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1970ref. 159131N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 experimental film showing actress Verity Bargate. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso regarding cropping. Director Stephen Dwoskin was an experimental filmmaker who produced work based on themes of perception disability and sexuality. He was a cofounder of the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1966 and the film collective Spectre in 1980. "Times For" was the first of Dwoskin's longer films and notably included a performance by performance artist and filmmaker Carolee Schneemann with a soundtrack by experimental musician Gavin Bryars. 10 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 158710N.p.: N.p. 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Based on the 1963 novel by David Stuart Leslie. A white advertising executive is forced to confront his own prejudices when he finds himself unexpectedly sharing a flat with a Black Jamaican-British lawyer. OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows one holding. Set and shot on location in London. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 15 1968 with credits for screenwriter Evan Jones and novelist David Stuart Leslie. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages laid in throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 150605Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of 13 vintage photographs from the 1957 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso crediting photographer Bert Cann. Very loosely based on the 1950 nonfiction book "The Story of Zarak Khan" by A.J. Bevans about an outlaw fighting against British occupation in 19th century Afghanistan pursued by a British officer with whom he develops a mutual respect. Set on the border between Afghanistan and India shot on location in England Morocco India and Burma. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1998ref. 169960N.p.: N.p. 1998. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film. An agency copy printed on the rectos and versos written seven months prior to the commencement of the production with the marker annotation of "O" on the front wrapper. A modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello" set in a US high school wherein Odin James Mekhi Phifer the only black student at Palmetto Grove Academy who is the star basketball player and dating the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi Julia Stiles is the envy of his troubled friend Hugo Josh Hartnett who plots a deadly scheme to sow mistrust between Desi and Odin. Shot on location in Charleston South Carolina. Untitled International Creative Management wrappers. Title page present dated 08/12/98 noted as Revision with credits for screenwriter Brad Kaaya. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication on the rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining to the rear board bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 162393Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1975. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 film. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and three with Columbia stamps on the versos. A New Hollywood satire about a womanizing money-hungry hairdresser in Beverly Hills. Actress Lee Grant won her only Academy Award for her turn as one of Beatty's mistresses and Beatty and Towne were nominated for their screenplay. Set and shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
2001ref. 164034N.p.: N.p. 2001. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film including a six page "Alternate Ending" preceded by a memo notice that both "endings will be shot." Laid in are three gatherings of revisions each with a label on their title page for credited crew member "Brian Markey / Construction Coordinator." From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. The three gatherings of revisions are: Eight pages of "White Revised Pages" dated 12/06/01. Seven pages of "Pink4" revision pages dated 12/12/01. And two pages of "Goldenrod4" revision pages dated 01/16/02. Tommy Lee Jones stars as a former military instructor tasked with tracking down his former student Benicio del Toro who has "gone rogue" and has been tracking and viciously murder hunters in the wilderness of British Columbia. 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. Shot on location in Oregon and Washington. Front wrapper integral with title page with last revisions dated 06/06/01 with credits for screenwriter Art Monterastelli. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. The three gatherings of revision pages are each attached by one or two staples to the top left. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 171708N.p.: N.p. 1972. A small archive of production and personal documents from the 1972 film belonging to Executive Producer John H. Burrows. Burrows was a noted film and television producer who began his career as a film distributor in the 1950s after his father George Burrows then President of Allied Artists got him in to the industry. Beginning as an associate producer for the film "Torpedo Alley" 1952 Burrows has since garnered over 50 credits in over 50 years in film and television and is best known as a production manager and producer for "A Nightmare on Elm Street" 1984 "Pump Up the Volume" 1990 and "The Watcher" 2000 among many others. The archive includes: A handwritten four page opening credit list noting credit order and proportional text size dated "1/14/72." Five copies of press releases for the film from Crown International Pictures publicist Donald J. Haley announcing commencement of pre-production and shooting to begin on January 3 1971 two noting shooting on location in Florida and one noting Burrows as executive producer and his arrival in Miami. Four with manuscript marker annotations of press release dates two dated "11/12/71" one "11/26" and one "11/29." Three pages of crew members' skill set and credits on "Film Equipment Rentals Inc." of Miami Florida letterhead for: Jack Johnson "Props--Special Effects" credited in the film as "Property Master" Walter Morris Jr. "Lighting Director" credited in the film as "Gaffer" and Roberta Rose "Production Assistant--Auditor--Secretary uncredited. One autograph letter signed to Burrows from his wife "Nan" Naomi Burroughs one note signed from "Nan" and three pages of drawings from their young son noted in the letter housed in the original envelope post-marked "Dec 15 1971." And a small gathering of documents from Burrows' travel in Florida including: a Miami / Fort Lauderdale Area AAA map a National Airlines Quick Reference Schedule for Miami / Miami Beach dated October 31 1971 a Diners Club receipt for a meal at "Gallaghers" in Miami a hand-written note of various names numbers and addresses a business card for certified public account Nazar H. Ashjian Jr. and a printed listing of locations for the Miami adult bookseller "The Atheneum Inc." The archive also includes two later outliers: a "Zeus God of Gods Productions" envelope post-marked "8 Oct 1982" addressed to Burroughs at Pan Pacific Productions containing a typed memo signed from from a Judy Powell and a note on "Zeus God of Gods Productions" letterhead from film producer "D. Constantine Conte" and a circa early 1980s copy of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg's directorial credits on William Morris Agency letterhead. Shell-shocked Native American Tim Ochopee a Vietnam veteran discovers his father has been murdered and seeks retribution with the help of his best friend a snake named Stanley and Stanley's brood. Set in the Florida Everglades shot on location in Everglades National Park and Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park Florida. Credit List Press Releases and "Film Equipment Rentals Inc." crew list 8.5 x11 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall with the "Film Equipment Rentals Inc." list and the Opening Credit List saddle stapled with a single staple to the top left corner. Other ephemera Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. Thrower Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown
1938ref. 151432New York: Filmarte 1938. Vintage program for the US premiere of the 1937 French film which opened at the Filmarte Theatre in New York on September 12 1938. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. One leaf bi-fold. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown
1959ref. 150777N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica on the set of the 1959 film. Italian "Tele Foto" stamp on verso. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1950 Italian novel "Il generale Della Rovere" by Indro Montanelli. Petty con man Victorio Bardone De Sica is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a dead Resistance leader to extract information from his fellow inmates and identify another Resistance leader. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Set in Genoa Italy shot on location in Rome Italy. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very small crease in lower left corner else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 463. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 151411N.p.: N.p. 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series originally aired on February 5 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper and his manuscript ink annotations throughout noting deletions and substantive changes. A kinescope of the program survived and is available for viewing only at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles. Based on Michel del Castillo's autobiographical 1957 novel "Tanguy." A young Spanish-French refugee is captured by the Nazis and interned in a concentration camp but finds happiness in Spain after the war. An early effort from the great George Roy Hill who was best known in the ensuing years for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 1969 and "The Sting" 1973. Set in France and Germany. Housed in an untitled black spring binder. Title page present dated 1-19-59 with credits for director George Roy Hill novelist Michel del Castillo and screenwriter Irving Gaynor Neiman. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/23/59 and 2-3-59. Pages Near Fine binder Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 162913N.p.: Dell Publishing 1955. Vintage oversize satin finish borderless photograph of actor Marlon Brando on the set of the 1955 film. Stamp of Dell Publishing on the verso with annotations in manuscript pencil crediting photographer Peter Basch. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 11 x 14 inches with wide top and bottom margins archivally matted in a 16 x 20 inch 8-ply white mat. Very Good plus with a small splash on the bottom edge. Dell Publishing unknown
1962ref. 156287Tokyo: Shochiku 1962. Vintage program for the US release of the classic 1962 Japanese film. Text and titles in English. A down-on-his-luck veteran searching for a place to commit suicide wanders into the courtyard of a feudal lord where he is forced to reveal the story behind his current circumstances. Director Masaki Kobayashi's masterpiece considered one of the finest samurai films ever made skewering the hypocrisy of the feudal system and the empty glory of samurai culture. Shot on location in Kyoto. 8 x 11 inches. 8 pages folded. Very Good plus lightly creased. Criterion Collection 302. Ebert IV. Eureka Masters of Cinema 20. Shochiku unknown
1929ref. 151442Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 comedy short film. Stan and Ollie mistakenly think a reward for a stolen painting is for a horse with the same name leading to a series of slapstick misadventures when they return the horse instead of the painting. Shot as a silent but issued with synchronized music and sound effects to theatres equipped for sound. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light curling and the occasional light crease. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1957ref. 162245Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Eight vintage photographs from the 1957 film including one reference photograph and seven studio still photographs. One of the great antiwar films based on the 1935 novel by Humphrey Cobb about a group of French soldiers who are charged with cowardice after refusing to complete a suicidal attack during World War I. 8 x 10 inches. Good with moderate fading and cracking to the finish throughout and several with chips and bruises at the edges. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 538. United Artists unknown
1972ref. 70572Los Angeles: Betnic Productions Inc 1972. Wraps. Very good. Revised Draft of this unproduced screenplay. Veteran producer Frank P. Rosenberg hired Ernest Tidyman 1928-84 to adapt Jeanne Rejaunier's best-selling novel which deals with the glamourous sometimes sleazy life of topflight New York fashion models. Tidyman began work on the project in 1970 immediately prior to writing the screenplays for Shaft 1971 based on his 1970 novel and French Connection 1971 which established him as one of the top screenwriters in the business. The production was ultimately abandoned. However this draft includes casting notes with potential candidates for each role listed in order of preference - for instance the actresses targeted for the role of Charlene include Eleanor Parker Bette Davis Joan Crawford Susan Hayward Ava Gardner Rita Hayworth Anne Baxter and Angela Lansbury - as well as brief bios of the preferred producer Gordon Oliver director Gordon Douglas and production manager Nate Barrager. Green titled vinyl wrappers noted as "Revised Draft" on the title page which is dated November 8 1972 and includes credits for Tidyman Rejaunier and Betnic Productions. 169 mimeographed pages with the last page numbered 154. The contents are crisp and clean. Some very light edgewear to the wrappers which are bound with two brads with the remnants of a paper label to the spine; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates no copies. Betnic Productions Inc unknown
1970ref. 153963N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film both attributed to the film's photographer Chris Marker. One photograph shows director Costa-Gavras the other a crew member with a clapboard. Based on the 1968 memoirs of Czechoslovak communist Artur London a defendant in the violent antisemitic show trial against 14 members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1952. Reference photographs taken by Costa-Gavras' friend and colleague Chris Marker who would go on to become an important figure in the French New Wave in his own right directing "A Grin Without a Cat" 1977 and "Sans Soleil" 1983. Shot on location in Nord Alpes-Maritimes and Pas-de-Calais France. 9 x 6.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 759. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 152868N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film showing actress Jane Birkin nude on a bathroom floor. A tomboyish waitress at a truck stop develops a crush on a gay garbage truck driver and in spite of all odds they begin a relationship. Serge Gainsbourg's directorial debut. 9 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 146435Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film thus incomplete as issued dated April 9 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo's name in manuscript ink on two revision leaves and his character's name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with manuscript ink notations including the name of director Lou Foster actors Fess Parker and Jerome Courtland and characters White Bull and Captain Keogh. Parker was originally hired for the role of Keogh but refused second billing and was replaced by Philip Carey. Jerome Courtland played the role of Lieutenant Henry Nowlan in the film. Based on David Appel's 1951 novel "Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse" about the bond between a young Sioux boy and the titular horse who end up on opposite sides of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Set in Montana Territory and shot on location in Oregon. Tan titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 112 and production No. 5812 dated APRIL 9 1958 with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. Title page present dated April 9 1958 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/10/58 and 5/15/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1959ref. 158799N.p.: N.p. 1959. Five vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1959 film. Two photographs with the stamp of the Lérida Ministry of Information of Spain on the verso and all five with annotations in manuscript ink regarding cropping and identifying the film. Two photographs with titles tipped on the recto one crediting director Alain Resnais. Resnais' meditation on memory history and forgetfulness proved to be a major catalyst for the Rive Gauche movement earning Resnais a Palme d'Or nomination and screenwriter Marguerite Duras an Academy Award nomination. Set in Hiroshima shot on location in Hiroshima Japan and Nievre France. 12 x 9.5 inches. Poor with moderate wear and pinholes at the corners and light creasing overall. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 148730New York: Janus Films 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. Based on the 1948 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski. The last film in the "war" trilogy that began Polish director Wajda's career as a director preceded by "Pokolenie" 1955 and "Kanal" 1957. A strong anti-war statement framed in the personae of two men given orders - from the part of the resistance that opposes the new Communist regime and on the last day of World War II in Poland - to murder a leading communist. One of Wajda's favorite performers and a friend Zbigniew Cybulski plays the man who eventually pulls the trigger and kills the communist leader with unexpected results. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 282. Janus Films unknown
1964ref. 150332N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless black and white photograph of actor Omar Sharif playfully clicking his heels in the air between takes while filming on location in Austria for the 1964 film. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso along with a PIX Agency stamp crediting photographer Denis Cameron. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A romantic comedy anthology about the varied owners of an idiosyncratic yellow Rolls-Royce from its first owners a British aristocrat and his unfaithful wife to its last a socialite who accidentally becomes involved in the Nazi invasion of Ljubljana. Set and shot on location in London and Hertfordshire in England Naples Florence and Tuscany in Italy and Austria. 11.25 x 14 inches. Near Fine with brief wear to the corners. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 142572Beverly Hills CA: EK / United Artists 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser Grodin is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at 11 Harrowhouse. Set in London shot there on location and in Warwickshire England. Burnt orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Bloom. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lee The Heist Film. EK / United Artists unknown
1980ref. 138127New York: Filmways Pictures 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Included is a second script a revised draft in wrappers containing the latest revisions and two shooting schedules one detailing shooting dates beginning Week Three and one detailing dates beginning about Week Nine. Notations throughout both scripts in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on screenwriter Tesich's own coming-of-age in Indiana in the 1960s. Danilo Wason Georgia Thelen David Huddleston and Tom Metzler are four friends growing up in a 1960s industrial town. Told through a series of vignettes in the eyes of Danilo the film chronicles each friend as they come to accept that their lives may have become something they never thought possible. Shot on location in Indiana Illinois and Pennsylvania. One of director Penn's final and lesser known films after "The Missouri Breaks" 1976 and before "Target" 1985. First script without wrappers or title page a rainbow copy with several sets of revision pages pink yellow goldenrod blue gray green dated variously between 7/7/80 and 8/29/80. Second script in blue Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with no title page a revised draft dated 8/29/80 throughout. Shooting schedules corner-stapled. All items Very Good plus overall. Filmways Pictures unknown
1981ref. 152195Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name in manuscript pencil to the top right corner of the front wrapper. A coming-of-age tale set in 1959 following a group of four friends in their early twenties struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Baltimore. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 156 dated January 12 1981 with credits for director and screenwriter Barry Levinson. Title page present with credits for director and screenwriter Barry Levinson. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 2/23/81. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1957ref. 133039N.p.: N.p. 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms." Based on the 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones. The second time the novel was filmed following the 1932 version directed by Frank Borzage and preceding a three part British television miniseries in 1966. 11 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine with a small corner crease at the bottom right. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. N.p. unknown
