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1967ref. 150244N.p.: N.p. 1967. Five vintage borderless black and white photographs from the set of the 1967 film. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer James Johnson. 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. Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Truman Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Nominated for four Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches. Most Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear one Very Good with a tear to the top right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 163450Hollywood: Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures 1970. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the title page and three leaves of the script. While waiting for the results from a pregnancy test a precocious high school senior decides to leave her family older lover and boyfriend behind and hitchhike to Big Sur California with her best friend. Red titled wrappers noted as copy No. 23 in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as Revised Final Draft with credit for screenwriter David Allen Dixon. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures unknown
1960ref. 151136London: J. Arthur Rank 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 film. Laid in with the script is a 36-leaf gathering of revision pages on pink stock bound with a single staple on the top left corner dated 5.4.60. Based on the 1953 novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop. A Catholic priest is sent to establish a parish in a rural Mexican town under the control of a ruthless but educated bandit. Set in Mexico shot on location in Spain. Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 15-3-60. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated 18th March 1960 with credits for screenwriter Nigel Balchin. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown
2011ref. 160434N.p.: N.p. 2011. First Draft script for the 2014 film. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. A biopic about the final days in the life of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini then middle-aged and living in Rome as he finishes production of his notorious 1975 film "Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom." Housed in a blue card folder. Title page present dated February 28 2011 noted as First Draft with credits for director-screenwriter Abel Ferrara and screenwriter Nicola Tranquillino. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine partially bound with a binder clip on the top left corner. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 163783N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1963 film showing actors Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann. Stamp of photographer Agnès Varda film director and wife of Jacques Demy on the verso. Varda and director Jacques Demy were married from 1962 until Demy's death in 1990. While vacationing in Nice a quiet young bank employee begins an affair with a gambler whose addiction and despair mirrors his own. Set and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes Val-d'Oise and Paris France and in and Monte Carlo Monaco. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 715. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 159801Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures 1954. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film showing actor and choreographer Bob Fosse rehearsing dance steps with Janet Leigh and others on the set. Five with mimeo snipes on the versos and all six with stamp of Columbia Pictures. Based on the 1940 play by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov about two sisters who move from Ohio to New York City settling in a derelict basement apartment in Greenwich Village. Fosse's first film credit as choreographer. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine to Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 172851New York: CBS Television Network 1971. Original permanent set design drawing imagining a 1971 update for the Captain's quarters and bridge for "Captain Kangaroo" created by Emmy Award-winning artist Gary Smith. Smith began his career at CBS in 1956 and created this design at the peak of his career there in 1971 by which time he was doing work for specials devoted to Burt Bacharach Barbra Streisand and the Tony Awards. Set design noted as "Capt. Kangaroo Perm. Set" above Smith's autograph during the period when the show's original setting "The Treasure House" had been renovated and renamed "The Captain's Place" and the Captain's navy blue coat was replaced with a red one. From the estate of actor puppeteer and television host Chuck McCann who starred as the recurring character "Sailor Clyde" on the series during the 1960s. The groundbreaking children's television series aired on CBS on weekday mornings from 1955 to 1985 for over 6000 episodes the longest running nationally broadcast children's program of its time later surpassed by "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and was the winner of three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Entertainment. Created by and starring Bob Keeshan as the Captain who previously played Clarabell the Clown on "The Howdy Doody Show" from 1947 to 1952. The show's loose structure was built around life in the "Treasure House" later "The Captain's Place" where the Captain would tell stories meet guests present cartoons and engage in conversation silly stuntsm and skits with regular characters both human and puppet such as Mr. Green Jeans and the psychedelic Dancing Bear. 24 x 20 inches Ozalid duplication folded as issued. Near Fine overall with starting at the center fold and a small chip at the right fold. A well-preserved lovely example almost certainly unique. CBS Television Network unknown
1928ref. 170410N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph from the 1928 French film showing director Carl Dreyer cinematographer Rudolph Maté and cameraman Louis Née with other crew members on the set. A rare photograph of the director at work on his magnum opus. The film was shot on a large concrete set modeled on medieval architecture in order to realistically portray the Rouen prison where Joan was known to have been held. 10.25 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1948ref. 158992Buckinghamshire: London Film 1948. Two vintage reference photographs of director Carol Reed on the set of the 1948 British film one showing Reed with a camera crew on location and the other showing Reed between takes with actors Ralph Richardson and Bobby Henrey. Both photographs with printed mimeo snipes affixed the versos one with the stamp of photographer Leslie Baker on the verso and one with a studio stamp incorrectly crediting Anthony Asquith's 1948 film "The Winslow Boy." Based on Graham Greene's 1936 short story "The Basement Room" about a diplomat's son who comes to suspect that his family's beloved butler has committed a murder. Shot on location in London. One photograph 9.75 x 8 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 357. Grant UK. Penzler 101. Selby UK Masterwork. Spicer UK. London Film unknown
1959ref. 159902Los Altos CA: Carlyle Productions / Columbia Pictures 1959. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film one showing Duke Ellington working on the film score and the other showing Ellington laughing with Billy Strayhorn. Carlyle Productions stamps on the versos. The first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African American composer. Composed by Ellington and Strayhorn and performed by Ellington's Orchestra the score won three Grammy Awards in 1959. Based on the 1958 novel by judge John D. Voelker writing under the pseudonym Robert Traver based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man whom he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Michigan. One 8 x 10 inches the other 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Carlyle Productions / Columbia Pictures unknown
1939ref. 152229N.p.: N.p. 1939. Treatment script for the 1939 film here under the working title "The Investors." With manuscript ink annotations on the title page and throughout noting substantive and editorial revisions. Based on the 1925 short story "The Investors" by Edgar Wallace. Elderly Mr. Reeder Will Fyffe investigates the mysterious disappearances of 27 people involved in shady financial dealings. The second Wallace adaptation directed by Jack Raymond and featuring Will Fyffe and Kay Walsh preceded by "The Mind of Mr. Reeder" in 1939. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Richard Starr and story credits to Edgar Wallace. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good lightly edgeworn with soil to the first ten leaves bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 151571N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight matte-finish reference photograph from the set of the 1969 film showing director Federico Fellini directing actor Hiram Keller during the death scene with the boatman. Loosely based on the late first-century satire by Gaius Petronius. Fellini's decadent depiction of imperial Rome a series of extravagant and grotesque episodes populated by archetypal dreamlike figures. Shot on location in Rome Italy. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 747. Eureka! Masters of Cinema 112. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 148842N.p.: N.p. 1962. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Rare. "Love at Twenty" is anthology film on the titular theme by five filmmakers Shintaro Ishihara Marcel Ophuls Renzo Rossellini François Truffault and Andrzej Wajda united with a score by Georges Delerue and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Truffaut's short is the second of five films which follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel Jean-Pierre Léaud. The films in the Antoine Doinel series are "The 400 Blows" 1959 "Antoine and Colette" 1962 "Stolen Kisses" 1968 "Bed and Board" 1970 and "Love on the Run" 1979. Antoine now aged 17 falls in love for the first time to the lovely Colette Marie-France Pisier whose feelings though tender are not reciprocated. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 185. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 156276Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1964. Collection of eleven vintage reference photographs from the 1964 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A pretentious music critic tries to use salacious information about a famed cellist's sex life in order to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition the critic has written. One of Ingmar Bergman's only comedy films and his first film to be shot in color a parody of Federico Fellini's "8 1/2" 1963. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1972ref. 152995Hollywood: Marimark 1972. Revised Final Shooting Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "Supergirl." Copy belonging to story writer John Burrows with his name in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. An attractive free-spirited flight attendant with boyfriends in New York Miami and Los Angeles unwittingly becomes involved in an in-flight robbery. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/5/72 noted as Revised Final Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Gary Crutcher. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 10/20/72. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Marimark unknown
1945ref. 156305Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Four vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1945 film. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. A soldier on 48-hour leave spends the day with a woman he meets in Pennsylvania Station gradually falling in love with her. Judy Garland's first dramatic role and her first starring film performance in which she did not sing. 13 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1959ref. 148400Los Angeles: Melville Productions 1959. Revised Shooting Final Draft script for the 1959 film belonging to actor Martin Landau his screen debut housed in paper envelope bearing Landau's name film title script and "Will pick up at the gate" on label. Annotations of Landau's name and character's name written on the top of page 36 of script and Landau's name again written at the top of page "66-67" of script in manuscript ink. Laid in is a nine page production announcement from United Artists which includes cast credits synopsis and production notes. Based on the 1956 historical novel Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action by S.L.A. Marshall. The first bloody Battle of Pork Chop Hill which took place in April of 1953 between the US Army's 7th Infantry Division and Chinese and North Korean forces. Gregory Peck portrays Lieutenant Joe Clemons who along with South Korean Lieutenant Suki Ohashi played by George Shibata lead the Division to recapture the hill. All while American and Communist North Korean and Chinese forces convene to discuss a cease fire 70 miles away at Panmunjon. Martin Landau's feature film debut and featuring break out performances from numerous actors who become major film and television stars in the 1960s and 1970s including Woody Strode Harry Guardino Robert Blake George Peppard Norman Fell Abel Fernandez Gavin MacLeod Harry Dean Stanton and others. Set in Cheorwon-gun South Korea shot on location in California and Arizona. Title page integral with front wrapper dated APRIL 22 1958 noted as REVISED SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter James R. Webb and author S. L. A. Marshall. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/20/58 and 6/20/58. Pages Very Good plus with occasional light soil and dampstain on very bottom edge of leaf following title page title page Very Good with large dampstain along two to three inches of bottom and lightly along outer edge bound with three gold brads. Melville Productions unknown
1978ref. 169977N.p.: N.p. 1978. Archive of 180 pages of post-production documents including Italian and English dialogue-only scripts regarding English translations and subtitles for the 1975 Italian film here under the working English title "Young Dracula." Included in the archive are: 68-page dialogue-only script in Italian with manuscript ink annotations on 28 pages checking dialog and occasionally noting timing. Attached is a carbon typescript letter signed from distributor Robert M. Phillips to a "Mr. Finder" at Titra Film Laboratories in New York regarding the English subtitling for the film dated December 18 1978. Xerographic duplication. 46-page dialogue-only script in English with manuscript ink annotations on every page noting timing and checking dialogue. 40-page carbon typescript "English Copy Superimposed Spotted List" on "Spottted and Edited by Nat and Robert Hoffberg" onionskin forms with manuscript ink annotations on nine pages regarding dialogue and timing. 15-page carbon typescript of "Revised text" on onionskin stock with ink annotations on every page checking and noting dialogue. Four ribbon copy typescript pages on onionskin stock of "Changes For Spotting List" and "Additional Changes for Young Dracula." Three ribbon copy typescript pages on onionskin stock comprised of two trailer spotting list pages and a one page "Changes for Trailer Spotting List." Three-page Xerographic copy of "Trailer Dialogue" with manuscript ink annotations throughout noting timing and checking dialogue. Typed letter signed on onionskin stock from Phillips to Robert Hoffberg dated January 19 1979 regarding discrepancies in dialogue translations. Giallo director Lucio Fulco's vampire comedy wherein a boorish quick-tempered toothpaste factor owner finds himself thirsty for blood and re-examining his life after a curse from a gypsy aunt and a business trip to Romania where he shared a bed with a suave vampire. Shot on location in Rome Italy. Italian dialogue-only script: Front wrapper integral with cover letter. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 68. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine letter Very Good plus unbound with a large paper clip to the top left corner. English dialogue-only script: Front wrapper integral with first leaf. 46 leaves with the last page of text numbered 46. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound with a binder clip to the top left corner. Letter dated January 19 1979 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good with a small closed tear to the right side and a large closed tear to the top left and light edgewear and creasing. All other documents 8.5 x 11 inches to 8.5 x 14 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With manuscript annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. 13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown
1969ref. 160565New York: Contemporary Films 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Allen Ginsberg with Peter and Julius Orlovsky. Director Robert Frank's first feature film and Sam Shepard's screenwriting debut following Frank as he accompanies poet Peter Orlovsky and Orlovsky's catatonic mentally ill brother Julius through the late 1960s Beat scene. When Julius wanders off he is replaced in the film by actor Joseph Chaikin pushing the boundaries of cinematic reality. The film was released in a new restoration by Steidl in 2007 alongside a book publication outlining the film which notes: "Frank's feature debut was first screened in 1968 at the Venice Film Festival. Everything which had defined Frank's art up to that point turns up in this film - the look at America 'from the outside' the poetic libertinage of the Beats the marginal in a central role. It celebrates the return of the poetic essay as assemblage the affirmation of the underground as a wild cinematic analysis in the form of a collage and skillfully weaves together opposites plays counterfeits against the authentic pornography against poetry acting against being Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism monochrome against colored. The story contains bizarre twists and turns and appears to be a rather artless-film-within-a-film being shown at a rundown movie theater." 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Contemporary Films unknown
1968ref. 161021Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1968. Collection of 18 vintage photographs from the 1968 film including 17 studio stills and one reference photograph. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film one of the best genre pictures ever made from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema bringing together newcomer Roman Polanski as director established producer William Castle young star Mia Farrow and Hollywood veteran John Cassavetes. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ruth Gordon and nominated for Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 630. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Rosenbaum 1000. Paramount Pictures unknown
1971ref. 148995Paris: Lira Films 1971. Draft script for the 1972 French film text in French belonging to uncredited sound engineer Gerard Dacquay with name in manuscript marker on bottom right margin of front wrapper and name and address stamped on top right of title page. Copy number "17" in manuscript ink on front wrapper. A few minor manuscript annotations in manuscript ink in script text correction and a single horizontal line. Missing two pages likely as used or issued. Middle-aged forlorn Muriel Annie Girardot is vacationing at a seaside motel when Gabriel Philippe Noiret walks in a bit of a rake who has to stay a few days while his car is repaired and Muriel's table has the only vacant seat. Shot on location in Bouches-du Rhone France. Gray titled wrappers with cloth tape binding. Title page presentwith credits for director and screenwriter Jean-Pierre Blanc. 193 leaves with last page of text numbered 198. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus front wrapper separated and lightly soiled. Lira Films unknown
1971ref. 154802Santa Monica: Barry Oringer Productions 1971. Archive of material from the 1972 British television movie including two First Draft scripts and a Revised Draft script dated variously between April 12 and May 28 1971. Screenplays belonging to screenwriter Barry Oringer with his annotations throughout. A campy and humorous espionage film about the titular Madame Sin a sinister woman who kidnaps a former CIA agent and forces him to hijack a submarine in order to attain a secret nuclear weapon. One of many films cashing in on the popularity of the James Bond films originally intended as a television pilot but aired instead as a feature film on ABC on January 15 1972 followed by the UK in April of the same year. Shot on location in London and in Argyll and Bute in Scotland. First Draft script April 12 1971: Blue untitled Barry Oringer Productions wrappers with a die-cut window. Title page present dated April 12 1971 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. First Draft script April 25 1971: Blue untitled Barry Oringer Productions wrappers with a die-cut window. Title page present dated April 25 1971 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication with three pages ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Revised Draft Script May 28 1971: Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 28 1971 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication with two pages ribbon copy typescript on green paper rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver screw brads. Barry Oringer Productions unknown
1959ref. 148398N.p.: United States Productions Inc 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in manuscript ink to upper right and annotations to dialogue of lead character Legs in manuscript pencil. Landau was considered for the lead role of Jack "Legs" Diamond which from the laid in pages we can reasonably assume were for an audition for the part. Ray Danton was ultimately cast as Legs and Landau does not appear in the film. From the estate of Martin Landau. Jack "Legs" Diamond Ray Danton and his sickly brother Eddie Warren Oates move to New York City and after a brief incarceration sets their eyes on taking over kingpin mobster Arnold Rothstein's Robert Lowery criminal businesses. The film debut of Dyan Cannon. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in New York City. Beige titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 96 dated August 21 1959. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral with the first page of text dated 8/21/59. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Laid in pages 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine with light edgewear and creasing at corners. United States Productions, Inc unknown
1959ref. 159829N.p.: N.p. 1959. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1959 French film both showing director François Truffaut on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil relating to cropping on the versos and one with a provenance stamp. Truffaut's auspicious debut a semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy's estrangement from his family and school leading him into a life of petty crime and culminating in trouble with the law. Winner of Best Director at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in Paris France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 5. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
