on location in Palm Springs Thousand Palms and Desert Hot Springs California. 9.5 x 7 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 143203Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1960. Post-production script for the 1961 film. Based on the novel by Kazu Otsuka. A literal and metaphorical title to Shohei Imamura's fifth feature depicting postwar Japan's distrust of the west's cultural imperialism and his fascination with the pimps and prostitutes who benefit from the American presence at the naval base Yokosuka. Imamura drew from his own experience as a black market hustler and spent time with gangsters researching the film. Highly controversial upon release Nikkatsu suspended Imamaura from making films for two years with the release of "Pigs and Battleships." Imamura began his film career as an assistant to Yaujiro Ozu a director he veered severely from in style and tone. Imamura quickly realized his interest in focusing on the lower strata of Japanese society seeing himself as more of a cultural anthropologist. Imamura moved on to Japan's oldes major movie studio Nikkatsu and worked as an assistant to Yuzo Kawashima who gave Imamura his first opportunity directing B films targeted toward the postwar youth. Imamura established his own production company in 1965 to free himself of studio interference and is considered a leading figure in Japanese New Wave cinema. Set in Yokosuka. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 11885. Title page present . 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 9-5. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good mild foxing and mold spores along spine both wrappers and paper edge. Criterion Collection 472. Eureka Masters of Cinema 21. Nikkatsu unknown
1963ref. 148780Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1963. Collection of 18 vintage reference photographs all but one borderless and 4 vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Two with provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1962 novel following an unemployed African American handyman conscripted by a group of Eastern European nuns into building a chapel for them in the Arizona desert. Nominated for five Academy Awards and winning one for Best Actor for Sidney Poitier making him the first African American man to receive an Oscar. Set and shot on location in Arizona. 18 photographs 9.5 x 7 inches four photographs 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1982ref. 162551London: Tartan Video 1982. Six vintage photographs from the 1982 film including four reference photographs two borderless and matte finish two glossy and bordered and two studio still photographs. Aliens seeking opiates released during human sex land their UFO on top of a New York apartment building where they witness the antics of bisexual androgynous fashion model Margaret and her cocaine-addled friends. A bizarre new wave science fiction film produced on a shoestring budget now considered a cult classic. Broadly responsible for popularizing the electroclash club scene of the early 2000s. Set and shot in downtown New York. Four photographs 10 x 8 inches two 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. Tartan Video unknown
1965ref. 166115London: Gibraltar Productions 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil sketch of settings and a set. 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 BBC-TV play "The Obi" by Jon Manchip White. At an interracial college in a small British town small glass bottles filled with graveyard dirt and feathers obis sent as Obeah voodoo curses to students and faculty precede a series of voodoo killings on campus. Re-released in 1973 as the television movie "Exorcism at Midnight" following the success of "The Exorcist" with new color sequences with an American cast which re-framed the original black and white film as a flashback. Tall tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 28.5.1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Stanley Goulder and playwright Jon Manchip White. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated goldenrod revision clippings and pages pasted in throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a black plastic comb-binding. Gibraltar Productions unknown
