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1948ref. 133983London: Carol Reed Productions 1948. Vintage candid black-and-white still photograph from the UK release of the 1949 film. Shown are Carol Reed and his crew setting up a shot while Graham Greene looks on a rare shot of the two collaborators at work together. Stamped on the verso is "A CAROL REED PRODUCTION / "THE THIRD MAN" / PRODUCED AT / THE LONDON FILM STUDIOS / SHEPPERTON-ENGLAND." Carol Reed's classic 1949 British film noir starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles at the peak of their respective powers was the second of three films in which Graham Green collaborated directly with Reed and remains Greene's only original screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Carol Reed Productions unknown
1947ref. 145972Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1947. Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint manuscript pencil annotations and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout. Based on the 1946 Broadway play and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden Alabama the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation and cruelty. A searing portrayal of racism and class privilege in the post-Civil War American South. Set in Alabama. Green titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7494 dated June 9 1947 with credits for screenwriter Vladimir Pozner. Title page integral on the front wrapper. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the left edge bound with three gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown
1947ref. 140099Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Final script for the 1948 film. With a single note on the verso of the last page in manuscript blue ink. Shot under the name "Off to Buffalo" as is presented here. Vaudeville is a fading form of entertainment and prospects are grim for the Norwick family a juggling act struggling to find work. They are forced to find normal jobs and one daughter elopes with her boyfriend leaving Albert's son forced to make a decision as to whether play professional baseball or join his father on a 16 week tour out west. Set in New York City. Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 152 and production No. 154 dated March 21 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated March 21 1947 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining wrapper Very Good with dampstaining bound internally with two gold brads. Hirschhorn p. 293. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1971ref. 154479N.p.: N.p. 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. Text and titles in French. A coming of age story following an intelligent jazz loving teenage boy growing up in a complicated bourgeois family in 1950s Dijon. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Dijon Yvelines and Nievre France. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 70. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding. Criterion Collection 328. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 170776N.p.: N.p. 1972. Eight vintage borderless reference photographs from the seminal 1972 hardcore film. Based on the anonymous short story of the same title circulated throughout the US in the 1950s and 1960s by means of carbon copy. One of of the first American hardcore pictures to receive widespread distribution in the US and one of the first heterosexual pornographic films to feature an interracial sex scene. A breakthrough role for actress Marilyn Chambers who would go on to become one of the first icons in the adult film industry and even worked briefly in mainstream cinema. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 126547Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. First Draft script for the 1963 film. A nuanced "invasion from Mars" film that borrows cleverly from both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" aliens use human beings as physical hosts and Val Lewton threat of a creature but creature is only implied not shown. An unusually heavy emphasis on dread atmosphere and characterization makes this one of the most overlooked "adult" science fiction films of the 1960s. Black three-ring binder noted as "DAY MARS INVADED EARTH" on the front wrapper with a credit for screenwriter Spalding as "Spaulding". Title page present with the title "SPACERAID 63" with a credit for screenwriter Spalding production No. 6277 dated June 22 1962. 96 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 6/28/62. Pages Near Fine with a few small creases binder wrapper Near Fine with a bit of wrinkling on the front title label. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1927ref. 141367Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film in Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy" followed by "The End of St. Petersburg" 1927 and "Storm Over Asia" 1928 and a key film in the development of montage techniques in film although in contrast to his colleague Eisenstein Pudovkin tended to use montage to capture individual character rather than mass movements. Six pages in self wrappers. Manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Presenting as Very Good with light chipping and a few short closed tears. Disbound binding repaired with cello tape. Mezhrabpom-Rus unknown
1941ref. 147912Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1941. Collection of 28 vintage double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. With mimeo snipes to the verso identifying actors in each photograph. Likely unique. Based on Jack London's 1904 novel following three fugitives who are rescued from the ocean and subsequently imprisoned by a cruel mariner who refuses to let them off the ship. 11 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and fading overall some with faint foxing to the verso and light edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown
1964ref. 148821N.p.: Cinema V. 1964. Four vintage borderless double weight reference photographs two vintage reference photographs and one vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film. Several with manuscript annotations regarding layout and provenance stamps to the verso and two with stamped snipes. An African American railroad worker attempts to maintain his dignity and self-respect in the face of small-town racism and a troubled familial past. While initially the film faced a limited release due to its complex portrayal of southern prejudice and class divides it has since become regarded as an important example of neorealistic American cinema and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1993. Set outside Birmingham Alabama and shot on location in Atlantic City and Cape May New Jersey. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus some with light edgewear and very faint soil. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection. Cinema V. unknown
2023ref. 170403N.p.: N.p. 2023. Draft script for the 2023 film. Inspired by the 1968 photo book by Danny Lyon about the members of the Vandals Motorcycle Club a lightly fictionalized version of the real-life Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Housed in a black three-ring binder as issued and used. Title page present dated 4/15/23 with credits for Lyon and director-screenwriter Jeff Nichols. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 144275Paris: France Cinema 1962. 75 original black-and-white film still photographs for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title. Starring actress Saval is prominently featured as is costar Poiret with metal crutches in tow and actress Maillan. Several images show members of the crew during filming rainy scenes cars and large cameras. All with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Housed in an original French Gevaert photo paper box. Based on Annette Wademant's screenplay one of twelve written by Wademant for director Boisrond. Bernard Poiret is a new publisher who falls in love with Sophie Saval but their foolish love nearly destroys them and his job. 5 x 7 inches borderless. Very Good plus overall with slight curling and foxing to photos box lightly rubbed. France Cinema unknown
1962ref. 142876Paris: France Cinema 1962. Archive of 224 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets and film stills amounting to nearly 2000 numbered images for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title. The entire film is represented in minute detail along with test shots set design shots and many candid off-camera shots from the set. Brief cropping and numerical annotations in pencil throughout. Housed in original mailing envelope noting on the front in manuscript red ink "Cinedis" and "C.Hesse" the film distributor and still photographer and "A refreuda" in manuscript red pencil. 153 photographs are keybook contact sheets nearly all with 12 images per photograph several with 36 each image with a series number and photos crediting at the top the photo laboratory Tele-Photo production studio France Cinema film title and photographer Hesse Beauvarlet. Remaining photographs are borderless film stills. Both photographers are credited on the keybook photos but went uncredited at the film's release. The archive also extensively features actress Dany Saval in film scenes answering the phone in heated moments with male cast members including some stunningly low-lit images that echo film noir themes showcasing the variety of hair and clothing styles seen on Saval throughout the film. Based on Annette Wademant's screenplay one of twelve written by Wademant for director Boisrond. Bernard Poiret is a new publisher who falls in love with Sophie Saval but their foolish love nearly destroys them and his job. Keybook photos range from 8.25 x 10.75 to 9.25 x 11.75 inches three slightly smaller all but ten are 2-hole punched; film stills 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good overall with moderate curling light edgewear a handful with slight discoloration. France Cinema unknown
1973ref. 163968N.p.: N.p. 1973. Collection of 20 vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the Canadian release of the 1972 French film including eleven in color and nine black-and-white. Canadian censorship label affixed to the rectos and a Québec censorship stamp dated 1973 on the versos. A woman begins her own affair in response to her adulterous husband but falls in love with her new partner and is ultimately forced to decide between the two men. Approximately 12 x 9.5 inches. Pinholes at the corners else Near Fine to Very Good plus. Not in Pitts. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 152012Rome: Film Duemila 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Monica Vitti and Richard Harris from the 1964 film. "Deserto Ross" stamp on verso. Antonioni's first color film and the last in a quartet of films made between 1959 and 1964 about women in modern culture preceded by "L'avventura" "La Notte" and L'Eclisse" and the lie of happiness and better living. This entry very much an antecedent to Todd Haynes' "Safe" 1995 focuses on Vitti a woman trying to survive in the modern world of cultural neurosis and existential doubt. Carlo Di Palma's cinematography remains legendary today for its stunningly colored industrial landscapes beautifully and yet indirectly evoking Vitti's unease alienation and vivid perceptions. Shot on location in Ravenna Sardinia and Rome Italy. 9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1134. Criterion Collection 522. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Film Duemila unknown
1976ref. 144976Spain: Profilmes 1976. Collection of 25 vintage borderless photographs for the international release of the 1976 Spanish exploitation film. Also included in the original plain brown paper envelope and a glossy full-color two sided flyer for the film featuring a synopsis in English French and Spanish. Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of a friend only to uncover a possible supernatural explanation in a young woman the villagers claim is a witch. Photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Flyer 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Profilmes unknown
1976ref. 146019N.p.: Filmes Cinematografica 1976. Collection of 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1976 film. Grazia Neri stamps on the verso. Jancso's "Private Vices Public Pleasures" is loosely based on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria believed having killed himself after shooting his lover in a suicide pact in 1882. Jancso's film presents Rudolf Lajos Balazsovits as a pan-sexual bored by his wife cavorting with beautiful aristocratic lovers of both sexes on his sprawling rural estate. Ordered by his father Emperor Franz Josef to leave the estate Rudolf refuses and organizes a celebration which becomes a tragic orgy. Nominated for the 1976 Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Croatia. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine some light creasing. Filmes Cinematografica unknown
1971ref. 148498Universal City: Universal Pictures 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of James Taylor and director Monte Hellman on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. After cutting his teeth under the tutelage of guerilla filmmaker Roger Corman Monte Hellman made two landmark and still rarely screened existential Westerns with Jack Nicholson as producer and star. But it was with "Two-Lane Blacktop" the first screenplay by noted novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer that maverick director Monte Hellman helmed his first masterpiece and a cornerstone of the New Hollywood movement. Shot on location in Arizona Tennessee Oklahoma California Arkansas and New Mexico. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 414. Eureka MOC 26. Universal Pictures unknown
1956ref. 166264London: London Independent Producers 1956. Third Draft script for the 1957 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the titled label on the front wrapper with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout including rough pencil prop and set sketches on the versos of eight pages. Here under the working title "A Novel Affair" which was used as the title for the US release of the film. Laid in are over 30 production documents including: 17 pages of handwritten Prop Lists eleven dated from May to July 1956. Two pages of rough pencil sketches including several story boards with two film clippings attached by paperclip each containing 3 full frames. Three letters to Provis two autograph letters signed dating from May and June 1956 and one typed letter signed from February 1956. As well as Shooting Schedules Set Lists Locations lists and additional Prop Lists. 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. Novelist Judith Wynter Margaret Leighton gets inspiration for her new novel when her wheelchair-bound husband Ralph Richardson hires a new Italian chauffeur CarloCarlo Giustini. When Carlo reads her lurid tale of adultery and murder the husband mistakenly concludes that she is actually madly in love with Carlo. Green generic file wrappers with a title label noted as 3rd Draft Screenplay on the title label dated 23-4-1956. Title page present noted as Third Draft of Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Muriel and Sydney Box. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. London Independent Producers unknown
1983ref. 160523New York: Horizon Films 1983. Vintage studio still photograph of Sandy McLeod shot by and credited at the right margin to Nan Goldin from the 1983 film. Shown is actress Sandy McLeod in seeming triplicate. Goldin also has a brief role in the film. A striking image. An aspiring writer takes a job as a ticket-taker at an adult film theatre in Times Square soon finding herself drawn into the seedy world of the theatre's customers. The film drew together a veritable who's who of New York underground regulars with a screenplay by Kathy Acker music by John Lurie cinematography by frequent Jarmusch collaborator Tom de Cillo and still photography by Nan Goldin. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Horizon Films unknown
1998ref. 167720Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1998. Revised Draft script for the 1999 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member presumably a makeup artist based on the annotations in pink highlighter on several pages. A neo-noir thriller about a private eye who falls into the seedy world of snuff films and hardcore fetish pornography. Shot on location in New York and Miami. Self wrappers. Title page present dated January 5 1998 with credit for screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between January 6 and 29 1998. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1969ref. 136136Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 Disney film. Based on a story by Marty Roth executive story editor for the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard" 1979-1985. Coast Guard Ensign Garland Morse falls in love with sailing instructor Kate Powers but his bumbling leaves her disenchanted until they team up to recover stolen jewels before a team of thieves led by Simmons Silvers can find them. Set in California shot there on location. Gray titled wrappers noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper production No. 0107 dated July 23 1969 with credits for story writer Roth and screenwriter Julian. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 166. Mechanical duplication with green blue white and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/18/69 and 9/28/69. Near Fine overall bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1941ref. 134898Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills with annotations on the verso one with an RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp. The first still shows a young Kane Orson Welles at a celebration for the inauguration of his newspaper "The Inquirer." The second still shows Kane as an older man reviewing finances with his advisors. Stills are 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Spicer US. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 6. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1947ref. 135591Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage press photograph of Rita Hayworth Orson Welles and the film's still photographer Robert Coburn on the set of 1947 film noir. Mimeograph snipe on the verso notes that here Welles and Coburn are discussing the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film with Ms. Hayworth. Shot by Van Pelt with his stamp on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. In an archival mat. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1968ref. 145862Hollywood: M.J. Frankovich Productions 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Single manuscript notation on the title page. The story of two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Nevada and California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 5 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 9 1968 and October 17 1968. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. M.J. Frankovich Productions unknown
1961ref. 140972London: Romulus 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. Based on the novel of the same name also by James Barlow Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher who can not advance in his career due to his refusal to fight in the Second World War. He is working at a school where the teens do not like to be there and he is having a fallout with his wife all while a young student begins to have a crush on him leading to him catching a false sexual molestation charge. Set in London shot on location in Ireland. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 17 1961. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 171. Mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Romulus unknown
