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1970ref. 160525Universal City: Universal Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Frank Perry talking with actors Richard Benjamin and Carrie Snodgress on the set of the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso along with a provenance stamp. Based on Sue Kaufman's 1967 novel about a New York housewife in an abusive relationship who begins an affair with a sadistic but successful writer who treats her as cruelly as her husband. Adapted for the screen by Eleanor Perry who worked almost exclusively with her husband Frank Perry. Set and shot on location in New York. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. About Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1954ref. 160547London: Pictorial Press 1954. Vintage reference photograph of director Alfred Hitchcock drawing between takes on the set of the 1954 film. Printed mimeo snipe and stamps of Pictorial Press on the verso along with annotations in manuscript pencil relating to cropping. Based on the 1952 play by Frederick Knott who also wrote the screenplay about a tennis player who arranges to have his wife framed for murder after discovering her infidelity. The only Hitchcock film to be shot in 3D although the format would ultimately be discarded for theatrical release and the first of three Hitchcock films to feature actress Grace Kelly followed by "Rear Window" 1954 and "To Catch a Thief" 1955. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Pictorial Press unknown
1966ref. 160544N.p.: N.p. 1966. Four vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1966 French film. All four with annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. An inexperienced drug runner on a cross-continental train becomes the central figure in the imaginations of a group of filmmakers who are engaged in the process of drafting their next feature. Set in Paris and Antwerp. 9 x 8 inches. Near Fine. BFI 2033. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 160523New York: Horizon Films 1983. Vintage studio still photograph of Sandy McLeod shot by and credited at the right margin to Nan Goldin from the 1983 film. Shown is actress Sandy McLeod in seeming triplicate. Goldin also has a brief role in the film. A striking image. An aspiring writer takes a job as a ticket-taker at an adult film theatre in Times Square soon finding herself drawn into the seedy world of the theatre's customers. The film drew together a veritable who's who of New York underground regulars with a screenplay by Kathy Acker music by John Lurie cinematography by frequent Jarmusch collaborator Tom de Cillo and still photography by Nan Goldin. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Horizon Films unknown
1970ref. 160551N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 Canadian film showing actors Jayne Eastwood and Doug McGrath. Widely considered one of the most influential Canadian films of all time about two young men who leave their small home in Nova Scotia for the promise of riches and better living in Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 160548Oslo: Billed Sentralen 1962. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director Francesco Rosi on the set of the 1962 Italian film. Distribution stamp on the verso along with a stamp crediting photographer Patrick Morin. Based on the true story of Italian bandit Salvatore Giuliano who rose to prominence within the Mafia after the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Shot in nonlinear documentary style with Giuliano's character off-screen for most of the film Rosi's narrative today stands as an example of minimalist neo-realism at its finest. Shot on location in Sicily. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the corners. Arrow Academy 970. Criterion Collection 228. Schrader 50. Billed Sentralen unknown
1971ref. 160553Berlin: Keystone 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Jane Forth and producer Andy Warhol attending the German premiere of the 1970 film which took place on February 19 1971 in Berlin. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Actor Joe Dallesandro's fifth film with director Paul Morrissey and the film debuts of Factory regulars Holly Woodlawn in a role that George Cukor unsuccessfully put forth as a write-in candidate for an Academy Award and Jane Forth. 6 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy on the bottom edge. Keystone unknown
1973ref. 160528Paris: Paris Match 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1973 film showing Walerian Borowczyk directing actress Paloma Picasso in costume as Elizabeth Bathory for the fourth segment of the film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Borowczyk's fourth feature length film a sexually explicit time-traveling romp ranging from the bloodthirsty exploits of Elizabeth Bathory to a nineteenth-century country girl masturbating to thoughts of Jesus Christ. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 354. Paris Match unknown
1973ref. 160533N.p.: N.p. 1973. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1973 film. Based on the 1959 novel by John Buell about a police detective who uncovers the demonic force responsible for the death of a heroin-addicted sex worker. Set and shot on location in Montreal. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 160510N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film showing Gérard Depardieu Miou-Miou and Patrick Dewaere. Mimeo snipe and stamp of photographer Tony Crawley on the verso. Based on director Bertrand Blier's 1972 novel a controversial comedy following two petty criminals as they roam with abandon deflowering women stealing and behaving badly in general. Shot on location in France. Set and shot on location in Ardeche Calvados Cote-d'or Drome Hautes-Alpes Normandie and Pas-de-Calais France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 160535Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1963 film showing director Alfred Hitchcock talking with electronic musician Oskar Sala who composed the film's iconic soundtrack. Printed mimeo snipe in French affixed to the verso. Hitchcock's last great film a grim psychological study made all the more terrifying by the lack of motivation assigned to its violence. Shot in various locations throughout California including Bodega Bay Bloomfield Valley Ford the Venice Canals and Union Square in San Francisco. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Godard Histoires du cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1959ref. 160610Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1959 film all four showing actress May Britt dancing in a cabaret. One with a French Twentieth Century-Fox stamp on the verso. A little-seen American remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 German film based on the 1905 novel "Professor Unrat" by Heinrich Mann. A tale of the destruction that obsession can cause about a German high school teacher who falls for a traveling showgirl marries her and is then shunned by his community slowly losing all of his dignity. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned with brief wear at the corners. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1969ref. 160541N.p.: N.p. 1969. Three vintage double weight borderless reference photographs from the 1969 Finnish film. A woman discovers her husband has been cheating on her with an ice hockey rally driver and begins sleeping with her gynecologist in revenge. Shot on location in Helsinki and Stockholm. Photographs vary in size from 9 x 7 inches to 10.25 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 160613N.p.: N.p. 1990. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1990 film both showing director Roger Corman on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1973 novel by Brian Aldiss. Low-budget horror king Roger Corman's final directorial effort and his first film after a hiatus of nearly 20 years about a scientist from future Los Angeles who accidentally travels back to 1817 Switzerland where he meets both Mary Shelley and confusingly her fictional creation Victor Frankenstein. INXS frontman Michael Hutchence makes a humorous appearance as Shelley's husband Percy as well. Set in Los Angeles and Switzerland shot on location in Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 160564N.p.: N.p. 1959. Four vintage reference photographs by John Cohen from the 1959 short film. Three with the title in manuscript ink on the bottom margin of the recto and one with a provenance label on the verso. Based on a purportedly true incident in the life of Beat icons Neal and Carolyn Cassady wherein a couple's dinner party for a visiting bishop is crashed by their zany bohemian friends. Adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play "Beat Generation" with voiceover narration by Kerouac and a title taken from the poem of the same name co-written by Kerouac Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. For years the film was rumored to have been entirely unscripted capturing a real event at co-director Alfred Leslie's loft in the Bowery until Leslie revealed in a 1968 interview that the film had in fact been scripted heavily rehearsed and shot in a photography studio. 10 x 8 inches. Small chips at the top edges else about Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 160639Paris: Trinacra Films 1977. Two vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1977 film. Reference number stamps on the verso of each. The last film in the original "Emmanuelle" trilogy following "Emmanuelle" 1974 directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Kristel and Alain Cuny and "Emmanuelle 2" 1975 directed by Francis Giacobetti and starring Kristel and Umberto Orsini. 9.5 x 7 inches. One with pinholes from a staple on the bottom right corner else Near Fine. Trinacra Films unknown
1939ref. 160626Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Vintage publicity photograph of James Stewart and Claudette Colbert from the 1939 film. Printed mimeo snipe and MGM label on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. One of Ben Hecht's most brilliant and underrated screenplays. A novice private eye is unjustly fingered alongside his wealthy client in a murder case. Colbert's first film for MGM. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1969ref. 160565New York: Contemporary Films 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Allen Ginsberg with Peter and Julius Orlovsky. Director Robert Frank's first feature film and Sam Shepard's screenwriting debut following Frank as he accompanies poet Peter Orlovsky and Orlovsky's catatonic mentally ill brother Julius through the late 1960s Beat scene. When Julius wanders off he is replaced in the film by actor Joseph Chaikin pushing the boundaries of cinematic reality. The film was released in a new restoration by Steidl in 2007 alongside a book publication outlining the film which notes: "Frank's feature debut was first screened in 1968 at the Venice Film Festival. Everything which had defined Frank's art up to that point turns up in this film - the look at America 'from the outside' the poetic libertinage of the Beats the marginal in a central role. It celebrates the return of the poetic essay as assemblage the affirmation of the underground as a wild cinematic analysis in the form of a collage and skillfully weaves together opposites plays counterfeits against the authentic pornography against poetry acting against being Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism monochrome against colored. The story contains bizarre twists and turns and appears to be a rather artless-film-within-a-film being shown at a rundown movie theater." 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Contemporary Films unknown
1966ref. 160650Warsaw: Film Polski 1966. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Polish film. Stamp of Film Polski on the versos. A student leaves school and decides to embrace materialism in the pursuit of wealth and power but finds his plans drastically changed once he meets and falls in love with an idealistic young woman. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Film Polski unknown
1971ref. 160619N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The second film in the Billy Jack series following "The Born Losers" 1967 and preceding "The Trial of Billy Jack" 1974. Although a critical failure the Billy Jack movies were enormously popular and largely successful at the box office. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 160651Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 documentary film showing Louis Armstrong and Edmond Hall in performance. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A biography following Armstrong and his band as they embark on a world tour. Shot on location in Cape Town South Africa in London and in Memphis New Orleans and New York in the US. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly curled with a short closed tear repaired with paper tape on the left edge. United Artists unknown
1931ref. 160653London: National Film Archive 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 film showing director King Vidor. National Film Archive stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play a light romance which takes place over twenty-four hours in a small community of immigrants in Hell's Kitchen. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Archive unknown
1972ref. 160635N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the UK release of the 1971 Italian giallo film. Provenance stamps and a mimeo snipe on the verso. A police detective investigates a string of murders where the victims are paralyzed and disemboweled. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howarth So Deadly So Perverse Volume 1 1963-1972. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 160487Los Angeles: CBS Television Network 1958. Vintage reference photograph of Robert Ryan and Jeanne Crain from Season 2 Episode 39 "The Great Gatsby" of the anthology television series. The Emmy Award winning series "Playhouse 90." aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. Season 2 Episode 39 "The Great Gatsby" aired on CBS on June 26 1958. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel. Set in New York. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. CBS Television Network unknown
1966ref. 160459New York: CBS Television Network 1966. Vintage photograph of Patricia Neal from the 1961 film struck in 1966 for airing on the "CBS Thursday Night Movies" October 6 1966. CBS mimeo snipe attached to the verso and folded over the recto. Based on the 1958 novella by Truman Capote about a naive cafe society girl in New York who falls in love with a struggling writer. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. CBS Television Network unknown
