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1968ref. 137925Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs a trade advertisement a film program and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III with images prominently featuring Ordway production designer Harry Lange Arthur C. Clarke Stanley Kubrick and others. One photograph has Ordway's name written on the recto in silver marker. All photographs mounted on matte board as issued. Ordway and Clarke began working together on matters of science fact in 1951 and Clarke personally invited him to be the factual advisor on the film. Kubrick's sprawling science fiction epic traces the evolution of human intelligence under the influence of an unspecified alien force. Along with "Blade Runner" Kubrick's masterpiece forever altered the standard for visual and conceptual sophistication in science fiction and genre films. The pre-production for the film set standards as well as Kubrick hired one of the greatest science fiction authors of the 1960s Arthur C. Clarke to be his screenwriter and hired over 20 scientists like Ordway to consult on every detail of the film. The film's high degree of scientific accuracy coupled with bleeding-edge special effects and minimal use of dialogue make "2001" universally recognized as one of the most influential films ever made. The development of the film was kept strictly under wraps and behind-the-scenes material of any kind is rare. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for three others including Best Director. Set in space shot on location in Scotland England Arizona and Utah. Photographs 8 x 10 inches mounted on 11 x 14 inch matte board. Trade advertisement 9 x 12 inches full color creased. Souvenir booklet 7.25 x 16 inches full color 12 leaves saddle stapled folded. Program 5.5 x 8.5 inches black and white saddle stapled single leaf. Very Good to Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1966ref. 141453Tokyo: Toho Company 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy including his stepdaughter stepson mistress and wife who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Criterion Collection 207. Toho Company unknown books
1959ref. 148724Tokyo: Shochiku 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines. Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults leading to a number of comic misunderstandings in their tight-knit community. Set in a suburb of Tokyo. White titled wrappers. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly foxed with some wear to the binding with perfect binding. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 84. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Shochiku unknown books
ref. 168810N.p.: Silverworld Films 1980. Large archive including two heavily annotated Revised Draft scripts one lined 30 pages of storyboards a large blueprint of the military compound in the film story two maps a "The Dogs of War / New York" folder of location facts and contacts a 30-page shooting schedule and over 200 pages of daily revised shooting schedules call sheets and various memos from the 1980 film. Detail as follows: A heavily annotated Revised Draft script dated November 5 1979 with manuscript pencil ink marker and orange highlighter annotations on nearly every page. A heavily annotated Lined Revised Draft script dated February 12 1980 with manuscript ink and marker annotations on nearly every page. 30 matte-finish prints of storyboards most containing eight storyboards per page. A large blueprint of the military compound with several pencil and ink annotations. Two matte-finish prints of maps one of the final battle garrison and one of the Belize airstrip with annotations in blue ink. A folder with the label "The Dogs of War / New York" on the front wrapper containing a three page Memo six pages of New York shooting schedules 14 location fact sheets and a two-page location contact List. A 30 page Shooting Schedule and over 200 pages of daily Revised Shooting Schedules call sheets and memos many with manuscript ink annotations. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1974 novel about a ruthless mercenary who after being tortured and deported is hired to lead a group of soldiers in a coup against a small African dictatorship so a British tycoon can plunder the nation's platinum resources. Set in the fictional African country of Zangaro shot on location in Belize City London Miami and New York. November 5 1979 Revised script: Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British fashion. Title page present dated November 5 1979 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Gary M. Devore and author Frederick Forsythe. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. February 12 1980 Draft script: Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated February 12 1980 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Gary M. Devore and author Frederick Forsythe. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication on blue leaves rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Storyboards and Maps: 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Blueprint: 48.5 x 25.25 inches folded. Very Good plus with light toning light edgewear pinholes tape shadows and cello tape at the extremities. "New York" Folder: Generic green folder 9 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Shooting Schedules Call Sheets and Memos: 8.5 x 11 inches 8 x 13 inches and 8.5 x 14 inches. Very Good plus overall with wear commiserate with production use. Silverworld Films unknown
1930ref. 166622Paris: Studio 28 1930. Vintage review-program for Luis Buñuel's 1930 surrealist masterpiece created for the film's public premiere at Studio 28 cinema in Montmartre. Program in two parts bound dos-a-dos. Text in French. The first section of the review-program is dedicated to "L'Age d'or" presenting the film's scenario alongside subtitles and dialogue accompanied by a manifesto on surrealism and a catalog of 20 works by Max Ernst Salvador Dalí Man Ray and others which were exhibited alongside the film's screenings at Studio 28. The second part of the program is an overview of film programs at Studio 28 with stills from films by Epstein Ivens Melies and others. The violence of the uproar "L'Age d'Or" created remains almost as shocking as the film itself: days into the first screenings at Studio 28 on December 3 1930 the theatre was stormed by fascist youths enraged at the film's perceived anti-patriotic and anti-Christian message. Demonstrators threw ink at the screen shouted antisemitic death threats smashed the theatre windows and completely destroyed the exhibition of surrealist books and artwork in the foyer. In response the Board of Censors re-reviewed the film and on December 10 the film was banned from further public showings in France. The film's producers subsequently withdrew "L'Age d'or" from commercial distribution and public exhibition for more than 40 years although three years later in 1933 the film was privately exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Page edges faintly foxed else about Near Fine in perfect-bound gold wrappers with a single annotation in manuscript ink censoring a line relating to one of the film's characters and Jesus Christ. Lacking the errata slip. Studio 28 unknown
ref. 172189N.p.: Interstar 1979. Substantial archive of material belonging to actress Samantha Eggar relating to the 1980 crime-exploitation film. Included are Eggar's annotated working script with blue and pink revisions signed in round-robin fashion on the title page by actor Christopher George director James Glickenhaus producer Mark Buntzman and others. Archive also includes six pages of contact information regarding crew members and 36 black-and-white reference photographs from the film most featuring Eggar with various cast and crew members on the set. A Vietnam veteran turns to vigilante justice after his close friend is beaten and left paralyzed by a street gang and his employer is threatened by the Mafia. Shot on location in New York City and at the Indian Dunes in Valencia California. A cult classic of the highest order bridging aspects of both 1970s and 1980s exploitation. Script: Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for screenwriter James Glickenhaus on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 8/9/79 noted as copy No. 64 with credit for Glickenhaus. 175 leaves with last page of text numbered 170. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/24/79 and 9/5/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good or better bound with two gold brads. Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine some with light toning to the margins. Housed in a white cardboard Ilford photograph box. Arrow Films. Interstar unknown
1958ref. 141439Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown books
1958ref. 141432Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Title based on a song popularized by the leading actor Frank Nagai. A comedy featuring a drugstore owner who begins an extramarital affair when his wife and child go on vacation. White illustrated titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
1973ref. 150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in holograph marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in holograph ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party. Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Shot on location in Colorado and California. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown books
1935ref. WRCLIT62273Los Angeles: The Author 1935. Six volumes. Quarto. Chiefly carbon typescript but also original typescript the latter with extensive manuscript revisions and notations. Each unit bradbound or stapled into typescript wrappers. Some use wrappers a bit frayed at edges and chipped at spines last wrapper separated at spine but typescripts in generally very good order consistent with use. A fine contiguous sequence of scripts tracing the development of this film from its earliest stages through the final working draft of Cole's screenplay and the intercession of another writer. The 1935 film directed by D. Ross Lederman was released under the title TOO TOUGH TO KILL and starred Victor Jory Sally O'Neill Ward Bond et al. The film as conceived by Cole is a depiction of an investigation into labor strife at a tunnel and aqueduct construction site near Morongo California. The film as finally released was co-credited to Cole and Jay Griffin based on a story by Robert Speers. However with the exception of the last item the material in this archive is credited throughout solely to Lester Cole and includes the following: a Treatment 122 leaves carbon typescript; b First Draft Screenplay 22 July 191 leaves carbon typescript with scattered revisions and annotations in pencil; c Second Draft Screenplay 30 July 110 leaves carbon typescript with scattered pencil queries comments and alterations; d Third Draft Screenplay 2 August 1104 leaves carbon typescript; e Fourth Draft Screenplay 5 August 1104 leaves carbon typescript; and f Fourth Draft Screenplay altered in manuscript to read "Final Working Copy" 5 August ca. 104 leaves plus lettered inserts and other variations largely original typescript but some carbon very heavily revised throughout in pencil in at least two hands. The first four items are designated in manuscript with the name of Ben Pivar the production supervisor of record for the film. The last bears the ownership signature of J. Griffin Jay and would obviously appear to be the copy of Cole's draft Jay utilized for the start if not the bulk of the revisions and rewrites that earned him co-credit. Cole was one of the cofounders of the Screen Writers Guild and in 1934 joined the CPA. Like his other colleagues known as the "Hollywood Ten" Cole refused to cooperate with the HUAC in 1947 was sentenced to a year in prison and a fine and was placed on the Blacklist. He continued to work sporadically under pennames and his last major film BORN FREE was so credited. Jay had his own substantial list of screenwriting credits chiefly in the genres of adventure science fiction and horror films. A fine coherent and contiguous archive the sort seldom preserved intact over the passage of more than 75 years. The Author] unknown books
1939ref. 152809Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1939. Revised Final script for the 1939 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name to the front wrapper in holograph pencil and a single pencil annotation to the verso of page 147. A dramatization of the early years of future US president Abraham Lincoln following his upbringing in a log cabin to his first loves to his establishment of a law practice in Springfield Illinois. Set in Springfield. Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 191 dated February 27 1939. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 27 1939 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 147. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and age-toned bound internally with three gold brads. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 320. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987ref. 152039N.p.: N.p. 1987. Shooting script for the 1988 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Ricki Lake with her holograph annotations throughout and xerographically duplicated inscriptions to Lake as intended when the script was bound from director John Waters actors Divine Shawn Thompson Debbie Harry Pia Zadora and others bound in before the script. With several production documents bound in after the script including a 34-page shooting schedule call sheets contact information for cast and crew and maps of Baltimore and a thank-you letter to Waters from Lake. Cult independent director John Waters' most enduring film following a kindhearted "pleasantly plump" teenager who becomes an overnight sensation on a local television dance show and subsequently uses her newfound fame to speak out in support of integration. Basis for the Tony Award winning 2002 musical and subsequent 2007 film adaptation directed by Adam Shankman and starring Nikki Blonsky Michelle Pfeiffer and John Travolta. Set and shot on location in Baltimore Maryland. Black full leather binding with gilt titles and rule and Lake's name to the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1987 noted as Shooting Script with credits for director John Waters. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding. With a small label to the bottom right corner of the inside front wrapper noting custom binding by Ronnie Gousman. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 141434Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of the Emperor. One of members of the group does not belong there. Orange titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Nikkatsu unknown books
1972ref. 143600New York: Cannon Films 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film here under the working title "Zora." Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov Candy Darling and Ondine experimental film icon Jack Smith and artist Susan Rothenberg as well as its being in the public domain which released it for frequent late night airings on local television. Set in Massachusetts shot on location on Long Island. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriters Theodore Gershuny Jeffrey Konvitz Ira Teller and Ami Artzi. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cannon Films unknown books
1948ref. 151633Tokyo: Toho Company 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film noir. Text and titles in Japanese. The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation forbidding criticism of Americans leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan satirizing jazz "pan pan" girls unlicensed prostitutes catering to American soldiers and Western clothing and hairstyles. Set in the slums of postwar Japan. White titled wrappers. Approximately 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus covered in a protective plastic wrapping from when the script was used during filming side stapled. BFI 638. Criterion Collection 413. Grant Japan. Toho Company unknown
1963ref. 148710Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa considered one of the director's masterpieces following a small-town doctor and his new intern a highly educated arrogant young man. Set in the Edo district of Koishikawa. White titled wrappers with a blue titled dust jacket. Title page present dated 1963. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered g-17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the rear wrapper with perfect binding. Jacket is Very Good plus with light foxing to the fore-edges and rear panel. Kurosawa Production Co unknown
1967ref. 149909New York: Andy Warhol Film 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in a 95-minute version although this cut is considered lost. A 109-minute version would screen in 1968 as the first film shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theater renamed as such after Warhol recovered from being shot by Valerie Solanas. One of several sexploitation influenced films made by Warhol an episodic story of a biker who has no bike and is both eroticized by the camera and emasculated by various Warhol superstars throughout. 19 x 25 inches rolled. Near Fine with some light soil and an almost imperceptible professional repair to a tear at the top edge. Murphy The Black Hole of Cinema. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown
1967ref. 149869New York: Andy Warhol Film 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. Two versions of the film were shot - one with an all nude all male cast that was never released publicly and one with both male and female actors wearing G-strings which was originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York. A stylistic breakthrough in that the film entirely jettisons any pretense to plot dramatic action or sex found in Andy Warhol's previous sexploitation experiments instead featuring extended monologues by superstar Viva and conversations with others that touch on a variety of controversial topics. One of Warhol's most overtly political films also starring draft resister Andrew Duggan and the first pairing of Viva with Taylor Mead who would appear together in several more Warhol films. 19 x 25 inches rolled on archival linen with a small amount of professional restoration and repair. Near Fine with minor soil. Murphy The Black Hole of the Camera. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown
1939ref. 152589Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Estimating script for the 1939 film. In his 1970 biography of Nathanael West Jay Martin notes: "On June 6 1938 West was hired for his 'established' salary of $350 a week by RKO Pictures-the first of five major studios to employ him-to make a screenplay from an original story by Richard Carroll. Putting everything else aside within a week he outlined his plans for treating the material. He fretted all weekend over whether the outline would be accepted knowing that he could be out of a job again on Monday. On late Monday afternoon he was persuaded to telephone the executive producer Lee Marcus who told him to go ahead at once to the screenplay. On July 20 West finished a first draft for what would be one of his most successful films. After eight weeks in all having polished his script West was released by RKO. At this point it appeared that West had a good chance to earn a single credit for this high budget B-quality movie but the studio called in a hack writer Jerry Cady to polish West's script. After Cady's work on it proved unsatisfactory Dalton Trumbo came in to do a revision before the film went into production. Trumbo eliminated most of the revisions made by Cady restored some of West's material and made still other alterations. By this time West had returned to New York and although his secretary demanded that he ask the guild to arbitrate the credits he appeared indifferent and nearly missed getting any screen credit at all." An aerial melodrama about nine passengers on a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Panama City who crash-land in the Amazon rainforest. The production helped launch the career of a then-unknown Lucille Ball and paved the way for later disaster epics of the 1970s as well as the popular television sitcom "Gilligan's Island." Set in Los Angeles and the Amazon rainforest. Green titled wrappers stamped ESTIMATING DRAFT on the front wrapper dated March 15 1939 with credits for screenwriters Jerry Cady and Dalton Trumbo. Title page integral with the first page of text. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Carbon typescript on yellow onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1959ref. 139477Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut winner of Best Director at Cannes nominated for the Palme d'Or and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches. Linen backed and rolled. Bright and Fine. Capitaine 207. Warren Vol. 1 p. 159. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1969ref. 156803N.p.: N.p. 1969. Early Draft script for the classic 1969 Western film seen here under the working title "The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy." Bound in full blue cloth with the original wrappers bound in. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema and arguably the high spot as well as the beginning of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s including "Slaughterhouse-Five" 1972 "The Sting" 1973 and "Slap Shot" 1977. Loosely based on fact about two outlaws on the run from a lethal posse after a string of train robberies. They flee to Bolivia in search of a a better way to be thieves but ultimately meet their doom. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay for William Goldman. Set in Wyoming and Bolivia and shot on location in New Mexico California Utah Colorado and Arizona in the US and in Morelos Guerrero and Sonora in Mexico. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter William Goldman. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 175. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. Housed in a custom red and blue quarter-leather clamshell box. National Film Registry. Hardy The Western. Pitts 586. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 144659New York: Jerome Hellman Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to the film's still photographer Ron Munkasci with his name in red manuscript ink at the top right corner of the title page. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy about an unlikely friendship between a would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist. Cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema nominated for seven Academy Awards winning Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Picture. Set in New York City shot on location in Miami Manhattan and Big Spring Texas. Dark blue titled wrappers noted as DRAFT SCREENPLAY at the bottom right and with the logo for JEROME HELLMAN PRODUCTIONS at bottom center. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Waldo Salt novelist James Leo Herlihy producer Jerome Hellman and director John Schlesinger noted as "A JEROME HELLMAN-JOHN SCHLESINGER PRODUCTION." 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with some offsetting to the title page due to a newspaper clipping still present laid in wrapper Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Jerome Hellman Productions unknown
1964ref. 147167Los Angeles: Villa di Stefano Productions 1964. First Draft script for the 1964 television film originally aired on CBS. With actor Martin Landau's copied annotations throughout. Included are a set of synopses for proposed episodes a shooting schedule a distributor's announcement booklet and various other documents related to production. Also included is an original celluloid print of the film on a single reel in its original mailing case with cloth straps dated 2/18/65 addressed from director Joseph Stefano to Landau on the mailing label in manuscript black ink and INSCRIBED by Stefano to Landau at the top left corner of the case in the same ink: "To Martin / Whose splendid brilliance and warmth put the special spark in this bright fire / Your grateful and admiring friend / Joe Stefano." Fearful of being buried alive a woman installs a phone in the crypt in which she plans to be in case of emergencies. Months after her death the phone begins to ring presenting a new ghostly case for Landau's paranormal investigator. The film was intended to be the pilot for a new paranormal thriller series tentatively titled "The Haunted" as titled on the front wrapper but the series wasn't picked up and the pilot was released as a television movie after additional footage was shot. Black titled wrappers with credits for director-screenwriter Joseph Stefano noted as PILOT SCRIPT ONE. Title page present dated July 27 1964 noted as PILOT SCRIPT ONE with credits for director-screenwriter Joseph Stefano. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Early Xerox rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Film reel and film stock are unexamined. Villa di Stefano Productions unknown
1966ref. 141453Tokyo: Toho Company 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy including his stepdaughter stepson mistress and wife who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Criterion Collection 207. Toho Company unknown
ref. 171865Los Angeles: Antler Productions 1987. Shooting Script for the 1987 hybrid VHS board game copy belonging to screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic with manuscript pencil and ink annotations of his name and an address on the title page. An internally duplicated copy with the majority of pages with copied punch holes with occasional manuscript pencil annotations checking characters or scenes. A unique and important example of video game construction from the heart of its era one that pulled Sherlockiana into its concept. Deluxe 304-page script housed in a large generic pink three-ring binder with ten-page dividers nine labeled for each of the game's ten mysteries. Each mystery includes a title page noting screenwriters and draft date a one or two page Short Rundown and a cast page followed by the segment's script. Three "Promo" segments are interspersed throughout the script to assist and instruct players through gameplay. Bound in following the script is a six-page Staff List two copies of a 15-page Shooting Schedule dated 8/3/87 and a 15-page Shooting Schedule dated 8/7/87. Laid in the binder's pockets are two copies of a four-page Shooting Schedule dated 8/9/87 and a copy of directions to "The Complex" in West Los Angeles. "221B Baker Street" was a popular board game developed by Jay Moriarty and produced by Antler Productions in 1975 in which players solve up to 75 mysteries with Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. Watson by using clues provided by visiting locations on the game board and using Scotland Yard Badges and Skeleton Keys cards to control opponents' access to locations. In 1987 on the centennial anniversary of Arthur Conan Doyle's first published Sherlock story Moriarty and Antler released two new adaptations of the board game: a video game produced by Datasoft and a VCR board game the latter featuring ten new mysteries and a videocassette of dramatized briefings and reenactments-represented by the script on offer here. VCR board games were a short-lived fad in the mid-to-late-1980s in which board games would include a VHS tape to be played at certain points in the game to act as a timer reveal clues or advance a plot. The concept was an attempt by the game developers to remain relevant by incorporating the latest technological innovations prior to the ascension of modern video game consoles. Screenwriter and producer Sustarsic is best known as an Emmy Award winning screenwriter for the 1988-1991 animated Disney series "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" the 2004 Independent Comedy Horror film "Lucky" and the 2017 animated Disney XD series "Xiaolin Chronicles - Special Edition." Other screenwriting credits from Sustarsic's 35 year career in television and film include episodes for "The Jeffersons" 1981 "One Day at a Time" 1982 "Alice" 1985 "Newhart" 1989 "Alf" 1990 and "Dilbert" 2000 among many others. Front wrapper integral with first uncredited title page dated 1987 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT. Second title page dated 1987 with credits for screenwriters Mark Chambers Jay Moriarty and Stephen Sustarsic. 304 leaves with last page of text numbered 13. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine overall with first title page separated housed in a Near Fine generic pink three-ring binder. Staff List and Shooting Schedules saddle-stapled with a single staple to the top left corner. Near Fine. Antler Productions unknown
