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1961ref. 160054New South Wales: Cine-Alliance / Embassy Pictures 1961. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1893 play by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau. A laundry woman in France follows her husband to the battlefield inadvertently helping Napoleon win a battle. They are both given the title of Duke and Duchess though she does not understand and/or comply with the social manners of courtly life. Set in France shot on location in Tuscany Italy and Madrid Spain. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with some wear to the finish and light offsetting adhesive residue on the verso. Cine-Alliance / Embassy Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 166115London: Gibraltar Productions 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil sketch of settings and a set. 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. Based on the BBC-TV play "The Obi" by Jon Manchip White. At an interracial college in a small British town small glass bottles filled with graveyard dirt and feathers obis sent as Obeah voodoo curses to students and faculty precede a series of voodoo killings on campus. Re-released in 1973 as the television movie "Exorcism at Midnight" following the success of "The Exorcist" with new color sequences with an American cast which re-framed the original black and white film as a flashback. Tall tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 28.5.1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Stanley Goulder and playwright Jon Manchip White. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated goldenrod revision clippings and pages pasted in throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a black plastic comb-binding. Gibraltar Productions unknown
1965ref. 166115London: Gibraltar Productions 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil sketch of settings and a set. 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. Based on the BBC-TV play "The Obi" by Jon Manchip White. At an interracial college in a small British town small glass bottles filled with graveyard dirt and feathers obis sent as Obeah voodoo curses to students and faculty precede a series of voodoo killings on campus. Re-released in 1973 as the television movie "Exorcism at Midnight" following the success of "The Exorcist" with new color sequences with an American cast which re-framed the original black and white film as a flashback. Tall tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 28.5.1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Stanley Goulder and playwright Jon Manchip White. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated goldenrod revision clippings and pages pasted in throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a black plastic comb-binding. Gibraltar Productions unknown books
1970ref. 168062N.p.: Cannon Releasing Corporation 1970. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. A wealthy businessman kills his daughter's drug dealer boyfriend and disguises the crime as a break-in later befriending a coworker obsessed with violence and vigilantism. A Z-budget pitch-black comedy that became a sleeper hit featuring Susan Sarandon in her film debut. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films. Cannon Releasing Corporation unknown
1970ref. 168062N.p.: Cannon Releasing Corporation 1970. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. A wealthy businessman kills his daughter's drug dealer boyfriend and disguises the crime as a break-in later befriending a coworker obsessed with violence and vigilantism. A Z-budget pitch-black comedy that became a sleeper hit featuring Susan Sarandon in her film debut. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films. Cannon Releasing Corporation unknown books
1975ref. 170771France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film including a program ten lobby cards and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards 10: 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs 2: 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued. Arcadie Productions unknown
1975ref. 170771France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film including a program ten lobby cards and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards 10: 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs 2: 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued. Arcadie Productions unknown books
1978ref. 161434N.p.: N.p. 1978. Second Draft script for the 1979 film. Based on Sylvia Plath's influential semi-autobiographical 1963 novel about a young woman who suffers a series of mental breakdowns at her family's home in New England in the 1950s. Set in New York and New England shot on location in New Jersey and New York. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated April 17 1978 noted as 4th polish/2nd draft with credits for Sylvia Plath and screenwriter Marjorie Kellogg. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 5/30/78. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with adhesive residue on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 161434N.p.: N.p. 1978. Second Draft script for the 1979 film. Based on Sylvia Plath's influential semi-autobiographical 1963 novel about a young woman who suffers a series of mental breakdowns at her family's home in New England in the 1950s. Set in New York and New England shot on location in New Jersey and New York. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated April 17 1978 noted as 4th polish/2nd draft with credits for Sylvia Plath and screenwriter Marjorie Kellogg. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 5/30/78. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with adhesive residue on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 152380N.p.: N.p. 1962. Five vintage press photographs of actress Jane Fonda from the 1962 film. Based on the 1960 play by Tennessee Williams. On their ill-fated honeymoon George and Isabel visit George's war buddy whose wife has just walked out on him. Director George Roy Hill's directorial debut and a breakthrough role for Fonda. Set in Tennessee. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 155779N.p.: N.p. 1985. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1985 Italian film. Loosely based on the 1753 comedy play "La locandiera" by Carlo Goldoni. An innkeeper whose husband is lost in World War II enjoys a series of affairs with men in the small town where she lives. Director Tinto Brass is best known for his work in the adult and erotic film genre including "Salon Kitty" 1976 "Caligula" 1979 and "Così fan tutte" 1992. Set and shot on location in the Po Valley. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 160492N.p.: N.p. 1983. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1983 film. All six with photographer labels on the versos. Based on Jun'ichirô Tanizaki's 1956 novel about a married middle-aged woman who undergoes a sexual awakening through a relationship with her daughter's fiancé. Tanizaki's novel was previously adapted by Kon Ichikawa for his film "Odd Obsession" 1959. Set and shot on location in Venice. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 155779N.p.: N.p. 1985. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1985 Italian film. Loosely based on the 1753 comedy play "La locandiera" by Carlo Goldoni. An innkeeper whose husband is lost in World War II enjoys a series of affairs with men in the small town where she lives. Director Tinto Brass is best known for his work in the adult and erotic film genre including "Salon Kitty" 1976 "Caligula" 1979 and "Così fan tutte" 1992. Set and shot on location in the Po Valley. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 153882N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage oversize borderless satin-finish reference photograph of Jim Brown and Raquel Welch between takes on the set of the 1969 film. A Native American man robs a bank in the US in order to buy guns for his people who are being repressed by the government. A lawman quickly sets out into Mexico to capture him but the two eventually create an alliance. Set in Mexico shot on location in Spain. 11.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 2903. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 161331Burbank CA: NBC 1975. Final Draft script for the twelfth episode of the thirteen episode 1975 comedy and variety show television series SIGNED on the front wrapper "Tom & Dick" by Tom and Dick Smothers with an inscription on the top left partially lost due to dampstaining "illegible Wishes from the Smothers Brothers." Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member David Carroll with manuscript marker and pencil annotations of his name or partial name "David C." on the top of the title page and two other pages with manuscript ink and marker annotations on 32 pages marking music cues. NBC's tamer and largely unsuccessful revival of CBS's 1967-1969 variety series "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" which aired for thirteen episodes January 13 through May 19 1975. The episode on offer here was the penultimate episode which was taped on March 28 1975 and aired on May 12 1975 featuring guests Florence Henderson and David Gates. Of note the script is labeled as "Production #011 / Air Sequence #11" with a manuscript marker annotation of "12" over the air date of "May 5 1975." The May 5 episode of the series featured guests Kris Kristofferson Rita Coolidge and Arlo Guthrie and the episode found here featuring Henderson and Gates was aired as the twelfth episode on May 12 1975. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 26 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout undated. Pages Very Good with dampstaining throughout and silverfish damage to the extremities of the first three leaves. NBC unknown
1975ref. 161331Burbank CA: NBC 1975. Final Draft script for the twelfth episode of the thirteen episode 1975 comedy and variety show television series SIGNED on the front wrapper "Tom & Dick" by Tom and Dick Smothers with an inscription on the top left partially lost due to dampstaining "illegible Wishes from the Smothers Brothers." Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member David Carroll with manuscript marker and pencil annotations of his name or partial name "David C." on the top of the title page and two other pages with manuscript ink and marker annotations on 32 pages marking music cues. NBC's tamer and largely unsuccessful revival of CBS's 1967-1969 variety series "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" which aired for thirteen episodes January 13 through May 19 1975. The episode on offer here was the penultimate episode which was taped on March 28 1975 and aired on May 12 1975 featuring guests Florence Henderson and David Gates. Of note the script is labeled as "Production #011 / Air Sequence #11" with a manuscript marker annotation of "12" over the air date of "May 5 1975." The May 5 episode of the series featured guests Kris Kristofferson Rita Coolidge and Arlo Guthrie and the episode found here featuring Henderson and Gates was aired as the twelfth episode on May 12 1975. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 26 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout undated. Pages Very Good with dampstaining throughout and silverfish damage to the extremities of the first three leaves. NBC unknown books
1975ref. 152715London: English Film Company Limited 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film here under the working title "The Will" with single annotation in manuscript ink of copy number "24" on first page. One of the better known British sexploitation films of the 1970s having been the subject of a 1975 episode of BBC program "Man Alive" season 9 episode 24 "Xploitation" as well as having been one of three British sex films viewed by moral reformer Lord Longford. A pair of greedy brothers are summoned to their father's estate after his death but are instructed not to enter the house until the reading of the will and are forced to stay instead with servants Adam and Nicole in a cottage on the grounds. Green titled wrappers dated January 1975. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. English Film Company Limited unknown books
1934ref. 162225Paris: Pathe-Natan Pathe Consortium Cinema 1934. Four vintage reference Pathé-Natan photographs of Charles Vanel Oranes Demazis and others from the 1934 French film. Three photos with Pathé-Natan stamps on the verso and all four with annotations in manuscript pencil to same. Based on the classic 1862 novel by Victor Hugo. Considered by many to be the greatest adaptation of the novel. Shot in Biot Alpes-Maritimes and in Nice and Paris. One photograph 9.25 x 7 inches two photographs 6.5 x 9.25 inches one photograph 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus one with two pinholes and faint discoloration on the center top edge and one with pinholes at the corners. Criterion Eclipse Series 4. Eureka Masters of Cinema 106. Pathe-Natan [Pathe Consortium Cinema] unknown
1934ref. 162225Paris: Pathe-Natan Pathe Consortium Cinema 1934. Four vintage reference Pathé-Natan photographs of Charles Vanel Oranes Demazis and others from the 1934 French film. Three photos with Pathé-Natan stamps on the verso and all four with annotations in manuscript pencil to same. Based on the classic 1862 novel by Victor Hugo. Considered by many to be the greatest adaptation of the novel. Shot in Biot Alpes-Maritimes and in Nice and Paris. One photograph 9.25 x 7 inches two photographs 6.5 x 9.25 inches one photograph 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus one with two pinholes and faint discoloration on the center top edge and one with pinholes at the corners. Criterion Eclipse Series 4. Eureka Masters of Cinema 106. Pathe-Natan [Pathe Consortium Cinema] unknown books
1979ref. 159618N.p.: N.p. 1979. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1979 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso noting the film title in French. An anthology film divided into three segments set in three different time periods Rome in 1520 France at the turn of the century and modern Paris and following three women who are driven to commit crimes of passion. Six photographs 9.5 x 7 inches with wide top and bottom margins and one photograph 9.5 x 6 inches trimmed irregularly. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 139657Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz along with some extras on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic "Nosferatu" and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion unknown
1979ref. 139657Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz along with some extras on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic "Nosferatu" and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion unknown books
1996ref. 160285Burbank CA: Buena Vista 1996. Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film with rainbow revisions. Copy belonging to Production Coordinator Shelley Houis with her name in manuscript ink on the title page. Script housed in a blue three-ring binder with approximately 100 pages of production documents including in addition to the script cast and crew contact lists filming permits location lists and shooting schedules. Loosely based on the 1979 French film directed by René Gainville in turn based on Jenaro Prieto's 1928 novel. After years of struggling to succeed as a Black woman on Wall Street an ambitious businesswoman decides to start her own investment firm in the name of a fictitious white man Robert Cutty. The ruse begins to break down however when associates and clients begin to demand to meet with Cutty in person. Set and shot on location in New York. Title page present dated 02/15/96 with credit for screenwriter Nick Thiel. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/20/95 and 02/15/96. Pages about Fine binder Very Good plus lightly foxed. Buena Vista unknown books
1986ref. 167403Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1986. Third Draft script for the 1987 television film which aired on ABC on July 31 1987. Bound in following the script is a two page Staff and Crew List dated March 7 1986 a 19 page Shooting Schedule dated 3/7/86 a ten page Revised Shooting Schedule dated 3/9/86 an eight page Revised Shooting Schedule dated 3/21/86 and a second two page Staff and Crew List dated March 26 1986. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated March 11 1986. Not to be confused with the 2008 film directed by Frank Miller starring Gabriel Macht and Eva Mendes. Based on the comic book character created by Will Eisner in 1940. Created as a pilot for ABC's proposed 1986 Fall series the project was shelved after ABC changed ownership with the new management finding the pilot "too offbeat and morbid." ABC shelved the pilot without even arranging for test screenings and eventually released it too late for the possibility of a series pickup and with little to no promotion. Sam J. Jones stars as Denny Colt a Central City Police Department detective who after an assassination attempt in which he is believed to be dead by the general public becomes the Spirit a mysterious masked vigilante in a blue suit and fedora who is not bound by the rules of regular cops. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 10 1986 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Steven E. de Souza. 131 leaves with last page of script numbered 84A. Xerographic duplication on yellow leaves rectos only with salmon and cherry revision pages throughout dated 03/19/86 and 03/24/86. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers Television unknown
1986ref. 167403Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1986. Third Draft script for the 1987 television film which aired on ABC on July 31 1987. Bound in following the script is a two page Staff and Crew List dated March 7 1986 a 19 page Shooting Schedule dated 3/7/86 a ten page Revised Shooting Schedule dated 3/9/86 an eight page Revised Shooting Schedule dated 3/21/86 and a second two page Staff and Crew List dated March 26 1986. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated March 11 1986. Not to be confused with the 2008 film directed by Frank Miller starring Gabriel Macht and Eva Mendes. Based on the comic book character created by Will Eisner in 1940. Created as a pilot for ABC's proposed 1986 Fall series the project was shelved after ABC changed ownership with the new management finding the pilot "too offbeat and morbid." ABC shelved the pilot without even arranging for test screenings and eventually released it too late for the possibility of a series pickup and with little to no promotion. Sam J. Jones stars as Denny Colt a Central City Police Department detective who after an assassination attempt in which he is believed to be dead by the general public becomes the Spirit a mysterious masked vigilante in a blue suit and fedora who is not bound by the rules of regular cops. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 10 1986 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Steven E. de Souza. 131 leaves with last page of script numbered 84A. Xerographic duplication on yellow leaves rectos only with salmon and cherry revision pages throughout dated 03/19/86 and 03/24/86. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers Television unknown books
