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1971ref. 159155London: EMI Films 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Joseph Losey actor Dominic Guard and crew members on the set of the 1971 film. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 10 x 8 inches with a wide bottom margin. About Near Fine slightly wavy on the bottom edge. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. EMI Films unknown
1976ref. 159153N.p.: N.p. 1976. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 adult film. After being kidnapped a doctor and his lover plan to shoot the pornographic film of their dreams at a remote French chateau. Four photographs 9.5 x 7 inches three photographs 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. Bier 849. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 159139N.p.: Russ Meyer 1975. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1975 film showing actress Uschi Digard. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. After his wife is murdered a gas station attendant at a remote desert station finds himself sexually pursued by several different but equally buxom women. Shot on location in New Mexico Arizona and California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Russ Meyer unknown
1924ref. 156300N.p.: N.p. 1924. Vintage reference photograph from the 1924 film showing actor Gibson Gowland in character as McTeague. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today isa slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs released in a careful restoration that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear along the bottom edge and a small toned spot near the bottom left corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 159145N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 short film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Director Stephen Dwoskin was an experimental filmmaker who produced work based on themes of perception disability and sexuality. He was a cofounder of the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1966 and the film collective Spectre in 1980. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 159147Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. A supercomputer hopes to achieve world domination by hacking into a family's pet robot. The robot originally built for "Forbidden Planet" 1956 was reused by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in an attempt to defray the substantial cost of the prop. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1950ref. 159041Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir. A young recently engaged woman is raped by a man working at her job. She tries to run away from her life but cannot outrun her trauma. Shot on location in Marysville California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a small chip missing at the bottom right corner. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1951ref. 159133N.p.: N.p. 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Siblings in a song-and-dance duo are booked for a gig in London while the Royal Wedding is in progress. Brother and sister both find romance overseas and struggle to keep their act together. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
ref. 159101Hollywood: Marimark 1986. Two Draft scripts for the 1986 film seen here under the working title "Limo." Both copies belonging to actor Howard Hesseman with his annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout and one script with his signature in manuscript ink on the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. A strong-willed young woman gets a job as a driver for an upscale Beverly Hills limousine service upsetting the older men working for the company. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Undated script: Tall self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for director and screenwriter David Beaird. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the final leaf moderately worn and partially detached from the binding. Bound with two gold brads. Script dated 4/30/85: Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 4/30/85 with credit for screenwriter David Beaird. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/22/85 and 6/3/85. Pages Near Fine wrappers Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. McPadden Teens in Hell. Vinegar Syndrome 177. Marimark unknown
1960ref. 159136Berlin: CCC-Film CCC-Filmkunst / Bavaria Film 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Gottfried Reinhardt on the set of the 1960 West German film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a stamp specific to the film's German release. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the life of Renate Müller a German film actress whose mysterious death in 1937 was widely attributed to Nazi pressure over her relationship with a Jewish diplomat. Set in Berlin. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst] / Bavaria Film unknown
1971ref. 159146N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing director Woody Allen and actress Louise Lasser. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Anxious to impress his activist ex-girlfriend a blue collar worker travels to a fictitious South American country where he is unwittingly conscripted into a group of violent revolutionaries. Shot on location in New York and Puerto Rico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 159140N.p.: N.p. 1974. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1974 avant-garde film. Two photographs with snipes affixed to the versos and one with annotations in manuscript pencil regarding cropping. Noted independent director Mark Rappaport's first feature length film shot in pieces over a year and a half. Two photographs 10 x 8 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 159135Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Vintage reference photograph from the 1976 film showing director Frank Pierson and a camera crew capturing a scene. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A remake of both the 1937 film and the 1954 musical with the leads modernized into an aspiring songwriter and fading rock star. Barbra Streisand along with co-writer Paul Williams won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Evergreen" and the film was nominated for three others. Set in California shot on location in Arizona and California USA. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy on the top edge with a diagonal crease. Hirschhorn 406. Warner Brothers unknown
1975ref. 159152Paris: Alpha France 1975. Five borderless reference photographs from the 1975 French film. Included with the photographs is a press flyer in French. An extravagant pornographic period costume piece by noted "prestige pornography" director Lee Frost here under the pseudonym F.C. Perl Franklin C. Perl. A beautiful 17-year-old London girl is sold into sexual servitude to a perverse and sadistic countess in France to pay off her deceased father's gambling debts. Frost a favorite of Quentin Tarantino was well known for his high-concept grindhouse films such as the notorious roughie "Climax of Blue Power" made the same year as this film 1974 "The Thing with Two Heads" 1972 "Chrome and Hot Leather" 1971 "Chain Gang Women" 1971 and "The Black Gestapo" 1975. Frost was also the screenwriter for one of the great road movies "Race with the Devil" 1975. Photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Flyer 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Photographs and flyer Very Good plus with light edgewear. Not in Bier. Alpha France unknown
1968ref. 159123N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film one black-and-white and one color. A diamond thief takes his former accomplice's wife as a lover after the accomplice disappears. The wife however has her sights set on a coral fisherman. Black-and-white photograph 9 x 9 inches color photograph 8.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus one with moderate wear at the bottom right corner. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 159119Amsterdam: Meteor Film 1974. Five vintage lobby cards from the Dutch release of the 1974 film. Stamps of Meteor Film on the versos and all six with blindstamps on the corners. Count Dracula travels from Transylvania to pre-fascist Italy in search of virgin blood to drink but soon discovers there are no longer any virgins to be found in the entirety of Italy. One of Andy Warhol's two horror films the other being "Frankenstein" released the same year on a double bill both USA/Italy/France co-productions and the pinnacle of his film career in terms of popularity outside avant-garde circles. Set in Italy shot on location in Italy and Serbia. 11 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light wear at the corners. Criterion Collection 28. Severin Films 721. Meteor Film unknown
2010ref. 158461N.p.: N.p. 2010. Revised Final Draft script for an unproduced episode for an imagined fifth season of the 1965-1969 Western television series. The series followed the adventures of the Barkley family in San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s. In this follow-up the fourth Barkley son Eugene makes a reappearance when he returns home from college. Written for the Williamsburg Film Festival in 2010. Clear mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present noted as Revised final draft with credit for Thomas M. Crawford. 50 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 159116N.p.: N.p. 1984. Second Draft script for an unproduced film using the hook from singer-songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp's 1983 song "Pink Houses" as its moniker. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 20. An unproduced drama about unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania by acclaimed screenwriter and director Frank Pierson. Pierson was the writer of "Dog Day Afternoon" 1975 winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and co-writer of "Cool Hand Luke" 1967 "Cat Ballou" 1965 and "A Star is Born" 1976 among many others. Pierson served as the President of the Writers Guild of America West for two terms in the 1980s and 1990s and was also associated with the American Film Institute the Academy of American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Sundance Film Festival. Considered by many to be one of the best unproduced still-unfilmed screenplays written in the wake of an April 1984 "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" magazine article about the spate of films about American milltowns. Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 7 1984 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Frank Pierson. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with light offsetting on the last page of the script. Bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 159120N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1967 film. A masterpiece of French cinema. Using his own money director Jacques Tati meticulously constructed a second "Paris" outside of Paris for the third-and most magnificent-of the four Hulot films following "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" 1953 and "Mon Oncle" 1958. The third feature finds him in the much-modernized heart of the city with its complexities unfolding revolving deconstructing and reconstructing before his eyes. Set in Paris. Approximately 9.5 x 12 inches. Light wear at the corners else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 158425N.p.: N.p. 1957. Second Revised Draft script for Season 3 Episode 17 of the 1954-1958 anthology television series. Copy belonging to child actor Johnny Crawford with his signature on the title page and his manuscript annotations in pencil throughout. An emotionally scarred man must return to the state where his father a governor was murdered. Originally aired on February 14 1957 on CBS. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated 2-9-57 with credits for director Robert Stevens screenwriter Adrian Spies and others. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered III-24. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 158433N.p.: Passing Parade Films 1956. Draft script for the twelfth episode of season two of the 1956-1958 anthology television series. Copy belonging to child actor Johnny Crawford with his annotations on the front wrapper. A French immigrant arrives in California to cash in on the gold rush but discovers more money can be made by planting orchards. Originally aired on December 9 1956 on CBS. Housed in a brown card folder with a label noting the script title affixed to the front. Beige titled wrappers dated September 4 1956 noted as production No. 9588. Title page present noted as production No. 9588 with credit for screenwriter Joseph Landon. 35 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Good with moderate dampstaining and soil overall wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Passing Parade Films unknown
1958ref. 158445Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Draft script for the 89th episode of season three of the 1955-1958 anthology televison series. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name on the title page in manuscript ink and his annotations throughout. Embittered after being fired by his brother-in-law a man takes out his anger on his wife by not allowing her to adopt a child. Originally aired on February 4 1958 on NBC. Housed in a brown card folder with a label noting the script title affixed to the front. Self wrappers. Title page present undated noted as production No. 4710 with credit for screenwriter Anthony Spinner. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1958ref. 158446Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Draft script for the 134th episode of season three of the 1955-1958 anthology television series. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a carbon typescript rehearsal schedule dated 4/24/58 with Crawford's name circled. An old woman living alone believes that her adult son has forgotten her unaware that she has been sending letters and greeting cards to the wrong address for years. Originally aired on April 24 1958 on NBC. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Greer Johnson. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-10. Mimeograph duplication on yellow and white stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound at the top left corner with a single staple. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1956ref. 158429N.p.: N.p. 1956. Third Draft script for the circa 1956 television episode. Copy belonging to child actor Johnny Crawford with his character's name on the front wrapper and his annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout. Two young boys befriend the new kid at their school in spite of their aunt's belief that the child is a bad influence. No information about this series is available on IMDB. Housed in a brown card folder with a label noting the script title affixed to the front. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/5/56 noted as 3rd Draft with credit for screenwriter Betty Luerssen. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 159186Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film. With mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1959 play by Jean-Paul Sartre. A dying man invites his family to his home where they discover dark secrets about his past. Set in Germany shot on location in Hamburg Germany. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
