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2016ref. 164011Los Angeles: Emerald Way Productions 2016. Early draft script for the 2024 Western film seen here under the working title "The Salted Earth." From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. In 1870s Montana a young man returns to his remote hometown to seek revenge for his father's death. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot in Livingston and Deer Lodge Montana. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 11/01/2016 noted as MONTANA FALL DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Lee Zachariah. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Ring stain on the title page else pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Emerald Way Productions unknown
1994ref. 164004Barnet VT: Caledonia Pictures 1994. Revised First Draft script for the 1997 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Bound in ahead of the script is a xerographically duplicated "Los Angeles Times" review of Howard Frank Mosher's source novel. Based on Mosher's 1989 novel about the unexpected arrival of an African-American minister in a small prejudiced town in Vermont in the 1950s. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Chelsea Guildhall Orleans and Vershire Vermont. Self wrappers. Title page present dated November 28 1994 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Don Bredes and Jay Craven and novelist Mosher. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Caledonia Pictures unknown
2021ref. 163997Santa Monica: Stalwart Productions 2021. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 2 of the 2022 anthology television series seen here under the working episode title "Heist." Copy belonging to construction coordinator Chris Scher with her name as a watermark on every page. An anthology follow-up to the successful 2010-2022 horror series "The Walking Dead." In this episode two feuding employees at an insurance company are stuck in a time loop at the beginning of the apocalypse and must work together to save their loved ones and leave town. Originally aired on August 21 2022 on AMC. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Atlanta. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 12/4/21 noted as White Production Draft with credit for screenwriter Kari Drake. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a binder clip. Stalwart Productions unknown
1990ref. 163975N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A group of young adults navigate love sex holidays and drugs in the early 1990s. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Jim Chambers. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 148287N.p.: N.p. 1978. Collection of twelve vintage French color lobby cards from the 1978 film. Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring a retired and reclusive actress back into the spotlight. Told in flashback beginning with her suicide-by-train. The fifth and final pairing of director Billy Wilder and actor William Holden who began their association in 1950 with the classic "Sunset Blvd." 1950. "Fedora" has been seen as a companion piece to that film. 11.25 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Eureka Masters of Cinema 147. N.p. unknown
2022ref. 164001Santa Monica: Stalwart Productions 2022. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 3 of the 2022 anthology television series. Copy belonging to construction coordinator Chris Scher with her name as a watermark on every page. An anthology follow-up to the successful 2010-2022 horror series "The Walking Dead." In this episode set post-apocalypse a young Alpha then known as Dee tries to protect her daughter and their community steamboat home. Originally aired on August 28 2022 on AMC. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 3/28/22 noted as Blue Draft with credits for screenwriter Channing Powell and director Michael Satrazemis. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 45. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Stalwart Productions unknown
1987ref. 164002Beverly Hills CA: American Filmworks 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. After his mother's death a shy boy and his father move from the swamplands to Chicago where the boy uses fantasy and dreams to adjust to his new life. Screenwriter Don Keith Opper was better known for his involvement in the "Critters" horror comedy film series both as an actor and writer. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 1987 with credit for Opper. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American Filmworks unknown
2007ref. 163913Bozeman MT: Crazy Mountain Ink 2007. Draft script for the 2007 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A lonely gas station attendant's life begins to change as the result of his relationship with an unusual young woman. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 films including "The Last Seduction" "Pulp Fiction" "From Dusk Till Dawn" "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in small-town Montana shot on location in Manitoba Canada. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Steve Berra. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with first and last leaves detached from the binding and dampstains and moderate wear on the title page. Bound with two silver brads. Crazy Mountain Ink unknown
2017ref. 163911London: Blueprint Pictures 2017. Draft script for the 2017 film. Copy belonging to production designer David Wasco with his name watermarked on every leaf. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A Missouri woman rents three billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder setting off a violent chain of reactions among members of her small community and the police officers responsible for overseeing the investigation. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two for Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell and Best Leading Actress for Frances McDormand. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 films including "The Last Seduction" "Pulp Fiction" "From Dusk Till Dawn" "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Ebbing Missouri shot on location in Sylva North Carolina. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for director and screenwriter Martin McDonagh. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with one gold and one silver brad. Blueprint Pictures unknown
1925ref. 168469N.p.: N.p. 1925. Nine reference photographs from the 1925 Soviet silent film seven borderless and two bordered struck and issued by Cinémathèque Française circa 1936. All seven borderless photographs with the stamp of Archives Cinémathèque Française on the verso. A dramatization of a real-life mutiny which occurred on the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905. The film's violence led to it being banned in West Germany and the UK until 1954 and even after that given an X rating until 1978. It was shown in a much-edited form in East Germany though the US premiere in December 1926 was shown unedited. A written introduction by Leon Trotsky at the beginning of the film was cut from later Soviet prints due to Trotsky running afoul of Stalin. The film's famous sequence showing a massacre by Tsarist soldiers of civilians on the Odessa Steps is considered the first example of a montage sequence in cinema. All photogaphs 5 x 3.5 inches. Generally Near Fine. BFI 1494. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 168484N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage reference photograph from the 1977 French film showing actors Françoise Fabian and Dayle Haddon. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the life of famed French brothel keeper Madame Claude who ran a high-class escort service in the heart of Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 168480N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1954 film showing actor Tony Curtis standing behind the Woodill Wildfire surrounded by cast and crew members. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An automobile engineer designs a new sports car later stealing it with the help of his boss' granddaughter in order to compete in a cross-country race. Shot on location in Reno. 10 x 8 inches. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 168483N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing a sex scene between actors Jane Birkin and Gillian Hills with David Hemmings looking on on the right. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso. Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film marking the beginning of the final phase of his work co-produced by companies in Italy the United States and the United Kingdom featuring an international cast. The director's brash use of color set design nonstandard editing techniques and typical emphasis of atmosphere over plot would carry over into the two major films that followed "Zabriskie Point" 1970 and "The Passenger" 1975. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 865. Ebert I. Grant UK. N.p. unknown
1991ref. 168485N.p.: N.p. 1991. Vintage reference photograph from the 1991 film showing David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A British bartender and a magic-obsessed waitress at a successful brasserie in Chelsea decide to team up to rob the restaurant. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with two sets of pinholes at the top left corner. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 168491Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1978. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1978 film showing actress Susan Sarandon. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Louis Malle's controversial turn-of-the-century drama about a twelve year-old girl who lives with her mother in a high-class brothel in Storyville the red-light district of New Orleans. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set and shot on location in Hattiesburg Mississippi and New Orleans. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1967ref. 168470N.p.: N.p. 1967. Two vintage borderless reference photographs showing a car accident sequence from the 1967 film one showing director Jean-Luc Godard looking back at the camera smiling wryly as plumes of smoke rise in the background. Layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. One of Godard's most misanthropic films about a loveless bourgeois couple who fantasize about killing each other while on a long road trip to visit the woman's parents with the intent of securing an inheritance. Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 168490Burbank CA: Mainline 1985. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1985 film. Based in part on the 1948 Italian film "The Bicycle Thief" directed by Vittorio De Sica in which Pee-wee's beloved bicycle is stolen and he must follow a goofy cross-country trail of leads in order to retrieve it. Director Tim Burton's debut feature film and the first pairing of Burton and his longtime composer Danny Elfman. Shot on location in California and Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. Mainline unknown
1983ref. 168468N.p.: N.p. 1983. Vintage film negative from the 1983 French neo-noir film showing actress Isabelle Adjani squatting nude on the set. Accompanied by a blue-toned test photograph struck from the negative presumably in 1983. Based on the 1977 novel by Sébastien Japrisot about a woman's desire to avenge the gang rape of her mother. Isabelle Adjani won a César Award for Best Actress for her performance. Shot in and around Gordes. Negative 5 x 4 inches blue-tone test photo very slightly larger. Near Fine. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1933ref. 156284N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film showing actors Colin Clive mansplaining while Katharine Hepburn is having none of it. Manuscript pencil annotations on the verso regarding cropping along with a printed provenance label. Based on the 1932 British novel by Gilbert Frankau about a middle-aged politician who falls in love with a beautiful adventurous aviator. Hepburn's second screen role directed by Dorothy Arzner one of the few female directors in Hollywood from the silent era into the early 1940s. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1944ref. 156251Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Several photographs with provenance stamps and stickers on the verso and two with the printed label of Palace Theatre affixed to the verso. Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good with light toning and edgewear. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1992ref. 163927N.p.: N.p. 1992. Third Draft script for the 1993 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Based on the award-winning semi-autobiographical 1988 play by John O'Keefe about two teenage boys who create a shared fantastical world in order to mentally escape from their abusive confinement in a juvenile detention center. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in the rural midwest shot on location in Toledo and Waterloo Iowa. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 15 April 1992 noted as Third Draft with credit for O'Keefe. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1947ref. 156253Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film showing a blonde Rita Hayworth perched on the railing of Errol Flynn's yacht "Zaca" during filming on location in Mexico. Stamp of Columbia Pictures on the verso. Director Orson Welles promised to write produce and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency $55000 to help finance costuming for his 1946 Broadway musical "Around the World." The resultant film based on Raymond Sherwood King's 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" courted controversy not least due to Welles' decision to have Hayes cut and bleach her iconic red hair for her performance. Although the film was a commercial failure in the US upon release it is now considered a touchstone of the noir genre. Shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good lightly toned overall with brief wear at the corners. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1944ref. 168473Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1944. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1944 film showing director Mervyn LeRoy hosing down a plane prop on the set with Spencer Tracy making a goofy face from the pilot's seat. Printed mimeo snipe in French and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stamp on the verso. Based on the 1943 book an eyewitness account of the first American retaliatory strike against Japan four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led by US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle. Set in Florida and shot on location in Florida and California. 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Faint discoloration on the top edge of the verso else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1982ref. 168493N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1982 film showing director George Roy Hill with actor Robin Williams on the set. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1978 novel by John Irving. One of the best literary adaptations of the 1980s a great example of a successful and uncompromised translation of a novel's idiosyncrasies directly to the screen and a triumph of ensemble acting. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress for John Lithgow and Glenn Close respectively. 11.75 x 8.75 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 168497N.p.: N.p. 1976. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1976 film both showing Lynne Frederick topless screaming and covered in blood. A newlywed contends with a murderous stalker from her past although her husband psychiatrist and the police refuse to believe her claims. Shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
