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1970ref. 155986Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife leading to a series of violent interactions with the police force who seek to avoid public exposure of the interracial affair. Director William Wyler's final film. Set in the fictional town of Somerset Tennessee and shot on location in Humboldt Tennessee. Seven pages saddle stapled. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the edges. Columbia Pictures unknown
1945ref. 142818Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Collection of nice vintage concept art sketches for advertisements or posters for the 1945 film. Pencil and marker on tracing paper. The sixteenth and penultimate "Dr. Kildare" film the and the last of four films featuring Van Johnson as Dr. Randall "Red" Adams and the fifth of six films focusing on Lionel Barrymore's Dr. Gillespie after Dr. Kildare actor Lew Ayres was fired by MGM for declaring himself a conscientious objector when drafted during World War II. About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1989ref. 150949Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1989. Vintage reference photograph of Martin Landau and Woody Allen on the set of the 1989 film. One of Allen's finest films a dark drama with comic elements interweaving two opposing stories. In one ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal's Landau mistress Angelica Huston threatens to reveal their affair unless he leaves his wife Miriam Claire Bloom. Responding to the threat his gangster brother Jack Jerry Orbach offers to have her killed. In the other documentary filmmaker Clifford Stern Allen is hired by his pompous television producer brother-in-law Alan Alda to make a documentary about him and begins to fall in love with producer Halley Reed Mia Farrow. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. Schrader Canon Fodder 39. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown
1971ref. 147580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Collection of nine photographs including six black and white vintage studio still photographs two-color studio still photographs and one black and white reference photograph for the 1971 film. Included with the collection is a xerographically duplicated four-page set of captions intended to accompany the set with "for reference" written in manuscript ink annotation across the first leaf. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1992ref. 150946Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1992. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen Mia Farrow and Judy Davis on the set of the 1992 film. Married couple Jack and Sally Sydney Pollack and Davis casually inform their best friends married couple Gabe and Judy Allen and Farrow they are separating leading Gabe and Judy to question the stability of their own relationship. One of Woody Allen's most celebrated films a pointed examination of marriage love and vulnerability. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Davis. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown
1975ref. 127315Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A coward accidentally becomes a war hero after being forced into in the Russian army. The last of Allen's early outrageous comedies before pursuing a more narrative and dramatic approach beginning with "Annie Hall" 1977. Set in Russia shot on location in France and Hungary. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown
1987ref. 150950Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1987. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen cinematographer Carlo Di Palma and crew on the set of the 1987 film. Allen's love letter to the Golden Age of Radio wherein narrator Joe a Jewish-American New Yorker reminisces about growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in Rockaway Queens initiating a series of vignettes of radio personalities intertwined with the life of Joe's working class family. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Manhattan Brooklyn and Queens New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown
1965ref. 162146Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film showing actress Paula Prentiss in a sheer lace bodysuit. Photofest label affixed to the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woody Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter about a soon-to-be-married womanizer as he attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst. Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1969ref. 140854Moscow: Gorky Film Studio 1969. Treatment script for the 1972 film. A collaboration between Moscow's Gorky Studio and Stockholm's Omega Film. An English translation produced for consideration by English-speaking parties involved in production. After the October Revolution of 1917 a Russian engineer is assigned to purchase locomotives from Sweden. He is to purchase them with gold claimed by opponents of the revolution. Set in the Soviet Union. White titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as Literary Scenario on the front wrapper dated April 1969 with credits for screenwriters Semitiov Braginsky Yegorov and Soloviev and translator Alan Blair. 92 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 91. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a comb binding. Gorky Film Studio unknown
ref. 146400N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Film treatment for an unproduced film. Included with the script is a typed English translation credited to Scot Finch. With a small manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper of the treatment and a single manuscript ink annotation deletion to the character list of the translation. Treatment text in French translation in English. A group of policemen reminisce about the rise to power of the late criminal Pierrot Loutrel also known as Pierrot le Fou-"public enemy number one" in Paris after World War II. Screenwriters Yves Boisset and Claude Veillot enjoyed an extensive collaboration on mid-century crime mystery and thriller films including "Coplan sauve sa peau" 1968 "R.A.S." 1973 "Le Juge Fayard dit Le Sheriff" 1977 "La Femme flic" 1980 and "Espion leve-toi" 1982. Set in France. Treatment: Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Yves Boisset and Claude Veillot with a CEDIC European Film Broadcasting Company stamp on the upper right corner. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding Translation: Beige titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Yves Boisset and Claude Veillot and translator Scot Finch. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two silver clips. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 147147N.p.: N.p. 1953. Treatment script for the 1953 film here under the working title "Comme le sucre dans le cafe.". Text in French. A doctor turned homeopath poaches patients from his former medical colleagues but is challenged when his shady treatment further endangers the life of a woman with a brain tumor. Set in Brittany France. Tall yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director YVES CIAMPI. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly creased and soiled bound with two silver clamps. N.p. unknown
1926ref. 148247Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1926. Vintage reference photograph of actress Arlette Marchal from the 1926 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Zane Grey not published until a year after the film's release. A fugitive is left in the desert to die by his outlaw partner but is rescued by a young rancher unaware that romantic entanglements with a neighboring rancher's daughter will complicate their friendship. Now considered to be a lost film. Shot on location in Hurricane Bluffs Utah. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and edgewear and a small chip to the right edge. Paramount Pictures unknown
ref. 147015Munich: Sunset Films Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Bound in with the script are two copied letters one addressed to film producer Stefan Abendroth from a talent agent discussing actor Stacy Keach's interest in the title role and one from screenwriter Zbigniew Kaminski expressing willingness to write a full screenplay on the materials addressed in the treatment. The true story of Lech Walesa a shipyard electrician who became the father of the Polish Solidarity party and eventually served as the first democratically-elected president of Poland. Screenwriter Zbigniew Kaminski was best known as a Polish director of political films and biopics including "The Shadow Line" 1976 "Pani Bovary to ja" 1977 and "In a Moment of Passion" 1993. Set in Poland. Yellow transparent plastic front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Zbigniew Kaminski. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Sunset Films unknown
1956ref. 158827Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 film. Based on A.E.W. Mason's 1902 novel "The Four Feathers" previously adapted by Korda in 1939 under the title "The Four Feathers." A British lieutenant resigns in order to remain with his fiancee but this choice brands him a coward leading him to travel to the Sudan to fight incognito as a show of courage. Set and shot on location in Sudan. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning at the extremities and two faint diagonal creases at the bottom left and top right corners. Columbia Pictures unknown
1974ref. 140856N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a typed letter to Ms. Lahn from screenwriter John Rose laid-in. A biopic on the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and the turbulent relationships he has with everyone around him. Among his doomed romances are his mistress and in the last year of both their lives his eventual wife Rose as well as a host of other women including Camille a sculptor to whom he is a mentor. Among his friends are Edmond a long admirer of the artist who only wants what is best for him. His work is both praised and rejected by the French torturing him to the point of starvation and leading to his demise. Set in Paris. White titled self wrappers with credits for screenwriter John Rose. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1999ref. 173100N.p.: Gaumont 1999. Eight vintage satin-finished studio still photographs from the 1999 film including one photograph of director Luc Besson on the set of the 1999 film. A fictionalized account of the life of Joan of Arc including her heading the siege of Orléans and eventual heresy trial in England ending in her execution. Set in France and England shot on location in France and the Czech Republic. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Gaumont unknown books
1977ref. 146401N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. Included with the script is a typed letter from screenwriter John Roberts to casting agent Paul Kohner submitting the script for consideration by prospective director John Huston with a manuscript pencil annotation across the top: "Irene / Please explain John's present status / Does he want to wait" Likely from Kohner to his secretary or reader. A gritty war drama detailing the 1919 Battle of Shenkursk an important battle in the Russian Civil War. Set in Russia. White generic Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Roberts. 185 leaves with last page of text numbered 183. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light soil and toning to the extremities bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 159660Santa Monica: NuWilshire Theater 1994. Vintage flyer advertising two screenings of the US release of the 1992 British film Thursday July 7 and Monday July 11 1994 at the NuWilshire Theater in Santa Monica California. Based on the 1985 novel "Geraldine For the Love of a Transvestite" by Monica Jay. Gerald an American banker who is secretly a cross-dresser is thrown out of his house when is wife discovers women's undergarments in their bedroom. Gerald takes up lodgings with Monica a 50-year old recently divorced housewife smitten with Gerald who slowly discovers Gerald's secret his alter-ego Geraldine and learns to accept and appreciate and support Gerald. Set and shot on location in London. 8.5 x 11 inches on lilac paper. Some light edgewear else Near Fine. NuWilshire Theater unknown books
1970ref. 147195N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With two brief manuscript ink annotations to the title page and front wrapper noting the number 778. Based on the life of noted Viennese composer Oscar Straus. Set in Austria and New York. Yellow untitled generic Paul Kohner wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Kent A. Barret. 41 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeograph duplication on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light soil to the wrapper and first and last leaves bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1947ref. 144819Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso. Janet Ames Rosalind Russell seeks out five soldiers who her husband sacrificed his life for during World War II. After suffering a serious injury she meets Smithfield "Smitty" Cobb Melvyn Douglas who helps her find the men her husband saved though he does not tell her he is one of them. He tries to help her reconcile her pain and guilt while he treats his own pain from the war with heavy drinking. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1984ref. 153832N.p.: N.p. 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a letter from Kodiak Films producer Wolf Schmidt to agent Walter Kohner declining to produce the film. A group of scientists accidentally create a deadly chemical compound which is promptly stolen by a rival scientist who threatens to kill thousands of people with the compound unless he is given one billion dollars. Two spies from the mysterious Sub Rosa agency are sent to retrieve the chemical. Blue card wrappers with a printed title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1984 with credits for screenwriter R. Delano Brown. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 152548San Francisco: Zoetrope Studios 1980. Vintage program and invitation for Francis Ford Coppola's 1980 Los Angeles screening of the 1927 French silent film. Housed in a white envelope with Coppola's address on the return flap letterhead. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era following Napoleon's early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army. Notable for the many innovative and experimental techniques used by director Abel Gance uncommon in the silent era including location shooting fast cutting close up hand held and point of view shots multiple camera set ups in-camera movement and visual effects such as superimposition film tinting and split screen or mosaic shots. Most famously the film helped pioneer widescreen viewing as Gance created a technique later referred as Polyvision which required three projectors to run film shot from three different cameras simultaneously to achieve a 4:1 aspect ratio for the film's climatic battle sequence although seams between the screens would remain visible. After only showing at a handful of theaters the film was acquired by MGM and severely cut with only the middle section of the triptych retained the other two sections remaining largely unseen until Coppola's 1980 restoration debuted at Radio City Music Hall in New York on January 23 igniting public interest in Gance and bringing him much-belated recognition before his death eleven months later in November 1981. Program folded three times 7 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Invitation 6 x 9 inches Near Fine. Zoetrope Studios unknown books
1985ref. 141905N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. A Black man and his son struggle to survive in Apartheid-era South Africa where they find themselves constantly at odds with white society whether at the hands of questioning police the disrespect Mogane faces when he is promoted to foreman at his job and his son struggling to earn respect and money for hard work out on the streets. Set in South Africa. White titled self wrappers dated August 19 1985. Title page present dated August 19 1985 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Adam Rodman. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 167604Berlin: Carlton-Film 1950. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1950 West German film. The inhabitants of a small village in the Bavarian Alps lose their senses upon the arrival of a beautiful young dancer arousing the men and enraging their wives. Set and shot on location in Bavaria. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus with pinholes on the margins. Carlton-Film unknown books
1980ref. 163675N.p.: Toho Company 1980. Three vintage photographs from the 1980 film two film still photographs and a photograph of director Akira Kurosawa on the set with executive producers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film Coppola and Lucas convinced Twentieth Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights receiving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 267. Toho Company unknown books
