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1939ref. 154915London: Studio One Cinema 1939. Vintage program for a UK showing of the 1938 French film advertising its premiere in July 1939 at the Studio One Cinema in London. A young station master's wife dreams of a wilder life in Budapest and believes she's gained an opportunity to experience the pleasures of the big city when she is called into the capital to attend her aunt's funeral and receive a share of the inheritance. Set and shot on location in Budapest. 3 x 5 inches. Bi-fold. Near Fine. Studio One Cinema unknown books
1953ref. 161154N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1953 film showing director Byron Haskin and other crew members with a camera on a mount. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The first feature film adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic 1898 novel. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for two more. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1037. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 152122N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 Swedish television film showing actor Anders Ek in a menacing demonic mask. With a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's UK release affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A theatrical troupe is called before the Swedish courts due to their obscene performance material and personal lives leading each troupe member to crack under psychological strain. The film originally aired on September 18 1969 on Sveriges Radio. 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 151296Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film showing actress Shirley MacLaine in a bikini using a small spy camera. With a stamp noting No 2509 7 on the verso. Based on William Peter Blatty's 1963 novel. An unlucky CIA operative's U-2 spy plane malfunctions and crashes in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Fawzia threatening to ignite an international incident. Set in Fawzia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 150845Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jacques Demy on the set of the 1970 film. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault with numerous references to Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Upon the deathbed of his beautiful wife the Blue Queen the Blue King promises he would only marry someone more beautiful than her and the only woman lovelier in the kingdom is their daughter the Blue Princess. With the help of her wise godmother the Fairy of the Lilac the Blue Princess escapes to a nearby village wearing the foul skin of the king's prize donkey. Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. unknown books
1979ref. 151011N.p.: N.p. 1979. Two vintage reference photographs with bottom margins from the 1979 film one of Catriona MacColl and Barry Stokes and one on the set photograph of MacColl Stokes and director Jacques Demy. One with with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" and layout annotations in manuscript red pencil on verso. Based on the 1972-1973 Japanese manga series "The Rose of Versailles" by Riyoko Ikeda which was also made into a 40 episode anime series under the same name directed by Tadao Nagahama and Osamu Dezak and broadcast on Nippon Television from October 10 1979 to September 3 1980. Oscar Francois de Jarjayes captain of the guards at the Palace of Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette was born a girl and raised as a boy by her militant father. She now finds herself conflicted while in the maw of the French Revolution with the boy she loved in her youth Oscar on the opposite side of the struggle. Shot on location in Paris Seine-et-Marne Oise and Versailles France. 9.25 x 7 inches. Some faint creasing else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1933ref. 150898N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph of Andre Dignimont and Georges Pomies from the 1933 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and provenance stamp of film historian "Maurice Bessy"on verso Bessy was a noted cinephile best known for his association with Orson Welles. One of Jean Renoir's more obscure but equally charming early sound films from 1933 wherein hard-working grocer Francois Chotard Fernand Charpin marries his daughter Jeanne Loury off to the seemingly lazy writer Julien Collient Georges Pomies and has a change of heart when Julien receives a prestigious literary award. 9 x 7 inches. Evenly faded else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1986ref. 150041Paris: Interpress 1986. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Marushka Detmers from the 1983 film. Later printed French Interpress announcement with typos on verso. Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Interpress unknown books
1986ref. 154238Paris: Interpress 1986. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Marushka Detmers and director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1983 film. Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Interpress unknown books
1966ref. 160650Warsaw: Film Polski 1966. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Polish film. Stamp of Film Polski on the versos. A student leaves school and decides to embrace materialism in the pursuit of wealth and power but finds his plans drastically changed once he meets and falls in love with an idealistic young woman. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Film Polski unknown books
1970ref. 152335N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actor Marty Feldman as a satyr gleefully reading a salacious paperback novel. An ad man is tasked with creating a new sexy image for a frozen porridge brand. A satirical farce directly ridiculing British conservative activist Mary Whitehouse who in 1970 was staging a war on gratuitous sex in advertising and many other fields of British life. Shot on location in London and Surrey. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good lightly wavy and edgeworn with light soil to the bottom left corner. N.p. unknown books
1981ref. 147287N.p.: N.p. 1981. Draft script for the 1983 film here under the working title "Double Down." A woman with an innate talent for blackjack joins up with a seasoned gambler and the pair start to rake in the cash-before the casino catches wise. Screenwriter Michael Blake's debut film and the first of two collaborations between Blake and actor Kevin Costner followed by the Oscar-winning 1990 film "Dances with Wolves." Set in Reno Nevada shot on location in San Francisco and Reno. Black non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1981 with credits for screenwriter Michael Blake. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with a light dampstain to the first few leaves and wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 163761N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1961 film showing director John Cassavetes working with actors Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A struggling jazz musician pursues a romantic relationship with a beautiful singer to the detriment of both parties' careers. Cassavetes' second directorial effort following "Shadows" 1958 and his first film made for a Hollywood studio. Shot on location in California. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 391. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1988ref. 158257N.p.: N.p. 1988. Vintage test photograph from the 1988 film showing actors Ricki Lake Divine and Jerry Stiller. Globe Photos stamp on the verso along with manuscript annotations in pencil and ink. Perhaps John Waters' most enduring film serving as the basis for the long running 2002 Broadway musical adaptation which itself became the basis for both the 2007 film starring John Travolta Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah and the 2016 broadcast "Hairspray Live!" on NBC. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear on the bottom right corner. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 153192N.p.: N.p. 1994. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director John Waters on the set of the 1994 film. Brief manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the film title and Waters' name. A seemingly normal middle-class housewife in suburban Baltimore moonlights as a maniacal unstoppable serial killer. Waters' ninth feature film. Shot on location in Baltimore. 5 x 7 inches. Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown books
1925ref. 151451N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the 1925 film showing actors George K. Arthur Bruce Guerin Otto Matiesen and Georgia Hale. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An impoverished group of dockside dwellers decide to move to the city to make their fortunes. Josef von Sternberg's directorial debut. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light foxing to the verso. N.p. unknown books
1981ref. 150157N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jennifer Jason Leigh and John DiSanti from the 1981 film. Television reporter Jane suspects a neighbor is the serial killer/rapist terrorizing the city and must prove it before the killer catches on. Leigh's film debut as Tracy Jane's deaf mute sister. Set in and shot on location in Miami Florida. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus with light splashing. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. N.p. unknown books
1931ref. 160653London: National Film Archive 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 film showing director King Vidor. National Film Archive stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play a light romance which takes place over twenty-four hours in a small community of immigrants in Hell's Kitchen. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Archive unknown books
1966ref. 154899Dallas: Orbit Films 1966. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1966 Japanese film. In a futuristic world young girls are abducted and transformed into Love Robots living sex dolls available for sale. Pink film auteur Koji Wakamatsu was one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers of the 1960s directing a number of notable erotic and softcore adult films including "Go Go Second Time Virgin" 1969 and "Ecstasy of the Angels" 1972 as well as producing Nagisa Oshima's controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses" 1976. Six pages bi-fold with one laid-in leaf. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine. Orbit Films unknown books
1959ref. 155776N.p.: N.p. 1959. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1959 Japanese film. One photograph with a stamp noting the film's French title "L'Etrange obsession" on the verso and all three photographs with manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Based on Jun'ichir Tanizaki's 1956 novel "The Key" about an aging voyeuristic antique collector who manipulates his wife into having an affair with his daughter's fiancé as a means of curing his impotence. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Photos 6 x 4.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 163715N.p.: N.p. 1987. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 Polish film one showing actors Bogus awa Pawelec and Tadeusz omnicki the other showing actors Monika Gozdzik and Bogus aw Linda. Dutch distributor labels and annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. A predecessor to "Sliding Doors" 1998 and "Run Lola Run" 1998 about a young man presented with three choices which lead his life in three separate political directions. Although completed in 1981 the film's release was suppressed in Poland for several years and finally released in 1987 albeit in a censored format. Shot on location in ódzkie and Warsaw Poland. 9.5 x 7 inches. One Near Fine one Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 772. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 153701Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1960. First Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page. A crime series loosely based on "Tarzan" about a semi-feral highly agile man who captures criminals in the Amazon Rainforest. An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in Brazil. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1966ref. 159144Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 UK film showing actor Michael Caine in conversation with director Lewis Gilbert. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Bill Naughton's 1966 play set in sexy swinging 1960s London about a young working class chauffeur who decides to change his womanizing behavior after a tuberculosis diagnosis and the birth of his son. Director Lewis Gilbert breaks the fourth wall in this film with Caine directly addressing the camera in attempt to gain sympathy from the audience a technique used again by Gilbert in "Shirley Valentine" 1989. Gilbert also addressed the then-taboo issues of pregnancy and abortion in an uncommonly candid style. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine lightly age toned. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 157104Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1954 film showing director Lewis Gilbert and a camera crew setting up a shot with Gloria Grahame. Based on the 1953 novel by Richard Macaulay about four desperate men who meet in a pub and decide to rob a post office. The novel's original Beverly Hills setting was changed to 1950s London. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1977ref. 156226N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Liliana Cavani with actors Dominique Sanda Erland Josephson and Robert Powell on the set of the 1977 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Loosely based on the life of German philosopher Friedrich Nietszche exploring his opium addiction and his relationships with author Paul Rée and Russian psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé. Shot on location in Germany and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
