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1950ref. 141467Tokyo: Shintoho Film 1950. Two Draft scripts for the 1950 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Selichi Funabashi . A young servant girl Hamako has recently begun working for her hero Madame Yuki who quickly disillusioned her to her dream when she is presented with a list of the Madame's personal problems. First draft: White illustrated titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Second draft: White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 15 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Shintoho Film unknown
1956ref. 141466Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. With annotations on a few pages in manuscript ink. Based on the novel "Susaki No Onna" by Yoshiko Shibaki. The last film of Mizoguchi this film is a vivid portrayal of prostitution in 1950s Japan shot before the Japanese government's anti-prostitution bill told through the perspective of several different women who work in the business for various reasons. Set in Tokyo and shot on location there. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 13. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples. Criterion Collection Eclipse 13. Eureka Masters of Cinema. Daiei Studios unknown
1948ref. 168105London: Two Cities / The Rank Organization 1948. Vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1948 British film. Includes ten newspaper clippings 13 publicity photographs 12 with Victory Films stamps on the verso and one with a printed mimeo snipe and J. Arthur Rank stamp on the same and a mimeograph summary of the film. Clippings and summary in French. The second of three Shakespeare adaptations by Laurence Olivier considered not only the best of the trio but also one of the most inspired adaptations of the Bard's work. Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor. Two-color bi-fold measuring 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. Bi-fold and clippings Very Good plus moderately edgeworn photographs and summary Near Fine. Criterion Collection 82. Two Cities / The Rank Organization unknown
ref. 148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian. Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. Set and shot on location in Bologna. Script: Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads. List of scenes: Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown
ref. 165393London: HandMade Films 1982. Archive of material from the 1982 British film including two screenplays and multiple production documents as well as a manuscript costume design book with fabric samples and notes regarding costuming. Archive belonging to assistant costume designer Jane Hamilton with her name in manuscript ink on the title page of one script. Archive includes several production documents including a list of revisions to the script call sheets a directory and location contact sheet a map a shooting schedule and production memos. After a decade of missionary work in Africa an Anglican priest returns to London and attempts to adjust to his new assignment: ministering to the city's prostitutes. Set in turn-of-the-century London and shot on location in London Hampshire and Surrey England. Script dated 2nd February 1982: Script housed in a three-ring binder. Purple untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 2nd February 1982 with credit for screenwriter Michael Palin. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Script dated 22nd February 1982: Script housed in a titled three-ring binder. Title page present dated 22nd February 1982 with credit for Palin. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between March 8 and 9 1982. Pages Near Fine. Costume design book and production documents generally Very Good plus to Near Fine. Costume design book has several fabric samples detached from leaves having been originally attached with cello tape. HandMade Films unknown
1969ref. 136883N.p.: N.p. 1969. Original ribbon copy typescript for Tay Garnett's screenplay adaptation of Mickey Spillane's 1967 novel. Profusely annotated by Garnett in blue and red ink on every page and with a annotations by him at the top right corner of the first leaf: "First Draft Work Copy" "Screenplay by Tay Garnett" and "From Mickey Spillane's novel." Raoul Walsh eventually worked with Garnett on the script but this draft precedes his involvement. The film was released on May 15 1970 and starred Yvette Mimieux Christopher George and Yvonne De Carlo. 182 leaves rectos only. Leaves supple Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
ref. 143729N.p.: Mafilm 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Mafilm unknown
ref. 143728N.p.: Objektiv Film 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Objektiv Film unknown
1955ref. 144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Archive of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in manuscript ink inside a small white border on the recto and all numbered in mimeograph on the verso. One notebook full of photos crediting photographer Beauvarlet on the rectos. Director Rene's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. Winner of two important French film awards the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Prix Melies. Screened out-of-competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Still photographer Beauvarlet remains uncredited for the film perhaps overshadowed by the film's prolific cinematographer Robert Lefebvre. Beauvarlet stuck close to Bardot throughout her career snapping stills in "Her Bridal Night" 1956 "Naughty Girl" 1956 "La Parisienne" 1957 and "The Night Heaven Fell" 1958. His quick-draw style is amply captured here in candid images of the cast and crew a jovial celebrity signing and softer posed studio portraits. Armand Philipe is a lieutenant in the French cavalry just before WWI a notorious womanizer and gambler who bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers. The woman is Marie-Louise Morgan a divorcee who runs a milliner's shop and who is also being courted by Victor Desailly. A subplot involving Armand's friend Felix Yves Robert and Lucie Bardot a photographer's daughter. Photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Very Good overall several with bruises from offsetting paste several are loose. Cinedis unknown
ref. 155122New York: Deathtrap Films 1986. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Lung Leg from the 1985 short film. INSCRIBED on the verso in director Richard Kern's hand "Lung Leg / in / "You Killed Me First" / A R. Kern Movie / copyright 1986 / Photo copyright R Kern" with two "R. Kern Photographs" stamps and a "Deathtrap Films" stamp on the verso. A landmark work in the Cinema of Transgression. Conceived by Kern and artist David Wojnarowicz as both a film and a multi-media art installation the film was shot unscripted over two days and was largely based on Wojnarowicz's childhood specifically the scenes concerning the terrifying and abusive father played by Wojnarowicz. Performance artist Karen Finley starred as the subservient mother and the young East Village model Leg who would go on to star in several more of Kern's films and music videos starred as the lead daughter Elisabeth/Cassandra. The film premiered at Wojnarowicz's "You Killed Me First Installation #8" at the Ground Zero Gallery in December 1985. A seemingly normal family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner and after a series of disturbing flashbacks revealing previous family traumas the daughter shoots her family at the dinner table angrily proclaiming "You killed me first!" A scathing and darkly humorous indictment of petit-bourgeois conservatism and religiosity. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Deathtrap Films unknown
1944ref. 156251Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Several photographs with provenance stamps and stickers on the verso and two with the printed label of Palace Theatre affixed to the verso. Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good with light toning and edgewear. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1968ref. 152185N.p.: N.p. 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film including two programs an edition of The Daily Cinema magazine featuring a cover story on "Mayerling" and a small flyer advertising a press showing of the film at Leicester Square. Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" 1948 Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 and Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966. Based on the 1930 novel by Claude Anet and the 1967 book by Michael Arnold. A dramatization of the events that led to the murder-suicide of Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. Blue titled wrappers. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 17.12.67 and 1.3.68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted to the binding bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
ref. 163381Universal City: Dreamworks 2003. Revised Shooting script for the 2004 film. In San Diego in the 1970s successful news anchor Ron Burgundy is forced to confront his prejudices when the station owners hire a woman anchor who promptly proceeds to climb her way to the top. Followed by a 2013 sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Shot on location in San Diego Los Angeles Glendale and Long Beach. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 06/09/03 noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriters Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered "112-113". Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light splashes on the title page bound with two gold brads. Dreamworks unknown
ref. 148727Tokyo: Toei 1974. Draft script for the 1974 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on a series of magazine articles written by journalist Koichi Iiboshi which were in turn based on memoirs written by yakuza crime boss Kozo Mino. The fifth and final film in director Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza pentalogy following feuding gangs in post-war Hiroshima. Recently the subject of a complete restoration helmed and issued by Arrow Films in England. Tan titled perfect-bound wrappers. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered D27. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstains to the extremities. Arrow 2164. Toei unknown
1956ref. 143240Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1956. First Draft script for the 1956 film. Title in English on rear wrapper. Based on a 1946 children's novel by Michio Takeyama about a conscience-driven Japanese soldier who adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk after he fails to get his countrymen to surrender to an overwhelming force. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Set in Burma during WWll shot on location in Burma and near the Izu Peninsula in Japan. White titled wrappers. Title page present. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered e-25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with some toning due to age wrapper Very Good with mild foxing and light water damage near spine. Criterion Collection 379. Eureka Masters of Cinema 12. Nikkatsu unknown
1960ref. 125095London: Michael Powell Theatre 1960. Vintage British Advance Poster for the classic 1960 film. The British Double Crown poster for the film turns up from time to time but this Advance issue which does not state the film's title is a rarity. Noted director Powell's most controversial film about a serial killer who films his female victims as they are dying. Reviled by critics on its release and today considered a masterpiece it is the second of three feature films director made after parting ways with his longtime filmmaking partner Emeric Pressburger. Ostensibly a film about a killer with serious Freudian issues but later reassessed as much more conceptual and complex. Roger Ebert pointed out famously in his 1999 review of the film that the audience is implicated as much as the killer."Movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the dark watching other people's lives. It is the bargain the cinema strikes with us although most films are too well-behaved to mention it." Martin Scorsese is probably the most famous fan of the film and takes Ebert's argument further saying "I have always felt that "Peeping Tom" and "8 " say everything that can be said about filmmaking about the process of dealing with film the objectivity and subjectivity of it and the confusion between the two. "8 " captures the glamour and enjoyment of film-making while "Peeping Tom" shows the aggression of it how the camera violates. From studying them you can discover everything about people who make films or at least people who express themselves through films." 30 x 20 inches. About Near Fine on archival linen with some expert restoration at the top edge and folds. Archivally framed with an acid-free mat and UV plexi. Criterion Collection 58. Grant p. 495. Spicer p. 446. Michael Powell [Theatre] unknown
1929ref. 137372Budapest: Hunnia Filmstudio 1929. Specially bound copy of an Early Draft script for the Hungarian film released in Hungry in 1932 as "Tavaszi zapor" in Frace in 1933 as "Marie Legende Hongroise" and in the United States in 1935 as "Spring Shower." Housed in a likely hand-sewn floral cloth-covered portfolio the script is INSCRIBED by the Hungarian-American feminist and radical socialist screenwriter Ilona Fulop on the title page: "To Mac: / Because You still trust me! / Ilona / Christmas 1929 / Hollywood Cal." A unique and attractive item and probably the only surviving copy of the script. The story of a poor girl driven out of her village when she becomes pregnant by her employer's wealthy fiance finding refuge working as a maid in a brothel. After her daughter is taken from her however she falls into alcoholism and dies. A maid in Heaven as she was on earth she saves her daughter from befalling a similar fate by "emptying her mop bucket" on her daughter's head via a rain shower at a pivotal moment. A multinational production in which a Hungarian screenwriter and Hungarian director both with experience in Hollywood shot a film starring a French actress using frozen assets from a French producer that had been mandated for exclusively Hungarian use. Though not a box office success at the time it is now regarded as one of the all-time great films originating from the country. In a 1919 article entitled "What is 'Revolution' Doing to Love" screenwriter Fulop describes herself as a socialist radical as opposed to a revolutionary or a Bolshevik and her desire to further equal rights for women strongly defines her as a modern-day feminist as well. "Spring Showers" with its women- and proletarian-friendly plot thus comes as little surprise. Housed in floral cloth-covered portfolio titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Fulop. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Carbon typescript. Pages Very Good portfolio Very Good bound with a single line of hand-stitching. Hunnia Filmstudio unknown
1963ref. 146394Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few manuscript pencil annotations throughout mostly relating to line revisions and props. Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not anticipate however how seriously Becket will take the vocation leading to the dissolution of their friendship in the face of Becket's rising political power. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in England and France. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated 12th February 1963 noted as REVISED. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some rusting near the binding bound internally with three silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1961ref. 144660Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in manuscript pencil on the versos 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot 18 with his name stamped on the verso and each notebook page with corresponding numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Also included is a vintage Cinedis manila mailing envelope. Limot's action photographs are poignantly interlaced with on-the-set images including tender exchanged between actors Bourvil Annie Fratellini and Colette Castel herself seen in striking authority behind a handheld camera. A few feature Black musicians in the background surrounded by paparazzi and a few photos are slightly more candid with subjects hamming for the camera. A businessman 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. 747 photos are 3.5 x 4.5 inches or slightly smaller with small white borders at the foot and 2 photos are 5 x 7 inches. Light curling and most with tape ghosts and discoloration else Near Fine. Envelope and notebooks Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown
1965ref. 132451Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. First Draft script for the 1965 film. Included are production notes dated November 1965 laid in and an architectural sketch of the "sky truck" noted as "REVISED / APR. 22. '65" As deluxe a script for this film as we have seen and a highspot for noted director Robert Aldrich. One of the great adventure films of the twentieth century wherein a cargo plane with fewer than a dozen men goes down in the Sahara in a sandstorm. One of the men is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before food and water are depleted. Black titled wrappers noted as 2ND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated April 6th. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Heller and novelist Trevor. 178 leaves mechanical duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/15/65 and 4/27/65. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine with a small fingernail-size bruise at the top left corner of the front wrapper. Bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1940ref. 155765Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Final script for the 1941 screwball comedy film with "286" in manuscript pencil to the top right of the front wrapper. Laid in is a ribbon copy typescript listing the five lead actors on RKO letterhead. A cantankerous tycoon goes undercover as a shoe clerk at his own New York department store in order to identify labor agitators but finds himself befriending the workers and becoming sympathetic to their needs. A key film in the American screwball comedy cycle with proletarian elements deftly woven into a hilarious and whip-smart story. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Charles Coburn. Pink titled wrappers rubber-stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 60 dated November 26 1940 with credits for screenwriter Norman Krasna. Distribution page integral with title page with receipt removed dated 11/26/40 noted as FINAL. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a small amount of silverfish damage on the second and third leaves with foxing to the top edge and faint foxing to the fore-edge wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing and soiling bound with three gold brads. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography. Olive 53203. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
ref. 141442Burbank CA: Cinema Epoch 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Text in Japanese. A female golfer tries to perform to the very best of her abilities but must contend with the men in her life her neighbors her family and a stalker who will not leave her alone. Pink titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Cinema Epoch unknown
1961ref. 141438Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1961. Treatment script for the 1961 film. Text in Japanese. A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who might be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown
1963ref. 141423Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. A metaphor for the experience of Japanese citizens in the postwar era told through the perspective of a woman named Tome born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her. Yellow titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Criterion Collection 473. Eureka 22. Nikkatsu unknown
1933ref. 131380Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD" and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title "Don't Call Me Madam" is present on the front wrapper crossed through with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in manuscript ink above it. Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame" by Rupert Hughes about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers" one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields the others being "Six of a Kind" 1934 and "If I Had a Million" 1932. Tall side stapled salmon self wrappers noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837 dated March 10 1933 with credits for screenwriters Jones McNutt and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine rear wrapper detached but present else wrappers Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown
